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NCollector Studio Changelog

What's new in NCollector Studio 3.7.0.2917

Jan 12, 2016
  • [BUGFIX] Document rendering not working correctly
  • [BUGFIX] Downloaded images would sometimes be corrupted
  • [BUGFIX] Improved logic for detecting image sizes
  • [BUGFIX] Various UI improvements and fixes

New in NCollector Studio 3.6.0.2910 (Nov 8, 2015)

  • [FEATURE] Search for files by url in the files list (only available for new projects)
  • [FEATURE] Improved handling of aborted files (both automatic and manual from the user interface), which should improve general performance
  • [BUGFIX] Bing Images search provider fixed due to changes to the Bing Search service
  • [BUGFIX] Google Images search provider fixed due to changes to the Google Search service

New in NCollector Studio 3.5.0.2895 (Apr 11, 2015)

  • [FEATURE] The in-browser downloader has returned (render document before extracting html)
  • [FEATURE] NCollector Studio now understands Shockwave Flash
  • [FEATURE] Improved Google Images Search provider
  • [FEATURE] Use actual filetype more often when generating local filenames
  • [FEATURE] Status added to the downloads list
  • [FEATURE] Use server filename when available
  • [BUGFIX] Settings should now be remembered when upgrading to a new version
  • [BUGFIX] Minor UI improvements and fixes
  • [BUGFIX] Bing Images search provider fixed due to changes to the Bing Search service

New in NCollector Studio 3.4.0.2867 (Jan 5, 2015)

  • [FEATURE] Rules no longer apply to first level links, allowing for mass downloading of a set of URLs without worrying about extension filters etc.
  • [FEATURE] Wizard now uses the available width
  • [FEATURE] Minor improvements to prevent duplicates in the various lists in the wizard
  • [BUGFIX] Fixed an issue with extension and mimetype filters

New in NCollector Studio 3.3.0.2856 (Dec 8, 2014)

  • [FEATURE] Source addresses can now be entered with range expressions, e.g. http://www.domain.com/page=[001-014] or stepped http://www.domain.com/page=[001-014:5] or lists http://www.domain.com/category=[cat,mouse,dog].
  • [FEATURE] Simple helper for defining the xpath expression for html filters.
  • [BUGFIX] Encoding issue for some sites
  • [BUGFIX] Error when aborting a project
  • [BUGFIX] Dialog sizes would sometimes be wrong

New in NCollector Studio 3.2.0.2847 (Oct 25, 2014)

  • [FEATURE] Project setup now support importing multiple URLs by pasting into an import dialog
  • [FEATURE] Bing and Google Images search now support setting "Safe Mode" to exclude explicit content.
  • [FEATURE] Support the base html element, improving the offline browser experience for sites using it.
  • [FEATURE] Updated 3rd party libraries including new and improved embedded browser
  • [FEATURE] Performance improvements
  • [BUGFIX] Google Images search provider fixed
  • [BUGFIX] FTP downloader would sometimes fail

New in NCollector Studio 3.1.0.2782 (Jul 11, 2013)

  • [BUGFIX] When mirroring a website, certain files would get status "Failed" with the message "Unable to finalize file".
  • [BUGFIX] UI issue for low resolution displays fixed

New in NCollector Studio 3.1.0.2776 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • [BUGFIX] Images would sometimes appear twice in the image viewer.
  • [BUGFIX] A couple of rare crash bugs.

New in NCollector Studio 3.1.0.2754 (Jun 3, 2013)

  • [FEATURE] JavaScript parser improvements.
  • [FEATURE] Improved ui input validation.
  • [FEATURE] Updated 3rd party libraries including new and improved embedded browser
  • [BUGFIX] When entering a downloadable file (images, videos etc.) as a first level url, it would not handle previous runs correctly causing duplicate files.
  • [BUGFIX] Potential lock issue when using the authentication dialog.
  • [BUGFIX] A couple of potential crash bugs.

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2746 (Apr 29, 2013)

  • [BUGFIX] Translation would occur twice for links resolving to the same local path (redirected urls).
  • [BUGFIX] Potential UI crash when resolved favorite icon is invalid.

