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11/05/01: Wusage 7.1 P27a Released for Windows

Wusage 7.1 P27a corrects a problem which affects ONLY users of Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME. Users of Windows NT, 2000 and XP do not need this fix. The problem caused scheduled updates to fail; users affected by this problem see Windows error notification dialog boxes pop up periodically once an update is scheduled to occur. Users of Windows NT and its descendants do not experience this problem.

11/01/01: Wusage 7.1 P27 Released for Windows

Wusage 7.1 P27 corrects several difficulties observed in the field under Microsoft Windows-family operating systems only. Tests on non-Windows operating systems have so far failed to reproduce these issues, which are largely specific to the concerns of ISP mode users.

The issues are:

• Occasional service crashes during log archiving corrected
• Lockup of service or GUI during removal of an ISP mode account corrected

10/29/01: Wusage 7.1 P26win Released for Windows

Wusage 7.1 P26win corrects several difficulties observed under Microsoft Windows-family operating systems only.

10/08/01: Wusage 7.1 P26 Released for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 7.1 P26 is now available for Linux, Solaris Sparc and Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000, with additional ports arriving regularly.

Wusage 7.1 P26 addresses the following issues:

• In rare cases, work-in-progress databases of certain precise sizes would be misread upon the next run of Wusage, resulting in a failure of the program. This problem has been corrected. As the problem was in the reading of the databases and not in the databases themselves, replacing your current release with 7.1 P26 is sufficient to correct fully correct it.
• An explanatory file placed in the wusage-macros folder under the user's home directory was, under some operating systems, strangely named, not created at all or the source of a program failure. This infrequent problem has also been corrected.

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P26.

07/23/01: Wusage 7.1 P24 Released for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 7.1 P24 is now available for Linux and Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000, with additional ports arriving regularly.

Wusage 7.1 P24 addresses the following issues:

• Windows users: network server paths (double-slash paths) now work correctly for all tested situations, including log file access (single file and directory), configuration file, and report directory.
• The "Referrers by Document" report now works correctly for reporting periods longer than a single day. Daily reports were always correct; however, referrers by document were not correctly "folded in" to longer reporting periods (weekly, monthly, etc.) in previous patchlevels of Wusage 7.1.

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P24.

07/16/01: Wusage 7.1 P23 Released for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 7.1 P23 is now available for Linux and Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000, with additional ports arriving regularly.

Wusage 7.1 P23 addresses the following issues:

• FTP log downloads exceeding 4 minutes in length now work properly. An important fix for those performing analysis via FTP.
• Wusage can now be run correctly in ISP mode by several distinct Unix accounts on the same Unix/Linux system. Previously this caused occasional filename collisions in /tmp.
• Potential file descriptor leaks have been closed, increasing overall stability. Should prevent "unable to write to .wusagerc" and similar warnings.
• Spurious empty email reports for newly-begun weeks, etc. are no longer sent.
• Explicit To: headers are now included in email reports. Some mail servers "punish" messages without such headers by giving them a junk mail-like appearance.
• Windows-specific: the NT service now appends warnings and errors to C:\Wusage71\data\log.txt (if the application was installed in C:\Wusage71). Most customers found that our use of the NT event log mechanism created too much clutter.

05/21/01: Wusage 7.1 P22a Released for Linux

Due to an oversight in our release process, Wusage 7.1 P22 for Linux was built with certain debugging options activated, and with the use of shared libraries. Wusage 7.1 P22a is identical, except that the build was created properly, with static libraries for much wider compatibility.

This issue did not affect any other operating system.

05/16/01: Wusage 7.1 P22 Released for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 7.1 P22 is now available for Linux and Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000, with additional ports arriving regularly.

7.1 P22 fixed the following problems:

• A limitation of the program regarding long TMP environment variable settings and the configuration editor has been corrected. This allows the configuration file editor to work properly in Windows 2000 and other environments where TMP is fairly long.
• "Update Statistics" and "Regenerate Completely" now appear properly when the administrator has not explicitly selected separate log files. Code in P21 intended to hide these buttons when log files are shared and not rotated was incorrectly assuming that shared log files were the default.
• A file descriptor leak has been corrected. This allows "regenerate completely" and other functions to work properly on the second and subsequent updates in a single run of the program.

04/26/01: Wusage 7.1 P21 Released for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 7.1 P21 is now available for Linux and Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000, with additional ports arriving regularly.

7.1 P21 fixed the following flaws in 7.1 P20:

• "Update Statistics" and related buttons inadvertently hidden in advanced and simple modes when shared log files were specified in ISP mode.
• Current limitations not properly displayed on "overall limits" page.
• Documentation updated to reflect the new features of the "overall limits" page.

7.1 P20 addressed the following issues:

Of course, all of these corrections are included in 7.1 P21.

• Better error messages and error handling when configurations or accounts no longer exist or have been damaged.
• Efficiency of FTP log file downloads greatly improved; however, FTP is inherently a poor choice for on-the-fly analysis if you have many separate log files on a single FTP site, as many FTP servers do not tolerate "inspecting" the top of each file as Wusage must do.
• Update buttons on control page hidden in situations where they should not be used.
• Administrator can now hide "regenerate completely", "edit configuration" and/or "update for time period" via the "overall limits" page.
• New configuration files will match Windows 2000 rather than NT 5.0 in the Operating Systems report.
• NT/2000 users: Wusage now logs events, visible through the NT event viewer tool.
• Problems with account editing fixed.
• More thorough application of limitations set via Overall Limits page.
• NT/2000 users: Daylight Savings problem with built-in scheduler fixed.
• Update for Time Period for a single day no longer blanks the enclosing week/month/etc.
• Various minor fixes.

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P21.

03/29/01: Wusage 7.1 P19 Released for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 7.1 P19 addresses the following issues:

• ISP mode users: a problem which prevented accounts from being logged into properly has been repaired. The problem was typically experienced as a failure to accept the correct username and password.
• All versions: the "accesses by day" subreport of the summary report now displays the correct range of dates in the table and in the graph.
• Unix versions: steps have been taken to prevent a scheduled update at 1am (for instance) from colliding with a second attempt to carry out that update at 2am if it has not yet completed. This was only an issue in ISP mode.
• Windows version: shutting down the Wusage NT service should work properly even in the middle of an update. Under certain circumstances, Windows could theoretically still display a warning, but the shutdown will still take place.
• All versions: stability improvements were made.
• All versions: temporary directories created by the program are now correctly removed in the event of a normal shutdown of the program.
• Windows version: the Wusage installation program and the "view statistics" button have been rewritten to use Microsoft's currently recommended techniques for updating the start menu and opening URLs through the default web browser. These changes prevent lockups at install and report-viewing time observed by some Windows Me and Windows 2000 customers.

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P19.

03/19/01: Wusage 7.1 P18 Released for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 7.1 P18 is now available for Linux and Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000, with additional ports arriving regularly.

Wusage 7.1 P18 addresses the following significant issues. Users of ISP mode, and users of the "update for time period" feature, should upgrade.

• "Update for Time Period" now works properly.
• Use of the DNS option by one or more ISP clients no longer causes failure of the scheduled update for all accounts.
• The "Copy Account" button now works properly.
• Improved error messages.
• The -speed and -time command line options, which override optimization settings, are now implemented and documented.

