SmarterStats Release Notes and Version History

2.7.1888 (Mar 3, 2005)

• Added: Inclusions in Site Import Settings
• Changed: Browser listing updated to support more recent browsers
• Changed: Log files with resolved names now supported
• Fixed: Bandwidth By Server web service function no longer caches results incorrectly, which was causing rapid calls to different servers to return identical data.
• Fixed: Email reports were changed to accomodate more email viewer applications
• Fixed: FTP works with more FTP servers
• Fixed: International date formats supported on different servers
• Fixed: Rare memory issues with the web interface were resolved
• Fixed: Upgrades no longer require uninstall
• Fixed: W3Cex Log files that contain non-IIS rows should import successfully

2.6.3 (Oct 25, 2004)

• Added: Option to strip out ;jsessionid=X from query string
• Added: Query string item exclusions
• Fixed: Communication between two servers of different locales will now function properly
• Fixed: Editing user from system admin failed on some users
• Fixed: NULL rows paused import on site
• Fixed: Several other minor issues were fixed

2.6.0 (Nov 21, 2003)

• Added: Auto-detection of local log file types
• Added: Getting Started Help now embedded into the application for easy reference
• Added: New report - Return Visit Summary
• Changed: Licensing menu item has moved to Help menu and has been renamed "Product Activation"
• Fixed: Padding at the end of logs created by IIS will no longer falsely report bad rows

2.5.2 (Oct 22, 2003)

• Added: Web service svcGlobalConfig added to allow bulk configuration utility to process sites. (Bulk configuration utility available by submitting a request to support@smartertools.com)
• Fixed: A date issue was fixed dealing with FTP transfers from boxes with non-US locale settings
• Fixed: Site Info page now allows administrators to choose to view another page of log file details
• Fixed: When using GMT offsets of +0000 or any non-hourly GMT offset, SmarterStats would fail to import rows from Common or NCSA logs

2.5.1 (Sep 26, 2003)

• Added: More detailed error emails when MRS not authorized
• Fixed: Email reports were failing to be sent on some setups
• Fixed: Interactive reports now function in locales that are not en-us

2.5.0 (Sep 17, 2003)

• Added: Default setting for SmarterLog directory has been added (administrators only)
• Added: Interactive report that shows top missing links
• Added: Interactive reports for Direct Referrers (those that directly link to a resource)
• Added: New users by day/month reports, which count a user only the first time they appear in the date range selected
• Added: Skinning now supports multiple skins being installed at the same time. Skin implementation can also be overridden by browser, platform, and browser version.
• Added: System administrators may add servers from the manage servers screen (enterprise version only)
• Added: System administrators may add sites from the manage sites screen
• Added: System administrators may now use enter on the manage sites screen
• Added: Window size can be chosen to allow user to select what size graphs and tables they desire
• Changed: Geographic database updated
• Changed: Help was adjusted to make it more easily viewed
• Changed: Interactive reports are now case-insensitive
• Changed: Interactive reports dealing with referrers now include the “No Referrer” statistic
• Changed: Interactive reports were renamed to make them more easily understood
• Changed: Look and feel of default skin adjusted to allow for better browser compatibility
• Changed: Microsoft .Net Framework removed from the installer to make it a smaller download. Framework is downloaded from the web if needed.
• Changed: Must register to use the free version
• Changed: Report item filters box now shows report names sorted in alphabetical order
• Changed: Report item list in custom reports is sorted
• Changed: Spider and browser lists updated
• Changed: Standard reports and Custom reports have been combined into one menu item called “Reports”
• Changed: Top 404 and 500 error reports are now case-insensitive
• Changed: Unique users by day/month reports now count a user once in each day/month
• Fixed: A path-related statistics issue was found and corrected
• Fixed: Alignment and titles were fixed on interactive reports
• Fixed: An internationalization issue was identified that halted log parsing
• Fixed: Browse for folder on Add/Edit Site was not working before first site added.
• Fixed: Email reports did not have the correct style
• Fixed: Email reports were displaying a tag in the subject when manually sent by a user
• Fixed: General settings field “send problem emails” did not save correctly.
• Fixed: Many browser issues are addressed
• Fixed: Printed reports did not have the correct style
• Fixed: Service Setting admin page works when server name is different from actual NetBIOS name (Enterprise version only).
• Fixed: The IP interactive reports were not combining bandwidth correctly. This issue has been addressed.
• Fixed: W3C log files created on Windows .Net Server 2003 that included the sc_win32_status imported incorrectly. This issue has been corrected.

2.0.0 (Jul 25, 2003)

• Added: 65 new report items have been added giving end-users over 125+ report items to view.
• Added: Ability to monitor good and bad lines in log files per log file. This replaces the previous total log line count for each log file.
• Added: Additional information about the status of a site import to better monitor a sites status.
• Added: An auto report generation option has been added for end-users who do not want to automate the "get report" button.
• Added: Browse button in the site configuration to help choose ftp paths for standard log files.
• Added: Browse button in the site configuration to help choose local or remote directories for SmarterStats log files.
• Added: Browse button in the site configuration to help choose local or remote directories for standard log files.
• Added: Email me this report for end-users is now available on all reports. (Enterprise Only)
• Added: End-users can configure exclusions for directories on site imports.
• Added: Feature to email administrators if service is not available. (Enterprise Only)
• Added: Geographic Reporting for each continent on views, visits, hits, and bandwidth
• Added: Geographic Reporting for USA view on views, visits, hits, and bandwidth
• Added: Geographic Reporting for World View on views, visits, hits, and bandwidth
• Added: Support for Ensim Web Appliance Pro to allow full automation of adding/deleting of sites. (Requires extra download)
• Added: Support for the common Apache log file format.
• Added: Support for the common Iplanet log file format.
• Changed: Default style colors and slight design changes for better presentation.
• Changed: Graph styles have been changed for better presentation.
• Changed: Report items that show referral url's are now hyperlinked.
• Changed: Some report item names have changed due to end-user requests to be more descriptive.
• Changed: The welcome page statistics now follow the users filters.
• Fixed: Issue in SmarterStats web server when large data was being posted back.
• Fixed: Speed issue when FTP downloading log files over slow connections.