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2733 (Apr 24, 2013)

  • [FEATURE] Embedded fonts found in css (font-face) are now downloaded and translated.
  • [FEATURE] JavaScript parser improvements.
  • [FEATURE] Better default settings for projects.
  • [FEATURE] Usability and help text improvements.
  • [BUGFIX] Domain restrictions did not work correctly with many segments.
  • [BUGFIX] Disabled the "Allow document rendering" option in this version because it was too unstable. It will be re-added in the next version.

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2721 Beta 10 (Apr 1, 2013)

  • [FEATURE] NCollector Studio 3.0 will now automatically convert/import NCollector Studio 2.0 projects.
  • [FEATURE] Adjusted the Bing Images search provider to work with the new site.
  • [BUGFIX] UI incrementing current item count twice for html pages when using the "Allow document rendering" option.
  • [BUGFIX] Resetting search provider configuration when restarting a search project (in case of changes to the search provider).

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2719 Beta 9 (Mar 14, 2013)

  • [BUGFIX] Prevent application crash when translating offline projects when a file is opened elsewhere.

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2714 Beta 8 (Mar 12, 2013)

  • [FEATURE] Javascript parser improvements.
  • [BUGFIX] Embedded browser updated and fixed potential application crash when using the "Allow document rendering" option.
  • [BUGFIX] Fixed potential crash when translating for offline browsing.
  • [BUGFIX] Minor issue with the resulting css when translating embedded css for offline browsing.

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2711 Beta 7 (Feb 22, 2013)

  • [FEATURE] Performance improvements when translating offline projects
  • [BUGFIX] Generating download paths improved to prevent different urls resolving to the same path
  • [BUGFIX] Minor bug when editing allowed domain restriction
  • [BUGFIX] Fixed a problem with combinations of different keyword filters
  • [BUGFIX] Fixed a problem with domain restriction rule when all rules are Exclude rules
  • [BUGFIX] Prevented a couple of rare crashes

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2692 Beta 6 (Feb 18, 2013)

  • [FEATURE] When html translator is configured to remove JavaScript, the noscript tags are enabled
  • [FEATURE] img attributes "data-src" and "data-original" are now parsed and translated fixing lazy-loading images on most sites
  • [FEATURE] Target folder will now contain the internal browser cache
  • [BUGFIX] Clicking edit on an html filter would not set the Enabled For property
  • [BUGFIX] Css parser didn't handle attributes with data:>;base64 correctly
  • [BUGFIX] Data uris no longer returned as an external reference
  • [BUGFIX] JavaScript parser now ignores comments
  • [BUGFIX] The anchor part (fragment) of resolved links are removed before adding to download queue - this should prevent a lot of unnecessary downloads and fixes problem with cross page anchor links in offline mode
  • [BUGFIX] Prevent html files being handled as embedded (in the rare case a link appears to be something else)
  • [BUGFIX] Embedded links on last level wasn't parsed as they should (to potentially find other embedded links)

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2687 Beta 5 (Feb 14, 2013)

  • [FEATURE] The ability to specify if html filters should apply to embedded, external or all links.
  • [BUGFIX] Tuning of the javascript parser - was returning all links as embedded causing too many links downloaded
  • [BUGFIX] Enable for embedded checkbox for domain restrictions was not applied
  • [BUGFIX] Stability improvements for the in-browser downloader
  • [BUGFIX] Rare crash when minimizing application

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2682 Beta 4 (Feb 12, 2013)

  • [FEATURE] Installer improvements
  • [BUGFIX] Lite version level and pages were too restricted for search provider projects
  • [BUGFIX] Crash when downloader does not return a mimetype
  • [BUGFIX] Rare crash when resolving absolute urls

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2679 Beta 3 (Jan 29, 2013)

  • [FEATURE] Search providers can now be given multiple search phrases
  • [FEATURE] Improved wizard validation
  • [BUGFIX] Fixed an issue with the minimum and maxium image dimensions rule
  • [BUGFIX] Fixed an issue causing some files to resolve to the same download location when using flat folder structure

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2670 Beta 2 (Jan 29, 2013)

  • [BUGFIX] Potential crash prevented when modifying existing search project
  • [BUGFIX] Bug relating to the automatically added domain restrictions
  • [BUGFIX] Some summary information was not shown for simple search projects

New in NCollector Studio 3.0.0.2666 Beta 1 (Jan 17, 2013)

