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Förändringar 2015 v15.1 -> 2015 v15.2

• Sending a test e-mail could fail under certain circumstances
• Scripting language: Sending an e-mail could fail under certain circumstances
• Program configuration / Pre-defined bookmark properties: Troubleshooting properties didn't work
• Internal browser: Improved handling of spaces in URLs
• Date variables: negative offset could cause wrong results
• Smaller tweaks and fixes

Förändringar 2015 v15.0 -> 2015 v15.1

• Report/Export: New variable {wsw_url_checkurl} that is replaced with the URL that was used for checking a bookmark (incl. resolved date variables, server relocations, etc).
• Improved handling of character sets if web pages have errors in the HTML source code
• WebSite-Watcher could hang when working with e-mail templates
• Private Plugins didn't work if the same database was used with the 32bit and 64bit version of WSW alternately
• Plugins / event function "Wsw_MergePages": parameter sNewPostData didn't automatically start the POST command (GET was used instead)
• Creating folders with single quotation marks caused a crash
• RSS/Atom feeds: Items were not detected if only a link URL (without item title or item description) was available
• Minor bugs fixed

Förändringar 2015 v15.0 Beta 3 -> 2015 v15.0

• 64-bit version of WebSite-Watcher
• (combined setup for 32/64 bit version. The setup will automatically install the 64bit version on 64bit systems)
• The About box shows if the 32/64bit version is installed.
• CSS based watch filters
• Bookmark action "Send mail": Customized E-Mail templates. Can for example be used to send e-mails with alternative sender e-mail address or an alternative e-mail body
• Report: New variable {wsw_url_removed_content(MAXLEN)} to show removed content
• Report: New variable {wsw_url_readstatus} shows if a bookmark has been read. ("read" or "unread")
• Report: New variable {wsw_url_update_on_keywords_table} shows found keywords of the Update-On-Keywords feature (similar to the table in the Analysis tab of the internal browser). This variable returns a HTML table, so this variable is designed to be used in HTML based reports.
• Report window / context menu: "Check selected bookmarks" and "Uncheck selected bookmarks"
• Follow-Links: New option "Don't follow links inside filtered parts of a page". With that option, the Follow-Links feature uses defined Ignore filters to exclude links from filtered areas of a page. This option only works with Ignore filters, not with Watch filters.
• Follow-Links: New option "Name Prefix". This option will assign the entered text as prefix to the bookmark name of automatically inserted bookmarks.
• Follow-Links: FTP protocol supported
• Follow-Links: IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) supported
• Bookmark context menu / New entry "Select Master Bookmark" (if a child bookmark is selected). Useful when there are multiple master bookmarks within the same folder.
• Set properties in all selected bookmarks: New option to set "Last check date"
• Set properties in all selected bookmarks: New option to set "Last changed date"
• Download/Display images in a page: New option "Don't show images within filtered content"
• Script / CreateReport: New option to create a report for the currently selected bookmarks. This will make it for example possible to create and send a report by e-mail for the currently opened bookmark. (CreateReport /bookmarks=selected /...)
• Script / new predefined variables: {windowsdir} and {winprogramsdir}
• New program tweak: HandleWarningWholeContentFilteredAsError=1 - If a check reports the message "Warning: whole content filtered (please verify your filter settings)", then this is handled as warning by default. If you enable that tweak, this status message is handled as error (listed in Error folder, the bookmark option "Alert/Actions-on-Error" is performed, etc).
• Update similar bookmarks: Window can be resized and WebSite-Watcher remembers window size
• Update similar bookmarks: WebSite-Watcher remembers column widths and sorting
• Virtual Folders: New options "Actions on Initialization" and "Actions on Update"
• Download-Manager: FTP protocol supported
• Download Manager: Remember column widths
• Set properties in all selected bookmarks / Export page: it's possible to assign the export file
• Export/Import bookmarks to/from Excel: Fields for bookmark action "Export" supported
• Backups and AutoBackups can be aborted via a Cancel button
• Internet Explorer Macros: New option to use a customized User Agent
• MiniBrowser: New option to use a customized User Agent
• Internal browser / Page button: New command "Save page as". Lets you save pages HTML, MHT and TEXT format
• Filter-Assistant / New option "Always start Filter Assistant with TEXT tab" (can be changed in the Options menu of the Filter Assistant)
• Test Filter window shows the date when the new/old version was changed
• Shortcut can be assigned to function "Disable check"
• Plugins: function "Bookmark_GetProperty" can read the check status. Useful when you want to write the check status to a log file. Example script see help file.
• Help file / new Plugin example: Write status of last check to log file
• Help file / new Plugin example: Extract and show PDF links
• Startup: WSW automatically detects if the configuration file is corrupted and can automatically restore a backup file
• AutoBackup: Max number of days to run AutoBackups is now 99 (instead of 9)
• Check method "Internet Explorer/Browser": Checks with option "Disable optimizations" significantly improved
• Checking FTP pages improved
• Repair database: Performance boost when repairing a database
• RSS feeds with IFRAME tags in postings were not displayed correctly
• Fixed a bug when sending e-mails without authentication (when username/password were entered)
• Virtual Folders: Action "Mark as read" didn't work correctly
• Virtual Folders: The action list didn't show check marks when an action is enabled
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar 2015 v15.0 Beta 1 -> 2015 v15.0 Beta 2

• Virtual Folders: New options "Actions on Initialization" and "Actions on Update"
• Improved support of conditional defines in page source code
• RSS feeds with IFRAME tags in postings were not displayed correctly
• Fixed a bug when sending e-mails without authentication (when username/password were entered)
• Virtual Folders: Action "Mark as read" didn't work correctly
• Virtual Folders: The action list didn't show check marks when an action is enabled
• Smaller improvements and reported bugs fixed
• Language files for translators updated

Förändringar 2014 v14.3 -> 2015 v15.0 Beta 1

• 64-bit version of WebSite-Watcher
• (combined setup for 32/64 bit version. The setup will automatically install the 64bit version on 64bit systems)
• The About box shows if the 32/64bit version is installed.
• CSS based watch filters
• Bookmark action "Send mail": Customized E-Mail templates. Can for example be used to send e-mails with alternative sender e-mail address or an alternative e-mail body
• Report: New variable {wsw_url_removed_content(MAXLEN)} to show removed content
• Report: New variable {wsw_url_readstatus} shows if a bookmark has been read. ("read" or "unread")
• Report: New variable {wsw_url_update_on_keywords_table} shows found keywords of the Update-On-Keywords feature (similar to the table in the Analysis tab of the internal browser). This variable returns a HTML table, so this variable is designed to be used in HTML based reports.
• Report window / context menu: "Check selected bookmarks" and "Uncheck selected bookmarks"
• Follow-Links: New option "Don't follow links inside filtered parts of a page". With that option, the Follow-Links feature uses defined Ignore filters to exclude links from filtered areas of a page. This option only works with Ignore filters, not with Watch filters.
• Follow-Links: New option "Name Prefix". This option will assign the entered text as prefix to the bookmark name of automatically inserted bookmarks.
• Follow-Links: FTP protocol supported
• Follow-Links: IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) supported
• Bookmark context menu / New entry "Select Master Bookmark" (if a child bookmark is selected). Useful when there are multiple master bookmarks within the same folder.
• Set properties in all selected bookmarks: New option to set "Last check date"
• Set properties in all selected bookmarks: New option to set "Last changed date"
• Download/Display images in a page: New option "Don't show images within filtered content"
• Script / CreateReport: New option to create a report for the currently selected bookmarks. This will make it for example possible to create and send a report by e-mail for the currently opened bookmark. (CreateReport /bookmarks=selected /...)
• Script / new predefined variables: {windowsdir} and {winprogramsdir}
• New program tweak: HandleWarningWholeContentFilteredAsError=1 - If a check reports the message "Warning: whole content filtered (please verify your filter settings)", then this is handled as warning by default. If you enable that tweak, this status message is handled as error (listed in Error folder, the bookmark option "Alert/Actions-on-Error" is performed, etc).
• Update similar bookmarks: Window can be resized and WebSite-Watcher remembers window size
• Update similar bookmarks: WebSite-Watcher remembers column widths and sorting
• Download-Manager: FTP protocol supported
• Download Manager: Remember column widths
• Set properties in all selected bookmarks / Export page: it's possible to assign the export file
• Export/Import bookmarks to/from Excel: Fields for bookmark action "Export" supported
• Backups and AutoBackups can be aborted via a Cancel button
• Internet Explorer Macros: New option to use a customized User Agent
• MiniBrowser: New option to use a customized User Agent
• Internal browser / Page button: New command "Save page as". Lets you save pages HTML, MHT and TEXT format
• Filter-Assistant / New option "Always start Filter Assistant with TEXT tab" (can be changed in the Options menu of the Filter Assistant)
• Test Filter window shows the date when the new/old version was changed
• Shortcut can be assigned to function "Disable check"
• Plugins: function "Bookmark_GetProperty" can read the check status. Useful when you want to write the check status to a log file. Example script see help file.
• Help file / new Plugin example: Write status of last check to log file
• Help file / new Plugin example: Extract and show PDF links
• AutoBackup: Max number of days to run AutoBackups is now 99 (instead of 9)
• Check method "Internet Explorer/Browser": Checks with option "Disable optimizations" significantly improved
• Checking FTP pages improved
• Repair database: Performance boost when repairing a database

