May 17th, 2009· Better scaling: better application responsiveness and lower processor load under huge incoming traffic.Number of incoming connections and parallel threads limited, load throttled.
· Fixed overload, caused by active crawling under certain conditions.
· Configuration free NAT Traversal: Allows active peers behind routers. Supports full cone, restricted and port-restricted NAT devices. Symmetric NAT partially supported in Vista, Windows 7 & 2008. Enables multiple active peers per LAN. Used NAT traversal method displayed in Options / NAT traversal.
· Default internal and external ports are configurable in Options. The internal port used on your computer may be set. If already in use, automatically an alternative port is used. The external port used on your router may be set. Multiple active peers per LAN with different port forwardings.
· Peers may now be active, even if their external port is not 80.Therfore FAROO may run in parallel to a webserver running on port 80.
· Unique PeerID's created even for cloned computers.
· Web browser is not anymore started in maximized mode.
· Now always the actual default webbrowser is used.
· Transparent auto start option (previously auto start was automatically set active on next manual program start).
· In Options / Internal IP now always the preferred IP for Internet connections is displayed, when a PC has multiple network adapters with different IPs.
· Faster program exit during active crawling.
March 27th, 2009New algorithm for creation of Peer ID:
· The Peer ID remains unchanged also in case of re-installation or installation under multiple acounts accounts of the same computer. The fixed Peer ID provides additional protection against byzantine and sybil attacks.
· The authenticity of the Peer ID is validated with a cryptographic signature in order to prevent a manipulation or bogus creation.
· Search page title contains now the query terms on first position. This improves information visibility on narrow browser tabs.
· Chinese translation improved. Chinese search engine links revised.
· Flickr & Twitter integration is disabled for empty queries.
· If "pause on user activity" is enabled, then now also incoming traffic is paused.
· New option "disable desktop indexing". In the current beta version desktop indexing is always disabled.
March 9th, 2009· New hierarchical index structure. Provides better performance and unlimited index size at a single peer independent from used filesystem. For downward compatibility the new index hierarchy is only effective for fresh installs.
· Personalized query suggestions based on search profile.
· Privacy preserved, because your profile is stored locally only.
· Personalized suggestions are now also provided for IE8 and Firefox search box.
Accelerator support for IE8:
· Mark word, move mouse over market word, click at accelerator symbol, select search with FAROO.
· Manual start and stop of continuous search now also visible in German and Chinese language version.
February 23rd, 2009· Continuous Search: Automatic monitoring of frequent search queries. See also our blog post.
· Based on attention data queries with long term relevancy to the user are automatically monitored.
· Additionally manual start & stop.
· Update information: Number of updates for each monitored query displayed at start page.
· Update notification: Number of updates for each monitored query displayed in tray balloon.
· Intensity level displayed for updated query.
· Monitoring options and notification configurable.
· Hot Topics list (Twitter) and related images (Flickr).
· This provides in many cases a good visual feedback of breaking events or topics dominating the news.
· Integrated Image Search (Flickr).
· Image title display in hint.
· Twitter integration now asynchronous from p2p search.
· This ensures that both twitter results are always shown and the p2p results are displayed nevertheless without delay. Wait and timeout options removed.
· Flickr and Twitter as options in external social sources.
· Automatically disabled in privacy mode, in order to prevent sending the query to third parties.
January 31st, 2009· Redesign
· Redesign of user interface and search result pages, to make the search box more prominent, and the design more modern and consistent.
· Links to other search engines added to result page.
· Visited links in search results now in different color.
· Thumbnails in preview now on left side.
· Level of displayed technical details reduced.
· Last indexed date removed, now shown as hint over p2p/local/external source.
· Old styles removed.
· Social search
· Real time search of social conversations related to the search query by using the Twitter API.
· Discovery of people, which are currently discussing a topic related to our search query.
· Direct reply to discussion from the search result page.
· Discussion intensity level indicator: low/moderate/elevated/high/breaking.
· Additional Option: Sources / External social sources / Twitter (enabled per default).
· Additional Option: Sources / External social sources / Wait for Twitter results (disabled per default).
· Fixes
· Search via faroo.com now also works if FAROO is running on port 443.
· No external results anymore for desktop search.
December 10th, 2008· Country flags according to peer locations displayed in options/index, options/search, options/peers, options/profile.
· Faster lookup for large networks and scarce results (parallel lookup with early termination).
· Search timeout implemented.
· Fixed measurement of search response time.
· Installation program sets firewall permission automatically.
November 27th, 2008· No more admin rights required for installation. Installation only for current user.
· Important for use in corporate environment.
· Auto-update without admin rights (prior Vista only).