  • [FEATURE] Abort/Resume: The ability to resume an aborted or failed project
  • [FEATURE] Preview mode: Execute a project without downloading files locally
  • [FEATURE] Wizard option: Maximum number of downloaded files
  • [FEATURE] Wizard option: Target specific regions of an html page (paid version only)
  • [FEATURE] Wizard option: Per url authentication (when a single project targets multiple source urls)
  • [FEATURE] Wizard option: Extension filters applied to specific levels or level ranges
  • [FEATURE] Wizard option: More granular control over the different parsers and translators
  • [FEATURE] Wizard option: Custom domain restrictions, optionally applied to specific levels or level ranges
  • [FEATURE] Abort reason: View a description of why a specific url failed by hovering the item in the "Files" list
  • [FEATURE] Major performance improvements, especially for large projects
  • [FEATURE] Lots and lots of minor improvements and tweaks
  • [CHANGE] Console: Configuration should now be done using a configuration file for easier maintainance (paid version only)
  • [LITE] Increased page limit to 20 pages
  • [LITE] Lite version now includes keyword filtering

New in NCollector Studio 2.0.0.2558 (Nov 23, 2012)

  • [BUGFIX] Fixed a couple of issues with Http Authentication
  • [BUGFIX] A couple of rare potential crashes prevented

New in NCollector Studio 2.0.0.2382 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • [FEATURE] Added Back and Forward buttons to the embedded browser (offline browser projects)
  • [BUGFIX] When encountering a file with an unknown mimetype the download would be aborted incorrectly
  • [BUGFIX] Rss content didn't get the correct extension
  • [BUGFIX] Console application was not working correctly

New in NCollector Studio 2.0.0.2374 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • [FEATURE] The application will now handle different screen resolutions better
  • [BUGFIX] A couple of minor changes and bugfixes

New in NCollector Studio 2.0.0.2369 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • [FEATURE] Filtering on status in the Files list
  • [BUGFIX] Application crashes when selecting "Remove From Library" when no project is selected
  • [BUGFIX] After running a project the second time, the links database would contain some invalid data

New in NCollector Studio 2.0.0.2345 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • [FEATURE] Tuned the Google Images provider for improved performance
  • [FEATURE] Html report now only generated on demand
  • [FEATURE] Link to the online project library
  • [BUGFIX] A couple of potential crashes prevented
  • [BUGFIX] Switched to an inmemory database for the link queue - the filebased approach seems to cause too many issues
  • [IMPORTANT] You might need to browse to your license file again after installing this version

New in NCollector Studio 2.0.0.2334 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • [BUGFIX] A couple of rare potential crashes prevented

New in NCollector Studio 2.0.0.2331 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • [BUGFIX] Project file extension (.wrp) now properly associated with NCollector Studio during installation

New in NCollector Studio 2.0.0.2320 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • [FEATURE] Big improvement in memory usage, which should allow larger projects to run without the OutOfMemory exceptions some users have been reporting
  • [FEATURE] User agent is now configured on a per project basis
  • [FEATURE] Better defaults used when starting the different modes
  • [FEATURE] Improved summary page
  • [BUGFIX] An issue during shutdown when a spider is running fixed
  • [IMPORTANT] Projects executed with previous beta builds must be run again to populate the library

New in NCollector Studio 2.0.0.2288 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • [FEATURE] Initial support in the core engine for targetting specific elements in a page - used by the included search providers for improved performance and results
  • [BUGFIX] Urls resolved incorrectly when the source page contains a redirect, e.g. www.site.com -> site.com
  • [MINOR] Updated third party dependencies

New in NCollector Studio 1.9 (Nov 28, 2011)

  • [FEATURE] Improved CSS parser, now supporting .less syntax
  • [FEATURE] Target download folder stored with saved projects
  • [FEATURE] Currently configured user agent used when displaying inline browser
  • [FEATURE] Mimetype from link tags now used, so that e.g. css files downloaded as plain text are handled as css
  • [BUGFIX] Css parser not properly handling invalid css (end curly bracket without a start)
  • [BUGFIX] A couple of potential exceptions fixed

New in NCollector Studio 1.8 (Oct 27, 2011)