Förändringar 2014 v14.3 Beta -> 2014 v14.3

• Atom feeds: enclosures supported
• Performance of AutoBackup/Backup improved
• AutoBackup could hang on certain systems
• Some FTP pages could not be checked in v14.2
• RSS/Atom feeds: images were not be displayed in rare cases
• Minor fixes and tweaks

Förändringar 2014 v14.2 Beta 3 -> 2014 v14.2

• Scripting language: new function "GetLastCheckUpdatedBookmarkCount"
• Send e-mails: Header "X-Mailer" is no longer used in e-mails sent by WebSite-Watcher
• Bookmark properties / RSS feed analysis: Link URL is displayed
• Atom feeds: GUID is now used (this will cause a false positive when Atom feeds are checked the first time with the new version)
• Bookmark properties / RSS / Keep the most recent X articles: Option did not work correctly for Atom feeds (only for RSS feeds)
• View + Log file + Deleted filter: Filters were displayed in a single line, new filters are now added again in new lines
• Bookmark properties + Convert Unicode URLs: Some conversion fixes/improvements
• Fix a bug where defined CSS filters were deleted falsely

Förändringar 2014 v14.2 Beta 2 -> 2014 v14.2 Beta 3

• Navigation in bookmark list and report window didn't work correctly
• Minor bugs fixed

Förändringar 2014 v14.2 Beta 1 -> 2014 v14.2 Beta 2

• Send mail: Option AutoSSL didn't work for certain servers
• FTP didn't work correctly for certain addresses

Förändringar 2014 v14.1 -> 2014 v14.2 Beta 1

• New option to optionally disable toolbar tooltips
• Plugins: "Bookmark_Setproperty" can read/write the bookmark note
• Plugins: "Bookmark_Setproperty" can write the bookmark name
• Checking PDF files with Internet Explorer Macros
• Bookmark pre-definitions: It's possible to predefine the option "Suppress frameset warning"
• Bookmark pre-definitions: It's possible to predefine the option "Ignore message: whole content filtered"
• Bookmark pre-definitions: It's possible to predefine the options "Checking method", "file type" and "character set"
• Improved detection if bookmarks with check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" have an error 404/page not found
• Improved detection if entered regular expressions are correct, WebSite-Watcher also show a warning when regular expressions will exceed internal memory limits due to massive backtracking
• Special filter / minimum number of changes: Max value increased from 99 to 999
• Re-creating database from cache folder improved
• Improved detection of database problems and corrupted databases
• Internet Explorer Macros improved
• Tweak "PerformCheckOnlyIfUrlExists" improved - http://website-watcher.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3535
• Improved: stopping AutoWatch while a check is running (could take a long time in previous versions)
• json files are automatically handled as text files
• internal: sending e-mails rewritten
• internal: checking FTP files rewritten
• internal: checking newsgroup rewritten
• internal: backup system rewritten
• Problems with yahoo smtp servers fixed

Förändringar 2014 v14.0 -> 2014 v14.1

• [+] Automatically fix several invalid bookmark configurations after importing bookmarks from Excel
• [-] CSS based ignore filters didn't work correctly in version 14.0
• Smaller bugs fixed

Förändringar 2013 v13.2 -> 2014 v14.0

• New program option "Always open links in external browser": If enabled, WebSite-Watcher will always open online URLs in your external default browser. Only checked bookmarks (locally saved pages) will then be opened within WebSite-Watcher. Currently, the latest version of Internet Explorer 11 has some bugs that can freeze applications. If you run into that problem, you can use that option to work around that bug.
• Learning AutoFilter didn't work in previous beta versions
• smaller improvements
• Import bookmarks from Chrome
• Assign bookmark properties: Min. number of word changes can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
• Assign bookmark properties: More options in the "Highlight Changes" configuration (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
• Silent uninstall (more information see chapter "Silent Install/Uninstall" in the help file)
• Language files for translators updated
• Smaller bugs fixed
• Improved compatibility with Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11 (Starting with version 11, an embedded Internet Explorer is identified as IE9 with an uncommon user agent string. This could cause problems with various web pages. WebSite-Watcher 2014 changes that user agent string so that IE11 is correctly identified as IE11).
• New ignore filter: Filter content via CSS class names
• New special filter: Minimum number of new/changed words (that are required to detect an update)
• New special filter: Sort page content by sentences
• Pre-define bookmark properties / Ignore and Watch filter: New option "Add to existing configuration"
• Pre-define bookmark properties / Keywords: New option "Add to existing configuration"
• Keywords and Ignore/Watch filters: New function regexcmp(regex,operator,number) - this functions searches for the defined regular expression, extracts all digits from the match and compares them with the pre-defined number. This function can for example be used to extract a price and accept it only if it is larger than 1000. Example: regexcmp(Price:\s*\d+\.\d\d;,; >1000)
• Keywords: It's possible to call the "Test regex" window to directly test regular expressions or keywords
• Global bookmark pre-definitions: New option "Continue processing with other pre-definitions". This makes it possible to pre-define multiple pre-definitions per bookmark
• Performance: Much better handling of the checking queue to avoid bottlenecks when many bookmarks with the same domain are queued or when checks are limited via advanced connection rules
• Performance: User interface should be more responsive during bookmark checks
• WebSite-Watcher can check pages and files which are encoded in UTF-16 format
• Bookmark properties: Advanced Internet Explorer check settings can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
• Bookmark properties: IFRAMES settings can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
• Bookmark properties: Action "Export page" can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
• Bookmark properties: Action "Run program" can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
• Bookmark properties: Troubleshooting settings can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
• Check selected bookmarks (extended): New option "Check before other bookmarks". If enabled, bookmarks will be inserted and checked before already queued bookmarks.
• Bookmark properties / RSS feeds: It's possible to define how new RSS feed postings should be detected. Optional, by default WebSite-Watcher uses an automatic system that can fail under certain circumstances, for example when an RSS feed regularly changes the GUID (=Globally Unique Identifier) of existing postings.
• Filter-Assistant converts all links to text (optional). This makes it easier to make a selection within a link text.
• Statistics: Export statistic to Excel spreadsheet
• Statistics: Reset statistics
• The plugin "Auto-Download with Download-Manager" now also works with initialized bookmarks (if configured in the bookmark properties)
• Customizable pre-definitions for the user agent string. The user agent can then be selected from the pre-defined list (eg. to get the mobile layout of a page if available)
• File+Reopen now remembers the last 9 used files (instead of 4)
• New Tweak: HandleIgnoreUpdateAsError=0 (If a bookmark has the Ignore updates feature configured and a black listed text is found in the page, then (1) WebSite-Watcher will list this bookmark in the error folder and (2) alert an update after the configured number of errors in a row. With that tweak, WebSite-Watcher will ignore the update but not list the bookmark in the error folder nor alert an update after X errors in a row)
• Bookmark properties: WebSite-Watcher automatically checks entered regular expressions for syntax errors
• Set properties in all selected bookmarks: WebSite-Watcher automatically checks entered regular expressions for syntax errors
• Assign bookmark properties window: WebSite-Watcher automatically checks entered regular expressions for syntax errors
• Checking method "Internet Explorer/Browser": It's possible to use a custom User Agent (bookmark properties + Advanced + Check options (2))
• Download Manager: New option "Move to system tray when WebSite-Watcher starts a download"
• Download Manager: New option "Show info window when a download has completed"
• Send RSS feeds via the bookmark action "Send mail": If the option "Alert/Actions on initialization" is enabled, WebSite-Watcher sent an empty feed for initialized feeds (because by default, only new or changed articles are sent by e-mail). On initialization, WebSite-Watcher will send the whole feed now.
• Internet Check Macros improved
• Several performance improvements while a check is running
• Improved filtering of HTML tags when a tag contains problematic characters or tags (eg. HTML tags in the title parameter)
• Enhanced handling of certain encoded characters
• Performance improvements when comparing pages (could take a very long time for certain pages)
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar 2014 v14.0 Beta 1 -> 2014 v14.0 Beta 2

