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For information on Summary versions 2.5 through 2.6.8 look here.
For information on Summary versions 2.0 through 2.3.15 look here.
For information on Summary version 1.x look here.
What’s new in version 3.0.9a?
April 17, 2008

Fixed a crash under OS X version 10.3.9.

What’s new in version 3.0.9?
April 15, 2008

Reports are now in UTF-8, this allows many non-English search phrases to display correctly.

Added columns for Search Visits per Day, Tracked Visits per Day, and Robot Visits per Day.

Added top level domain codes and GeoIP support for Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy.

New configuration option to more aggressively remove unnecessary agent tokens, saves memory for very high traffic sites.

Allow backslash to quote ',' in config lists.

Sorting by Log Size on Disk didn't work, fixed.

File and Refer history (days/weeks/months) no longer count errors.

Renamed Hits Over Time to Requests Over Time.

The sub-report list popup on the Tools configuration page was disabling the wrong sub-reports, fixed.

Corrupt Zip archives could occasionally cause a crash, fixed.

Clarified that regex are only supported in aliases and group names in manual.

What’s new in version 3.0.8?
December 5, 2007

Added new proxy cluster translations.

Added VoilaBot agent string detection.

Updated to the most recent version of PCRE.

The recent period in overviews was not including today, fixed.

What’s new in version 3.0.7?
November 6, 2007

Fixed a crash in the Summary Console application under OS X 10.5 Leopard. Summary is now fully supported on Leopard.

Added an error message when following an alias fails on OX X.

Added YandexBlog as a known robot.

If the USER token was the first token on a log line, it couldn't be space delimited, fixed.

Group patterns now properly support regular expressions.

Now filters graphic requests occuring before any non-graphic request in a visit if a visit with a visit initiating query string of "(None)" would be filtered.

What’s new in version 3.0.6?
September 18, 2007

Added platform detection for the iPod Touch.

Local referrer query strings were not getting lowercased when include query string in request and pre-filter referrers were both on, fixed.

Items on the disable reports page now indent correctly.

Now only keeps 20 lines of files with only parse errors (saves memory).

Fixed a rare crash while processing.

Sub-report specific aliases were not getting applied to local referrers, fixed.

Summary 3.0.5 on PPC Macintosh is database format incompatible with all other versions, fixed.

What’s new in version 3.0.5?
July 10, 2007 and July 15, 2007

Added version detection for Safari version 3, was being counted as version 2.

Added platform detection for the iPhone.

Added US state or Canadian province to the city name in the City report.

Switched the Macintosh version to XCode. Now requires OS X 10.3.9 or newer.

Switched the Windows version to Visual C++.

Static HTML overviews were showing graphs at the wrong scales, fixed.

Custom reports (.html files from the Custom folder) now get written as part of static reports.

In user defined log formats, tran-time-secs wasn't handling multiple digits after the decimal point correctly, fixed.

GeoIP lookups were completely wrong on Intel based Macs, fixed. There were no problems on other platforms.

What’s new in version 3.0.4?
March 6, 2007

Added additional proxy cluster definitions.

Added a more robust check for valid log entries. Summary was ignoring some ZIP archives with sub-folders because of NULs in the folder entries, fixed.

Added several new known search engines.

In Compare time periods, "Tracked Visits" was getting labeled as "1 Page Visits", fixed.

Renamed Ask Jeeves to Ask.

In the Bandwidth Usage Overview, Requests by Bytes were sorted by current bytes but were displaying total byte percentages. Now displays current byte percentages.

Fixed a problem with SFTP log downloads sometimes hanging or failing after a very long delay.

Fixed a crash when displaying very long local file names in the Daily Others report.

What’s new in version 3.0.3?
January 30, 2007

Added Visitors : Countries : City report. Reports on major world cities that your visitors come from. This report requires either the GeoLite City database or GeoIP City database from MaxMind (not included with Summary).

Updated GeoIP support to be compatible with version 1.4.1 of the MaxMind libraries (several new country codes).

Added "User to run as instead of root" configuration option on Linux and OS X. Use of this option improves security and allows sftp log downloading to work correctly when running at startup on OS X or as root on Linux.

