What's new in GeoToad 3.23.0
Apr 27, 2015
- What's new:
- nicknamed "April Fools"
- Issues addressed:
- 3.23.0 marks the move from GoogleCode to GitHub
- some minor bugfixes
New in GeoToad 3.22.3 (Feb 28, 2015)
- What's new in 3.22.3:
- nicknamed "Go CreaTe!"
- Issues addressed:
- ersion (-V) option, can be combined with -C
- noHistory (-H) option dropped, causes error now!
- Other minor stuff
New in GeoToad 3.22.1 (Feb 10, 2015)
- Issues addressed:
- Issue 309 aftermath
- Issue 310 : parse more date representations
- Debian package dependencies revisited
- Manual page reformatted
- Minor stuff
New in GeoToad 3.21.1 (Aug 29, 2014)
- Smileys in hints converted to BB style
- Unknown times are set to Jan 1, 2000 (not 1980)
- Use new multi stage types
- Filter messages
- Man page bugfix
- Show links and image URLs in text and GPX
- Remove , font-size, (background-)color for better readability
- Follow XDG for newly created tree (move existing by hand only!)
- Experimental: Inverse cache type filtering
- Minor stuff
New in GeoToad 3.21.0 (Jun 26, 2014)
- Support for giga-events added; generic "event" and "unknown" searches
- Issue 302: Keep old cdpf copy if cache becomes PMO (mimic paper)
- Man page overhauls
- Coord to string conversion (may be required for non-public extensions)
- Addition of Russian and Finnish
- Minor additions, modifications, cleanups, and bug fixes
New in GeoToad 3.20.2 (Mar 27, 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 (Feb 26, 2014)
- Multiple -v options for debugging. Handle with care.
- Add -U (--unbufferedOutput) to be used with wrappers
- Add "wherigo" stub (extract cartridge CGUID). Plus script to fill gaps.
New in GeoToad 3.20.0 (Jan 17, 2014)
- Remove fun factors (use fav factors instead)
- Handle --output="" as "automatic"
- Trailing whitespace in owner field after 2014-01-14 update
New in GeoToad 3.19.2 (Jan 6, 2014)
- Issues addressed:
- Issue 286 : Limit log counts (-l option) to less than 10
- Issue 290 : Checkboxes for "not found by me" and "no PMO" in TUI
- TUI reordered (watch out for changed index numbers!)
- Issue 294 : Parse dd/MMM/yyyy date format
- Issue 295 : Automatic filenames
- EasyName generation now more UTF-8 aware
- Still open important issues (feedback required):
New in GeoToad 3.19.1 (Dec 23, 2013)
- 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)
- Still open important issues (feedback required):
New in GeoToad 3.19.0 (Nov 21, 2013)
- 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 22, 2013)
- 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 24, 2013)
- 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
New in GeoToad 3.17.11 (Sep 13, 2013)
- New:
- 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 Dev (Sep 12, 2013)
- 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 Dev (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:
- 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 3.17.9 Dev (Jun 28, 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 3.16.8 (Jun 28, 2013)
- Issues addressed:
- 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 Dev (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
- Minor other stuff
New in GeoToad 3.16.7 (May 13, 2013)
- Issues addressed:
- 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 3.16.6 (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 3.17.7 Dev (Mar 29, 2013)
- 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
- Minor other stuff
New in GeoToad 3.16.5 (Mar 8, 2013)
- Issues addressed:
- 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 (Jan 25, 2013)
- 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 3.17.5 Dev (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 3.16.3 (Dec 21, 2012)
- nicknamed "World's End" (as it might be the last release ever)
- 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)
- Issue 259: parse logs with old and new GS icons
New in GeoToad 3.16.2 (Dec 5, 2012)
- nicknamed "E=m*c^2" referring to Einstein's paper in 1905
- 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 3.16.1 (Dec 5, 2012)
- nicknamed "Jean-Jacques" because it was released on Rousseau's 300th birthday
- Issues addressed:
- Issue 244 : Use a better pattern for GC id parsing
- 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"
- Minor other stuff
New in GeoToad 3.16.0 (Dec 5, 2012)
- Version 3.16.0 ("Towel Day") was derived from development version 3.15.5.
- The development series over the past months accumulated quite a lot of
- Issues addressed:
- 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 3.16.0 (May 28, 2012)
- New features and most important bug fixes to the "stable" community:
- 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
- Issue 241 : WID parser may fail in some circumstances
- Other minor stuff
New in GeoToad 3.15.5 Dev (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
- Additions:
- Text versions of ReportingBugs and OtherSearches wiki pages
New in GeoToad 3.14.8 (Feb 20, 2012)
- Fixes for issues:
- 230: Hotfix: 2012-02-14 site update confused date parser
- 216: Multiple output formats (separated by ':' or '|')
New in GeoToad 3.15.2 (Dec 27, 2011)
- cookies are now really stored and re-used
- better handling of foreign languages, Hungary and Romania added
New in GeoToad 3.14.3 (Jan 13, 2011)
- Mention windows drive switch
New in GeoToad 3.14.1 (Dec 6, 2010)
- Support for distances in km
- Support for travelbug details in GPX
- New output formats for statistics: myfindgpx and myfindlist
- Improved EasyName generation
- Improved coordinate parsing
- Other minor bugfixes and enhancements
New in GeoToad 3.13.0 (Nov 11, 2010)
- New "list" output template, for simple ASCII output
- Now uses GPX 1.0.1 for output, with attributes
- Added support for outputting additional waypoints
- Better support for Cash In Trash Out and Lost & Found caches
- Proper generation of numeric cache ID's
- Many other minor improvements and bug fixes
New in GeoToad 3.12.1 (Oct 18, 2010)
- Updated to latest GC.com changes
- Username and Password is now saved to configuration file after first use, no longer required on the command-line
- Improved HTML output and offline mode
- New automatic funfactor adjustment (English only)
- SMS template added
New in GeoToad 3.10.1 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Additional Waypoints table now included in HTML, GPX, and KML output
- Fix title parsing for caches with a parenthesis in the name
- Fix bugs in "last found" time parsing
- Fix travelbug parsing
New in GeoToad 3.9.8 (Jul 2, 2009)
- Updated to handle recent changes to Geocaching.com.
- Add country, state fields to GPX and HTML output
- Add support for proxy servers (-P or http_server environment variable)
- Stricter input checking
- Include log comments from previous years
- Now compatible with Ruby 1.9.x
- Loads of fixes for encoding issues, hint decryption, GPX output.