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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e2215a33 --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGELOG.rst @@ -0,0 +1,434 @@ + pyAggr3g470r project news + +6.7: 2015-07-21 + New: + * a filter mechanism for feeds has been added (PR #14); + * icon of feeds is now an url retrieved from the feed or the site link (PR #15). + Improvements: + * improvements for the bookmarklet (PR #16 and PR #18); + * performance improvements (display of the /feed page); + * enhancements for the two crawlers; + * enhancements of the UI (PR #14); + * misc changes to the models and controllers. + +6.6: 2015-06-02 + New: + * it is now possible to sort the list of articles by feed title or + article title; + * added base unittests. + Improvements: + * fixed some minor bugs; + * improved the asyncio crawler; + * automatically use the good Python executable for the asyncio crawler; + * improved controllers (enforcing better use of user_id); + * the search is now case insensitive. + +6.5.5: 2015-04-22 + The full text search powered by Whoosh has been removed. + +6.5.4: 2015-04-16 + This release introduces a new config module and a new search functionality. + The result of a search is integrated in the main page. + +6.5.3: 2015-04-14 + The fetch call is now dependent to the selected crawling method. + +6.5.2: 2015-04-14 + The look and feel has been globally improved. + It is now possible to add a new feed from any page via a dropdown menu. + +6.5.1: 2015-04-08 + Improvements: + * improvements on the controllers; + * the minimum error count is now specified in the configuration file. + +6.5: 2015-04-07 + Improvements: + * new CSS; + * improved installation script; + * it is now possible to delete all duplicate articles with one HTTP + delete request. + +6.4: 2015-03-17 + New: + * a new page 'history' to explore your database of articles. + Changes: + * updated documentation; + * minor improvements. + Fixes: + * changed the type of the column 'last_modified' to string. + +6.3: 2015-03-08 + New: + * a new architecture with base for controllers; + * new, more complete RESTful API; + * a crawler handling errors and cache control; + * the new crawler takes advantage of the RESTful API + (can be run on the client side). + +6.2: 2015-02-26 + The system of email notifications for new articles has been removed. + This feature was hardly used. + +6.1: 2015-02-23 + Improvements: articles are now identified with the id provided + by the RSS/ATOM feed. + Prevent BeautifulSoup4 from adding extra '<html><body>' tags to + the soup with the 'lxml' parser. + Indexation is now used with the new crawler. + The documentation has been updated. + +6.0: 2015-02-08 + New: pyAggr3g470r is now working with Python 3.4. Tested on Heroku + with Python 3.4.2. + Improvements: The feed crawler uses the PEP 3156 (asyncio). The action + buttons are now on the left. It is easier to mark an article as read. + +5.7.0: 2014-11-20 + Improvements: major improvements of the email notifications system. + Notifications are now sent through Postmark (for example for Heroku) + or a standard SMTP server. + Bug fix: activation key was too long for the database column. + +5.6.6: 2014-09-24 + Improvements: Significant performance improvement for the views + /favorites and /unread. The performance problem has been introduced + with the release 5.6.5. + +5.6.5: 2014-09-15 + This release fixes a major bug introduced with the version 0.9.7 of SQLAlchemy + (conflicts between persistent ant transcient SQLAlchemy objects). + +5.6.4: 2014-09-12 + Translations have been updated. + Gravatar extension has been removed. + Minor fix. + +5.6.3: 2014-08-27 + News: It is now possible to delete articles older than a given number + of weeks. This can be done via the management page. + A new environment variable enables to activate or deactivate the + self-registration. + Changes: translations were updated. Some minor bugfixes. Improved + deployment instructions in the README. + +5.6.2: 2014-08-10 + Minor improvements: Articles are automatically retrieved after the import + of an OPML file. + When displaying all articles (unread + read), titles of unread articles + are emphasized in bold. + A new tab is opened when clicking on the title of an article. + New: pyAggr3g470r can be deployed with the Heroku auto deploy button. + +5.6.1: 2014-07-13 + Performance improvements: faster database insertion of articles by + the