  • [FEATURE] Automatic update notification
  • [FEATURE] Parser based on HTML Agility pack which provides better parse result, especially noticable in offline browse mode
  • [FEATURE] lowsrc added as possible link attribute
  • [BUGFIX] Html encoded urls not decoded properly
  • [BUGFIX] Google images search no longer working
  • [BUGFIX] Fixed css parser issue with certain invalid css
  • [BUGFIX] Keyword filter not showing when using professional theme
  • [BUGFIX] Configuration view displays the incorrect value for "report exceptions" setting
  • [BUGFIX] Problem displaying the report when target path contains spaces
  • [BUGFIX] Minor UI issues
  • [BUGFIX] A couple of potential crashes fixed

New in NCollector Studio 1.6.0 (Jan 31, 2011)

  • The new version is mainly a bugfix release, but we've also added the ability to download files to a flat folder structure for rip and search jobs, which a lot of our users have requested.

New in NCollector Studio 1.5.5 (Nov 29, 2010)

  • Includes several bug fixes and improves the overall stability of the application. We've also added a new theme, which can be used if a little more traditional look is wanted.

New in NCollector Studio 1.5 (Nov 1, 2010)

  • New project type - Search using search-providers and download the resulting files.
  • User interface make over.
  • Installer size made much smaller (not including MSHTML).
  • Huge performance improvements. NCollector Studio performs up to twice as fast as earlier, especially in UI-mode.
  • Improved preview of images in report.
  • Logging disabled by default, improves performance.
  • Culture setting from webpage will now take precedence over http-setting. Improves rendering in offline browse.
  • Clicking preview image will open it in associated system-viewer.
  • Fixed problem causing crash when splash screen closed.
  • Fixed occasional crashes due to missing locking on thread synchronizations.
  • Starting console-application from UI is now more bullet-proof.
  • Better overall exception handling.
  • Not crashing anymore when handling corrupted/bad cookies.
  • Web pages will be spawned in default web browser.
  • Preview in files-mode has been made much faster.
  • Fixed crash in iconconverter (used in files-preview) when handling corrupt images.

New in NCollector Studio 1.12 (Apr 13, 2010)

  • This is a minor release, fixing occasional crashes during startup.

New in NCollector Studio 1.11 (Mar 25, 2010)

  • Fixed license problem.

New in NCollector Studio 1.1 (Mar 15, 2010)

  • Contains some internal changes and bugfixes:
  • Improved stability by upgrading 3rd party assemblies.
  • Minor GUI related issues.
  • Better handling of unexpected inputs.
  • Fixed cookie authentication.
  • Fixed a couple of problems when running the application under a non-elevated user account.
  • Internal improvements to the installer.
  • Console-application can now be started from tools-menu.

New in NCollector Studio 1.0 (Mar 1, 2010)

  • NCollector Studio is a complete rewrite of the popular Webripper-application, and is aimed at home-users and professionals needing to download full websites or parts of them.
  • The application suite consist of a highly user-friendly Windows-application, and a high-performance command-line tool with similar functionality.
  • Use the offlinebrowse-mode to download a website for browsing when an internet connection is not available, or simply archive a fully functional snapshot of a site for a given time. Useful for making the web available when e.g. on an airplane.
  • The mirror-mode allows e.g. webmasters to backup a website preserving the exact structure of the original.
  • Individual file-types like photos, videos or documents can be downloaded using the filerip-mode.
  • Advanced filtering options allows a high level of project-customization to download only the interesting parts of a site. Crawled links can be limited using keywords, and files can be restricted by size or dimensions.

New in NCollector Studio 1.0 RC 1 (Jan 25, 2010)

  • [FEATURE] Major improvements on Wizard user-friendliness.
  • [FEATURE] Improved user-friendliness on address and extension inputs.
  • [FEATURE] Shortcuts to common extensions like photos, videos, audio and documents.
  • [FEATURE] Image dimensions presets available for filerip jobs.
  • [FEATURE] Keyword input more user-friendly.
  • [FEATURE] Quick keyword filters - remove ads, thumbnails and prevent logout from authenticated sites, in just one click.
  • [FEATURE] Improved authentication process.
  • [FEATURE] GUI graphics redesigned.
  • [FEATURE] New NCollector Home Screen.
  • [FEATURE] Added support for ""-links.
  • [FEATURE] Files module now only available in filerip-jobs.
  • [FEATURE] Log-module can now be disabled by user in preferences.
  • [FEATURE] Better performance on low-end computers like netbooks etc.
  • [BUGFIX] Crash at some rare occasions trying to delete temporary download files.
  • [BUGFIX] Crash when starting NCollector with download-path set to a removed disk.
  • [BUGFIX] Whitespace project name not allowed anymore.
  • [BUGFIX] Length on files which was reported to have unknown length by server now have the length set after downloading.
  • [BUGFIX] Very large files sometimes caused crash.

