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AutoWikiBrowser 6.3.0.0
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Version Release date Notes
4.x.x.x
 2008 AWB/WikiFunctions :
  • Cater for "File"/"Image"
  • Normal minor bugfixes and tweaks


4.4.1.0
REL_4_4_1/rev 3430 		5 October 2008 This is a bugfix release, intended to address different problems arouse after 4.4 was released.

AWB/WikiFunctions 4.4.1.0:

  • Interface tweaks & improvements
  • Usual bug fixes
  • Now all network requests that don't go through IE-based controls use gzip compression to improve load times.
  • Database Scanner
    • Faster, multithreaded Database Scanner - will benefit from multicore CPUs
    • Keywords are now usable in text searches
  • List Maker
    • Addition of "Categories on page" and "New pages" list providers
  • Keywords are now usable in append/prepend text
  • New keywords (Supports some of the MW Keywords) - %%pagename%%, %%pagenamee%%, %%basepagename%%, %%basepagenamee%%, %%namespace%%, %%namespacee%%, %%subpagename%%, %%subpagenamee%%, %%fullpagename%%, %%fullpagenamee%%, %%server%%, %%scriptpath%%, %%servername%%
  • Typos now loaded on a new thread (to save tying up the gui on load)
  • New general fixes
    • http://http:// replaced with singular in external links
  • IRCM and any old/related code now removed from solution and WikiFunctions
  • API List Limits increased to 25,000

TypoScan Plugin 1.0.0.1:

  • Minor tweaks/improvements
  • Error/Debug Handling
4.4.0.0
REL_4_4/rev 3326 		13 September 2008 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.4.0.0:
  • Lots of bug fixes and tweaks
  • Interface tweaks & improvements
  • Registry keys moved (migration code included)
  • List Maker backend code overhauled and modulised, limit for number of returned pages increased to 5000 for most queries
    • Now "IListMakerPlugin"'s can be created to provide extra search functionality
    • YahooSearchPlugin included as a working example
    • New List Maker "Get List" functions:
      • Get lists from "What Links Here (inc. Redirects)"
      • Get lists from "Category (recursive user defined level)"
      • Get lists from "Category (recursive 1 level)"
      • Get list of 100 random article namespace pages
    • Wiki search changed from HTML scrape to API
  • Kingbotk plugin now included in AWB svn; is now released under GPL V2
  • SVN Version now shown in Help → About of AutoWikiBrowser
  • New skip options:
    • Skip if only general fix changes
    • Skip if only casing changed (can work in conjunction with skip if only whitespace changed)
    • Page contains no links
  • Added a "Typos" tab, visible when "Enable RegexTypoFix" is checked. It accumulates statistics of typos fixed on the current page and during whole editing session.
  • Save states of list filter namespace checkboxes
  • Comment field added to Find and Replace
  • General fix skip options changed to check boxes (so multiple skips can be selected)
  • Special filter namespace checkboxes now saved
  • Mentions of "page"/"article" in interface changed to common "page"
  • Cascading protection now supported
  • Move to top/Move to bottom now added in normal Find and Replace
  • WMF Error page is now not counted as a successful save (AWB will try to save page again)
  • More meaningful automatic heading for error reports
  • Nested exceptions are now properly reported
  • Forced en-US locale for array sorting to fix interwiki sorting error
  • "General fixes skip options" are now multi-select (check box rather than radio button)
  • Database Scanner
    • GUI Overhaul (thanks to User:Dispenser)
    • New Scanner (if {{defaultsort}} is missing from the article)
    • AWB specifics are now multi-select as per "General fixes skip options" changes in AWB
  • Preferences form overhauled, some options moved to it
  • Copy and Paste Advanced Find & Replace Rules between instances of AWB
  • Added "nah" and "si" to supported languages
  • Tools → Regex tester now uses a background thread for processing, making it possible for user to interrupt.
  • <code></code> are now ignored by Regextypofix

IFD 1.0.0.4, CFD 1.0.0.4 & IRCM 1.0.1.6:

  • Updated as per List Maker and GetLists Changes
  • Some broken stuff fixed

Kingbotk AWBPlugin 2.1.0.1:

  • More workgroups
  • Code updates
  • Now included in AWB SVN
  • Class=FL, C, List
  • Updated India Plugin
  • Fixed plugin hanging

AWBUpdater 2.0.0.0:

  • Major code overhaul to increase robustness (no hard coded file copies)
    • Will copy all files from zip to awb directory, and updater plugins if they are in the folder with AWB and exist in the plugin folder/subfolders

TypoScan Plugin:

  • Consists of an AWB and ListMaker Plugin (One dll)
  • Currently only for en.WP
  • Allows user to work from generated list of pages to be scanned for typo fixes, and result (save or ignored) is stored to a central database
4.3.2.0
REL_4_3_2/rev 2462 		19 May 2008 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.3.2.0:
  • Normal bug fixes and tweaks
  • Speed improvements
  • Edit summaries now truncated if too long to have "using AWB" appended
  • Faster and a little more consistent with MediaWiki diffs
  • Improved stub template removal rules
  • Google search fixed per google changes
  • RegexTypoFix fixed per MW changes
  • Context menu to Custom Module
4.3.1.0
rev 2343 		6 April 2008 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.3.1.0:
  • Normal bug fixes and tweaks
  • Code improvements
  • Speed improvements
  • RETF Improved
  • RegexTester accessible and usable from FaR and Advanced FaR
  • removePersonData customised for DE
  • Wiki search fixed
  • ==Life and Career== replaced with ==Life and career==
  • IW Sorting fixed
  • Autofilter List Duplicates
  • Better Skip by Spam Filter
  • Improve MW handling with older/custom projects
  • Category getter fixed

CFD (1.0.0.3)/IFD (1.0.0.2) Plugins:

  • Save/Load Settings

Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.0.0.3

  • Changes per AWB and WF
Updater 13 March 2008 AWBUpdater 1.4.0.1
  • Path bug fixed
4.3.0.2
rev 2244 		07 March 2008 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.3.0.2:
  • Usual bug fixes and inteface tweaks
  • Fixed bug with recategorisation
  • Updated code that retrieves category content, previous versions may stop doing that correctly at any moment due to changes in MediaWiki
  • Now you can open regex tester with one click from search and replace dialog
  • Interwiki sorter will always try to sort properly even it doesn't know a prticular language code.

AWBUpdater 1.4.0.0:

  • File Copying Improved
4.3.0.0
rev 2198 		03 March 2008 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.3.0.0:
  • Normal bug fixes
  • Code improvements
  • Interface tweaks
  • Redundant code removed
  • Usage statistics are now logged
  • AWB can now automatically skip a page if the only change was the addition/removal of whitespace
  • "Flip" option in Disambiguation form to swap wikilink piping ie - [[Test|Link]] to [[Link|Test]]
  • Leading and trailing spaces in wikilinks are now removed

CFD (1.0.0.2)/IFD (1.0.0.1):

  • Code tweaks/improvements per AWB and Wikifunctions

Other:

  • Kingbotk plugin upgraded to v2.0.0.2
4.2.1.0
rev 2089 		11 February 2008 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.2.1.0:
  • Usual bug fixes and tweaks (Not all fixed. Relase to clear up some of existing bugs - non compulsory)
  • Custom Module Text Limit removed
  • Insert category option to AWB Edit box

Other:

  • Kingbotk plugin upgraded to v2.0.0.1
4.2.0.1
rev 2049 		26 January 2008 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.2.0.1:
  • Fix bug with loading/saving settings
4.2.0.0
rev 2045 		25 January 2008 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.2.0.0:
  • Designer tweaks
  • Completely new diff engine, supports highlighting whitespace changes
  • Much faster startup
  • Usual (minor) bug fixes and tweaks
  • Automatic removal of ru-sib: interwikis as a part of general fixes.
  • Decoding anchors in wikilinks (like Russian Premier League#Champions_.28Players.29 ? Russian Premier League#Champions (Players).
  • Search in Find & Replace rules
  • Regex tester now displays matches, groups and captures it found
  • Faster template substitution using api.php
  • Simplify reference tags - Replace <ref name="blah"></ref> with <ref name="blah" />
  • Change order of Find & Replace Rules
  • Improved ErrorHandler
  • AWB now follows Internet Explorer Proxy Settings
  • Flickering Disambiguation text box fixed
  • Custom Module handling improved
  • URL's removed from pasting into listmaker (if link is of local wiki)
  • More settings saved
  • Plugin Manager to easily view all plugins currently loaded into AWB
  • Load plugins on the fly. Plugins can now be loaded into AWB whilst running
  • More intelligent <br/> removal
  • <p> now removed in html cleanup/general fixes
  • Most lists are now made from api.php (quicker!!)
  • Other cosmetic improvements
  • Support for sr and dsb
  • GUI for sending page text to external scripts/programs