· Additional seed peers for improved connection stability.
· Updated download link in installer to .NET framework 2.0 Service Pack 1.
· Fixed uninstall link and icon in start menu.
· Fixed: Active peer did not provide results in last version.
· Fixed: Since version 2.0.3231.32387 peers have been tested for active mode only at first start.
November 10th, 2008· Overlay improved: less load, better connection stability.
· Fixed endless loop of the crawler, which could occur under rare conditions.
· Query crawling for non-Latin search terms and web pages improved.
· Improved protection against malicious pages used as crawler trap.
· If update check fails, it is now only once a day repeated.
· Visualisation in options / peers improved: less flicker, less load.
· Urls in Options/Crawler are displayed always without http://.
November 6th, 2008· New
· Un-coordinated distributed crawlers turned into a collaborative crawler swarm.
· Distributed crawling without crawling overlap between peers. Communication free coordination.
· Politeness: only few pages per domain crawled consecutively.
· Exhaustive, interruption free crawl despite small crawl queue. No crawlqueue overrun and underrun.
· Crawler prioritizes according to geographic and linguistic proximity of websites.
· Crawler seedlist with top authoritative web sites added.
· Support of non-latin languages for indexing and search.
· New external source added: Yahoo Search Boss.
· XML Search API for integration, mashups and testing.
· Community highscore list in search and result page: Peers with most indexed words and crawled pages.
· User profile page in options: For highscore list and social search. With basic statistics.
· In options/index tab now alias, team and region of peers are displayed.
· In options/search tab now alias,team and region of peers are displayed.
· In options/peers tab now alias, team and region of peers are displayed.
· Improved
· For each query FAROO displays only the top-1000 results. If the top-1000 limit of the result number is reached there is a hint displayed. See also our FAQ.
· Special handling for empty queries implemented, as 10 percent of all searches are empty.
· Query crawling supports more languages.
· Temporary crawling storage reorganized. Less memory footprint and faster program start and shutdown.
· Improved support for internal peers.
· External peers now support the mutual discovery of internal peers.
· Internal peers are now able to connect over any port.
· Internal peers are now prioritizing internal connections (prevents loopback problems und dns-latency).
· Display how much storage space is left (left=contributed-used).
· Display if peer is full (no contributed disk space left). This is adjusted when changing the contributed disk space.
· Improved region detection: OS information extended with DNS information.
· Enhanced detection of used .NET framework version.
· Fixed
· Various routing table improvements. Reduced load, better performance and reliability.
· Superfluous multiple transfers to own active peer fixed.
· Minimum redundancy for storing to DHT introduced. Effective redundancy displayed.
· Infrequent lock of crawling and indexing process fixed.
· Intranet webpages excluded from crawling for active crawler.
· Restriction to crawl only webpages with multiple word in title removed.
· URLs with/without "www." at start and "/" at end are treated as identic.
· Improved recognition of relative urls in crawler.
· Number of passive peers in bucket limited for less resources and better scaling.
· Display of free disk space for custom folder fixed.
· Empty PeerID at first start fixed.
· Notification to previously running instance changed from http to windows message. Now port independent.
· & is treated as normal char and not as punctuation (e.g. AT&T).
· Increased crawler timeout for slow pages.
· Improved codepage detection in active crawler.
· Index Compression corrected.
· Polish translation improved.
· Autosuggest supports now also non-latin characters.
· Display of omitted stopwords in preview fixed.
· Privacy improved, encrypted query term not anymore transferred when searching.
· AND OR not recognized as Boolean operators, but removed as stopwords. Fixed.
· Windows 2000 error fixed: "Unable to find entry point wtsregistersessionnotification in dll wtsapi32.dll".
· Browsercheck fixed. Did not display warning for use of IE 5.0.
· No indexing if the free storage capacity falls below 5 GB, even if contributed space is not yet exhausted. Storage overflow prevented.
· Now the state of the free storage capacity is regularly updated, supporting permanently running peers.
· Check of free storage capacity now also prior to transfer.
· The displayed number for contributed disk space is now checked against the real available space.
· Improved shutdown behaviour.
· Improved compatibility of OpenSearch plugin for IE8, Opera and Firefox.
· Special Opera workaround removed. Opera fixed the form post paramer bug in XML documents with version 9.6.
March 3rd, 2008· No Ajax error displayed anymore, when computer offline.
· Ajax now also functional for public search access (if enabled).
· Size of installation package reduced by 20%.
· Minor improvents of visual style.
February 29th, 2008· Hotkey changed from Ctrl S into Win S
· Hotkey may be disabled in options
· Semi-autoupdate under Windows Vista with UAC
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