crawler and loading of the management page. + Minor bug fixes. + +5.6: 2014-07-05 + pyAggr3g470r has now a RESTful JSON API which enables to manage Feed and + Article objects. The API is documented in the README file. + The main page is using a subset of this API with jQuery HTTP requests. + +5.5: 14 Jun 2014 13:09 + This release introduces a redesigned homepage which loads much faster and + is easier to read. pyAggr3g470r can now be run by Apache. + Adding a feed no longer requires a title and a site link. + +5.4: 28 May 2014 05:16 + This version makes it possible for a user to export all of their feeds and + articles as a JSON file for later restoration. + +5.3: 23 May 2014 22:39 + This release introduces some UI improvements, especially for the home page. + +5.2: 16 May 2014 17:23 + This release adds minor bug fixes and UI improvements. + +5.1: 13 May 2014 20:58 + When deployed on Heroku, the platform now uses the Postmark service to + send account confirmation emails to users. It is no longer required to + enter a first name and a last name to create an account. + +5.0: 04 May 2014 20:54 + pyAggr3g470r is now translated into English and French. Improvements + concerning the news retriever and the Whoosh search functionality have + been made. The user can now export all articles in JSON format. + The user of the platform now has the possibility to delete his or her + account. + +4.9: 24 Apr 2014 21:11 + This version introduces minor improvements to the Jinja templates and + bugfixes (relating to the import of OPML files with sub-categories and + relating to the Whoosh index generation). + +4.8: 13 Apr 2014 11:35 + Feeds are now retrieved in a separated process with the Gevent library. + This offers the best performance on Heroku. + +4.7: 12 Apr 2014 12:24 + pyAggr3g470r can now be deployed on Heroku or on a traditional server. + Moreover, several users can use an instance of pyAggr3g470r. A platform is + managed by the administrator, a user with specific rights. + +4.6: 09 Feb 2014 21:23 + This release introduces the import of OPML files of subscriptions. + Minor improvements have been made to the templates. + +4.5: 29 Jan 2014 17:40 + This release introduces a one step installation process with a simple + script. Minor improvements to the feedgetter module have been introduced + (the feed description is now stored in the database). Miscellaneous + improvements to the Jinja templates. Finally, more configuration options + are now offered to the user. + +4.4: 27 Dec 2013 23:10 + This version introduces some improvements for the feedgetter module + including automatic retrieval of the URL behind feedproxy.google.com, + and support for configuring the user agent and proxy. Minor improvements + were made to the MongoEngine models. Notifications are displayed with + Flask flash messages. + +4.3: 03 Dec 2013 21:27 + With this release, the user is able to update her personal information. + It is now possible to enable/disable the checking of updates for a feed. + Some performance improvements and user interface optimizations have been + done. + +4.2: 10 Nov 2013 00:11 + This is the first release of the new version of pyAggr3g470r. + The code has been rewritten with the Flask microframework and the + Bootstrap frontend framework. + +4.1: 11 Aug 2013 13:19 + HTTP proxy support has been added for the fetching of feeds. This is + useful, for example, if you are using Privoxy/Tor. + +4.0: 25 Jun 2013 11:42 + Searching of articles is now achieved with Whoosh, a fast full-text + indexing and searching library. + +3.9: 14 Apr 2013 19:40 + The code has been tested and ported to Python 3.3.1. Some minor bugs have + been fixed, with a lot of improvements concerning the Mako templates, + MongoDB database management, and management of exceptions. + +3.8: 12 Jan 2013 11:07 + This release introduces a reworked management page; it is now possible to + change the username and password via this page. + Some improvements concerning the HTML export of the database have been + made. Finally, indexed MongoDB full text searching provides a much faster + search. + +3.7: 29 Dec 2012 22:10 + pyAggr3g470r is now using the Mako template library. + Performance improvements for the MongoDB database have been made, and some + minor bugfixes. Stop words (a, of, the, an, for...) are now ignored when + calculating top words for the generation of the tag cloud. + A new page indicates the list of inactive feeds (with no new published + articles since a given number of days). + +3.6: 08 Nov 2012 22:56 + pyAggr3g470r is now running with Python 3.2(.3). It uses CherryPy 3.2.2, + BeautifulSoup4, and feedparser3.Your old MongoDB database can be used + without any problem. + +3.5 :28 Oct 2012 13:37 + Some minor bugfixes and improvements. + An authentication screen has been added, which is useful if pyAggr3g470r + is running on an EC2 instance, for example. + +3.4: 01 May 2012 16:50 + This version introduces some minor improvements and bugfixes. + All features of pyAggr3g470r are now back (with MongoDB). + +3.3: 16 Apr 2012 20:40 + This version introduces minor improvements and a bugfix. + Publication dates of articles are now stored as a datetime object. + A bug in the script that converts an SQLite database to a MongoDB database + is now fixed. + A little documentation has been added. + +3.2: 20 Mar 2012 20:59 + A MongoDB database is now used instead of the SQLite database. This change + offers a significant performance improvement. The database has been tested + with more than 30,000 articles, but version 3.2 is still a test version. + A more stable version will arrive soon. + +3.1: 29 Nov 2011 06:54 + A new version of the QR Code module is used. For each article, a QR Code + is generated based on the content of the article. If the article is too + long, only the article's URL is encoded in the QR Code. For a given + string, the algorithm tries the generate as small a QR Code as possible. + Minor bugs were fixed. + +3.0: 25 Oct 2011 12:52 + This release introduces exportation of articles to the HTML format and to + the PDF format (there is still exportation to ePub). + The sharing of articles with delicious.com was replaced by pinboard.in.s + +2.9: 26 Aug 2011 17:43 + Some minor improvements. A bug with the HTML <code> tag bas been fixed. + Cleanup was done with Pylint. + The test database of pyAggr3g470r contains more than 22000 articles, + and it runs perfectly. + +2.8: 08 Jul 2011 06:55 + The feed summary page, which displays general information about a feed, + now lets you change the feed metadata (feed logo, feed name, and feed URL + if changed). Moreover, this page displays the activity of a feed and other + useful information. It is now possible to set a different POD for Diaspora + in the configuration file and to share an article with Google +1. + A control file to start or stop pyAggr3g470r has been added. + From the GUI side, a new transparent CSS tooltip has been introduced in + order to preview an article. + Finally, some minor performance improvements and bugfixes were made. + +2.7: 15 Apr 2011 20:46 + Minor improvements. + It is now possible to set a maximum number of articles to be loaded from + the database for each feed (via the management page). + +2.6: 21 Mar 2011 17:21 + This version introduces a new page that displays general information about + a feed. There are some minor improvements in the Web interface. + The version of pyAggr3g470r for Python 3 is now fully ready and has been + tested with Python 3.2. + +2.5: 19 Jan 2011 07:16 + A bug when removing a feed from the data base was fixed. + Minor improvements were made for export of articles and the size of HTML + forms. + +2.4: 07 Dec 2010 18:02 + The GUI uses more HTML 5 features like HTML5 Forms Validation + (email input, URL input), an HTML5 month+year date picker, and a + placeholder. From each article it is possible to access the + following and previous article (and a new main menu with CSS ToolTip). + Articles can now be exported to the EPUB format. Articles loaded from the + SQLite base are now stored in memory in a better data structure. With more + than 10,000 articles, pyAggr3g470r starts in 3 seconds. Finally, email + notifications are now sent with HTML message content and with an + alternative plain text version (MIMEMultipart). + +2.3: 15 Nov 2010 22:05 + This version introduces HTML5 Forms Validation and a HTML5 month+year date + picker for the history page, which can be used to search for articles. + This currently only works with Opera. + +2.2: 03 Nov 2010 19:31 + There is now a third way to export articles from the SQLite base. + There is an export method for the wiki DokuWiki (example in the commit + message). + +2.1: 25 Oct 2010 15:56 + The export of articles to HTML has been updated, with better output. + There are a number of improvements (the search function, generation of + tags cloud, display of article content, CSS, bugfixes, etc.). + There