Announcing Lire 1.2 Release Candidate 1

[Francis J. Lacoste]

I'm please to announce release candidate 1 for Lire 1.2. 

It is available from

http://www.logreport.org/pub/lire-1.2rc1.tar.gz

The final release will be made next week on Nov 27. At that time,
updated RPMS and .deb should also be available.

For a better 1.2 release, please give the RC1 a try and send all bugs
and inconvenience to development at logreport.org.

The NEWS for 1.2rc1 are:

version 1.2rc1 - 20 November 2002

- Many enhancements to the report engine:

    * New ratio attribute to the sum and count operators to express
      their value as a percentage of the table's or group's total.
    * New weight attribute to the sum and avg operator to compute
      weighted average and sums.
    * New first and last operators that can be used to the first or
      last field's value in a group.
    * Report specifications can set columns label using the label
      attribute.
    * Reports now include summary information (group's and table's
      total for example).

- Major upgrade of the output layer.
    * All typesetters can now format reports containing complex table
      containing multiple columns and group by entry.
    * All typesetters support column labels and group and table
      summary information.
    * Many improvements to the DTD and to the ReportParser API to make
      it easier to work with Lire XML Reports.

- All reports were upgraded for the changes to the XML Report format.
  They now include labels and ratio columns (whenever appropriate).

- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLES CHANGES:

    * At the moment, you cannot process XML reports generated by a
      previous version of Lire. If there is demand for it, we may
      provide in the future a 1.0-2.0 report converter.
    * Because of the many changes to the report specifications, you
      can't merge new reports with reports generated by a previous
      version of Lire.
    * The summary operator was removed (it's obsoleted by the summary
      feature of the new reporting engine).
    * LogML output format was dropped (see below for more information)
    
- New services and superservices
    * New syslog format supported: WTsyslog.
    * Support for DBMAIL ( http://www.dbmail.org/ ) POP3 log files,
      thanks to a code contribution by Edwin Groothuis.
    * New superservice: spamfilter, for email filters like those used
      for blocking UCE. Support for the spamassassin spam filter,
      thanks to a code contribution by Edwin Groothuis.

- Support for generating graphs using ploticus added. See the Lire
   User Manual for details.

- Documentation

  Lots of documentation updates and improvements: We're shipping more
  than 1MB of documentation in man page format now. Apart from this,
  we still offer documentation in our Lire User Manual, FAQ and
  Developers Manual, of course.

    * Some contributions to manpages by Edwin Groothuis.
    * A lot of Lire modules have been properly documented in manpages
      now, which is especially useful for Lire hackers.
    * Since we've been asked for this over and over again, a lire(7)
      manpage is added.
    * We now ship a ChangeLog with Lire.

- WWW report Client hosts by Size added

  - improvements to msgstore superservice by Edwin Groothuis:

   new leftover messages / bytes report: how many space does the user
   leave on the server after a session is finished. Yeah use of
   lire:last!

 - the msgstore.xml has int for stored_size, should be bytes.

 - the dbmail2dlf.in failed at broken logfiles and got its amount of
   stored bytes from the wrong location.


- Small bugs fixed

    * Bug fixes in the Kiwi syslog parser.
    * Bug fix in the mysql parser (thanks Fatih Gey).
    * Some other small bugs fixed (see ChangeLog for details)

- Output formats 
    * One can now typeset PDF reports using PassiveTeX instead of
      jade/DSSSL.
    * Support for output in LogML (
      http://www.cs.rpi.edu/projects/pb/WWWPal/logml.html ) format is
      removed. (LogML is an XML based language to compress log files
      in smaller files, enabling data mining techniques.) The Lire
      code for LogML has been badly maintained for some time; interest
      seems low. However, if you'd like to use this functionality,
      we'll gladly accept code contributions. Contact the LogReport
      team at the development at logreport.org list for hints on bringing
      LogML output back into Lire.

- Lire developers
    * Hook for typesetting documentation using pdfxmltex and xsltproc
      instead of pdfjadetex and (open)jade added.

- Other business
    * Small helper script for setting up an online responder added:
      lr_setup_responder.



Francis J. Lacoste

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Francis J. Lacoste              . .           http://www.logreport.org
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