• Import bookmarks from Chrome
• Assign bookmark properties: Min. number of word changes can be pre-configured (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
• Assign bookmark properties: More options in the "Highlight Changes" configuration (folder properties and global bookmark pre-definitions)
• Silent uninstall (more information see chapter "Silent Install/Uninstall" in the help file)
• Language files for translators updated
• Smaller bugs fixed

Förändringar 2013 v13.1 -> 2013 v13.2

• Export to Excel: If an export fails, then WebSite-Watcher shows the bookmark that caused an error
• [-] RSS/Atom feeds: WSW used a wrong title ("NEWS") when a feed with no articles was initialized
• [-] Renaming folders between upper/lowercase characters didn't work properly
• Smaller tweaks and fixes

Förändringar 2013 v13.1 Beta 1 -> 2013 v13.1

• Improved handling of external CSS files
• XML files are now automatically handled as TEXT files
• Improved extraction of RSS feed titles
• Improved detection and handling if the # character is an anchor or part of the URL
• Smaller fixes/improvements

Förändringar 2013 v13.0 -> 2013 v13.1 Beta 1

• [+] Internet Explorer Macros / new option when recording new macros: Disable optimizations. You can try that option if an Internet Explorer Macro cannot be executed correctly (certain pages could not be monitored with the internal optimizations which are enabled by default).
• [+] Plugins / new function: DownloadPageToString
• [+] Plugins / Built in function Bookmark_GetProperty has a new parameter "check_log" to get the log file of the current check
• [x] Improved keywords detection
• [x] If the configured AutoBackup folder doesn't exist, WebSite-Watcher will no longer fall back to the default AutoBackup folder. An error message will be displayed instead.
• [x] Performance boost: Certain bookmarks could take a very long time to open in the internal browser
• [-] Some pages could be displayed without CSS (although the CSS files were available).
• [-] Follow-Links: WSW could "assimilate" bookmarks with the same domain as the master bookmark when they were stored in the same folder
• Many smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar 2013 v13.0 Beta 1 -> 2013 v13.0 Beta 2

• Reported bugs fixed
• Language files for translators updated

Förändringar 2012 v12.3 Beta 1 -> 2012 v12.3

• New Plugin: Monitor file by checksum (use this plugin if a binary file cannot be checked with other check settings or plugins)
• Update-Ticker: It's now optional to hide the Update-Ticker while another program is in full screen mode (Program configuration + Advanced)
• Extended Search: Show progress bar in toolbar instead of separate status window
• Folder properties: If settings are inherited from a parent folder, then a related message is displayed instead of disabled properties
• Internal browser: If default zoom is not equal to 100%, then the back button could reset to 100%
• Internet Explorer Macros improved: The logout didn't work correctly under certain circumstances
• When recording a new Check-Macro, WebSite-Watcher could suggest a wrong starting URL under certain circumstances - Thread
• Bookmark action "Open page": Option to open in TEXT/ANALYSIS tab didn't work correctly
• Update-Ticker was not displayed after leaving full screen mode under certain circumstances
• Download Manager could not download files under certain circumstances
• Portable Edition: WebSite-Watcher could report AutoBackup files as dead under certain circumstances

Förändringar 2012 v12.2 -> 2012 v12.3 Beta 1

• [+] New Plugin: Monitor file by checksum (use this plugin if a binary file cannot be checked with other check settings or plugins)
• [+] Update-Ticker: It's now optional to hide the Update-Ticker while another program is in full screen mode (Program configuration + Advanced)
• [+] Extended Search: Show progress bar in toolbar instead of separate status window
• [+] Folder properties: If settings are inherited from a parent folder, then a related message is displayed instead of disabled properties
• [-] When recording a new Check-Macro, WebSite-Watcher could suggest a wrong starting URL under certain circumstances - Thread
• [-] Bookmark action "Open page": Option to open in TEXT/ANALYSIS tab didn't work correctly
• [-] Update-Ticker was not displayed after leaving full screen mode under certain circumstances
• [-] Download Manager could not download files under certain circumstances

Förändringar 2012 v12.2 Beta 1 -> 2012 v12.2

• Bookmark action "Export to file" didn't work correctly in version 12.1
• Update-Ticker (InfoWin) was not restored correctly after another program was in full screen mode
• Links didn't work correctly when a bookmark was sent by e-mail under certain circumstances
• Update-Ticker: Improved detection if another Window is in full screen mode
• Improved AutoWatch countdown calculation

Förändringar 2012 v12.1 -> 2012 v12.2 Beta 1

• Bookmark action "Export to file" didn't work correctly in version 12.1
• Update-Ticker (InfoWin) was not restored correctly after another program was in full screen mode
• Links didn't work correctly when a bookmark was sent by e-mail under certain circumstances
• Improved AutoWatch countdown calculation

Förändringar 2012 v12.1 Beta 2 -> 2012 v12.1

• WebSite-Watcher no longer shows the Browser-Eye or pops up the Update Ticker when another window is in full screen mode
• Excel Import/Export: All AutoWatch options can now be imported/exported
• Check technology "Internet Explorer / Browser": New option "Disable optimizations" - This option disables various performance and bandwidth optimizations during a check. Only turn this option on if a check does not work correctly without that option.
• Bookmark properties / Advanced / Misc: New property to add a filename prefix when downloading files via the download manager (either via RSS feed enclosures or via plugins)
• Bookmark properties / Send e-mail: Alternative BCC
• Virtual folders / Send e-mail: Alternative BCC
• Virtual folders / Send e-mail: e-mails can be inserted via user interface from a list
• Bookmark actions / Export page: New variables {infofield1}, {infofield2} and {infofield3}
• Bookmark actions / Run program: New variables for parameter: {infofield1}, {infofield2} and {infofield3}
• Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser": New option to scroll a page down automatically. Use this option if a page loads content dynamically when you scroll down a page.
• Record Internet Explorer Macro: New command to insert a delay in seconds, for example to give a page more time to load
• Record Internet Explorer Macro: New command to scroll a page down via macro. Use this command if a page loads content dynamically when you scroll down a page.
• Internet Explorer Macros improved
• New Tweak: SendMailRemoveWswTags=0 (by default, WebSite-Watcher removes help tags for highlighting changes from the e-mails to keep e-mail sizes as small as possible. With that tweak, no tags are removed. This can be useful if you want to post process e-mails and extract changes via these tags, for example wswchange1, wswchange2, etc.).
• Browser integration for the latest verison of Google Chrome (19.x)
• More precise search of keywords in new/changed content. Sometimes WSW could alert an update when keywords only were in removed content, this keyword detection algorithm works now smoother.
• Improved detection and auto-correction of problems with folder structure, eg. after database damages (was: bookmarks could not be moved correctly to other folders)
• AutoWatch countdown calculation could end in an endless loop under certain circumstances
• Minor improvements and reported bugs fixed
• Language files updated