Increased the maximum configuration dialog string length to 30K.

Fixed incorrect "Display Others must be last" error messages when reconfiguring report layouts with detail items.

Now checks for out of memory twice as often while processing, avoids unnecessary asserts.

Display Others/Display Detail Item name mismatch in error message vs popup, fixed.

User filters didn't work correctly in the CGI Tags and Values report, fixed.

Added a few new top level domains.

What’s new in version 3.0.2?
November 14, 2006

Processing status messages were missing, fixed.

Now wraps help window contents in a "<div class=docs>" and includes the style sheet to allow appearance overrides in Summary SP Lite and SP.

The UNIX-TIME log field was giving times early by a month, fixed.

Now encodes reserved characters in query strings for referrers.

Fixed download failure caused by FTP SIZE command returning code 550 even when the file exists and can be downloaded.

E-mailed reports didn't include the master overview, fixed.

Fixed a crash when drilling down on long failed referrers.

TRAN-TIME-SECS now supports decimal seconds (0.123).

Links in the Fan In/Out report didn't work if the URL contained an '&', fixed.

Sub-report reports exported as entire report to XLS were wrong when there were more than 60 sub-reports, fixed.

Overview as text & spreadsheet links are now available in custom HTML.

What’s new in version 3.0.1?
August 17, 2006

Redesigned the main overview. It now contains a comparison of the current month vs all time for all the major metrics.

Added a new overview graph scale - decade - which shows about 14 years.

TIME-24 now allows times like "12:24:48.123456" in log files.

Disabled drill downs on referring domain tracking tags (which didn't work anyway).

Added search term extraction for MySpace.com search.

Added a few more known search engines.

Added support for several new custom HTML specials.

Fixed a crash when using particular aliases on the Macintosh on Intel version.

Added an option to install Summary as a service under Windows with an alternate service name.

What’s new in version 3?
June 27, 2006

Completely redesigned overviews! The overviews are now task oriented and include pie charts and interactive bar charts and line graphs. The new overviews put all the information you might need for several common tasks all in one place.

New appearance throughout. Now uses CSS and supports recent HTML standards.

Added a new Javascript Enabled report, requires that the new Javascript code be installed at your site.

Added Visitors : ISPs and Visitors : Robots : Agents reports and renamed some others.

Added several new rows to the Compare Time Periods report, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.

Added support for a third high memory usage report. Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.

Added support for name/password authentication to the SMTP server when sending e-mails, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.

Visits with tracking tags now count the tracking tag as their referrer, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.

Added a text size configuration setting. Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.

Renamed "current" to "recent" throughout.

Improved detection of some of the Google robots that "hide" their name.

The Windows version is now compatible 64 bit versions of Windows (Summary runs in 32 bit mode).

More aggressive removal of serial numbers/unique keys from agent strings, reduces memory usage slightly.

Moved the Language report to Visitors : Country.

Three of the high memory reports are now turned on by default in new configurations. Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.

The Windows version now uses a different, more up to date, installer.
When upgrading from Summary 1.x, custom report layouts and report disables will be lost.

Reorganized the custom HTML configuration pages, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.

Custom HTML header/footers are not imported from older versions. Changes to the custom HTML support require that they be rewritten anyway. Summary SP Lite and SP only.

New optional column percent of visits (no decimal).

Numerous small changes and extensions to the custom HTML support. Existing custom HTML headers and footers will need to be rewritten. Summary SP Lite and SP only.

Added no-title option to <sum-topn>.

Added empty(XX) option to <sum-if> expressions.

Made ! a general oporator in <sum-if> expressions.

Added <sum-else>.

Can now nest <sum-if>s.

Added any-output, plus, sp, true, false conditionals to sum-if expresions.

Added pie-chart option to TopN.

Switched <sum-graph> to use the new .gif graphs.

Added title=xxxx option for <sum-topn>.

Added using and on-right option to TopN.

Switched text reports from .text to .txt.

Improved path clipping in reports.

Page as spreadsheet no longer uses the same file name as report as spreadsheet.