is a new Wiki. + +2.0: 03 Sep 2010 19:04 + It is now possible to browse articles by year and month with tag clouds + (see new screenshots). + In addition, URL errors are detected before downloading feeds. + There are some improvements in the user interface. + +1.9: 02 Sep 2010 09:17 + The feedgetter module was improved. More details about articles are stored + in the database when possile. An attempt is made to get the whole article + (a_feed['entries'][i].content[j].value), and in the event of failure, + the description/summary is used (a_feed['entries'][i].description). + +1.8: 25 Aug 2010 06:47 + It is now easier to install pyAggr3g470r. + There is no longer any need to set any path in the configuration file. + +1.7: 23 Jul 2010 11:21 + This release generates QR codes with URLs of articles, so you can read an + article later on your smartphone (or share with friends). + +1.6: 08 Jul 2010 11:27 + It is now possible to automatically add a feed (with the URL of the site), + delete an article, delete a feed with all its articles, and to delete all + articles from the database. + There are also some nice improvements to performance, tested with more + than 3000 articles. + Furthermore, HTML export of all the articles of the database was improved. + You can also export the articles in raw text. Finally, some minor bugs + were fixed. + +1.5: 05 Jul 2010 09:17 + Now pyAggr3g470r only works with Python 2.7. + OrderedDict objects are used in order to sort the feeds alphabetically in + a simple way. + +1.4: 10 Jun 2010 12:09 + It is now possible to remove all articles of a given feed from the SQLite + base via the management page. You can also add a feed just with the URL + of the Web page. The URL of the feed is obtained by parsing the Web page + with the module BeautifulSoup. + +1.3: 04 May 2010 06:12 + All articles stored in the SQLite database can now be exported as HTML or + raw text via the management page. + +1.2: 29 Apr 2010 07:41 + This version introduces a tag cloud with variable word length. + Some improvements were made to the CSS and a bug was fixed. + +1.1: 15 Apr 2010 19:09 + Introduction of a Google Buzz button. + It is now possible to mark or unmark articles as favorites. + +1.0: 23 Mar 2010 14:40 + The database of feeds is monitored with the Python gamin module, + if present. Otherwise it is done with a classic function. + You now have the option to be informed of new articles by email. To + receive these notifications, just click on "Stay tuned" for the + desired feed(s) at the main page of pyAggr3g470r in the browser. + +0.9: 28 Feb 2010 18:37 + TuxDroid tells you when there are unread articles (this module is + independent in case you don't have a TuxDroid). Moreover, the language of + articles is detected (thanks to the oice.langdet Python module). This + allows you to search for articles by language. + +0.8: 24 Feb 2010 11:56 + It is now possible to share articles with delicious, Digg, reddit, + Scoopeo, and Blogmarks. + The "Management of feeds" page presents information on the database and + statistics on articles (with a histogram). HTML tags are now skipped for + the search. Some other improvements were made. + +0.7: 15 Feb 2010 16:36 + It is now possible to search for an article, through the titles and + descriptions. + +0.6: 05 Feb 2010 23:01 + Unread articles are now shown in bold. This was implemented using a new + field in the SQLite database. New tabs for article descriptions are opened + with the _rel=noreferrer_ option in order to separate processes (useful + with Chromium). It is now possible to see only unread articles for each feed. + +0.5: 02 Feb 2010 21:41 + It is now possible to fetch feeds manually by clicking on "Fetch all feeds" + and/or with cron. Better navigation between feeds and improvements to the + SQLite database have been added. + +0.4: 01 Feb 2010 22:05 + Release 0.4. The main page display only 10 articles by feeds. + For each feeds a page present the list of all articles. The SQLite base is + smaller than before (removed hashed value). + A lot of improvements. + +0.3: 01 Feb 2010 11:50 + A new menu was added for faster access to feeds. Some improvements were + made to the CSS. + +0.2: 31 Jan 2010 21:10 + Articles are now sorted by date, and it is possible to read just a + description of an article. There are some improvements in the code and + SQLite base management. + +0.1: 29 Jan 2010 21:09 + First release of pyAggr3g470r. |