AWBUpdater 1.3.5.2:

  • Delete Wikidiff2.dll & old license files
  • Updated SharpZipLibs
  • Changed AWBUpdater to use simpler FastZip
  • AWB Updater follows Internet Explorer Proxy Settings

Other:

  • Program to run DBScanner standalone included in SVN
  • AWB Packager program included in SVN
  • Kingbotk plugin upgraded to v2.0.0.0
Updater
rev 1919 		21 December 2007 AWBUpdater 1.3.5.1:
  • Intermediate release to prevent bugs/bad updates in next AWB release
    • Handle change in license files
  • Tweaks and Speedup
Updater
rev 1887 		8 December 2007 AWBUpdater 1.3.5.0:
  • Intermediate release to prevent bugs/bad updates in next AWB release
    • Handle the new Diff.dll AND Wikidiff2.dll if it exists
  • Tweaks and Speedup
4.1.4.2
rev 1829 		8 November 2007 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.1.4.2:
  • Normal bug fixes and tweaks
  • Edit Toolbar setting saving fixed - Fixed truncated edit box too
  • Intermediate release to fix major errors

IRCM 1.0.1.3:

  • Addition of extra profile related code to try and fix an exception

AWBUpdater 1.3.4.2:

  • Minor tweak to handle WebException differently
4.1.4.0
rev 1818 		3 November 2007 AWB/WikiFunctions:
  • Bug fixes
  • Code simplification/improvements
  • Support for localized redirects
  • Auto tag adds orphan tag when appropriate
  • References changed to {{reflist}} from the old formats

AWBUpdater 1.3.4.1:

  • Code simplification/improvements

Other:

IFD 1.0.0.0 (Image for Deletion)

  • Duplication of the CFD plugin to handle multiple image replacement/deletions
  • Includes option to comment out images, rather than actually deleting them
4.1.3.0
rev 1755 		12 October 2007 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.1.3.0:
  • Bug fixes
  • Minor tweaks
  • AWB now accepts 2 startup parameters - /s and /u
  • 2 More settings now saved
  • Regex's improved

AWBUpdater 1.3.4.0:

  • Fixed minor incorrect logic, which would mean it would take the wrong path through the code, displaying some incorrect messages!
  • Added check if zip files exist when trying to unzip
4.1.2.0
rev 1722 		23 September 2007 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.1.2.0:
  • Code refactoring and standardisation
  • Added spinner that allow to change the number of newlines between the prepended/appended text and the rest of the page
  • Made progress bar in the database scanner show actual progress
  • Bug fixes
  • Minor tweaks
  • Another fix for "Bottom Frame doesn't show" Bug. Supplied by user experiencing the problem (rev 1694)

AWBUpdater 1.3.3.0:

  • Increased code robustness
  • Prevent file download attempt if string is null or empty
4.1.1.0
rev 1685 		15 September 2007 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.1.1.0:
  • Handled DBScanner exception on loading files
  • Added "Skip if "inuse"" - Ie Skip if page contains {{inuse}}
  • Fixed Category (recursive)
  • Bug Fixes
    • Save Edit Box Exception Fixed
    • Web Browser Edit Context menu Fixed
    • Refresh status/typo's re-attached to code block
  • Fix Links will now fix "[[|" by replacing with "[["
  • Auto tag uses "date" parameter instead of the default one when adding maintenance tags
  • Added invert selection to list maker

IRCM 1.0.1.2:

  • Fixed incorrect channel for Commons and Meta

AWBUpdater 1.3.2.0:

  • Make AWBUpdater handle and copy/updater Wikidiff2.dll
4.1.0.0
rev 1663 		9 September 2007 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.1.0.0:
  • AWB is now Query.php free
  • "Attempted to read or write protected memory." bug where page becomes blank fixed. Set to match code of if the page is blank before.
  • AWB now loads IW Sorting Orders from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/IW
  • IW updates
  • Re-enabled WhatLinksHere and ImageLinks features that allow loading from non-existent pages
  • Numerous optimisations, now general fixes are significantly faster
  • RegExTypoFix Overhauled
  • GUI Tweaks
  • Auto Shutdown on completion of Bot Jobs
    • Shutdown, Restart, Standby and Hibernate
  • Bug Fixes
    • Remove categories works better with <includeonly></includeonly> tags
    • Ugly background on about-box removed
    • FixTemperatures no longer captures words after the degree's
  • Logging Bugs
    • Fixed bug where user would be spammed by Password request boxes if they didn't respond to them
    • Fixed bug where user entered password would not be remembered
  • List maker can now separate pages in CSV format. Can also save to CSV
  • Auto Tag
    • AWB will now add {{Deadend}} if appropriate
    • {{Trivia}} and {{Deadend}} and their redirects will automatically be tagged with date=
  • CFD Plugin bumped to 1.0.0.1
    • Minor tweaks, such as removing noinclude tags with nothing between them.
    • Replaces "_" with " " if entered for category names
  • New edit toolbar above edit box
  • Custom Error Handler to make reporting bugs easier
    • Also gives page title and revision id as part of bug report
  • AWB can now automatically skip if blocked by spam filter
  • Automatic support for Right-To-Left interface when appropriate.
  • If style.css exists in the AWB directory, it will load the diff style sheet from that
  • General fixes can now be preformed on template /doc subpages
  • Fixed broken VB .NET Module Maker in AWB

IRCM 1.0.1.1:

  • Fixed log-in Exceptions
  • Change of Variable.Project when changing Language and project combo boxes

AWBUpdater 1.3.1.0:

  • Fixed update Errors
  • Improved some of the code
  • Added error handler

Other:

  • Kingbotk plugin upgraded to v1.4.0.3
4.0.0.0
rev 1496 		27 July 2007 AWB/WikiFunctions 4.0.0.0:
  • Implementation of Wikidiff2 - All diffs are now made internally, thus reducing load times, server load and saving bandwidth.
  • Major internal changes to the process page routines, to improve encapsulation and code readability, and to remove redundant/sloppy coding.
  • Full Merge of User:Kingbotk's WikiFunctions 2 into WikiFunctions (logging is now built into AWB).
  • Changes to match MediaWiki Changes.
    • Make list from user contributions now works correctly
    • Make list from user watchlist now also works correctly
    • Editor class now returns a valid token to the Mediawiki site
  • Implementation of a ListSplitter.
  • "Open in browser" was broken for pages with some special characters in the title. Fixed; and added various new members to WikiFunctions for creating wiki URLs and opening pages.
  • New "Make List" option - Transclusions on Page - Gets a list of all templates and pages transcluded onto
  • History of an page can now be viewed internally.
  • All admins are automatically approved to use the software
  • Underscores are not removed from links to pages that have {{Underscore}} & {{Lowercase and underscore}}
  • The user manual can now be viewed internally
  • Greatly improved logging capabilities
  • A new splash screen while the program loads
  • 3 new general fixes
    • Change Main page: xxx to use {{main|xxx}}
    • Remove empty [[]] and {{}}, and for the wikilinks, caters for categories and images too
    • Correct numerous incorrect degrees symbols
  • Support for Wikia projects
  • Support for te.wiki & bg.wiki & Updated Namespace for da.wiki
  • Fully integrated help browser
  • AWB can now use a blacklist
  • AWB now features a 'Profile' System, to allow easy switching between multiple accounts
  • AWB and WikiFunction Code is now much more commented & documented, helping to describe what functions do

IRCM 1.0.0.0:

  • Code updates and changes
  • Able to connect to more IRC channels

Other:

  • Kingbotk plugin upgraded to version 1.4.0.0; the plugin has major internal structural changes too.
3.9.1.0
rev 1024 		16 April 2007 Fix bug with program on 19" screens and high resolutions. Other minor bugs fixed. Kingbotk plugin upgraded to version 1.2.1.0.
3.9.0.0
rev 1021 		14 April 2007 The nearly-version4 release. Many bugs fixes (list mostly cleared), and some features implemented:

Ref breaking bugs fixed. Changes to match change in HTML. Bug fixed where AWB would be kept alive if closed very early. Removal of '''foo''' from headings. Option to automatically save text in edit box added. Context menu item to save also added. Setting saving bug fixed. Internal tweaks and improvements to DEFAULTSORT/HumanCatKey code. User substitution warning (and Expandtemplate) bug fixed (see below). FAR Improvements. Implementation of 'key words' into FAR. Work towards improving nested templates.

New logging tab, displays reason for skipping page edit. Edit box able to resize to take up whole of lower part of screen.

