1999-07-14  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* WWW::Search VERSION 2.01 RELEASED!

1999-07-13  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* various cleanups in test.pl
	
	* All backends with their own version numbers have been bumped up
	to 2.01 (this is to clean up the CPAN database)

	* Makefile.PL and the test suite now work in Win32

	* all test cases updated for all working backends; test cases
	eliminated for known broken backends

	* NorthernLight.pm updated

	* new backend for Google

	* new backend for OpenDirectory

1999-07-09  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* Infoseek.pm updated to version 1.18; warnings removed

	* new backend for LookSmart

1999-07-06  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* Dejanews.pm updated to version 1.12; now uses www.deja.com;
	adheres to new test mechanism

	* AltaVista/AdvancedWeb.pm updated to version 2.01

1999-07-02  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* ZDNet.pm FIXED and updated to version 1.03

	* NorthernLight.pm FIXED and updated to version 1.05

1999-07-01  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* WWW::Search VERSION 1.025 RELEASED!

1999-06-30  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* WebCrawler.pm updated to version 1.14; adheres to new test mechanism

	* Infoseek.pm now strips HTML from titles and descriptions

	* Infoseek/Companies.pm updated to version 1.10; adheres to new test mechanism

	* Infoseek/News.pm updated to version 1.09; adheres to new test mechanism

	* Infoseek/Web.pm updated to version 1.10; adheres to new test mechanism

	* new exported function strip_tags()

1999-06-29  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* Excite.pm updated to version 1.11; adheres to new test mechanism

	* new test mechanism puts list of test cases into each module's
	code (no more duplicate test code!)

	* Infoseek.pm updated to version 1.14; Companies and News searches fixed

1999-06-28  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* test/test.pl is more informative about errors

	* Infoseek.pm updated to version 1.13

1999-06-24  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* Profusion.pm updated to version 1.05

	* OpenDirectory.pm updated

1999-06-22  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* The version method is now implemented within the WWW::Search
	module, so backends no longer need to declare it locally

	* Snap.pm updated

1999-06-21  Kingpin  <mthurn@tasc.com>

	* NorthernLight.pm updated; now returns score and date for each hit

	* new backend AltaVista::Intranet

	* HotBot.pm updated; now unescapes URLs before returning them

=====================================

RELEASE HISTORY (moved here from the README file):
	
1.002:  (11 October 1996)
- First public release.

1.004:  (31 October 1996)
- new:  AutoSearch, a client application (see below for details)
- new:  WWW::Search is now in CPAN (see GETTING WWW::Search for details)
- bug fix:  installation problem (no rule to make CLIENTS/search) fixed

1.005:  (12 November 1996)
- new: back-ends for HotBot, Lycos, and several AltaVista variants
- new: application support for search-engine selection
- new: application and library support for search-engine options

1.006:  (25 November 1996)
- private beta release, see 1.007 for list of new features

1.007: (17 December 1996)
- new: back-ends for Dejanews (from Cesare Feroldi de Rosa),
	Infoseek (also from Cesare Feroldi de Rosa),
	and Excite (from GLen Pringle)
- new: more fields in SearchResult (score, dates, etc., see the man page)
	(problem found by Cesare Feroldi de Rosa)
- new: better error handling on network failures
	(AutoSearch should report errors on its pages,
	$search->response() provides an API for error reporting)
- new (internal):  user_agent handling has changed
- new:  proxy support added to WWW::Search (still needed in applications)
	(problem and fix suggested by T. V. Raman)
- bug-fix: numerous documentation updates
	(problems found by Larry Virden)
- bug-fix: AltaVista web search was occasionally dropping hits
	(problem found by Larry Virden, fixed by Bill Scheding)
- bug-fix: all non-alphanumeric characters are now escaped
	(problem found by Larry Virden)

1.008:  (8 January 1997)
- private alpha release, see 1.009 for list of new features


1.009:  (14 January 1997)
overview:  1.009 is primarily a maintenance release to accommodate
	changes to LWP and some search engines.
- change:  search application renamed WebSearch (a more specific name)
- bug-fix:  the WWW::Search error in formatting is fixed
	(problem found by Larry Virden, fix by him and johnh)
- bug-fix:  RobotUA handling updated for new LWP in Search.pm
- bug-fix:  update for Infoseek (page format changed about 1 Jan 97)
	(problem found by Joseph McDonald, fix by Cesare Feroldi de Rosa)
- bug-fix:  update for Excite (page format changed about 9 Jan 97)
	(problem found by Juan Jose Amor, fix by GLen Pringle)

1.010: (20 August 1997)
overview:  an interim release to fix AltaVista
- new: normalized_score, a back-end independent score (from Paul Lindner)
- new: generic options are supported by several back-ends
	(specify search engine URL, debugging, etc.)
- new: AltaVista back-end now sets SearchResult::raw
- bug-fix: update for AltaVista (page format changed Jul 97)
	(some information wrt fix provided by Guy Decoux)

1.011:  (8 October 1997)
- internal alpha release, see 1.012 for list of new features

1.012:   (3 November 1997)
- Overview:  an alpha release for test-suite testing
- new: for testing, HTTP results can be saved to disk and played back
- new: test scripts (try "make test")
- bug-fix: Lycos works again and is now maintained by John Heidemann
- bug-fix: AltaVista advanced and news searches have been repaired
- bug-fix: some uninitialized value warnings suppressed
	(fix suggested by R. Chandrasekar (Mickey))
- new: new back-ends PLweb
- new: documentation for PLweb (contributed by Paul Linder)
- new: new back-ends: Gopher, Simple (contributed by Paul Linder)
- new: WWW::Search mailing list:
	to subscribe, send "subscribe info-www-search" as
	the body of a message to <info-www-search-request@isi.edu>