03/13/01: Wusage 7.1 P17 Released for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 7.1 P17 is now available for Linux and Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000, with additional ports arriving regularly.

Wusage 7.1 P17 addresses the following significant issues. Upgrading is recommended.

• A problem which generated the message "Error: unable to seek in file XXX" and caused a premature end of analysis has been corrected.
• Accesses from partial days at the end of the current log file are no longer counted twice in weekly reports, monthly reports, etc. when they appear again on a subsequent run.
• Please note: weekly reports, monthly reports, and so forth now contain data for completed days only. See the "accesses by day" subreport for that week. Take this into account when comparing figures before contacting us.

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P17.

03/12/01: Wusage 7.1 P16 Released for SCO Unix 5.x and Up

Wusage 7.1 P16 is now available for SCO Unix, in addition to other platforms already available.

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P16.

02/27/01: Wusage 7.1 P16 Released for Windows 95/98/NT/Me/2000 and Linux

Wusage 7.1 P16 is now available for Linux and for the Windows family of operating systems, and is expected within 1-2 weeks for additional operating systems.

Wusage 7.1 P16 addresses the following issues.

• Most damaged and otherwise invalid configuration files can be opened by the configuration editor, and some forms of damage are automatically repaired. This is an important fix for ISP mode users.
• Earlier patchlevels could potentially forget some configuration file information when left idle for 20 minutes with the configuration editor open while logged into an individual virtual site account. This issue has been addressed.
• "Console" messages are kept indefinitely and displayed at the bottom of each user interface page when administering the program remotely via the web.
• In the documents by directory report, the percentages displayed next to visit counts are now correct. Pie charts are now automatically turned off if the directories report is sorted by visits, due to the fact that one visit may or may not touch on multiple documents; thus the percentages for individual documents and directories do not and should not sum to 100%.
• When email reporting is activated, reports are now sent only for completed days, weeks, months, etc. The program no longer sends a report each day for each report still in progress, a behavior which was not popular with customers.

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P16.

02/06/01: Wusage 7.1 P15 Released for Linux and Windows

Wusage 7.1 P15 is now available for Linux systems and the Windows family of operating systems.

Wusage 7.1 P15 addresses the following issues.

• ISP mode users: When operating as a Unix daemon (-server flag) or an NT service, the main service no longer becomes confused when users use the OFF button or otherwise cause the sub-service they are communicating with to exit. This is an important fix for users of ISP mode.
• Windows users: 7.1 P15 correctly removes previous versions of the Wusage NT service at install time, allowing the new 7.1 P15 service to be installed correctly. If you had difficulty installing some intervening patchlevels of 7.1, 7.1 P15 should be much easier for you to install correctly.
• Windows users: improved error handling in the installation program.
• Advanced mode users: specifying filenames for report directories and configuration files works properly if the filename begins with file:///, as is often the case when using our browsing features.

02/06/01: Wusage 7.1 Released for Solaris 2.6 Intel

In addition to many, many other operating systems, Wusage 7.1 is now available for Solaris 2.6 on Intel-processor platforms.

02/05/01: Wusage 7.1 Released for Many Unix Flavors

In addition to Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 and Linux, Wusage 7.1 is now available for the following additional platforms:

• AIX 4.3
• BSDI
• IRIX 6.2
• NetBSD Mac68K
• Solaris 2.5 Sparc

02/02/01: Wusage 7.1 P14 Released for Linux

7.1 P14 addresses the following issues:

• A more portable file locking system is used under Unix.
• The advanced mode "recently used configuration files" drop-down list now shows the last 36 characters of filenames, with ellipsis if needed, instead of the last directory component. Nonexistent files are not shown.

Ports to many platforms are now underway.

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P14.

01/19/01: Wusage 7.1 P13 Released for Many Platforms

7.1 P13 addresses the following issues:

• The log-sorting option is once again compatible with log files that do not contain server name fields.
• Windows only: when a scheduled update is running in the GUI version (under Windows 95/98/Me), the "cancel" button delays the next update until the next scheduled update time, rather than repeatedly popping up the progress window for another attempt.

01/18/01: Wusage 7.1 P12 Released for Linux and BSDI

7.1 P12 addresses the following issue:

• When installing crontab entries for itself, 7.1 P12 specifies the location of the current user's home directory. This ensures that the program's behavior is consistent both when run from the command line and when run from cron. This is particularly relevant for users who choose to run wusage as root. This issue does not affect Windows users; there is no need to release P12 for Windows.

Having addressed this issue we are now setting out to port the software to many additional Unix platforms, beginning with today's release for BSDI.

01/12/01: Wusage 7.1 P11 Released for Linux and Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT

7.1 P11 addresses the following issues:

• The configuration editor no longer damages totalsgroup patterns that match users data, including the standard "unique visitors as determined by cookies" measurement. 7.1 P11 also recognizes and correctly accepts configuration files damaged by the configuration editor in earlier patchlevels of 7.1.
• Scheduled updates can still be performed for "simple mode" when another mode is currently selected.
• IIS log files containing virtual server names and/or virtual server IP addresses are now correctly accepted.
• The singlecookie option now operates correctly with IIS logs containing cookie data.
• "View Reports" now works properly in the Windows GUI version, regardless of which drive Wusage is installed on.
• The administrator can now edit the log file location, virtual server name, etc. for individual accounts, when opening those accounts via "Edit Accounts" and the "Open This Account" button. Individual account holders are still correctly forbidden from doing so.

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P11.

01/08/01: Wusage 7.1 P10 Released for Linux and Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT

7.1 P10 addresses the following issues:

• Important fixes to built-in scheduler in all Windows environments
• "View Statistics" button now opens the report in a separate browser window in all browsers
• Displays informative warnings when important directories cannot be manipulated by Wusage
• Shared wusage-macros directory now works properly
• Permissions of the report directory's parent are now correctly inherited by subdirectories (not retroactive; Unix users, use chmod -R to fix permissions recursively once)
• W3C extended log format files without virtual server name fields are now accepted correctly
• Improved reliability of web-based login via the -server option
• New "fast" search server templates are correctly documented and no longer lost by the configuration editor
• "View Statistics" now works when using the "Open Account" feature of the administrative account (a short-lived problem in P9, which was available for just a few hours)

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P10.

12/21/00: Wusage 7.1 P8 Released for Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT

Wusage 7.1 is now available for the Microsoft Windows platform!

Wusage 7.1 greatly improves the usefulness of Wusage for both ISPs and single-web-server users. The new "simple" and "ISP" modes make the program easier for single-site users to configure, and provide ISPs with a way to safely allow users to edit their own settings. Returning users can take advantage of "Advanced" mode for a more familiar interface.

Important Note for Upgrading Windows NT/2000 users: version 7.1 runs as an NT service in addition to our graphical version. The NT service provides scheduled updates, and also web-based access to reports and configuration. This version replaces the old command line version. There is no need to use the Windows NT AT command with Wusage 7.1. See the documentation for complete details.

For more information, see the complete list of new features in version 7.1. The upgrade to version 7.1 is free for ALL registered 7.0 users. Your existing 7.0 registration key WILL BE ACCEPTED by version 7.1!

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P8.