Kingbotk plugin upgraded to version 1.2.0.0.

AWBUpdater 1.2.0.0: Unhandled Exception Handled, minor code tweaks

3.3.1.0
rev 860 		31 March 2007 Emergency release to fix talk page user substitution warning major bug
3.3.0.0
rev 856 		30 March 2007 Bug Fixes + New Features. Change of copy and paste of pages to allow multiple page cut, copy and paste. Special:ExpandTemplates support added for template substitution. Notification of Empty/Non existent categories changed to one single messagebox after all categories loaded. User changeable browser timeout (min/default 30seconds, max 120 seconds).

Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.1. Added WPAssessmentsCatCreator plugin. Changed list filtering and sorting system to make it stick across subsequent list updates. New bot tab, nudge timer, and plugin interface support for nudge timer.

AWBUpdater 1.1.0.0: Code Simplification (some duplication removed) and improvements, added support for WPAssessmentsCatCreator.dll. Changed from single mirror, to central download page. Saves having to wait to propagate to that mirror. Fixed AWBUpdater self version checking so it only updates if 'online' version is newer. Added checking for version of AutoWikiBrowser.exe, so that it will only be updated if needed. Minor interface change to display all status text. Added try catch around all code.

3.2.0.0
rev 786 		24 March 2007 Bug Fixes, new features implemented. Support for {{bots}}/{{nobots}}. Auto Update Feature Implemented, with ability to update itself. Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.0.1.0. WikiFunctions2 updated to v1.0.1.0. ListComparer redesigned. Other interface changes.
3.1.4.0
rev 729 		17 March 2007 Bug Fixes, new features implemented. Implemented option for user to choose whether page list is saved. Changed File menu orderings, sorted save options to remember files loaded, and allow a 'save' and a 'save as'. Change of GUI on ListMaker. Code consolidation and simplification. Fixed logout Function. Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.0.0 rc5.
3.1.3.3
rev 700 		10 March 2007 Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.0.0 rc4. Implementation of colour coding on Advanced Find And Replace. Bug Fixes, corrected list of invalid characters for page titles. Temp removal of faulty regex's from Parsers.FixFooter. IRCM Page Blanking Bug fix.
3.1.3.2
rev 688 		8 March 2007 Many Bug Fixes and similar requests. DEFAULTSORT added to textbox context menu. Implementation of is.wiki. Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.0.0 rc3.
3.1.3.1
rev 676 		4 March 2007 IAWBMainForm interface added. Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.0.0 rc2. Bug Fixes, DAB links now simplified, cancel handling fixed, link simplifier improved. Form show/hide code simplified.
3.1.3.0
rev 664 		3 March 2007 Interwiki language codes will be changed to lowercase. New version checkpage format, and versions are enabled or disabled centrally on en.wiki at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version. Notification for users using an out of date version. Many bug fixes. Some interface changes. Plugin settings handling improved and new PrefsKeyPair object added. Kingbotk plugin now shipping with AWB for ease of updates. New notification icon in taskbar, with option to hide AWB when minimized. page list is filtered for duplicates when new settings are loaded.
3.1.2.0
rev 631 		24 February 2007 New option to add pages to list from redirects. Changed handling of edit conflict to notify user. Regex FAR Form allows replacing with an empty string. Many bug fixes.
3.1.1.1
rev 616 		18 February 2007 Implementation of ar.wiki. Added context menu to web control to allow copying from it. Fixed VB .NET Module maker. Many bug fixes, several of them major. If no categories are found on a page, AWB will load the HTML of the page, and look for categories.
3.1.1.0
rev 595 		15 February 2007 Tons of minor bug fixes and improvements. Google search fixed. Completely redone custom project handling. Footnote formatter added to general fixes.
3.1.0.0
rev 576 		13 January 2007 Once more, many bug fixes and minor improvements. Introduced CFD Plugin for easy elimination of backlog at WP:CFD/W and WP:CFD/WU. New major feature - disambiguation.
3.0.6.1
rev 552 		15 December 2006 Lots of fixes, improved getting lists from special pages, support for localized stub names on pl: and sl:. RegexTypoFix now shouldn't fix typos in interwikis, cites and nowiki tags. Added new features of substituting templates and testing regexes before using them. Now AWB can load and save plaintext lists. Due to blocking problems, IRCMonitor is not included into this release.
3.0.6.0
