Lire pre-release available for testing

[Francis J. Lacoste]

I'm pleased to announce that Lire entered a code freeze this past
week-end in preparation for our next release which should come out early
December. For the next two weeks, the developers will concentrate on 
making sure that Lire installs and runs without bugs on all supported 
platforms. 

We encourage users who'd like to help to download and install this
pre-release version of Lire and report any bugs (both in code and 
documentation) or annoyance they come across. It is available from 

http://www.logreport.org/pub/cvs-snapshots/lire-full-20011121-unstable.tar.gz

Because of the many improvements to the various DLF converters and 
other bugs that were fixed in the responder code, our Online Responder
(log@<service>.logreport.org) was also updated to that version.

Note that this is _not_ a stable release, and shouldn't be used as such.
This release is intended only for those who like to play with the cutting
edge stuff, and who are willing help by filing bug reports.

Please send bug reports to the public development at logreport.org list.

Important changes since last version :

* Only RTF and PDF output now requires Jade. HTML and XHTML output can be 
  generated with xsltproc and Norman Walsh's DocBook XSL Stylesheets. 
  IMPORTANT: this means that you need to install Norman Walsh's XSL
  Stylesheets available from
  http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/index.html and
  libxslt version 1.0.4 or later to generate HTML output.
* New firewall service: Linux 2.2 ipchains log, as well as Darren Reed's
  IP Filter logs, as shipped with *BSD's.
* New superservice "print" with CUPS (page_log) and LPRng (lp-acct) plugins.
* Syslog parser now handles Solaris 8 syslog tag: [ID ...]
* lire:timegroup aggregator can now aggregate records by months or years.
* New aggregators available to build report specification: lire:summary, 
  lire:rangegroup and lire:timeslot
* New www service: W3C Extended Log Format (Used by Microsoft's Internet
  Information Server IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0).
* New www reports: requests-summary, requests-by-size, requests-by-timeslot
* More www user session reports.
* Speed improvements to the www robot, country and os analyzers.
* New robots and Nimda attack detected in www reports.
* New ftp reports: tracked-users, tracked-files.
* New email reports: deliveries-by-delay, deliveries-by-size, 
  tracked_senders, tracked_recipients.
* Sendmail converter is now more robust and interpret more lines. (Anti-spam
  messages will now get into the reports)
* The Lire client no longer is configured by running
  ./configure --disable-server.  If you want to run Lire as a client for an
  online responder, you just install Lire in the regular way.
* Various improvements to most DLF converters. (DNS converters were optimized, 
  all converters were updated to the new DLF API).
* All "by-day" reports have "by-period" equivalent: (www): bytes-by-period, 
  bytes-by-result-by-period, clienthost-by-period, requests-by-period, 
  requests-by-result-by-period; (ftp): bytes-by-period.
  The following report specification are now obsolete and will be removed in 
  a future Lire release: (www): bytes-by-day, bytes-by-result-by-day, 
  clienthost-by-day, requests-by-day, requests-by-result-by-day; 
  (ftp): bytes-by-day
  You should update your report configuration accordingly.
* Bytes, seconds and numbers can be scaled to more human readable format by 
  setting the variables LR_SCALE_BYTES, LR_SCALE_SEC and LR_SCALE_NUMBER to 
  'yes'. By default, bytes and seconds are scaled into '1k' and '2m' 
  in the reports.
* Fixed various small bugs (e.g. the one which caused .org to get skipped in
  the www 'Requests By Top Level Domain' report, as well as the one which
  caused requests from .net clients to get filed under .et, when using perl
  versions << 5.6.1 (5.005_03 is reported to behave in such a way))

Thanks for your interest in LogReport, kind Regards,

Francis J. Lacoste

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Francis J. Lacoste              . .           http://www.logreport.org
/^LogReport$/               . .               flacoste at logreport.org
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