Hi,

I am pleased to announce the current development version Harvest-1.7.27.

What's new:

- Fixed a buffer overflow bug in gdbm. (Jason Downs)

  During gathering, essence sometimes died when writing into gdbm
  database file. This caused httpenum process eating up all available
  cpu time without doing anything useful. This is fixed.

  I consider this a major step towards next stable release of
  Harvest. Many thanks to Jason Downs.

  Please test this version and let me know if you find any bugs.


Here is a list of open issues:

- There was a report of crashes (staturl dumping core) during
  gathering on Solaris 2.6. This is under investigation, but I
  couldn't reproduce this problem, yet. (priority: high, must fix)

- Unnesting nested objects like zip, tar, tar.gz, etc. archives has
  problems. Current implementation of Harvest lets the gdbm database
  file grow rapidly. It is possible to work around this by using the
  essence option "--max-deletions 100", but this slows down gathering
  significantly, making it impossible to use in a wide
  scale. (priority: medium)

- httpenum dumping core at startup when the databases are not in a
  sane state. (priority: cosmetic)

- essence dumping core when getting a signal. (priority: cosmetic)



Many thanks to Jason Downs for his patch and Stig Harder for his
patience.

For more information about Harvest, please visit:

  http://harvest.sourceforge.net/

Thank you.

kj