12/18/00: Wusage 7.1 P7 Released for Linux

7.1 P7 addresses the following issue:

• Inaccuracies in the visit count for directory home pages have been corrected. This is a longstanding issue, recently reported and fixed. Access and byte counts were already correct, and "home page visits" in the historical totals report were already correct. The issue appeared in the "documents by directory" report only.

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P7.

12/14/00: Wusage 7.1 P6 Released for Linux

7.1 P6 addresses the following issues:

• "DNS on" no longer results in analysis failure
• Redundant archiving of the first second of each day has been corrected. This problem, which affected only ISP mode users not using log rotation, resulted in an additional small archival log file being generated each day for each day of the log file, which each successive file larger than the one produced by the previous run. 7.1 P6 will not produce any additional superfluous archive files.
• Directory creation now inherits the permissions of the parent directory; allows easier access to reports if you have chosen to put them in a publicly readable directory, but allows security if you have chosen to put them in an owner-only directory
• New -update-all-accounts option updates all remote access accounts, regardless of schedule settings
• "Overall limits" correctly applied to remote access accounts only

12/11/00: Wusage 7.1 P5 Released for Linux

7.1 P5 addresses the following issues:

• Fixes to domain, proxy domain and visit counts for non-daily reports (weekly, monthly, etc.) Access and byte counts, as well as other reports, were not affected by this issue.
• A new 30-day evaluation period has been provided for all users, both new and returning, allowing Wusage 7.1 to be evaluated by customers who chose not to register earlier versions.

12/6/00: Wusage 7.1 P4 Released for Linux

7.1 P4 addresses the following issues:

• Duplicate entries for the logfiles option caused unnecessary slowdown, but no error; new accounts will not exhibit this behavior
• Separate log files per account handled properly
• Many important fixes to -server mode
• True Unix file locking
• Configuration editor no longer inadvertently turns off all reporting frequencies

11/27/00: Wusage 7.1 P3 Released for Linux

7.1 P3 addresses the following issues:

• "Edit Configuration" no longer damages the configuration files associated with remote access accounts. See the note below.
• When "View Statistics" is clicked and reports are not yet available, a friendlier, more informative error message is now displayed.
• The -server option now automatically detaches to run in the background.
• Maximum values set using the Overall Limits page are now automatically observed by newly created accounts. This prevents the display of confusing and unnecessary warnings in the configuration editor.

How to Fix Accounts Created with 7.1 P1 or P2

If you are not receiving error messages saying that no log files were specified, you do not have a problem and you do not need to fix anything. Existing accounts created with P1 or P2 that do exhibit this problem can be deleted and re-created. Alternatively, you can use a text editor to restore the logfiles option settings, using a newly created account's configuration file settings as a guide. Account configuration files are named as follows (one line):

/home/unix-account-name/wusage-accounts/
wusage-account-name/wusage.conf

Please note: this approach is optional! Deleting and recreating the accounts is the simplest approach, if indeed you experienced the problem at all.

We apologize for the problem.

11/16/00: Wusage 7.1 P2 Released for Linux

7.1 P2 corrects an oversight which prevented 7.1 P1 from correctly reading log files in the .gz format.

See the download page to obtain 7.1 P2.

11/14/00: Wusage 7.1 P1 Released for Linux

Wusage 7.1 greatly improves the usefulness of Wusage for both ISPs and single-web-server users. The new "simple" and "ISP" modes make the program easier for single-site users to configure, and provide ISPs with a way to safely allow users to edit their own settings. Returning users can take advantage of "Advanced" mode for a more familiar interface. For more information, see the complete list of new features in version 7.1. The upgrade to version 7.1 is free for ALL registered 7.0 users, and your existing registration key should be accepted automatically. Version 7.1 will be available for additional operating systems soon.

7/13/00: Wusage 7.0 P20r Released for Linux

Wusage 7.0 P20r adds plug-and-play compatibility with the log files produced by off-the-shelf Cobalt RAQ 3 systems. These log files contain a virtual server name in the first position. 7.0 P20r recognizes these logs, and is of course still compatible with other log formats.

Since Cobalt RAQ 3 systems are compatible with standard Linux Intel binaries, we have made this special update available for the Linux operating system running on all Intel-compatible platforms.

See the download page to obtain P20r.

7/12/00: Wusage 7.0 P20 Released for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 7.0 P20 is now available for many platforms. This free upgrade addresses the following issues:

• Unlikely HTTP status codes no longer cause erratic behavior.
• Cancel buttons work properly when adding items in the configuration editor.

See the download page to obtain P20. If you don't see it for your operating system yet, check back in 24 hours, or contact Contact Us.

5/1/00: Wusage 7.0 P19 Released for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 7.0 P19 is now available for many platforms. This free upgrade addresses the following issues:

• W3C Extended log format files that do not contain date stamps on every line are now compatible with the offsethours option
• The Referrers by Document Not Found report now works properly
• The Windows NT command line version, wusage.exe, now properly directs the browser to its internal server when the View Statistics button is used rather than returning a file: URL

See the download page to obtain P19. If you don't see it for your operating system yet, check back in 24 hours, or contact Contact Us.

4/17/00: Wusage 7.0 P18 Released for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 7.0 P18 is now available for many operating systems. This free upgrade addresses the following issue:

Extremely long search phrases no longer result in occasional failures during the production of the "search keywords by server" report.

See the download page to obtain P18. If you do not see your operating system listed, check back in 24 hours. If you still don't see it listed, feel free to contact us at Contact Us.

4/12/00: Convenient Scripts Released for Unix Administrators

Our script archive has been updated with four new scripts that will help Unix system administrators to perform automatic log analysis, rotation, and archiving on a nightly basis, for as many web servers as necessary. Use our scripts as a starting point; your system will probably differ!

4/10/00: Wusage 7.0 P17nt Released for Windows 95/98/2000/NT

Wusage 7.0 P17nt is now available for Windows 95/98/2000/NT. This free upgrade addresses the following issue:

Settings are no longer lost under certain circumstances when editing configuration files through the built-in graphical user interface.

See the download page to obtain P17nt. This fix is only relevant for Windows 95/98/2000/NT users who use the built-in GUI.

4/3/00: Wusage 7.0 P17 Released for Many Platforms

Wusage 7.0 P17 is now available for many platforms. This free upgrade addresses the following issues:

• Buffer overrun error corrected in directories report; occurred when defective web-exploring robots logged extremely long URLs
• ; and & are both recognized as cookie separators for purposes of the singlecookie option, which allows just one cookie among several to be used for user identification under Microsoft IIS
• Process for identifying valid cookies is now consistently applied, correcting off-by-one errors in overall visit counts

See the download page to obtain P17. If you don't see it for your operating system yet, check back in 24 hours, or contact Contact Us.

