Hi,

I am pleased to announce the current development version Harvest-1.7.23.

Summary:

Added IMS gathering.
Added support for HTML4 to sgml based summarizer.
Added script to create gatherers.
Added updated broker log file analyzer.


What's new:

- Finally fixed If-Modified-Since gathering. Many thanks to
  Jutta Weisel to bring this issue on top of my to do list.

  IMS gathering was initially implemented by Judith Pluemer and
  improved by Simon Wilkinson. A bug, introduced in 1.5.18 made
  IMS gathering unusable, which is fixed now.

  To use IMS gathering, set the environment variable
  HARVEST_GATHERER_DBS.

  You might want to add following line to your RunGatherer script:

    export HARVEST_GATHERER_DBS=$HARVEST_HOME/gatherers/YOUR_GATHERER/data

  Replace $HARVEST_HOME and YOUR_GATHERER with apprioriate values so
  that $HARVEST_GATHERER_DBS points to the directory which contains
  PRODUCTION.gdbm.

  I will make IMS gathering a configuration option into gatherer's
  config file in next versions.

  A minor glitch is the logging. For IMS requests which result in
  "304 Not Modified" replies from the web server, the gatherer doesn't
  log anything. I haven't decided what to log, yet.

  Please, test IMS gathering and let me know if it works with your
  setup.

- Merged HTML4 support as suggested by Leonhard Knauff and added HTML
  3.2, 4.0, 4.01 dtd.

- Added CreateGatherer from Patrick Cao Huu Thien to contrib
  directory.

  With CreateGatherer, you can easily create multiple gatherers,
  without running RunHarvest or copying and editing many files.

- Added nbrkstats from Guido Kerkewitz to contrib directory.

  This is an updated version of BrokerStats.

For more information about Harvest, please visit:

  http://harvest.sourceforge.net/

Thank you.

kj