GeoToad Changelog

What's new in GeoToad 3.20.2

Mar 28, 2014
  • nicknamed "Spring ahead"
  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 299 : Filter by min/max latitude/longitude
  • Minor additions, modifications, cleanups, and bug fixes

New in GeoToad 3.20.1 (Mar 28, 2014)

  • nicknamed "Dame Myra" (to celebrate the birthday of pianist Myra Hess)
  • while 3.20.0 is still operational, 3.20.1 comes with some enhancements
  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 144 : Multiple -v options for debugging. Handle with care
  • Issue 267 : Add -U (--unbufferedOutput) to be used with wrappers
  • Issue 296 : Add "wherigo" stub (extract cartridge CGUID). Plus script to fill gaps
  • Still open important issues (feedback required)
  • 281 (logging date of archived caches) 283 (GC statistics and GCStatistic, different weekday distribution)
  • Minor additions, modifications, cleanups, and bug fixes

New in GeoToad 3.20.0 (Jan 20, 2014)

  • nicknamed "No fun" (Fun factors no longer supported)
  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 292 : Remove fun factors (use fav factors instead)
  • Issue 295 : Handle --output="" as "automatic"
  • Issue 297: Trailing whitespace in owner field after 2014-01-14 update
  • Minor additions, modifications, cleanups, and bug fixes

New in GeoToad 3.19.1 (Dec 23, 2013)

  • nicknamed "Santa 13" (Merry Christmas everyone!)
  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 198: get some data from PMO caches (but no coords)
  • Issue 271 more nuvi adjustments
  • Issue 285: no problems with ruby 2.0
  • Issue 288: cookie cleanup
  • Issue 293: avoid listing filters twice
  • Added some long options (to be abridged again)
  • "-l" ("--waypointLength") option renamed to "-w" (issue 286 related)
  • Numerous minor additions, modifications, cleanups, and bug fixes

New in GeoToad 3.19.0 (Nov 21, 2013)

  • New:
  • nicknamed "Cookie monster" (it resolves the cookie issue)
  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 272 : stubs for trackable log list added, log counts
  • Issue 284: some initial documentation fixes
  • Issue 285: support for ruby 2.0 (including Windows installer)
  • Issue 288: new in-memory cookie handling after 20131114 HotFix
  • Country/state searches more robust now
  • Some unavoidable additions, modifications, cleanups, and bug fixes

New in GeoToad 3.18.1 (Oct 21, 2013)

  • nicknamed "Noble and priceless" (Alfred Nobel's 180 birthday)
  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 176: unescape HTML entities in cache name/owner/finder
  • Issue 198: modified error reporting for basic members
  • Issue 277 : more fixes
  • Issue 281: avoid colliding date representations
  • Lots of minor additions, modifications and bug fixes

New in GeoToad 3.18.0 (Sep 25, 2013)

  • nicknamed "Beyond the horizon" (and still no end)
  • Issues addressed:
  • UTF-8 support
  • Issue 198: include Premium Member Only caches unless excluded using -O option
  • Issue 245 : small fix for "... by ... by ..." caches
  • Issue 271: initial support for Garmin Nuvi devices (POI)
  • Issue 274 : requires Ruby 1.9 (or possibly above, untested)
  • Issue 275 : support for own templates
  • Issue 277: issue with new GC design (cache page, search results)
  • Issue 279 : switch to Google Geocode API v3
  • IMPORTANT:
  • There will be no more devel releases (for a while at least)!

New in GeoToad 3.17.11 (Sep 25, 2013)

  • nicknamed "Speeding up" (fix issues towards 3.18.0)
  • this is a pre-release for 3.18.0, and may still contain bugs
  • use with caution and at your own risk
  • IMPORTANT: check the "Dictionary" wiki page!