3/22/00: Wusage 7.0 P16 Released for Many Platforms

Wusage 7.0 P16 is now available for many platforms. This free upgrade corrects a flaw which caused 7.0 P15 to reject some databases produced by earlier releases of 7.0. Those who downloaded P15 are strongly encouraged to download P16, which should have no trouble reading the same data that caused P15 to fail. See the download page to obtain P16. If you don't see it for your operating system yet, check back in 24 hours, or contact Contact Us.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

3/21/00: Wusage 7.0 P15 Released for Many Platforms

Wusage 7.0 P15 is now available for many platforms. This free upgrade deals with the following issues:

• User-identifying "cookies" are now the exclusive means of identifying a unique visitor, if they are present. This addresses the fact that America Online (tm) sends the same user to several different proxy servers in a single visit, resulting in multiple visits and inflated visit counts in earlier releases of Wusage
• Inflation of search keyword, result codes and documents not found reports corrected
• Substantial memory usage improvements
• If keepqueries is set, totalsgroup patterns can successfully match material after the ? in the URL. keepqueries is more compatible with the documents-by-directory report
• Fixes to reporting when manyservers option is turned on
• Better tolerance of damaged work-in-progress databases
• Correct historical charts for both "nopartial on" and "nopartial off"
• Faster chart and database writing for better overall performance, especially on small sites
• Other minor corrections

See the download page to obtain P15. If you don't see it for your operating system yet, check back in 24 hours, or contact Contact Us.

3/6/00: Wusage 7.0 P14 Released for Many Platforms

Wusage 7.0 P14 is now available for many platforms. This free upgrade addresses several flaws:

• Better tolerance of damaged work-in-progress databases
• More consistent cookie handling
• Correct pie charts when hide option is in use
• Correct table percentages for "entry pages" and "exit pages" reports
• Correct count of web browsers in executive summary
• Site report visit counts more consistent with other reports
• More accurate visit counting
• Correct visit durations in "example visits" report

See the download page to obtain P14. If you don't see it for your operating system yet, check back in 24 hours, or contact Contact Us.

2/22/00: Wusage 7.0 P13 Released for Many Platforms

Wusage 7.0 P13 is now available for many platforms. This free upgrade improves the performance of the program and corrects several flaws:

• Performance improvements for very large sites
• Expanded set of search server templates in new configurations
• Color editing works properly
• Scaling works properly for the epoch in progress
• One IIS log file without extended information no longer prevents reporting on this information if other log files contain it
• Better support for hostnames and IP addresses in W3C and WebSTAR logs
• More consistent treatment of the "hide" option between tables and charts
• Referrers-by-document sorting fixed
• Search server overcounting (only when both a simple pattern and a complex pattern matched the server) fixed

See the download page to obtain P13. If you don't see yours yet, check back in 24 hours, or contact Contact Us.

2/2/00: dbfix Script Now Available

Users who lost historical totals data due to a flaw in Wusage 7.0 P11 can now retrieve that information using the dbfix Perl script. See our new script archive for more information. If you did not download Wusage 7.0 P11 on January 31st, 2000 or February 1st, 2000, you should not need or use this script.

2/1/00: Flaw in 7.0 P11 Corrected in P12

Wusage 7.0 P11 had a significant flaw which caused "historical totals" data to be lost. This release was available for about 24 hours. If you have 7.0 P11, please be sure to upgrade to 7.0 P12, which corrects this flaw. 7.0 P12 does not reconstruct historical totals data that has already been lost. However, a Perl script which restores this historical totals data will be made available tomorrow (2/2/00). We apologize for any inconvenience.

See the download page to obtain P12. If you don't see yours yet, check back in 24 hours, or contact Contact Us.

1/31/00: Wusage 7.0 P11 Released for Many Platforms

Wusage 7.0 P11 is now available for many platforms. This free upgrade improves the performance of the program and corrects several flaws.

See the download page to obtain P11. If you don't see yours yet, check back in 24 hours, or contact Contact Us.

7.0 P11 addresses the following issues:

• 35-50% reduction in memory usage, depending on your configuration file
• fakedns option works properly
• Pie charts properly hide items blocked by the hide option
• Y2K problem with two-digit years in WebSTAR log files corrected

1/26/00: Wusage 7.0 P10mac Released for MacOS

Wusage 7.0 P10mac addresses a Y2K issue, which affected WebStar log files ONLY. This issue does not affect users of other web servers. Users of other operating systems who wish to analyze WebStar logs from MacOS servers will receive the same fix next week as part of P11.

See the download page to obtain P10mac.

1/18/00: Wusage 7.0 P10 Released for Many Platforms

Wusage 7.0 P10 is now available for many platforms. We recommend this free upgrade as it corrects significant flaws.

See the download page to obtain P10. If you don't see yours yet, check back in 24 hours, or contact Contact Us.

7.0 P10 addresses the following issues:

• New report macro engine requires less memory
• Greatly improved hash function speeds analysis of large log files and especially log files containing cookies
• sortlogs option no longer breaks skipping of old log data
• Separate GUI and command-line versions for Windows 95/98/NT: wusage.exe behaves like Unix Wusage, wusageg.exe does not require a console window
• Additional important fixes providing increased reliability and more accurate results

12/7/99: Wusage 7.0 P9 Released for Many Platforms

Wusage 7.0 P9 is now available for many platforms.

See the download page to obtain P9. If you don't see yours yet, check back in 24 hours, or contact Contact Us.

7.0 P9 addresses the following issues:

• "dns on" no longer causes the program to go into the background
• "resultcodes" report restored
• Unlock feature no longer crashes in error situations

11/15/99: Wusage 7.0 P8 Released for Many Platforms

Wusage 7.0 P8 is now available for many platforms.

See the download page to obtain P8.

7.0 P8 addresses the following issues:

• Directories-by-document reports now broken down in separate report files by subdirectory; loads much faster, corrects browser crashes reported by some users. (Custom macro users will need to update referrersbydocument.rmc, epoch.rmc, nav.rmc and directories.rmc to take advantage of this.)
• Major corrections to -b and -e (update for time period), which now work properly in a wide range of situations; a complete calendar is now generated regardless of what type of report was most recently run
• Unsorted log file warning is now displayed only if at least 100 transposed log lines are found; in this case, there very likely is a need to turn on the sortlogs option
• Better tolerance of damaged databases
• Switches to select reporting frequencies at configuration file creation time work properly
• Lower memory requirements in report generator
• Report macro language can now create files in subdirectories (rooted paths and the use of ../ are safely forbidden)
• Improved macro language error reporting
• Rounding error that caused 0.99 to display as 0.00 fixed
• The first referring URL can be drilled down to correctly (this problem affected only the first referring URL encountered in the entire data set)
• topsearchkeywordsbyserver option now works properly
• labelunknowndomains option provides a way to replace the Unknown text
• Anchors do not interfere with the document types report
• Visit accesses are properly computed if any of the relevant reports are selected (previously results were incorrect unless the trails or visits report was turned on)
• General reliability improvements

See the download page to obtain P8.

10/21/99: BSD per-process memory limit causes Out of Memory errors

Users of BSD-derived Unix systems, such as BSDI and FreeBSD, should be aware that BSD systems severely limit the memory available to each individual program by default. To correct this problem, execute the command limit datasize unlimited or the command unlimit before launching the wusage program on a BSD-based system. Similar issues may exist on other Unix-based operating systems. Please check for such issues before reporting the Out of Memory message to boutell.com.

10/21/99: Wusage 7.0 P7-bsd-a Released for BSDI and FreeBSD

Wusage 7.0 P7-bsd-a is now available for BSD-based platforms. See the download page to obtain P7-bsd-a.