Förändringar 2012 v12.1 Beta 1 -> 2012 v12.1 Beta 2

• Minor bugs fixed

Förändringar 2012 v12.0 -> 2012 v12.1 Beta 1

• WebSite-Watcher no longer shows the Browser-Eye or pops up the Update Ticker when another window is in full screen mode
• Excel Import/Export: All AutoWatch options can now be imported/exported
• Check technology "Internet Explorer / Browser": New option "Disable optimizations" - This option disables various performance and bandwidth optimizations during a check. Only turn this option on if a check does not work correctly without that option.
• Bookmark properties / Advanced / Misc: New property to add a filename prefix when downloading files via the download manager (either via RSS feed enclosures or via plugins)
• Bookmark properties / Send e-mail: Alternative BCC
• Virtual folders / Send e-mail: Alternative BCC
• Virtual folders / Send e-mail: e-mails can be inserted via user interface from a list
• Bookmark actions / Export page: New variables {infofield1}, {infofield2} and {infofield3}
• Bookmark actions / Run program: New variables for parameter: {infofield1}, {infofield2} and {infofield3}
• Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser": New option to scroll a page down automatically. Use this option if a page loads content dynamically when you scroll down a page.
• Record Internet Explorer Macro: New command to insert a delay in seconds, for example to give a page more time to load
• Record Internet Explorer Macro: New command to scroll a page down via macro. Use this command if a page loads content dynamically when you scroll down a page.
• New Tweak: SendMailRemoveWswTags=0 (by default, WebSite-Watcher removes help tags for highlighting changes from the e-mails to keep e-mail sizes as small as possible. With that tweak, no tags are removed. This can be useful if you want to post process e-mails and extract changes via these tags, for example wswchange1, wswchange2, etc.).
• Browser integration for the latest verison of Google Chrome (19.x)
• More precise search of keywords in new/changed content. Sometimes WSW could alert an update when keywords only were in removed content, this keyword detection algorithm works now smoother.
• Improved detection and auto-correction of problems with folder structure, eg. after database damages (was: bookmarks could not be moved correctly to other folders)
• AutoWatch countdown calculation could end in an endless loop under certain circumstances
• Minor improvements and reported bugs fixed
• Language files updated

Förändringar 2011 v11.5 -> 2012 v12.0

• Bookmark properties / Merge pages: It's possible to merge the first x pages from search results (or the last few pages with new content from forum topics) to a single page. This works for URLs that have a parameter that defines the page, eg. http://www.domain.com/search.php?text=abc&page=13
• Bookmark properties / Send e-mail: E-Mail addresses can be selected from a pre-defined list
• Bookmark properties / Options: Bookmarks can optionally be opened in the "Text" tab or in the "Analysis" tab of the internal browser
• Bookmark properties / Actions/Alert on error: New option "Alert after X errors in a row"
• Check FTP folders: The directory listing is converted in a new format and the sub folders and files are sorted. This makes monitoring FTP folders much easier.
• Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: New option "Apply settings to subfolders"
• Export/Import from Excel: New field wswid that is written when exporting bookmarks. This makes it now possible to export bookmarks, change the URL and re-import bookmarks. Before that change, the URL was used to identify a bookmark. If the field wswid is available, then this field is used to identify a bookmark.
• Export/Import from Excel: New fields, amongst other things fields to ignore updates via black/whitelist
• Send e-mails: Advanced rules for sending (optional, can be used as alternative to send e-mails after each check run)
• Send e-mails: Global black list to suppress e-mail sending. If a page contains a defined entry of the global black list, then an e-mail is not sent. For example if a page contains the text "could not connect to database".
• Send e-mails: New option "Send before other e-mails". With that option enabled, e-mails will be queued and sent before other e-mails.
• Send e-mails: BCC (can be entered in program configuration)
• Send e-mails: HTML e-mails optimized and size reduced
• Send e-mails: size reduction when sending e-mails in text format and changes attached
• Virtual folders: New variables {added_age_hours} and {added_age_days}. These variables can be used to create for example a virtual folder "Recently created" that shows all new bookmarks that were inserted within the last 5 hours.
• Scripts: New built-in function "FileExists"
• Internal Browser / Open with external program: Optional command line parameters can be specified
• Internal Browser / "Text" tab: The "Text" tab can now also show the new or old version of the checked page when they were opened in the "Page" tab before clicking the "Text" tab.
• Initialize PDF/Word/Excel files: Automatically use the filename as the bookmark name
• PDF plugin: WebSite-Watcher can extract text from more PDF files
• Filter system: FirstRegex(...) to ignore or monitor only the first occurrence of a regular expression
• Custom columns: Increased custom columns from 3 to 5
• New plugin: Monitor image URLs
• Plugins: Function "HtmlExtract" has a new parameter to extract image URLs from the checked web page
• Plugins / new built-in function: GetComparisonInfo (see help file for detailed description)
• If an AutoWatch countdown is active while the system turns into hibernation, WebSite-Watcher will wait at least 15 seconds before the next AutoWatch check is started after the system returns from hibernation. This gives Windows some time to re-establish network connections before the next AutoWatch check run is started after hibernation. The default value of 15 seconds can be customized via the program tweak "MinAutoWatchSecondsAfterHibernation".
• program configuration / new tweak "ReopenTabsAfterCrash=0": If WebSite-Watcher crashes, then the next start will show a dialog to re-open the last opened browser tabs. This tweak suppresses that dialog and don't re-open browser tabs.
• Bookmark properties / RSS / Ignore articles older than: The minimum number of days is now 1 (30 in previous versions)
• Some conflicts with "Open in external browser" (Shortcuts Ctrl+F11 and Ctrl+Shift+F11) fixed. By default, Ctrl+Shift+F11 is now Ctrl+Shift+0, if you have customized your shortcuts, then this change doesn't affect your shortcut configuration.
• WebSite-Watcher could (in rare cases) falsely report the error "incorrect file size" when checking web pages
• Some special Unicode characters were not decoded correctly
• Smaller fixes, improvements and optimizations

Förändringar 2012 v12.0 Beta 2 -> 2012 v12.0 Beta 3

• Initialize PDF/Word/Excel files: Automatically use the filename as the bookmark name
• Changed text was not highlighted correctly in some e-mail clients (WSW 2012 beta issue)
• Minor bugs fixed

Förändringar 2012 v12.0 Beta 1 -> 2012 v12.0 Beta 2

• New plugin: Monitor image URLs
• Plugins: Function "HtmlExtract" has a new parameter to extract image URLs from the checked web page
• Changes were not highlighted when reading the changes in GMail
• Error count was not reseted correctly in combination with the Send-Mail feature - Thread
• Open page in external browser didn't work correctly - Thread
• Some special Unicode characters were not decoded correctly
• Smaller bugs fixed