New in GeoToad 3.17.11 Development (Sep 12, 2013)

  • nicknamed "Speeding up" (fix issues towards 3.18.0)
  • this is a pre-release for 3.18.0, and may still contain bugs
  • use with caution and at your own risk
  • Issues addressed:
  • UTF-8 support
  • Issue 176: de-encode HTML entities in cache and owner name (to be extended)
  • Issue 245 : small fix for "... by ... by ..." caches
  • Issue 274: requires Ruby 1.9 (or possibly above, untested)
  • Issue 275 : support for own templates
  • Issue 277: issue with new GC design (cache page, search results) partially fixed

New in GeoToad 3.17.10 Development (Jul 3, 2013)

  • Issues addressed:
  • Preparation of version 3.18.0
  • Issue 272 : Fetch cache log list (option -M without arg)
  • Issue 275: Move templates to subdirectory, load from there (and user places)
  • History logging
  • Lots of small fixes and improvements

New in GeoToad 3.16.9 (Jul 2, 2013)

  • Issues addressed:
  • New version 3.16.9
  • Last version with ruby 1.8 support. Really.
  • Issue 234 : In TUI, filter by fav factors instead of fun factors
  • Issue 236 : Support for files containing cache lists (-E option)
  • Issue 270 : Convert "better" quotes into "simple" ones
  • Issue 272 : Fetch cache log list (option -M)
  • History logging to local disk (for future survey purposes)
  • Lots of small fixes and improvements

New in GeoToad 3.16.8 (Jun 28, 2013)

  • New version 3.16.8, "Good-bye Ruby 1.8 Tuesday"
  • Last version with ruby 1.8 support. Really.
  • Issue 234 : In TUI, filter by fav factors instead of fun factors
  • Issue 236 : Support for files containing cache lists (-E option)
  • Issue 270 : Convert "better" quotes into "simple" ones
  • Issue 272 : Fetch cache log list (option -M)
  • History logging to local disk (for future survey purposes)
  • Lots of small fixes and improvements

New in GeoToad 3.17.8 Development (May 23, 2013)

  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 213: backing out now useless projection stuff
  • Issue 264 : continued work on HTML in GPX
  • Issue 265 : convert smileys in log entries back to BB [...] code
  • Issue 273: old representations for D/T/size and dist/dir
  • Deliberately reduced amount of debugging information

New in GeoToad 3.16.7 (May 13, 2013)

  • One of the last stable versions supporting Ruby 1.8!
  • Issue 213: -Y option (don't fetch cdpf)
  • Issue 268: short selections in TUI
  • Issue 269: remove temporary files used with external filter
  • Issue 273: old representations for D/T/size and dist/dir
  • Deliberately reduced amount of debugging information
  • Some minor fixes

New in GeoToad 3.17.7 Development (Apr 25, 2013)

  • summarizing all accumulated "testing" patches
  • Windows Installer uses Ruby 1.9
  • Issues addressed:
  • Language support for Latvia and Italia
  • Portuguese workaround
  • Convert quotation marks
  • Issue 262: translate or remove "emoji" (Unicode-16 "surrogates")
  • Issue 263: "gpspoint" template
  • Issue 264: first attempt to make GPX more consistent

New in GeoToad 3.16.6 (Apr 25, 2013)

  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 262: translate or remove "emoji" (Unicode-16 "surrogates")
  • Issue 263: "gpspoint" template
  • Issue 264: make GPX more consistent
  • Issue 265: convert smileys in log entries back to BB [...] code
  • Some minor fixes

New in GeoToad 3.16.5 (Mar 20, 2013)

  • Issue 235 : Option "-N" to limit to caches "not found by me" (logged-in user)
  • Issue 261: Some debugging added to narrow down the problem
  • Some minor fixes (encoding, cookies, login, Portuguese)

New in GeoToad 3.16.4 (Feb 2, 2013)

  • New:
  • Nicknamed "Seven Squared" (...)
  • Issues addressed:¶
  • Issue 174: Add GSAK-style top "log entry" with summary
  • Issue 234: Extract, and filter by, favorite points
  • CR/LF cleanup
  • Language support for Latvia and Italia
  • Some minor fixes

New in GeoToad 3.17.6 Development (Feb 2, 2013)

  • News:
  • nicknamed "CRLF" because it tries to clean up line feeds (removes "\r")
  • no change for Linux users, but:
  • need feedback from MacOSX (new build machine) and Windows (new ruby version)
  • please suggest features/fixes to go into next stable (3.16.4, due Jan 23)
  • Issues addressed:¶
  • Fix for failed parsing of "placed" dates after 2013-01-07 update
  • Something I might have forgot already

New in GeoToad 3.16.3 (Jan 3, 2013)

  • Issue 205 : in url tag, use guid instead of wp
  • Issue 257 : fix queries for country with states (caution!)
  • Issue 258 : better handling for caches without logs (error 500)
  • Issue 259 : parse logs with old and new GS icons