P7-bsd-a corrects problems which specifically affected BSD users.

10/19/99: Wusage 7.0 P7 Released for Many Platforms

Wusage 7.0 P7 is now available for many platforms. See the download page to obtain P7.

P7 addresses the following issues:

• User is invited to turn off some reporting frequencies if log files are large enough to cause memory problems
• Program no longer crashes when bad .epc files and dnscache.dat files are found
• dnscache.dat written and read correctly on NT
• keepreports option not set by default, unless both annual and summary reports are chosen
• Problems with the -b and -e command line options fixed
• Warning should be displayed properly if logs are unsorted
• "Valid Lines Skipped" shows accurate figures

10/11/99: Wusage 7.0 P5 Released for OS/2

In addition to many other platforms, Wusage 7.0 P5 is now available for OS/2. See the download page to obtain P5.

10/07/99: Wusage 7.0 P5 Released for SGI Irix

In addition to many other platforms, Wusage 7.0 P5 is now available for SGI Irix 6.2 and above. See the download page to obtain P5.

10/06/99: Wusage 7.0 P5 Released for Linux-SPARC

In addition to many other platforms, Wusage 7.0 P5 is now available for Linux-SPARC. See the download page to obtain P5.

9/30/99: Wusage 7.0 P5 Rereleased for HP/UX 10.20

Due to a flaw in the HP/UX C compiler, the previous release of Wusage 7.0 P5 for HP/UX sometimes crashed when analyzing log files. We have rebuilt the HP/UX release of Wusage 7.0 P5 without the compiler optimizations that caused the problem. See the download page to obtain P5.

9/30/99: Wusage 7.0 P5 available for Power Macintosh

Wusage 7.0 P5 is now available for Power Macintosh systems. P5 for the Macintosh corrects a Macintosh-specific problem which prevented the user interface from working properly. Users who received "cannot create temporary directory" errors should definitely upgrade to P5. See the download page to obtain P5.

9/29/99: Wusage 7.0 P5 available for HP/UX 10.20

Wusage 7.0 P5 is now available for HP/UX 10.20. See the download page to obtain P5.

9/28/99: Wusage 7.0 P5 available for OpenBSD Intel

Wusage 7.0 P5 is now available for OpenBSD. See the notes below for more information about the improvements that have been made since the P2 release. See the download page to obtain P5.

9/27/99: Wusage 7.0 P5 available for Windows 95/98/NT

Wusage 7.0 P5 is available for Windows 95/98/NT. See the download page to obtain it.

P5 corrects the following problems:

• Correct progress reporting for DNS
• Temporary DNS files closed correctly; should allow proper deletion of temporary folder
• Occasional crashes and/or freezes after updating statistics corrected
• Editing the report directory selection with the Browse button no longer freezes the application

These problems were primarily Windows-specific.

9/22/99: Wusage 7.0 P4 available for many platforms

Wusage 7.0 P4 is available for many platforms. See the download page for details.

7.0 P4 corrects a problem with the osgroups option, which is used to group variations of one operating system together so that they count as a single unit. 7.0 P4 generates accurate results in the operating systems report.

9/17/99: Wusage 7.0 available for AIX 4.3

In addition to many other operating systems, Wusage 7.0 is now available for AIX 4.3 (IBM Unix). See the download page for details.

9/16/99: Wusage 7.0 P3 available for Windows 95/98/NT

Wusage 7.0 P3 is now available for Windows 95/98/NT. P3 includes the following corrections which are primarily of interest to Windows 95/98/NT users:

• AT command can use Wusage if Wusage is unlocked by Administrator
• Better handling of temporary directory
• Uppercase environment variables also supported for HOME and TMP

9/13/99: Wusage 7.0 P2 available for Many Platforms

Wusage 7.0 P2 is now available for MacOS, Windows 95/98/NT, and several Unix platforms. P2 includes the following improvements and corrections:

• Improved status display, updated at regular intervals, with more detailed status information. New status display is compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer as well as other web browsers.
• Looks for the temp, tmp, tempdir or tmpdir environment variables before writing to /tmp or C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
• Looks for the home environment variable before writing to the home directory indicated by the operating system
• Temporary working files are thoroughly removed upon exit
• Does not fail when encountering a truncated .epc file
• Correctly accepts the hostfield WebStar log field
• Recognizes quoting in WebStar log fields
• Fast, multiple-channel DNS lookups work correctly in both Unix and Windows 95/98/NT environments (not available on MacOS)
• Email reporting now compatible with a wider range of mail servers
• Visit count correct for "Unknown" domain
• "Bits per second" and "bytes per second" columns labeled properly in relevant reports

9/2/99: Wusage 7.0 P1 available for OpenBSD

In addition to MacOS, FreeBSD 2.2.8, Linux Intel, Solaris Sparc, and Windows 95/98/NT, Wusage 7.0 P1 is now available for OpenBSD 2.3 on Intel-architecture systems.

9/1/99: Macro Source Files Added to Distributions

The initial release of Wusage 7.0 did not include the reporting macro files needed to fully customize and localize reports. As of 10:14AM PDT on 9/1/99, these files have been added to the Unix and Macintosh distributions. The files were already included in the original Windows 95/98/NT distribution. Please note that the macro files must be copied to the top level of your report directory before they can override the built-in versions.

8/24/99: Wusage 7.0 Released!

An official release of Wusage 7.0 is now available for MacOS, FreeBSD 2.2.8, Linux Intel, Solaris Sparc, and Windows 95/98/NT.

See the What's New Page for more information about the many, many improvements in version 7.0.

7.0 P1 corrects the following errors in public beta 7:

• Weeks numbered beginning with first complete week
• Weeks more clearly distinguished in calendars
• Accepts IIS 4.0 Extended Log Format referring URLs correctly

Users who registered Wusage 6.0 on March 1st, 1999, or later can upgrade for free using their existing registration keys. Other registered users can upgrade for 1/3rd of the regular price.

8/20/99: Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 7 for MacOS, FreeBSD 2.2.8, Linux Intel, Solaris Sparc, and Windows 95/98/NT

The following corrections are made in public beta 7:

• Flaw in date formatting corrected
• -u, -ac and -r command line options work properly
• OK and Cancel buttons provided at top as well as bottom of configuration editor pages

8/18/99: Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 6 for MacOS, FreeBSD 2.2.8, Linux Intel, Solaris Sparc, and Windows 95/98/NT

In addition to Linux, Solaris Sparc, Windows 95/98/NT, and FreeBSD 2.2.8, Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 6 is now available for MacOS on Power Macintosh systems.

The following corrections are made in public beta 6:

• Use of YYYY in dateformat no longer causes "double years" to appear
• Can determine user's home directory from 'home' environment variable, if available
• Search server template editing works correctly
• Virtual server name can be determined from WebStar logs, and from the cs(host) W3C extended log field
• Year-to-year comparisons charted correctly when less than one year of data is available
• Turning off the days report no longer causes a macro error
• "Regenerate Completely" correctly discards Wusage 6.0 current.epc files

8/4/99: Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 5 for Linux, Solaris Sparc, Windows 95/98/NT

The following corrections are made in public beta 5:

• Handles summaries of more than one year properly.
• Allows relative paths for the report directory.