rev 528 		30 November 2006 GUI tweaks per talk, and some bug fixes, lots of tweaking and updating. Added options to move/delete pages.
3.0.5.2
rev 501 		09 November 2006 More small bugfixes and tweaks.
3.0.5.1
rev 475 		06 November 2006 Bug fixes and tweaks to previous release, option to find an intersection of two lists, basic anti-vandal features in IRCMonitor.
3.0.5.0
rev 456 		01 November 2006 Usual tweaks and minor fixes (especially for foreign language projects). All projects now work with all supported languages. Added experimental support for non-Wikimedia wikis (use it at your own risk!) Namespaces for projects that are not Wikipedia are downloaded on demand. New option to make lists from a wiki-search. New "Advanced" menu option to enable a "module", whereby a user can enter their own c# or VB.NET code to process page text which is then compiled, loaded and executed on-the-fly. New settings file format (can read old files as well).
3.0.4.1 04 October 2006 Lots of general tweaks and improvements, including allowing checkpage to work on all projects, using the page PROJECTNAMESPACE:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage and must be the same format as this one (if the page doesn't exist then all users are enabled). Fixed a couple of rare bugs.
3.0.4.0 23 September 2006 Lots of general tweaks and improvements to all areas. A few small bug fixes. Added some statistics to the status bar and save as default option to the file menu.
3.0.3.0 09 September 2006 Some small fixes and tweaks. Added "more" skip options. Added support for more projects and languages.
3.0.2.9 03 September 2006 A few fixes per talk page. Separate typo page for each language. Auto tag now sorts out the by-date categorising of some tags as well, such as {{Wikify}}.
3.0.2.6 29 August 2006 Fixes per talk page, moved ignore non-existing pages option to "Skip pages" section.
3.0.2.5 28 August 2006 Fixed some unusual issues. Improved the plugin feature.
3.0.2.3 25 August 2006 Fixed and tweaked a few small things. Added plugin support (instructions below). Added support for wikinews.
3.0.2.2 20 August 2006 A few bug fixes and general tweaks. Added option to remove/comment out images (be careful with this until it has been tested thoroughly!).
3.0.2.1a 11 August 2006 Fixed a few issues. Added shortcut keys for show changes and preview. Added start button to toolbar. More major internal changes. Added support for da: wiki projects. Added preferences dialog to menu, with some more options, including enhanced diff, which makes the diff page easier to check.
3.0.2.0 08 August 2006 Typos are now downloaded from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos when the typo fixing option is enabled, so they are always fully up-to-date. A couple of minor tweaks and fixes.
3.0.1.9 06 August 2006 Can select multiple list items to add to "Add selected to list". Can now enter multiple entries when making a list from any source by separating the items with the pipe | character e.g. from a category, entering "Cats|Dogs|Fish" will get all the entries in Category:Cats Category:Dogs and Category:Fish. Fixed couple of bugs.
3.0.1.8 05 August 2006 Moved typos into separate file, fixed a few bugs highlighted on talk page.
3.0.1.7 01 August 2006 Upgraded find+replace dialog, more customisable now. Integrated RegExTypoFix, option to enable it "More options" tab - use this very carefully. Fixed a couple of bugs. Added login button to "File" menu. Now works on more projects in other languages.
3.0.1.5 26 July 2006 Improved database scanner, added wordcount option. "Tagger" removes stub tags from long pages. Fixed a couple of small bugs. A few variables can now be changed in the .config file (more can/will be added).
3.0.1.4 24 July 2006 Fixed a few issues. Overhauled and renamed Database Scanner. Find-and-replace summary now says number of each change made as well. Add false positive button to toolbar.
3.0.1.3 19 July 2006 Fixed a couple of small issues, added context menu to list filter dialog, added "Insert human name disambig" option to "insert tag" contect menu, all keywords work on all options now. Works on more Wikimedia projects. Find-and-replacements can be detailed in the edit summary, find-and-replace can now skip interwiki links as well. Added more options to special filter. Many other minor tweaks.
3.0.1.2 15 July 2006 Added option so find-and-replace can skip external links, image links, <nowiki>'ed text, <math>'ed text and html comments. Multiple improvements to usage on other wikis. Find-and-replace boxes stay on top now. Fixed bug with making long lists from "what transcludes here".