Förändringar 2011 v11.5 -> 2012 v12.0 Beta 1

• [+] Bookmark properties / Merge pages: It's possible to merge the first x pages from search results (or the last few pages with new content from forum topics) to a single page. This works for URLs that have a parameter that defines the page, eg. http://www.domain.com/search.php?text=abc&page=13
• [+] Bookmark properties / Send e-mail: E-Mail addresses can be selected from a pre-defined list
• [+] Bookmark properties / Options: Bookmarks can optionally be opened in the "Text" tab or in the "Analysis" tab of the internal browser
• [+] Bookmark properties / Actions/Alert on error: New option "Alert after X errors in a row"
• [+] Check FTP folders: The directory listing is converted in a new format and the sub folders and files are sorted. This makes monitoring FTP folders much easier.
• [+] Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: New option "Apply settings to subfolders"
• [+] Export/Import from Excel: New field wswid that is written when exporting bookmarks. This makes it now possible to export bookmarks, change the URL and re-import bookmarks. Before that change, the URL was used to identify a bookmark. If the field wswid is available, then this field is used to identify a bookmark.
• [+] Export/Import from Excel: New fields, amongst other things fields to ignore updates via black/whitelist
• [+] Send e-mails: Advanced rules for sending (optional, can be used as alternative to send e-mails after each check run)
• [+] Send e-mails: Global black list to suppress e-mail sending. If a page contains a defined entry of the global black list, then an e-mail is not sent. For example if a page contains the text "could not connect to database".
• [+] Send e-mails: New option "Send before other e-mails". With that option enabled, e-mails will be queued and sent before other e-mails.
• [+] Send e-mails: BCC (can be entered in program configuration)
• [+] Send e-mails: HTML e-mails optimized and size reduced
• [+] Send e-mails: size reduction when sending e-mails in text format and changes attached
• [+] Virtual folders: New variables {added_age_hours} and {added_age_days}. These variables can be used to create for example a virtual folder "Recently created" that shows all new bookmarks that were inserted within the last 5 hours.
• [+] Scripts: New built-in function "FileExists"
• [+] Internal Browser / Open with external program: Optional command line parameters can be specified
• [+] Internal Browser / "Text" tab: The "Text" tab can now also show the new or old version of the checked page when they were opened in the "Page" tab before clicking the "Text" tab.
• [+] PDF plugin: WebSite-Watcher can extract text from more PDF files
• [+] Filter system: FirstRegex(...) to ignore or monitor only the first occurrence of a regular expression
• [+] Custom columns: Increased custom columns from 3 to 5
• [+] Plugins / new built-in function: GetComparisonInfo (see help file for detailed description)
• [+] If an AutoWatch countdown is active while the system turns into hibernation, WebSite-Watcher will wait at least 15 seconds before the next AutoWatch check is started after the system returns from hibernation. This gives Windows some time to re-establish network connections before the next AutoWatch check run is started after hibernation. The default value of 15 seconds can be customized via the program tweak "MinAutoWatchSecondsAfterHibernation".
• [+] program configuration / new tweak "ReopenTabsAfterCrash=0": If WebSite-Watcher crashes, then the next start will show a dialog to re-open the last opened browser tabs. This tweak suppresses that dialog and don't re-open browser tabs.
• [x] Bookmark properties / RSS / Ignore articles older than: The minimum number of days is now 1 (30 in previous versions)
• [-] Some conflicts with "Open in external browser" (Shortcuts Ctrl+F11 and Ctrl+Shift+F11) fixed. By default, Ctrl+Shift+F11 is now Ctrl+Shift+0, if you have customized your shortcuts, then this change doesn't affect your shortcut configuration.
• [-] WebSite-Watcher could (in rare cases) falsely report the error "incorrect file size" when checking web pages
• Smaller fixes, improvements and optimizations

Förändringar 2011 v11.5 Beta 2 -> 2011 v11.5

• Internal browser: WebSite-Watcher uses now IE9 (or IE8) instead of the compatibility mode (IE7). This should also fix the malformed display of various web pages, eg. Google search pages. If IE6 or IE7 is installed, then these versions are used automatically.
• RSS/Atom feeds: New option "Ignore articles older than X days". This helps to keep huge RSS/Atom feeds small and fast.
• Bookmarks + Search + Replace: It's possible to replace passwords in "Internet Explorer Macros"
• Extended Search: Extraction of found words improved search results, especially when searching for exact phrases
• Forum Plugins: WebSite-Watcher no longer alerts an update when only threads were deleted
• Add to bookmarks via WSW eye: If a bookmark already exists, then WebSite-Watcher displays a different menu icon
• Script: The command "CheckFolder" can check special folders such as "Errors", "HotSites", etc.
• Script: Command "MarkAsVisited" didn't work correctly if a folder with subfolders was specified.
• Plugins: Function "GetFirstWildcardMatch" returned all matches
• Internet Explorer Macros improved
• PAD files and RSS feeds can be checked/viewed by source code if the file type "text" is selected (bookmark options + Advanced + check options).
• Improved detection when pages cannot be opened via the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" or "Internet Explorer Macros" to prevent false positives
• Stability improvements when running WebSite-Watcher 24/7
• Smaller improvements to the changes side bar
• Internal browser: cursor keys didn't work for some pages
• Import from CSV files didn't work correctly
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar 2011 v11.5 Beta 1 -> 2011 v11.5 Beta 2

• IE Macros improved
• Internal browser: cursor keys didn't work for some pages
• Beta-1 could show an error message that WebSite-Watcher is frozen
• Minor tweaks

Förändringar 2011 v11.4 -> 2011 v11.5 Beta 1

• Internal browser: WebSite-Watcher uses now IE9 (or IE8) instead of the compatibility mode (IE7). This should also fix the malformed display of various web pages, eg. Google search pages.
• RSS/Atom feeds: New option "Ignore articles older than X days". This helps to keep huge RSS/Atom feeds small and fast.
• Bookmarks + Search + Replace: It's possible to replace passwords in "Internet Explorer Macros"
• Extended Search: Extraction of found words improved search results, especially when searching for exact phrases
• Forum Plugins: WebSite-Watcher no longer alerts an update when only threads were deleted
• Add to bookmarks via WSW eye: If a bookmark already exists, then WebSite-Watcher displays a different menu icon
• Script: The command "CheckFolder" can check special folders such as "Errors", "HotSites", etc.
• Script: Command "MarkAsVisited" didn't work correctly if a folder with subfolders was specified.
• Plugins: Function "GetFirstWildcardMatch" returned all matches
• Internet Explorer Macros improved
• PAD files and RSS feeds can be checked/viewed by source code if the file type "text" is selected (bookmark options + Advanced + check options).
• Improved detection when pages cannot be opened via the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" or "Internet Explorer Macros" to prevent false positives
• Stability improvements when running WebSite-Watcher 24/7
• Smaller improvements to the changes side bar
• Import from CSV files didn't work correctly
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar 2011 v11.3 -> 2011 v11.4

• WebSite-Watcher automatically checks if the IE cache configuration is set to "Never" and offers a way to automatically change this setting. With the option "Never" it was possible that WebSite-Watcher checked old pages (especially bookmarks with the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" and "Internet Explorer Macros").
• Send e-mails: Additional info fields can be used in e-mail subject and body
• New command line parameter /NODB to start WebSite-Watcher without a database (by default, WebSite-Watcher always opens the last database automatically)
• Script menu: New submenu to edit special scripts
• Scripts / new special script: Execute after each AutoWatch check run
• Scripts / new special script: Execute after each manual check run
• Plugins: The function Bookmark_GetProperty can return values of the last check and the last change (variables "last_check_date" and "last_change_date")
• Test filter / compare sources: New option to show character values (can be helpful to detect invisible characters)
• Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" improved: Better preservation of the page layout
• "Internet Explorer Macros" improved: Better preservation of the page layout
• Internet Explorer Macros improved
• Sending Amazon pages by e-mails didn't work (junk could be displayed at the beginning of the e-mails due to errors in Amazon CSS files)
• Follow-Links: WebSite-Watcher could insert duplicate URLs under certain circumstances
• Changes side bar could disappear under certain circumstances
• Fixed a bug that could happen during Backup/AutoBackup under certain circumstances
• Several toolbar icons replaced and improved
• Script command "CheckBookmarks" didn't work when no folder was selected
• Smaller bugs fixed

Förändringar 2011 v11.4 Beta 2 -> 2011 v11.4 Beta 3

• Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" improved: Better preservation of the page layout
• "Internet Explorer Macros" improved: Better preservation of the page layout
• Test filter / compare sources: New option to show character values (can be helpful to detect invisible characters)
• Fixed a bug that could happen during Backup/AutoBackup under certain circumstances
• Smaller improvements