8/9/99: Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 5 for FreeBSD 2.2.8, Linux Intel, Solaris Sparc, and Windows 95/98/NT

In addition to Linux, Solaris Sparc, and Windows 95/98/NT, Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 5 is now available for FreeBSD 2.2.8.

8/4/99: Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 5 for Linux, Solaris Sparc, Windows 95/98/NT

The following corrections are made in public beta 5:

• Handles summaries of more than one year properly.
• Allows relative paths for the report directory.

8/4/99: Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 4 for Linux, Solaris Sparc, Windows 95/98/NT

The following corrections are made in public beta 4:

• Quick query feature works properly
• Referrers-by-document drilldown links work properly

8/3/99: Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 3 for Linux, Windows 95/98/NT and Solaris Sparc

The following corrections are made in public beta 3:

• Division by zero (and crash) correctly prevented in hours report
• Directories report can "drill down" to referrers properly
• "Onset" detection in history charts works properly

8/1/99: Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 2 for Linux

The following corrections are made in public beta 2:

• Chart ticks labeled properly
• Permissions of subdirectories set properly
• Possible server incompatibilities in View Report buttons avoided
• Scaling feature in history charts now applies when 10% or more of the data for the epoch is complete, otherwise they are not shown; scaling is never applied to user defined functions, because it may not be appropriate
• All bar charts now appear properly
• Problems analyzing empty logs and very large numbers of log files corrected
• Macro escaping corrected; handles log entries that end in ] correctly
• Summary report properly cumulative, report generated correctly
• Aesthetic improvement of directories report
• All reports that should default to 'on' now do so properly

7/30/99: Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 1 for Linux

A public beta version of Wusage 7.0 is now available for the Linux platform!

Wusage 7.0 Public Beta 1 will be available for other operating systems soon.

7/7/99: Wusage 6.0 P41 for Windows 95/98/NT

A problem in Wusage 6.0 P40 prevented parts of the configuration editor from working correctly. This problem has been corrected in P41. P41 for Windows is available for downloading here.

6/21/99: Wusage 6.0 P40 for Windows 95/98/NT

Recent patchlevels of Wusage for Windows require that the program be unlocked separately for each user. This is a good thing. However, the "AT" command scheduling service runs all programs under the user name SYSTEM, and it is not possible to log in to unlock the software as the user SYSTEM.

Patchlevel 40 corrects this problem. When Wusage is run as the user SYSTEM, it checks the same files that are used for the user Administrator. In order to run the software using the AT command, be sure to unlock the software while logged in as Administrator. If you have already done so, Wusage will immediately begin working properly with the AT command when you download and install P40. You will not need to unlock the software again. P40 for Windows is available for downloading here.

6/18/99: Wusage 7.0 to be released soon

Wusage 7.0 is coming soon. Feel free to examine the 7.0 features list. All Wusage 6.0 keys sold on or after March 1st, 1999, will also be accepted by Wusage 7.0. All other registered Wusage users will be eligible to upgrade for 1/3rd of the regular price. We do not plan to increase prices for 7.0.

6/2/99: Wusage 6.0 P39 for Many Operating Systems

Wusage 6.0 P39 corrects a problem which prevented the DNS option from being saved correctly by the configuration editor. In addition, Wusage 6.0 P39 allows the order of reports to be changed correctly in the Windows 95/98/NT user interface, and the report order interface has been generally improved. P39 also incorporates fixes which allow the Macintosh version to function more reliably. For Windows NT administrators who offer Wusage as a CGI program, Wusage 6.0 P39 now automatically times out after 20 minutes if it is not used, in order to prevent overuse of system resources. P39 for many platforms is available for downloading here.

5/14/99: Wusage 6.0 P38 for Windows 95/98/NT

Previous releases of Wusage 6.0 for Windows 95/98/NT used the CPU very aggressively, even while the graphical user interface was idle. Wusage 6.0 P38 corrects this problem. This problem did not affect the web-based user interface or the command-line interface, and it did not affect other operating systems. P38 for Windows 95/98/NT is available for downloading here.

4/12/99: Wusage 6.0 P36 for Windows 95/98/NT

Wusage 6.0 P36 for Windows 95/98/NT can be used as a CGI program. If it is run in a CGI environment, it will automatically respond as a web server, rather than responding as a GUI application. P36 for Windows 95/98/NT is available for downloading here.

4/12/99: Wusage 6.0 P35 for Windows 95/98/NT

Wusage 6.0 P35 carefully avoids a rare problem with certain Windows configurations. Users who experienced this problem found that uninstalling Wusage caused the standard Windows application uninstall program to be overwritten. This problem has been fixed and should not occur in future releases, regardless of the temporary directory setting on your computer.

3/30/99: Wusage 6.0 P34 for Windows 95/98/NT

Wusage 6.0 P34 corrects the following problems:

• Previous releases could not read IIS W3C format log entries reliably from standard input (the -l - command line option).
• Previous releases did not handle occasional bad IIS W3C format log entries gracefully.
• Certain valid IIS W3C log formats were mistaken for the older Microsoft IIS log format, resulting in incomplete results and/or implausible dates.

All of these problems are corrected in P34. P34 for Windows 95/98/NT is available for downloading here.

3/22/99: Wusage 6.0 P33 for Windows 95/98/NT

Wusage 6.0 P32 corrects a problem which prevented P31 from handling filenames containing colons. Since colons appear frequently in paths under Windows, such as C:\Program Files\Wusage, we fixed this problem quickly. You can download P33 for Windows 95/98/NT here. Because regular web browsers are already quite tolerant of the : character anywhere in a URL, this problem did not occur in our tests on other operating systems such as MacOS. P32 did not completely repair this problem. If you downloaded P32 this weekend, pick up P33 to get the complete fix.

3/19/99: Wusage 6.0 P31 for Many Platforms

Wusage 6.0 P31 corrects a number of significant flaws in recent patchlevels and improves other areas of functionality.

Most of these corrections affect all platforms, in addition to a few Windows 95/98/NT-specific improvements:

• The "view statistics" button works properly when the report directory name contains spaces (especially under Windows 95/98/NT)
• FTP access to log files is now compatible with the Serv-U FTP server and other Windows 95/98/NT FTP servers with similar behavior
• Command line operation works properly in Windows 95/98/NT
• Launching the program via CGI works properly
• Non-anonymous FTP works properly
• Email reports work properly

We strongly recommend upgrading to patchlevel 31. If you do not see Wusage 6.0 P31 for your operating system on the download page today, check back regularly and feel free to contact us.

3/16/99: Wusage 6.0 P30 for Windows 95/98/NT Released

Wusage 6.0 P30 for Windows 95, 98 and NT has been released. This version has the following significant improvements for Windows users:

• Easier to get started: the new configuration file wizard creates report directories and suggests filenames automatically.
• Recovers more gracefully when files cannot be found.
• Supports multiple users with separate initialization files, which prevents puzzling situations when multiple NT accounts or Windows 95/98 usernames are used.

If you are using Wusage 6.0 for Windows 95, 98 or NT, we recommend that you download this free upgrade.

3/16/99: Wusage 6.0 P28 for HP/UX 10.20 Corrected

Wusage 6.0 P24 for HP/UX was mislabeled as P28 for about 14 days. We recommend that you download the HP/UX 10.20 version again in order to get the fixes and other benefits found in P28.

