Hi,

I am pleased to announce the current development version Harvest-1.7.8.

What's new:

- Collecting from brokers should work again. A bug introduced in
  Harvest-1.5.18 made this feature unusable. This is fixed. (1)
  Thanks to Judith Pluemer and William Ghelfi for the bug report.

- There was an off-by-one bug in enumerators which caused to enumerate
  URL-Max minus one candidates instead of URL-Max. This is fixed.

For more information about Harvest, please visit:

 http://www.arco.de/~kj/

To download Harvest and related files, point your browser to:

 http://www.t-online.de/~kjlee/

Thank you.

kj

(1) Harvest-1.5.18 included a change which writes the Harvest broker
    version in addition to the broker interface version. You can test
    this by "telnet YOUR_BROKER YOUR_BROKER_PORT", e.g.
    "telnet localhost 8501". The receiving part of the broker
    was not modified accordingly and skipped only one line after
    initial connection and got confused about the second line.
    To fix this, I backed out the changes making it compatible to old
    brokers. I also made a modification to skip any number of initial
    greeting messages making it compatible to versions from 1.5.18 to
    1.7.7.

P.S.:
I got reports about gatherer not working unreliably (crashing, not
gathering all documents) on Solaris and Linux. Can anybody confirm
this and tell me how to reproduce this problem?