Förändringar 2011 v11.4 Beta 1 -> 2011 v11.4 Beta 2

• WebSite-Watcher automatically checks if the IE cache configuration is set to "Never" and offers a way to automatically change this setting. With the option "Never" it was possible that WebSite-Watcher checked old pages (especially bookmarks with the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" and "Internet Explorer Macros").
• Script menu: New submenu to edit special scripts
• Scripts / new special script: Execute after each AutoWatch check run
• Scripts / new special script: Execute after each manual check run
• Follow-Links: WebSite-Watcher could insert duplicate URLs under certain circumstances
• Changes side bar could disappear under certain circumstances
• Several toolbar icons replaced and improved
• Smaller fixes
• 2011 (11.4) Beta-1

Förändringar 2011 v11.3 -> 2011 v11.4 Beta 1

• Send e-mails: Additional info fields can be used in e-mail subject and body
• New command line parameter /NODB to start WebSite-Watcher without a database (by default, WebSite-Watcher always opens the last database automatically)
• Internet Explorer Macros improved
• Sending Amazon pages by e-mails didn't work (junk could be displayed at the beginning of the e-mails due to errors in Amazon CSS files)
• Script command "CheckBookmarks" didn't work when no folder was selected
• Smaller bugs fixed

Förändringar 2011 v11.2 -> 2011 v11.3

• Bookmark properties + Advanced: New section "Forum"
• Forum-Wizard re-implemented
• Forum-Templates: Footer selection can optionally have changing numbers
• Reopen last browser tab: WebSite-Watcher has now an internal history of closed browser tabs (previous versions could only reopen the last closed browser tab).
• Automatically select the correct checking method for Yahoo Groups
• FTP-Proxy - new option: FTP-over-HTTP for proxies that do not support the FTP protocol. Using that option lets you for example check FTP URLs with the proxy Squid. A detailed description, disadvantages and limitations of that method can be found in the help file
• FTP Proxy configuration: Different proxy login types to be compatible with certain proxies. The correct login type can be determined automatically in the proxy configuration.
• Browser toolbar: New button to close the internal browser (disabled by default, can be enabled via toolbar customization)
• Improved detection of new/changed RSS feed postings
• Better compatibility with certain SMTP servers
• Internal Browser + Analysis: The "Keywords" analysis has been enhanced for virtual folders
• Import/Export from/to Excel: troubleshooting variables added
• Import/Export from/to Excel: Several improvements and fixes
• Script: The command "CheckFolder" can check virtual folders
• PDF-Plugin: Future versions of WebSite-Watcher will no longer produce false update notifications after improving/changing the text extraction of PDF files.
• PDF plugin: Improved text extraction from certain PDF files
• Word plugin: WebSite-Watcher is now able to extract Unicode text from Word files
• Removed: Alternative PDF text extraction when using the PDF plugin (The alternative text extraction was done via the IFILTER system and was removed because updating the PDF reader could cause false positives. For example, a PDF IFILTER is no longer delivered and installed automatically with Acrobat Reader 10 while it was available in Acrobat Reader 9). The PDF plugin works now independently from the installed PDF reader.
• Download-Manager: Improved detection of filename and file extension after relocations
• Checked facebook pages displayed a horizontal scrollbar, WSW now fixes a bad CSS definition in facebook pages automatically.
• Checking method "IE/Browser" and "IE Macros" improved
• Some features didn't work correctly when the option "Recheck bookmark when an error occurred" was disabled
• Text extraction from certain Excel files did not work
• Vertical scrollbar was not always displayed properly in various list boxes
• Fixed a false positive when checking certain Excel files (could only happen if the previous check reported an error)
• WebSite-Watcher could freeze under certain circumstances
• Indonesian user interface added
• Many smaller optimizations, improvements and fixes

Förändringar 2011 v11.3 Beta 2 -> 2011 v11.3 Beta 3

• [+] Automatically select the correct checking method for Yahoo Groups
• [+] FTP Proxy configuration: Different proxy login types to be compatible with certain proxies. The correct login type can be determined automatically in the proxy configuration.
• [x] Text extraction from PDF files improved
• [-] Text extraction from certain Excel files did not work
• [-] Drag&Drop the first browser tab to a folder to insert it as new bookmark was broken in 11.3 Beta-1 and 2
• Indonesian user interface added
• Minor optimizations and tweaks

Förändringar 2011 v11.2 -> 2011 v11.3 Beta 1

• [+] Bookmark properties + Advanced: New section "Forum"
• [+] Forum-Wizard re-implemented
• [+] Forum-Templates: Footer selection can optionally have changing numbers
• [x] Improved detection of new/changed RSS feed postings
• [x] Several user interface improvements
• [-] Vertical scrollbar was not always displayed properly in various list boxes
• Internal improvements

Förändringar 2011 v11.2 Beta 3 -> 2011 v11.2

• Internet Explorer Macros: Filling form fields improved
• Internet Explorer Macros: Execution of Internet Macros improved
• Improved user interface when no bookmark file is opened
• Smaller improvements/fixes
• 2011 (11.2) Beta-3

Förändringar 2011 v11.2 Beta 1 -> 2011 v11.2 Beta 2

• Automatically select the correct checking method for Facebook pages
• Automatically select the correct checking method for Twitter pages
• Automatically fix a problem in Facebook CSS definitions that broke the scrollbar in Internet Explorer
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar 2011 v11.1 -> 2011 v11.2 Beta 1

• Plugins: Performance significantly improved
• Improved detection of new RSS feed postings
• RSS feeds: More date formats for sorting supported
• RSS feed postings are only sorted by date if all postings have a valid posting date
• RSS enclosures could not be downloaded under certain circumstances
• Download-Manager: Copy-To generates a new file name if the target file already exists
• Bugfix with checking method "Internet Explorer/Browser" and nested framesets fixed
• Installing WebSite-Watcher could fail under certain circumstances
• Import from Excel files: Crash if the columns "check_macro" or "postdata" were not available
• Minor fixes and improvements

Förändringar 2011 v11.1 Beta 3 -> 2011 v11.1 Beta 4

• [+] Virtual folders: New variable {last_change_age_days} to display bookmarks that were changed within the specified number of days (eg: {last_change_age_days} less than "1")
• [+] Virtual folders: New variable {last_check_age_days} to display bookmarks that were checked within the specified number of days (eg: {last_check_age_days} less than "3")
• [+] Download Manager: New column "Bookmark Name"
• [x] Download Manager: Improved detection and generation of file names
• [x] Plugin function "DownloadFile": Parameter "Handle" added (if you have used that function in plugins, please update your plugin scripts to get them working again)
• [x] Internet Explorer Macros for pages with frames improved
• Smaller bugfixes

Förändringar 2011 v11.0 -> 2011 v11.1 Beta 1

• [+] Temporarily disable bookmark checking, eg. for a specified number of minutes (right click bookmark + Extra + Disable check)
• [+] Forum-Wizard works with forums which are based on LI tags, eg. phpBB3 or vBulletin4 (until now only table based forums were supported).
• [+] Plugin: Built in function Bookmark_SetProperty has a new parameter "dont_check_minutes" to temporarily disable bookmark checking for the specified number of minutes. Further details see help file.
• [+] Browser integration: Firefox 4 supported
• [+] Import from Excel / Export to Excel: New variable "postdata"
• [x] Import from Excel / Export to Excel: Various improvements and fixes
• [x] Improved detection if a bookmark already exists in combination with check macros and post data
• [-] Download Manager could crash with certain URLs
• Smaller bugs fixed

Förändringar 2011 v11.0 Beta 5 -> 2011 v11.0

• Internet Explorer Macros with CAPTCHAs supported. If a page contains a CAPTCHA, WebSite-Watcher interrupts the macro execution and shows the browser window to enter the confirmation code. After that, the macro execution is continued.
• Reported bugs fixed

