0.18.2 and 0.19.0 (June 11, 2003)

 INTRODUCTION
 
 For the first time in POPFile history we are releasing two versions at the
 same time.  Please take a moment to decide which version is most appropriate
 for you.
 
 v0.18.2 is a minor bug fix update to the last v0.18.1 made in February and
 contains no new features.  It is intended for conservative users who are
 happy with POPFile as it stands and would just like bug fixes and nothing
 else.
 
 v0.19.0 is a major update to v0.18.1 and include everything that is fixed
 in v0.18.2 plus much more.  Full details are below.
 
 A special thank you goes out to Sam Schinke who has contributed a great
 deal to this release particularly with his work fixing outstanding bugs and
 porting them from v0.19.0 and v0.18.2.  Nice work Sam.
 
 Brian Smith also needs your applause for major updates to the Windows installer
 making it easier than ever to install and configure POPFile on Windows.
 
 I recommend v0.19.0 because of the many improvements, but v0.18.2 is the 
 STABLE release for those who want rock solid reliability and want others to
 do the bug hunting on the new v0.19.x line :-)
 
 (Of course if you are really conservative you might like to download and use
 v0.18.1 which has been in use by many people since February 27).
 
 
 ESSENTIAL READING IF YOU ARE UPGRADING TO v0.19.0
 
 1. BACK UP YOUR OLD INSTALLATION: POPFile makes this really easy, just copy
    the entire POPFile directory somewhere.  You can then safely install
    POPFile v0.19.0 on top of your current installation; I just think a back up
    is a sensible precaution.
 
 2. ACCURACY MIGHT DROP FOR A SHORT WHILE: because of some changes made in the
    mail parser it is possible that you might see accuracy drop initially and
    you may find yourself reclassifying a few messages that used to work.  This
    is unfortunate but necessary to make POPFile even more accurate than before
    and v0.19.0 incorporates changes that make POPFile's classification
    accuracy better; however old corpuses might need a little retraining.
 
 
 DOWNLOADING
 
 You can obtain the latest releases of POPFile by visiting
 
     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63137
 
 
 UPGRADING
 
 Just install POPFile on top of the currently installed version.  But did you
 read the ESSENTIAL READING above first if you are upgrading from a pre v0.19.0
 version?
 
 
 FAQ
 
 zonk3r has spent a great deal of time on a POPFile FAQ.  Please check it out
 as it covers many questions that you might have:
 
     http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14421&group_id=63137
 
 
 THE GORY DETAILS FOR v0.18.2
 
  1. Fixed bug where -toptoo (now -pop3_toptoo) would cause duplicates in 
     the history.
 
     Reports: 701390 () (fixed by sschinke)
 
  2. Fixed a bug where -toptoo resulted in message overwriting and the wrong
     message classification.
 
     Reports: 705448, 694002 () (fixed by sschinke)
 
  3. Fix warning on unclassified messages
 
     Reports: 697278 (jdeifik)
 
  4. Remove lines in headers consisting of only whitespace (Eudora has 
     trouble with them).
 
     Patch: esniper
     Reports: 701981 (esniper)
 
  5. Fix colorized display of quoted-printable HTML
 
     Reports: 699098 (mfichtner)
 
  6. Recognize protocol-less href's
     
     Reports: biljir
 
  7. Re-work of header handling to handle multi-line headers. This will make 
     our handling of MIME messages much more robust.
 