2/27/99: Wusage 6.0 P29 for Windows 95/98/NT

Wusage 6.0 P29 corrects the following difficulties with Wusage on the Windows 95/98/NT platform:

• HTML can now be edited successfully in the header, footer, and custom HTML fields
• It is now easier to avoid conflicts when editing configuration files in a separate editor
• A main menu button is now provided after unlocking the software

(These issues did not seriously affect browser-based administration on other platforms.)

2/26/99: Wusage 6.0 P28 for Many Platforms

Wusage 6.0 P28 corrects a number of reported problems with earlier releases, including:

• nocase option works properly in conjunction with * wildcards
• hide option works in directory report
• FTP log file access is more reliable
• "-" no longer appears as a referring URL
• clickthrough.exe works properly with more IIS logging configurations
• And additional bug fixes, documentation improvements and reliability enhancements.

We recommend that you obtain Wusage 6.0 P28 today. There is no charge for registered 6.0 owners to upgrade. 6.0 P28 can be unlocked with the same key you have already purchased.

2/23/99: VIRUS FOUND AND REMOVED IN WUSAGE 6.0 P27 FOR WINDOWS 95/98/NT

PATCHLEVELS 25 AND 26 OF WUSAGE ** FOR WINDOWS ** WERE AFFECTED BY A SOFTWARE VIRUS. THIS PROBLEM WAS CAUGHT AND CORRECTED VERY QUICKLY. If you downloaded Wusage for Windows 95/98/NT between February 20th 1999 and February 23rd, 1999, OBTAIN AND RUN A QUALITY VIRUS CLEANING PROGRAM such as F-PROT. We apologize profusely for this serious lapse on our part. We have stepped up our internal virus-prevention procedures. PATCHLEVEL 27 IS VIRUS-FREE. Versions of Wusage for non-Microsoft operating systems are NOT affected in any way.

2/20/99: New User-Friendly Wusage 6.0 P26 for Windows 95/98/NT

Wusage 6.0 for Windows 95, 98 and NT is now available with a native graphical user interface. The interface is consistent with the web interface used on other platforms, while taking full advantage of Windows file selection dialog boxes and other features that increase the friendliness of the product. This release also features a built-in scheduler, making it easy for users who do not wish to master a special scheduling facility such as the NT AT command. All of the standard command-line features are still available, and the web interface can be activated using a special command-line option. This new release is available as a self-extracting executable for greater ease of installation. We will make the non-GUI fixes included in P26 available for other platforms shortly. See the download page for details! (P26 contains a fix for a problem in P25 that affected the selection of graph colors in the color picker.)

12/22/98: Final Release of Wusage 6.0 P23 for Power Macintosh

Wusage 6.0 is now officially available for the Power Macintosh! Patchlevel 23 has all of the features found on other platforms, plus a built-in scheduler that makes its first appearance on the Macintosh. download Wusage 6.0 for the Power Macintosh here.

12/11/98: Public Beta 6 for Power Macintosh

Beta 6 of Wusage 6.0 for Power Macintosh is a major improvement! Beta 6 adds a built-in scheduling facility, substantial user interface improvements and important corrections.

11/23/98: Patchlevel 22

Patchlevel 22 of Wusage 6.0 corrects problems with the password-changing page, provides compatibility with wusage 5.0 configurations involving a large number of historical chart patterns, and corrects various other problems discovered so far during Macintosh development. Patchlevel 22 will be released for additional platforms later in the week.

11/23/98: Public Beta 5 for Power Macintosh

Betas 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Wusage 6.0 for Power Macintosh correct issues including multiple log file analysis, compatibility with WebStar log files, inline image display in reports, and unexpected menu behavior. See our Macintosh Beta Notes page for more information.

11/12/98: Public Beta 1 for Power Macintosh

Wusage 6.0 Public Beta 1 (Patchlevel 21) is now available for the Power Macintosh, under regular MacOS! For more information, see our Macintosh Beta Notes page.

11/10/98: Patchlevel 21 for Solaris Sparc Only

Patchlevel 20 was incompatible with the Sun Solaris 2.x platform. Users who had this problem reported not being able to create configuration files properly through the user interface. The problem has been corrected. In our tests so far the code was compatible with all other platforms. If you have similar experiences on other platforms, let us know.

Solaris Sparc users can download P21 here.

10/26/98: Patchlevel 20 for Many Platforms

Patchlevel 20 corrects all currently verified bugs in Wusage 6.0 and adds interface and reliability improvements:

• Extensive safety checking added to ensure that "buffer overwrites" do not take place. This improves the security and reliability of the software.
• The "trailswith" option can now be edited correctly through the user interface.
• Attention power users of Wusage 5.0: The -e option now assumes the last week (or month) being analyzed is complete as long as the date specified is the last day of the week (or month). This makes 6.0 more compatible with the behavior of the -b and -e options under 5.0.
• Now recovers gracefully if temporary files from previous runs of the program are no longer available.
• Configuration files are not lost if certain temporary files are no longer available.
• Form submission buttons are now used instead of links for navigation in the configuration editor. This ensures that changes you have made elsewhere on a form will not be lost when you decide to move to another form.
• Additional GUI fixes and improvements.

You can download P20 here.

10/7/98: Patchlevel 19 for Many Platforms

Patchlevel 19 corrects all currently verified bugs in Wusage 6.0 and adds several new features!

• New "trailswith" option reports trails including particular patterns
• Visits and trails containing particular patterns can be matched with the "totals" and "totalsgroup" options
• Problems with query strings in IIS logs corrected
• Color editing works properly
• 20-minute idle timeout should now exit properly
• Web interface works with HP/UX

Patchlevel 19 can be downloaded here.

8/5/98: Patchlevel 16 for Windows 95, 98 and NT

Patchlevel 16 has been released to correct flaws and documentation oversights in the behavior of the clickthrough.exe utility when used with Microsoft Internet Information Server.

The flaw was this: the "query" was not being properly added back on to the URL when parsing a W3C extended format log file.

The documentation oversight was this: Wusage "un-escapes" URLs before analyzing them. So, in your pattern, it is necessary to show the original, unescaped destination URL, like so:

/cgi-bin/tools/clickthrough.exe?CR=http://www.boutell.com/

The instructions presented by clickthrough.exe did not include this important information. These problems are fixed in patchlevel 16, which can be downloaded from our download page.

7/20/98: Unlucky Patchlevel 13; Patchlevel 14 Is Out

As some people may have anticipated, patchlevel 13 had a problem: if you are presented your log data at standard input using the -l option, it sometimes crashed. This did not occur when analyzing a specific log file named with the logfile or logdir option. Patchlevel 14 corrects this problem, and it has been made avialable for several platforms.

7/16/98: Wusage 6.0 P13 now available

Wusage 6.0 P13 has been released. The following is a list of new features, corrections and improvements in patchlevel 13. If you do not see patchlevel 13 for your particular operating system on the download page yet, check back in a few days, or contact us to make porting arrangements. Porters receive a license to analyze one free virtual server with Wusage, or a $75 credit toward another type of license.