Förändringar 2011 v11.0 Beta 4 -> 2011 v11.0 Beta 5

• New special filter: Ignore entries in dropdown and list boxes (this filter is enabled by default to have the same behavior as in previous WebSite-Watcher versions)
• Plugin: Built in function Bookmark_SetProperty has a new parameter "MarkAsRead" to mark a bookmark as visited. Further details see help file.
• Language files for translators updated
• Various bugs fixed

Förändringar 2011 v11.0 Beta 3 -> 2011 v11.0 Beta 4

• Export bookmarks with certain properties to Excel (This makes it for example possible to export bookmarks to Excel, change them there and re-import them into WebSite-Watcher)
• Excel-Plugin: Conversion for Excel-2007/2010 format rewritten. Supports now also cell formats, cell merging, etc.
• Import bookmarks from Excel: Import from Excel-2007/2010 format supported
• PDF-Plugin: The PDF plugin uses now an alternative text extraction in addition to the internal PDF file conversion. Should the internal conversion fail, there's still a good chance that the text can be extracted with the alternative solution. This makes checking PDF files more reliable for problematic PDF files. (The alternative text extraction is based on the installed PDF Reader and the IFilter system).
• Internet Explorer Macros: More login types supported
• Bookmark check: truncated downloads are detected and handled automatically (truncated downloads will no longer cause false positives)
• Improved IFRAME handling
• Improved codepage detection for some Russian web pages
• Improved detection of PDF/Word/Excel files after redirections
• Reported bugs fixed

Förändringar 2011 v11.0 Beta 2 -> 2011 v11.0 Beta 3

• [+] Import bookmarks (with pre-defined properties) from Excel (XLS) or CSV file (supported properties see help file)
• [+] Script command "ImportBookmarks" can import bookmarks from Excel (XLS) and CSV files
• [+] PDF/Word/Excel files can be checked via Internet Explorer Macros
• [+] Excel Plugin rewritten: Conversion is now ultra fast + Support for protected excel files
• [x] Jump to first/next keyword: Performance improvements
• [x] Show removed elements at the bottom of the page: Performance improvements (also fixed a bottleneck that could freeze WebSite-Watcher in rare cases)
• [-] Fixed a bottleneck in the changes side bar that could freeze WSW
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar 2011 v11.0 Beta 1 -> 2011 v11.0 Beta 2

• Changes bar is now optional via View menu
• Internal browser/URL field: If you enter a search term Instead of an URL, then a Google search is performed
• Mouse scrolling could fail on some systems
• Smaller fixes and tweaks

Förändringar v10.5 Beta 1 -> v10.5

• [x] vBulletin 4 Plugin improved to support more modified v4 forums
• [x] Keyword highlighting improved
• [x] Report with highlighted changes: When calculating the total length of highlighted changes, WebSite-Watcher included the HTML tags for hyperlinks. Now only the length of the readable text is used.
• [x] Update-on-keywords feature improved (more sensitive detection of new/changed content)
• [-] Bookmark action "Play sound" was not executed when the bookmark action "Mark as read" was also enabled
• [-] Excel-Plugin: Hyperlinks were not converted correctly when using MS-Office to convert Excel files into HTML pages
• [-] Check-by-screenshot: Highlighting changes could crash under certain circumstances
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar 2010 (10.4) -> v10.5 Beta 1

• [x] vBulletin 4 Plugin improved to support more modified v4 forums
• [x] Keyword highlighting improved
• [x] Report with highlighted changes: When calculating the total length of highlighted changes, WebSite-Watcher included the HTML tags for hyperlinks. Now only the length of the readable text is used.
• [-] Bookmark action "Play sound" was not executed when the bookmark action "Mark as read" was also enabled
• [-] Excel-Plugin: Hyperlinks were not converted correctly when using MS-Office to convert Excel files into HTML pages
• [-] Check-by-screenshot: Highlighting changes could crash under certain circumstances
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar 2010 (10.4) Beta-2 -> 2010 (10.4)

• [+] Creating Ignore/Watch/Auto Filters: Detection of changing numbers is now more intelligent and automatically recognizes thousands separators and commas
• [x] If the "Ignore updates" feature is configured in the bookmark properties and an entered text was found in the page, then WebSite-Watcher will re-check the bookmark (if the option "re-check bookmark when an error occurred" is enabled in the program configuration)
• [x] Checking method "Internet Explorer/Browser" improved (especially for pages that require a minimum width to be displayed correctly)
• [-] If "View+Always on top" was active, then sub windows were displayed behind the main window and WebSite-Watcher was no longer responsive
• [-] WebSite-Watcher could crash after moving bookmarks to another bookmark database

Förändringar 2010 (10.2) Beta 4 -> 2010 (10.2) Beta 5

• WebSite-Watcher could perform AutoWatch checks endlessly without a countdown under certain circumstances. This should fix the behavior that was described in that thread
• Internet Explorer Macros improved (more rare login types supported)
• Smaller fixes/improvements

Förändringar 2010 (10.1) -> 2010 (10.2) Beta 1

• New function "Re-Create database from cache folder". If a database has physical damages and you don't have a working backup file and the function "Repair database" fails, you can now fully re-create a database from files that are stored in the cache folder.
• "Repair database" improved (WebSite-Watcher can now repair more data from damaged databases)
• Improved database stability
• If a bookmark was checked with "Check-by-screenshot" or the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser", then it was possible that an embedded sound was played during the check. These checks work now completely silent. This works only under Windows Vista and 7.
• Improved AutoWatch countdown calculation
• Extended Search: Save settings as default ("Options" button)
• Extended Search: "Display in Main Window" didn't remember the bookmarks after a WebSite-Watcher restart - Thread
• Bookmark action "Send e-mail": New variable date_changed}
• Plugins: New built in function "ReplaceRegex"
• [x] Analysis tab: Analysis for Update-On-Keywords improved
• Report/Export: The pre-defined template to export to CSV files now uses a semicolon as separator (instead of a comma), so the exported files can be opened directly in Excel.
• Report: New fields {wsw_url_id} and {wsw_url_follow_master_id}
• If a plugin is no longer compatible with a page and a new plugin was found (eg. after a forum version update), then it's possible to assign the new plugin via the browser information bar
• If a plugin is no longer compatible with a page (eg. after a forum version update), it's possible to easily delete the assigned plugin via the browser information bar
• Several PDF Plugin improvements
• Scripts / SendMail command: User defined variables can be used in the mail subject
• Resetting automatic time value could fails under certain circumstances - Thread
• Smaller fixes, optimizations and improvements

Förändringar 2010 (10.1 Beta-1) -> 2010 (10.1 Beta-2)

• [+] New Plugin: IFilter Text Extraction
• [+] Import bookmarks from Firefox 3.x
• [+] Bookmark list: Reset error status (available when you right click bookmarks in the error folder)
• [x] Improved IFRAME filtering
• [-] Internal browser: the default zoom value was only applied to the main browser tab. Now all browser tabs uses the default zoom value that is defined in the program configuration. The default zoom value is also used for all other embedded browsers (eg. Filter Assistant, MiniBrowser, Extended Search, etc.)
• [-] Internal Browser: Tab flickering fixed
• [x] Bookmarks that were checked with the technology "IE/Browser" (or with Internet Explorer Macros) could steal the focus under certain circumstances, this should no longer happen.
• [-] Filters were not saved when the Filter-Assistant was called in the Page menu of the internal browser
• [x] Automatically repair folder structure after repairing a corrupted database (was not possible under certain circumstances)
• Smaller improvements and fixes.