     Reports: 695565 (biljir), 702215 (gdvieira), 702316 (spf)
 
  8. Fixed bug preventing decoding when headers are in an unexpected order
 
     Reports: 729551 (fibrizo)
 
  9. Allow "+" to be submitted encoded in a form
 
     Reports: 719989 (thedonga)
 
 10. Fixed unrequested History deletion, history doesn't go back far enough
 
     Reports: 703364 (besonen), 708387 (beej) (and others)
 
 11. Fixed XPL problems with filtered history view
 
     Reports: 697046 (helphand), 692673 (nobody)
 
 12. Restored main history form to POST
 
     Reports: 690451 (nobody)
 
 13. Fixed reporting of remaining child pid's
 
     Reports: none
 
 14. Make hostname decoding case-insensitive
 
     Reports: none
 
 15. Fix odd return value from classify_file for some messages: "unclassified"
 
     Reports: none
 
 
 THE GORY DETAILS FOR v0.19.0
 
 All of the above plus... (sschinke had a hand in lots of this too)
  
  1. Large overhaul of the magnets system so that we add Cc magnets, make
     magnets editable from the Magnets page, and a new feature called 
     QuickMagnets which allows you to create magnets from received emails
     by selecting parts of the From, To, Cc and Subject lines.
 
     Requests: 676341 (reason1000)
 
  2. When an email is clicked on to see the colored version a new page
     appears with complete coloring (including for the pseudowords which
     now have popups on the colored areas), a new full dump of the 
     probabilities used in the calculation of the message classification.
 
     Requests: lost track
 
  3. On the Buckets page there are new statistics counting the number of 
     errors made by bucket.  For each bucket we have the number of false
     positives (i.e. mails that went in the bucket that should not have)
     and the number of false negatives (i.e. mails that should have been 
     in that bucket but were not).
 
     Requests: 692600 (nobody), 
 
     In addition when clicking on an individual bucket to look at the words
     in it a new page appears with a clickable index for speed and words
     are sorted by frequency so that you can see the most important words
     in each bucket.
 
     Requests: 691386 (philiplaw) 
 
     From the bucket page it is possible to remove all the words in a bucket
     so that you can start retraining a bucket without having to delete
     and reinsert it.
 
     Requests: 675983 (nobody)
 
  4. The Configuration page is now pluggable so that as new modules are 
     written their elements appear in the configuration page automatically.
 
     Requests: none    
 
     There is a link to the current log file so that you can access it
     from within the browser.
 
     Requests: 
 
  5. The Security page is now pluggable so that as new modules are 
     written their elements appear in the configuration page automatically.
    
     Requests: none    
 
  6. The Advanced tab no longer uses a hard coded set of ignored words, 
     they are now stored in a file and can be edited through the UI.
 
     Requests: lost track
 
  7. POPFile's internal structure has undergone a large change to make
     use of Perl's object oriented features and there is now a common
     base class for all POPFile modules (called POPFile::Module) and as
     a result many of the POPFile modules have been simplified greatly.
 
     An offshoot of this is that there are a number of experimental modules
     that you can obtain only if you get the cross platform version:
 
         SMTP.pm   - SMTP proxy that does SMTP mail classification
         NNTP.pm   - NNTP proxy that does NNTP Usenet news post classification
         XMLRPC.pm - Full access to POPFile's API (see Classifier::Bayes)
                     through XML-RPC 
 
     The XMLRPC available methods are (documentation in Classifier::Bayes):
 
         classify_file
         classify_and_modify
         get_buckets
         get_bucket_word_count
         get_bucket_word_list
         get_word_count
         get_bucket_unique_count
         get_bucket_color
         set_bucket_color
         get_bucket_parameter
         set_bucket_parameter
         get_html_colored_message
         create_bucket
         delete_bucket
         rename_bucket
         add_message_to_bucket
         remove_message_from_bucket
         get_buckets_with_magnets
         get_magnet_types_in_bucket
         clear_bucket
         clear_magnets
         get_magnets
         create_magnet
         get_magnet_types
         delete_magnet
         get_stop_word_list
         add_stopword
         remove_stopword
 
     Requests: none
 
  8. Numbers are now legal in bucket names.
 
     Requests: 720681 (deaper)
 
  9. The characters used around the classification in subject modification
     can now be reconfigured with options -bayes_subject_mod_left and 
     -bayes_subject_mod_right and they default to [ and ]
 
     Requests: 722837 (stanleyspanner)
 
 10. All command line parameters have changed name.  The old names all work
     correctly and are upgraded automatically, 
   