Small adjustments to the default layout of several reports.

Added a better error message for console can't write to script file on the Macintosh version.

Updated to PCRE 6.6.

For information on older versions look here.

Summary Version History
		For information on Summary versions 2.5 through 2.6.8 look here. For information on Summary versions 2.0 through 2.3.15 look here. For information on Summary version 1.x look here. What’s new in version 3.0.9a? April 17, 2008 Fixed a crash under OS X version 10.3.9. What’s new in version 3.0.9? April 15, 2008 Reports are now in UTF-8, this allows many non-English search phrases to display correctly. Added columns for Search Visits per Day, Tracked Visits per Day, and Robot Visits per Day. Added top level domain codes and GeoIP support for Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy. New configuration option to more aggressively remove unnecessary agent tokens, saves memory for very high traffic sites. Allow backslash to quote ',' in config lists. Sorting by Log Size on Disk didn't work, fixed. File and Refer history (days/weeks/months) no longer count errors. Renamed Hits Over Time to Requests Over Time. The sub-report list popup on the Tools configuration page was disabling the wrong sub-reports, fixed. Corrupt Zip archives could occasionally cause a crash, fixed. Clarified that regex are only supported in aliases and group names in manual. What’s new in version 3.0.8? December 5, 2007 Added new proxy cluster translations. Added VoilaBot agent string detection. Updated to the most recent version of PCRE. The recent period in overviews was not including today, fixed. What’s new in version 3.0.7? November 6, 2007 Fixed a crash in the Summary Console application under OS X 10.5 Leopard. Summary is now fully supported on Leopard. Added an error message when following an alias fails on OX X. Added YandexBlog as a known robot. If the USER token was the first token on a log line, it couldn't be space delimited, fixed. Group patterns now properly support regular expressions. Now filters graphic requests occuring before any non-graphic request in a visit if a visit with a visit initiating query string of "(None)" would be filtered. What’s new in version 3.0.6? September 18, 2007 Added platform detection for the iPod Touch. Local referrer query strings were not getting lowercased when include query string in request and pre-filter referrers were both on, fixed. Items on the disable reports page now indent correctly. Now only keeps 20 lines of files with only parse errors (saves memory). Fixed a rare crash while processing. Sub-report specific aliases were not getting applied to local referrers, fixed. Summary 3.0.5 on PPC Macintosh is database format incompatible with all other versions, fixed. What’s new in version 3.0.5? July 10, 2007 and July 15, 2007 Added version detection for Safari version 3, was being counted as version 2. Added platform detection for the iPhone. Added US state or Canadian province to the city name in the City report. Switched the Macintosh version to XCode. Now requires OS X 10.3.9 or newer. Switched the Windows version to Visual C++. Static HTML overviews were showing graphs at the wrong scales, fixed. Custom reports (.html files from the Custom folder) now get written as part of static reports. In user defined log formats, tran-time-secs wasn't handling multiple digits after the decimal point correctly, fixed. GeoIP lookups were completely wrong on Intel based Macs, fixed. There were no problems on other platforms. What’s new in version 3.0.4? March 6, 2007 Added additional proxy cluster definitions. Added a more robust check for valid log entries. Summary was ignoring some ZIP archives with sub-folders because of NULs in the folder entries, fixed. Added several new known search engines. In Compare time periods, "Tracked Visits" was getting labeled as "1 Page Visits", fixed. Renamed Ask Jeeves to Ask. In the Bandwidth Usage Overview, Requests by Bytes were sorted by current bytes but were displaying total byte percentages. Now displays current byte percentages. Fixed a problem with SFTP log downloads sometimes hanging or failing after a very long delay. Fixed a crash when displaying very long local file names in the Daily Others report. What’s new in version 3.0.3? January 30, 2007 Added Visitors : Countries : City report. Reports on major world cities that your visitors come from. This report requires either the GeoLite City database or GeoIP City database from MaxMind (not included with Summary). Updated GeoIP support to be compatible with version 1.4.1 of the MaxMind libraries (several new country codes). Added "User to run as instead of root" configuration option on Linux and OS X. Use of this option improves security and allows sftp log downloading to work correctly when running at startup on OS X or as root on Linux. Increased the maximum configuration dialog string length to 30K. Fixed incorrect "Display Others must be last" error messages when reconfiguring