Förändringar v5.1.5 -> v5.1.6

• [-] WebSite-Watcher could crash under Windows 2000
• [x] vBulletin plugin improved - Thread
• [x] Fixed a problem with HTTPs pages and invalid certificates (on systems with IE8) - Thread
• Czech translation updated

Förändringar v5.1.4 -> v5.1.5

• [+] Internet Explorer Macros: Date variables can be used in the whole macro script - Thread
• [x] Internet Explorer Macros: several internal improvements and enhancements (WebSite-Watcher could not record macros for various pages)
• [x] Internet Explorer integration under Windows 7 improved
• [x] Some stability improvements (WebSite-Watcher could crash under certain circumstances)
• [x] Improved codepage detection
• [x] Plugin for phpBB3 forums improved
• [-] Checking very large local PDF files didn't work correctly
• [-] Incorrect Unicode handling for some Japanese web pages
• [-] Word/Excel Plugin could be falsely assigned under certain circumstances
• Hebrew and Finnish language files updated
• Smaller fixes/improvements

Förändringar v5.1.4 -> v5.1.5 Beta 1

• [x] Internet Explorer Macros: several internal improvements and enhancements (WebSite-Watcher could not record macros for various pages)
• [+] Internet Explorer Macros: it's possible to use the date variable in the URL line - Thread
• [x] Some stability improvements (WebSite-Watcher could crash under certain circumstances)
• [x] Improved codepage detection
• [x] Plugin for phpBB3 forums improved
• [-] Checking very large local PDF files didn't work correctly
• [-] Incorrect Unicode handling for some Japanese web pages
• [-] Word/Excel Plugin could be falsely assigned under certain circumstances
• Hebrew and Finnish language files updated
• Smaller fixes

Förändringar v5.1.2 -> v5.1.3

• [x] If a bookmark is opened in the internal browser, then the bookmark name will be displayed in the browser tab (instead of the document title)
• [x] Several stability improvements (this should also fix a problem as described in that Thread)
• [x] PDF Plugin significantly improved (layout should be preserved much better now)
• [x] Excel Plugin: Automatically delete empty rows/columns at the bottom/right of a grid what can dramatically improve speed for grids with tons of empty rows/columns.
• [x] Improved decoding of newsgroup messages
• [x] Improvements when checking html pages with file type "text"
• [x] If a server sends an empty page, then WebSite-Watcher displays now a more informative error message (instead of "Whole content filtered, please verify your filter settings")
• [-] WebSite-Watcher could not extract entries from RSS/Atom feeds under certain circumstances
• [-] Internal Excel converter could fail under Windows 7
• [-] Fixed a crash when WebSite-Watcher was closed without a bookmark list opened
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar v5.1.2 -> v5.1.3 Beta 1

• Improvements when checking html pages with file type "text"
• If a server sends an empty page, then WebSite-Watcher displays now a more informative error message (instead of "Whole content filtered, please verify your filter settings")
• PDF Plugin significantly improved (layout should be preserved much better now)
• Excel Plugin: Automatically delete empty rows/columns at the bottom/right of a grid what can dramatically improve speed for grids with tons of empty rows/columns.
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar v5.1.1 Beta 4 -> v5.1.1 Beta 5

• Microsoft Office must no longer be installed in order to convert Word/Excel files into web pages, WebSite-Watcher has now a built-in conversion routine. If Microsoft Office is installed, it will however still be used to convert these files into HTML pages.
• Sorting by alternative URLs did not recognize check macros.
• Performance of reports with folder structure improved
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar v5.1.1 Beta 2 -> v5.1.1 Beta 4

• Smaller fixes/improvements

Förändringar v5.1.0 -> v5.1.1 Beta 1

• [x] Many internal Unicode improvements (WebSite-Watcher didn't for example work correctly on an English Windows with Japanese codepage)
• [x] Improved handling of large PDF files
• [x] Improved detection if all keywords could be highlighted
• [x] Improved handling of *.txt files
• [-] Sending messages with Outlook Express (via MAPI) could fail
• [-] Encrypting new database files could delete some bookmark properties
• Smaller improvements and bugfixes

Förändringar v5.1.0 Beta 11 -> v5.1.0

• Smaller tweaks

Förändringar v5.1.0 Beta 9 -> v5.1.0 Beta 10

• [x] Plugin IDE: Script editor has been replaced with another one (the old editor was too buggy and caused too many problems)
• [-] WebSite-Watcher could crash during a check run in rare circumstances
• Updated language files: Arabic, Italian, Russian
• Smaller changes/fixes

Förändringar v5.0.2 -> v5.0.3 Beta 1

• More resistant against virus scanners (virus scanner could block some WSW files)
• Improved extraction of changes when sending e-mails in text format
• Changes in RSS feeds were not extracted correctly on reports
• Plugin for vBulletin forums improved
• Norwegian user interface added
• Smaller fixes/improvements

Förändringar v5.0.1 -> v5.0.2

• [x] AutoWatch countdown calculation improved
• [-] AutoWatch countdown was reset after a bookmark was checked manually
• [-] Helper program wswie.exe was not removed from memory under certain circumstances
• [-] "Alert/Actions on Error" didn't work correctly
• [x] WebSite-Watcher automatically renames images with wrong file extensions (was: internal browser could not display downloaded images with wrong file extensions)
• [-] Time configuration "Check only on [DAYS]" could fail under certain circumstances
• Danish translation added
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar v5.0.2 Beta 1 -> v5.0.2 Beta 2

• [-] Time configuration "Check only on [DAYS]" could fail under certain circumstances
• [x] AutoWatch countdown calculation improved
• Smaller improvements

Förändringar v5.0.1 -> v5.0.2 Beta 1

• [-] AutoWatch countdown was reset after a bookmark was checked manually
• [-] Helper program wswie.exe was not removed from memory under certain circumstances
• [-] "Alert/Actions on Error" didn't work correctly
• [x] WebSite-Watcher automatically renames images with wrong file extensions (was: internal browser could not display downloaded images with wrong file extensions)
• Danish translation added
• Minor Tweaks

Förändringar v5.0 -> v5.0.1

• New PDF-Plugin that converts the content of a PDF file into a text file by trying to keep the layout
• Extended Search: Option "Search in bookmarks/page content" reintroduced
• Performance of AutoBackup feature improved
• AutoWatch countdown calculation optimized
• Command line parameter /R was broken in version 5.0
• Bookmark files with UNC path could not be opened
• Bugfixes and smaller improvements

Förändringar v5.0.1 Beta 1 -> v5.0.1 Beta 2

• Performance of AutoBackup feature improved
• Command line parameter /R was broken in version 5.0
• Bugfixes and smaller improvements

Förändringar v5.0 -> v5.0.1 Beta 1

• New PDF-Plugin that converts the content of a PDF file into a text file by trying to keep the layout
• Extended Search: Option "Search in bookmarks/page content" reintroduced
• Bookmark files with UNC path could not be opened
• Minor tweaks/improvements

Förändringar v5.0 Beta 7 -> v5.0 Beta 8

• Smaller improvements and fixes
• Language files for translators updated

Förändringar v5.0 Beta 6 -> v5.0 Beta 7

• Ignore/Watch filters improved
• Performance optimizations
• Improvements and bugfixes

Förändringar v5.0 Beta 2 -> v5.0 Beta 3

• New bookmark option: "Prevent horizontal scrolling" if the page width is larger than the browser window (bookmark properties + "Options" tab)
• Several bugs fixed

Förändringar v5.0 Beta 1 -> v5.0 Beta 2

• [+] When jumping to the first/next change or keyword, WebSite-Watcher prevents horizontal scrolling if the page width is larger than the browser window
• [+] Reintroduced option: Show tab when only one page is opened
• [+] New Tweak: BrowserTabColorRGB=... to configure the color of browser tabs
• [-] Check-by-date didn't work under certain circumstances
• Smaller fixes and improvements

Förändringar 2012 v12.0 -> 2012 v12.1

• Browser integration for the latest verison of Google Chrome (19.x)
• Changing folders: performance improved
• Sort document by name: documents with the same name are now sorted by date
• Configured default zoom value was not applied correctly after starting Local Website Archive
• Smaller fixes and improvements

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