• Email reports can go to multiple addresses
• Individual report sections can be turned on and off in email reports
• Better handling of transitions from weekly to daily reporting, etc.
• Handles unusual log data correctly
• Web interface "times out" after 1/2 hour idle
• For Microsoft IIS users: clickthrough.exe rewritten to accommodate the absence of certain information from IIS logs
• Port number command line option for web interface
• Remembers most recently used configuration file
• Resumes an edit in progress if the program is stopped and restarted

7/14/98: Wusage 6.0 P12 released for SGI Irix 6.2

Wusage 6.0 P12 is now available for SGI Irix version 6.2.

5/18/98: Wusage 6.0 P12 released for Windows 95/NT and many Unix platforms

Wusage 6.0 P12 is now available for Windows 95/NT, as well as many different Unix platforms. P12 handles IIS 4.0 "W3C extended log format" log files significantly better. P12 also handles European language characters in log entries correctly. Unix users: if P12 is not available for your specific platform, contact us to discuss porting arrangements.

5/13/98: Wusage 6.0 P10 released for Windows 95/NT and many Unix platforms

Wusage 6.0 P10 is now available for Windows 95/NT, as well as many different Unix platforms. P10 contains many significant fixes and improvements and we strongly recommend that users of earlier 6.0 patchlevels upgrade to P10 to get these benefits. Note that the use of the clickthrough tracking tool has changed substantially in order to correct common complaints. This is one of many corrections in 6.0 P10.

5/12/98: Wusage 6.0 P7 released for NetBSD 1.3 (Intel)

Wusage 6.0 P7 is now available for NetBSD 1.3 running on Intel platforms.

5/11/98: Wusage 6.0 P9 Released for Windows 95/NT

Earlier patchlevels of 6.0 could crash if the user's HOMEPATH was not a writable directory. P9 does not use HOMEPATH, and Wusage prints a useful error message and exits if it cannot create the password file. If you are upgrading from an earlier 6.0 release, note that a new remote access password will be generated on the first run of P9. Apologies for this necessary one-time inconvenience.

5/8/98: Wusage 6.0 P5 Released for DEC Alpha Linux

Wusage 6.0 P5 is now available for DEC Alpha Linux.

5/1/98: Wusage 6.0 P5 Released for AIX 4.1

Wusage 6.0 P5 is now available for AIX 4.1.

4/29/98: Wusage 6.0 P5 Released for SCO Unix 5.0

Wusage 6.0 P5 is now available for SCO Unix 5.0.

4/28/98: Wusage 6.0 P7 Released for Windows 95/NT, Linux and FreeBSD

Wusage 6.0, Patchlevel 7, has been released for Windows 95/NT, Linux and FreeBSD. Patchlevel 7 addresses minor problems with the "fast" DNS option and with 3D bar charts which do not affect most customers. However, patchlevel 7 also addresses problems which caused crashes on a few operating systems, such as FreeBSD.

4/28/98: Wusage 6.0 P5 Released for OpenBSD 2.3 Intel, AIX 4.2, Digital Unix 4.0 and Solaris Intel 2.6

Wusage 6.0 P5 is now available for OpenBSD 2.3 Intel, Digital Unix 4.0, AIX 4.0, and also Sun Solaris 2.6 on Intel platforms.

4/23/98: Wusage 6.0 P5 Released for BSDI

Wusage 6.0 P5 is now available for BSDI Unix.

4/22/98: Wusage 6.0 P5 Released for FreeBSD, SGI IRIX 5.3

The new FreeBSD and SGI IRIX releases are available from the download page.

4/21/98: Wusage 6.0 P5 Released for NT, Linux and Solaris Sparc

Wusage 6.0 corrects the following problems:

• FTP access to log files works properly under NT
• nograph setting defeats the graph completely if all of the items in a totalsgroup are set nograph
• Values less than 1.0 are correctly reported
• History data is properly stored for analysis of visits, trails, and user-written functions

P5 is being made available to our porting team and will soon be made available for other platforms.

4/20/98: Wusage 6.0 P4 Released for NT, Linux and Solaris Sparc

Wusage 6.0 P4 contains the following corrections, most of which are important for Windows 95/NT users:

• GUI is compatible with Internet Explorer 4.
• The remote-access password is not required if (a) you are logging in from the same computer that is running Wusage AND (b) you are not running Unix. (Unix machines offer many forms of remote access, making an access password advisable at all times.)
• The remote-access password can be changed through the user interface.
• The nograph setting now works properly in the historical totals option.
• README.TXT file is readable with Notepad.

4/13/98 8PM: Windows 95/NT version updated

Problems which affected local file access in Wusage 6.0 for Windows 95/NT were corrected by a new release made as of 8PM today. If you downloaded the software earlier in the day, please download the corrected release.

4/13/98: Wusage 6.0 Released for Windows 95/NT and Solaris SPARC!

Version 6.0 was released today for Microsoft Windows 95/NT (on regular Intel-family hardware), and for Sun SPARC machines running Solaris 2.5 or higher. Additional operating systems are forthcoming.

4/10/98: Wusage 6.0 Released for Linux!

Version 6.0 was released for Linux today. Version 6.0 will be available for other platforms next week, at which time the 6.0 manual and examples will appear on the website.

Here's a partial list of great new features in version 6.0. If you register Wusage 5.0 after January 1st, 1998, you will also be able to unlock Wusage 6.0. The upgrade price for everyone else is one-third of the list price.

• A graphical user interface based on your web browser! Wusage 6.0 contains a built-in web server for the sole purpose of providing a friendly way to configure the program, run your statistics and browse the results.
• 6.0 Remembers where it "left off." You can rotate log files out right after running the program with 6.0. The new -n option can be used to override this behavior, causing the program to behave like wusage 5.0.
• The new directories option presents a breakdown by subdirectory of activity on the web server.
• The manyservers option analyzes many virtual servers together, constructing complete URLs to those servers based to the server name field (this option is useful for those who log many virtual servers to one file).
• Support for the "extended log format" standardized by the W3C and implemented by Microsoft IIS 4.0.
• Support for email reporting.
• Support for spreadsheet-like "functions," such as clickthrough rates, in the totals and totalsgroup options.
• Support for "cookies," user- identifying strings which are logged by the Apache web server.
• Optional breakdown by document of all referring URLs for each document on the server.
• Support for analyzing sites, referring URLs, and more with the totals and totalsgroup options, instead of just documents. This makes it possible to create historical charts of information formerly only available through the "unique" report, which is now obsolete.
• Support for alphabetically sorted reports.
• Automatically keeps only a certain number of reports, if desired.
• Percentages are included in all reports for which this is appropriate.
• Can chart second- or third-level domains instead of top-level domains, if desired.
• User agents (browsers) can be grouped together easily.
• Referring sites report added to help clarify the referring URLs report.
• Visits and trails are now analyzed more efficiently, using much less memory than in 5.0.
• HTTP transfer, FTP transfer, and gzip compression are all supported when retrieving logs! No need to uncompress large log files and/or download them separately to your hard drive. Note that gzip is not identical to zip (however, free gzip and gunzip tools are widely available).
• Internet search keywords report added, based on referring URL data and a configurable set of templates to match various popular Internet search services.

1/1/98: Wusage 5.05 for Windows 95/NT Released

This release corrects an incompatibility with IIS 4.0.

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