1.013, (19 February 1998)
overview:  this is an alpha release to include Martin's new back-ends

- bug fix:  HotBot back-end updated by Martin Thurn <mthurn@tasc.com>
- new:  Yahoo back-end now works, by Martin Thurn <mthurn@tasc.com>
- problem: several back-ends don't work (Lycos)
- problem: several back-ends don't have test suites and
	so may or may not work (DejaNews, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, PLweb,
	SFgate, Verity, Yahoo)
- reminder: WWW::Search mailing list:
	to subscribe, send "subscribe info-www-search" as
	the body of a message to <info-www-search-request@isi.edu>


1.014, (24 March 1998)
overview:  this is an alpha release to fix the AltaVista/Lycos back-ends
- bug fix:  AltaVista/Lycos back-ends
	(problem reported by Bilal Siddiqui <bilal.siddiqui@mankato.msus.edu>)
- known problem: some back-end test suites give intermittent results
	(AltaVista::News)
- problem: several back-ends don't have test suites and
	so may or may not work (DejaNews, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, PLweb,
	SFgate, Verity, Yahoo)

1.015, (2-Apr-98)
overview:  this is an alpha release with several new back-ends
- new: back-ends: Magellan, WebCrawler (thanks to Martin Thurn)
- bug fix:  Yahoo/HotBot/Excite back-ends,
	with test suites.  Many thanks to Martin Thurn.
- bug fix:  AltaVista news test suites have been relaxed,
	even though the code worked before, the test suites
	used to report false negatives.
- bug fix: AltaVista is now more careful to detect the end of
	a hit's raw HTML
- new: the test suite has been enhanced to be less sensitive
	to changes in what's indexed
- problem: several back-ends don't have test suites and
	so may or may not work (DejaNews, Infoseek, PLweb,
	SFgate, Verity)
- reminder: WWW::Search mailing list:
	to subscribe, send "subscribe info-www-search" as
	the body of a message to <info-www-search-request@isi.edu>

1.016, 21-May-98
overview: this is an alpha to fix HotBot/Infoseek
- bug fix: Infoseek/HotBot back ends now work again.
	(HotBot problem reported by Alan McCoy <a.r.mccoy@larc.nasa.gov>,
	both back-ends fixed by Martin Thurn)
- addition: Infoseek test suite
- addition: test output now includes the version number

1.017, 27-May-98
overview:  this is the public release since 1.012
- bug fix: Lycos bug fix

1.018, 31-May-98
overview:  back-end updates
- bug fix: Excite and WebCrawler (by Martin Thurn),
	AltaVista (by John Heidemann)
	updated 30-May-98
- known bugs:  WWW::Search doesn't work on MacPerl because of
	end-of-line differences.  A fix for this problem is in
	progress.  (Problem identified and fix suggested by 
	Chris Nandor.)

1.019, 25-Jun-98
overview:  back-end updates
- bug fix: test suite bugs were causing false negatives on
	Yahoo, Excite, Magellan, WebCrawler (reported by Martin Thurn,
	fixed John Heidemann)
- new feature:  the test suite is now run daily (automatically).
	Output can be found at
	<http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/WORK/LSAM/WWW_SEARCH/>.
- new feature: verbose mode of WebSearch is more verbose
- bug fix: AltaVista was recording the RealName URL on some queries
	(bug reported by Vassilis Papadimos <vpapad@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>)
- bug fix: AltaVista wasn't correctly reporting change_time/size 
	(bug and fix from Martin Valldeby <martin.valldeby@pakom.se>)

1.020, 12-Aug-98
overview:  lots of bug fixes and new back-ends
- bug fix:  maximum_to_retrieve now works for very small values.
	(Problem identified by Vidyut Luther <vluther@hpctc.org>.)
- new back-ends: ExciteForWebServers, FolioViews, Livelink, MSIndexServer,
	Null, Search97
	all from Paul Lindner (thanks!)
- bug fix:  Gopher, PLweb, SFgate, Simple, Verity from Paul Lindner
- bug fix:  Lycos from John Heidemann
- new test suites:  PLweb, FolioViews, Null, MSIndexServer, Search97,
	SFgate, ExciteForWebServers rom Paul Lindner
- bug fix:  HotBot repair from Martin Thurn

1.021, 27-Aug-98
overview:  a general release
- new:  Windows installation is now supported by
	Jim Smyser <jsmyser@bigfoot.com>; please see his web
	page <http://pubinfo.phx.primenet.com/www.search/>
	for details.
- new:  MacPerl should now be supported.  Thanks to Chris Nandor
	for the problem and a fix.
- bug fix:  Infoseek, WebCrawler, Dejanews, HotBot by Martin Thurn
- bug fix:  AltaVista approx_count bug found by
	Darren Stalder <darren@u.washington.edu>
- bug fix: documentation cleanups from Neil Bowers

1.022, 16-Oct-98
overview:  An interim release to fix several broken back-ends.
- bug fix: documentation cleanups from Ave Wrigley
- bug fix: Infoseek updates (from Martin Thurn)
- bug fix: AltaVista update (minor format changes Oct. 1998,
	partial fix from Andreas Borchert)
- new: back ends for Crawler, Fireball, NorthernLight from Andreas Borchert

1.024, 11-Dec-98
overview:  primarily bug fixes for back ends
- new: proxy support added to WebSearch and AutoSearch
	(based on code from Paul Linder)
- new: new back end for Snap.com (from Jim Smyser)
- bug fix:  Yahoo, HotBot, Excite, Lycos (from Martin Thurn),
	NorthernLight (from Jim Smyser)