      Old Parameter               New Parameter
 
      corpus                      bayes_corpus
      unclassified_probability    bayes_unclassified_probability
      piddir                      config_piddir
      debug                       GLOBAL_debug
      ecount                      GLOBAL_ecount
      mcount                      GLOBAL_mcount
      msgdir                      GLOBAL_msgdir
      subject                     GLOBAL_subject
      imeout                      GLOBAL_timeout
      xpl                         GLOBAL_xpl
      xtc                         GLOBAL_xtc
      download_count              GLOBAL_download_count
      logdir                      logger_logdir
      localpop                    pop3_local
      port                        pop3_port
      sport                       pop3_secure_port
      server                      pop3_secure_server
      separator                   pop3_separator
      toptoo                      pop3_toptoo
      archive                     html_archive
      archive_classes             html_archive_classes
      archive_dir                 html_archive_dir
      history_days                html_history_days
      language                    html_language
      last_reset                  html_last_reset
      last_update_check           html_last_update_check
      localui                     html_local
      page_size                   html_page_size
      password                    html_password
      send_stats                  html_send_stats
      skin                        html_skin
      test_language               html_test_language
      update_check                html_update_check
 
     Requests: none
 
 11. There is now a Reclassify button at the top of the History page
     as well as at the bottom.
 
     Requests: 727834 (garowetz), 687138 (johnmccurdy)
 
 12. If you do a search that results in no results there is now a search box
     for you to search again.
 
     Requests: 685327 (tomvoss)
 
 13. The Windows installer now guides you in the creation of an initial set
     of buckets.
 
     Requests: 691348 (pkarlin)
 
 14. Each time the history cache is reloaded we insert a marker line in the UI,
     these markers delimit the times the user reloaded the history with new messages
     and provide a useful marker for using POPFile throughout the day.  Everything
     before the last marker is newly received.
 
     Requests: none
 
 15. POPFile now has 19 UI translations available in the following languages:
 
        Bulgarian
        Chinese (simplified)
        Chinese (traditional)       
        Danish
        Dutch
        English
        English (UK)
        Finnish
        French
        German
        Hungarian
        Korean
        Norwegian
        Portugese (Brazilian)
        Russian
        Slovak
        Spanish
        Swedish
        Ukrainian (http://zope.net.ua/POPFile)
   
     Requests: none
 
 16. To help in the fight against spam a number of new pseudowords have been
     added to track spams that load images from across the web and web bugs, the
     complete list of pseudowords is now:
 
        encoding:<mime encoding type>
        header:<email header>
        html:numericentity
        html:td
        html:imgremotesrc
        html:imgwidth<pixels>
        html:imgheight<pixels>
        html:fontsize<size>
        html:encodedurl
        html:comment
        html:authorization
        trick:spaceout
        trick:dottedwords
        trick:invisibleink
 	
     Requests: none
 
 17. Numerous modifications by Sam and I to the mail parser, MIME handling, HTML
     parser, colorizer, Base 64 and Quoted Printable decoder to improve accuracy.
 
     Requests: lost track
 
 18. Windows users will discover that POPFile adds an icon to the system tray
     with a popup menu (right click) that offers to take you to the POPFile UI
     or to shutdown POPFile.  A double click on the icon navigates to the POPFile
     UI.
 
     Requests: lost track
 
 19. Sorting of columns in the History can be set to ascending or descending
     by clicking on the column header.  There's a new indicator that tells you
     which column is sorted and in what order.
 
     Requests: none
 
 20. Fixed security problem with the X-POPFile-Link functionality and passwords.
 
     Requests: none
 
 
 DONATIONS
 
 Thank you to everyone who has clicked the Donate! button and donated their
 hard earned cash to me in support of POPFile.  Thank you also to the people
 who have contributed patches, feature requests, bug reports and translations.
 
     http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=213876
 
 
 CONCLUSION
 	
 Keep the ideas and bug reports coming.
 
 John.
 
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