New in NCollector Studio 1.0 Beta 5 (Dec 30, 2009)

  • Introducing prioritized link queue in filerip-mode, which will result in much faster relevant results for chosen extensions.
  • Also extended the expiry-date to the 15th of February 2010.

New in NCollector Studio 1.0 Beta 4 (Oct 31, 2009)

  • [FEATURE] Quick Rip - Mimicking the logic in Webripper 1.x series. Better and quicker results in filerip-mode.
  • [BUGFIX] Validity of addresses checked before they are added in wizard.
  • [BUGFIX] Occational crash when webbrowser was spawned with HTML-report.
  • [BUGFIX] Content files was placed in project-folder sometimes.
  • [BUGFIX] Some fixes related to trial-license crash.

New in NCollector Studio 1.0 Beta 3 (Sep 30, 2009)

  • Features:
  • Preview of downloaded files.
  • Translation of links in Offline-browse mode up to ten times faster.
  • Space allowed in project-name.
  • More descriptive texts in wizard.
  • Optimized and reduced memory-usage.
  • Easier to configure keywords in wizard.
  • Multiple files can be deleted at once in files-module.
  • NCollector Studio User manual made available.
  • Enhanced post-job HTML-reports.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Crash when attempting to sort the downloader list in the general-section.
  • File-menu was sometimes disabled after job finished.
  • WRP-files can now be shared among computers without causing crash.
  • Crash when job was stopped before it was finished.
  • Malformed cookies caused crash in some rare occasions.
  • Attempting to load a malformed WRP-file caused crash.
  • Crash when user attempted to save files in a restricted folder.
  • Some rare crashes when parsing malformed CSS and HTML.
  • Crash when virus-infected webpage was attempted opened and AVG was installed.
  • Fixed crash happening when WRP-file was loaded and then attempted reconfigured.
  • Fixed problem when robots.txt crawl-delay was specified using float.
  • HTML-attributes not parsed in some occasions.
  • Minimum size, width and height cannot be set higher than maximum in wizard.
  • Console-app can now load WRP-files using full paths.
  • Fixed bug in level-restriction causing some pages erroneously not to be downloaded.

New in NCollector Studio 1.0 Beta 2 (Aug 31, 2009)

  • Embedded links can be set to unrestricted (not using the same restrictions as the project in general). Possible performance gains of up to 300% for a job.
  • Improved performance in plugin architechture due to caching.
  • Elapsed time for job shown in report.
  • Project-files (*.wrp) associated in shell with NCollector. Double-clicking a project-file will start the project in NCollector.
  • Better handling of illegal characters in project-name.
  • Files- and jobinfo-modules are no longer cleared when job is stopped or finished.
  • Added toolbar with icons to ease the execution of some tasks.
  • File size-restrictions was reported wrongly in report.
  • More informative jobinfo- and wizard-modules.
  • Open log-file from menu.
  • Removed some redundant mimetype associations.
  • Fixed bug causing crash when saving a project.
  • Removed some unnecessary string-allocations in HTML-engine causing scanning of pages to consume less memory and cpu.
  • Downloaded files had no extensions in some special occasions.
  • Improved performance of robots.txt engine.
  • Fixed bug causing some files to get random names (GUID) in offline- and mirror-mode. Will also improve cache-hit rate when stored project is used multiple times.
  • Top-level failures will be reported to Calluna Software to help us improve NCollector. Can be turned off.
  • Vertical logo in left-column was clipped on low resolution screens. Fixed.
  • Project can now be reconfigured at any time.
  • Application starts automatically after installation.
  • Project restrictions are now initially set to recommended values for mirror- offline- and filerip-projects.