report layouts with detail items. Now checks for out of memory twice as often while processing, avoids unnecessary asserts. Display Others/Display Detail Item name mismatch in error message vs popup, fixed. User filters didn't work correctly in the CGI Tags and Values report, fixed. Added a few new top level domains. What’s new in version 3.0.2? November 14, 2006 Processing status messages were missing, fixed. Now wraps help window contents in a "<div class=docs>" and includes the style sheet to allow appearance overrides in Summary SP Lite and SP. The UNIX-TIME log field was giving times early by a month, fixed. Now encodes reserved characters in query strings for referrers. Fixed download failure caused by FTP SIZE command returning code 550 even when the file exists and can be downloaded. E-mailed reports didn't include the master overview, fixed. Fixed a crash when drilling down on long failed referrers. TRAN-TIME-SECS now supports decimal seconds (0.123). Links in the Fan In/Out report didn't work if the URL contained an '&', fixed. Sub-report reports exported as entire report to XLS were wrong when there were more than 60 sub-reports, fixed. Overview as text & spreadsheet links are now available in custom HTML. What’s new in version 3.0.1? August 17, 2006 Redesigned the main overview. It now contains a comparison of the current month vs all time for all the major metrics. Added a new overview graph scale - decade - which shows about 14 years. TIME-24 now allows times like "12:24:48.123456" in log files. Disabled drill downs on referring domain tracking tags (which didn't work anyway). Added search term extraction for MySpace.com search. Added a few more known search engines. Added support for several new custom HTML specials. Fixed a crash when using particular aliases on the Macintosh on Intel version. Added an option to install Summary as a service under Windows with an alternate service name. What’s new in version 3? June 27, 2006 Completely redesigned overviews! The overviews are now task oriented and include pie charts and interactive bar charts and line graphs. The new overviews put all the information you might need for several common tasks all in one place. New appearance throughout. Now uses CSS and supports recent HTML standards. Added a new Javascript Enabled report, requires that the new Javascript code be installed at your site. Added Visitors : ISPs and Visitors : Robots : Agents reports and renamed some others. Added several new rows to the Compare Time Periods report, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only. Added support for a third high memory usage report. Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only. Added support for name/password authentication to the SMTP server when sending e-mails, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only. Visits with tracking tags now count the tracking tag as their referrer, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only. Added a text size configuration setting. Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only. Renamed "current" to "recent" throughout. Improved detection of some of the Google robots that "hide" their name. The Windows version is now compatible 64 bit versions of Windows (Summary runs in 32 bit mode). More aggressive removal of serial numbers/unique keys from agent strings, reduces memory usage slightly. Moved the Language report to Visitors : Country. Three of the high memory reports are now turned on by default in new configurations. Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only. The Windows version now uses a different, more up to date, installer. When upgrading from Summary 1.x, custom report layouts and report disables will be lost. Reorganized the custom HTML configuration pages, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only. Custom HTML header/footers are not imported from older versions. Changes to the custom HTML support require that they be rewritten anyway. Summary SP Lite and SP only. New optional column percent of visits (no decimal). Numerous small changes and extensions to the custom HTML support. Existing custom HTML headers and footers will need to be rewritten. Summary SP Lite and SP only. Added no-title option to <sum-topn>. Added empty(XX) option to <sum-if> expressions. Made ! a general oporator in <sum-if> expressions. Added <sum-else>. Can now nest <sum-if>s. Added any-output, plus, sp, true, false conditionals to sum-if expresions. Added pie-chart option to TopN. Switched <sum-graph> to use the new .gif graphs. Added title=xxxx option for <sum-topn>. Added using and on-right option to TopN. Switched text reports from .text to .txt. Improved path clipping in reports. Page as spreadsheet no longer uses the same file name as report as spreadsheet. Small adjustments to the default layout of several reports. Added a better error message for console can't write to script file on the Macintosh version. Updated to PCRE 6.6. For information on older versions look here.