New in GeoToad 3.17.5 Development (Jan 3, 2013)

  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 259 : parse logs with old and new GS icons
  • In TUI, abbreviations are allowed if unambiguous ("tra", "ev", "reg" but not "e")
  • Latest Ruby 1.8.7 build used for Windows installer

New in GeoToad 3.17.4 Development (Jan 3, 2013)

  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 205 : in url tag, use guid instead of wp
  • Issue 257 : fix queries for country with states (caution!)
  • Issue 258 : better handling for caches without logs (error 500)
  • Minor other stuff

New in GeoToad 3.17.3 Development (Jan 3, 2013)

  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 174: Empty logs are no problem anymore
  • Issue 213: -Y option to skip fetching cdpf files; "qlist" projection input
  • Issue 236: Add -m option to redefine delimiters
  • Some minor other stuff (manpage and readme)

New in GeoToad 3.17.2 Development (Jan 3, 2013)

  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 174: insert "info" log entry into GPX
  • Issue 175 : attempt to enable selective cleanup for Windows
  • Issue 250 : ignore "nil" visitors
  • Issue 252 : remove "span" tags from description HTML
  • Issue 253 : validate remote files; "next page" for other languages
  • Issue 254 : catch date conversion exception
  • Issue 255 : "location" queries: error handling, info output
  • Some minor other stuff

New in GeoToad 3.17.1 Development (Jan 3, 2013)

  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 244 : Use a better pattern for GC id parsing
  • Issue 245: Cache "name by owner" - better separation
  • Issue 247 : Attempt to address issue. May break Windows with Ruby 1.9?
  • Issue 248 : "yourfindgpx" template ("myfindgpx" for login!=query user)
  • Issue 249 : Replace "medium" back with "regular"
  • Remote fetches now progressively delayed, starting with 1 second
  • Minor other stuff

New in GeoToad 3.17.0 Development (Jan 3, 2013)

  • Issue 233 : If one cacheType selected, use tx= search parameter
  • Issue 234: Fav points listed in html and text, fav filter in UI
  • Issue 235: Shortcut "-N" ("--notFoundByMe") for "-E myself"
  • Issue 236: -E option takes user=filename to avoid query
  • Issue 244 : better parsing patterns for wid, name, creator
  • Issue 245: address "multiple-by" problem
  • Progressive sleeps
  • Improved cleanup strategy

New in GeoToad 3.16.2 (Dec 5, 2012)

  • Issues addressed:
  • Issue 175: attempt to enable selective cleanup for Windows
  • Issue 233: If one cacheType selected, use tx= search parameter
  • Issue 250: ignore "nil" visitors
  • Issue 252: remove "span" tags from description HTML
  • Issue 253: validate remote files; "next page" for other languages
  • Issue 254: catch date conversion exception
  • Issue 255: "location" queries: error handling, info output
  • Remote fetches now progressively delayed, starting with 1 second
  • Some minor other stuff

New in GeoToad 3.16.0 (May 29, 2012)

  • Issue 162 : Cache aging
  • Issue 175 : More selective, non-interfering cleaning
  • Issue 191 : Preserve cached files
  • Issue 198 : Early login to fix authentication problems
  • Issue 205 : Own finds
  • Issue 210 : User preferences (language, date format)
  • Issue 228 : "guid" queries now find WID without Google Maps
  • Issue 237 : Shrink cipher list, force TLSv1 to work with newer OpenSSL
  • Issue 239 : Ampersands not properly escaped in rare situations
  • Minor other stuff

New in GeoToad 3.15.5 Development (Mar 14, 2012)

  • Fixes for issues
  • Issue 175: More selective, non-interfering cleaning
  • Issue 221 : Fix documentation of !keyword for -k/-K
  • Issue 226 : Past events are unavailable
  • Issue 228 : "guid" queries now find WID without Google Maps
  • Issue 231 : Remove tags from log comments
  • Issue 232 : Reduce coordinate precision to 6 decimal places

New in GeoToad 3.14.9 (Mar 14, 2012)

  • Fixes for issues:
  • 218: select/exclude by attributes set/unset
  • 221: Fix documentation of !keyword for -k/-K
  • 226: Past events are unavailable
  • 228: "guid" queries
  • 231: Remove tags from log comments
  • 232: Reduce coordinate precision to 6 decimal places