3.0.1.0 13 July 2006 Added "Filter" button, with lots of new filtering options. Added keyword "%%key%%" to "Add new category" option, now if you enter "Living people|%%key%%" it will automatically replace %%key%% with the reversed human name (e.g. "Bush, George W."). Some other tweaks and improvements, including working on more other language projects. Can now make list from Watchlist (using the account you are logged into internet explorer with), "What links here" separated from "what transcludes here".
3.0.0.9 11 July 2006 Added couple more options to list menu (per talk page), and a few other minor tweaks and improvements.
3.0.0.8 08 July 2006 Fixed a couple of small issues from last release.
3.0.0.7 06 July 2006 Added context menu option to add selected sub-category contents to the list. If present, automatically loads "Default.xml" setting on startup. Other small changes, including moving a couple of items on the interface, improvements to the advanced find and replace dialog, and big internal improvements.
3.0.0.6 28 June 2006 Added option to skip page when no find-and-replacement is done, now skips pages that were not re-categorised. Now beeps as well as flashing the taskbar. Added advanced find and replace option. Added IRC recent changes monitor program, accessible from File menu - still under development. And fixed couple of small bugs.
3.0.0.5 17 June 2006 Fixed bug with google search, added another language, integrated dump searcher.
3.0.0.4 14 June 2006 Lots of general improvements (listing is now faster and better), added function for replacing images, made much stuff work better in other language wikis.
3.0.0.3 05 June 2006 Improved log in process on other language wikis.
3.0.0.2 04 June 2006 Can make a list from image file links, other general tweaks, can now transform the list into talk pages, e.g. "Cat" => "Talk:Cat", added exit message. Added basic support for sl wiki.
3.0.0.1 28 May 2006 Some minor tweaks, does not apply fixes to text in <math> tags. The "remove excess whitespace" function is now in the textbox context menu. New way of generating lists from special pages, e.g. enter "Lonelypages" to get a list from Special:Lonelypages, you can also enter "Lonelypages&limit=500&offset=500" to get more or from an offset. Added option to menu to enable the toolbar, and the main panel can be minimised to view diffs more easily.
3.0.0.0 22 May 2006 Many minor improvements, does not apply fixes to nowiki'd text, re-categorising should work in other languages. Functions separated into separate dll file that can be re-used.
2.9.0.0 15 May 2006 Many minor tweaks, flashes in taskbar when ready to save, automatically replaces a few common deprecated templates.
2.8.0.0 09 May 2006 Now sorts interwikis in exactly same order as pywiki bots, removed alpha sorting of cats - it annoys some people. Improved making lists, particularly making list from category. When the diff loads, it now automatically scrolls down a bit to see more of it. Note: SourceForge is having problems again, so the source code is not up-to-date.
2.7.0.0 06 May 2006 Added menu option to record "ignored" pages in log file, to help avoid false positives in future. Some other general tweaks.
2.6.0.1 28 April 2006 Fixed case sensitivity bug in last release.
2.6.0.0 27 April 2006 Fixed small "find" bug, tweaked link simplifier, added support for multi and single line to regexes. Added keyboard shortcuts, added basic Russian support.
2.5.0.1 20 April 2006 Fixed another issue regarding previous change which stopped manual editing of large pages.
2.5.0.0 20 April 2006 Fixed a couple of problems from last release, including "go to line", added basic support for ca wiki.
2.4.0.0 17 April 2006 Upgraded textbox to richtextbox, can now "redo" and drag text about. Option to "skip pages with no changes" now skips some changes where only change was adding/removing whitespace.
2.3.0.0 09 April 2006 Added option to not skip blank pages. Other minor usability tweaks.
2.2.0.1 07 April 2006 Added back "using AWB" to summary by popular demand, and fixed minor bug.
2.1.9.0 04 April 2006 Many general tweaks to the parsing engine, added "paste more" option to context menu.
2.1.8.0 29 March 2006 added go to line function
2.1.7.0 28 March 2006 Improved unicodifyer, added "go to line" to context menu, some other minor improvements.
2.1.6.0 27 March 2006 Fixed bug with adding watchlist items.
2.1.5.0 26 March 2006 Many general improvements and changes.
2.1.4.0 19 March 2006 Minor improvements.
2.1.2.0 16 March 2006 Fixed re-categorisation problem, some general improvements.
2.1.1.0 14 March 2006 General tweaking, removes excess space around pipes, added checkbox to automatically unicodify entire page, makes exception for &ndash; &mdash; and &nbsp;
2.1.0.0 12 March 2006 General fixes and tweaks
2.0.8.0 08 March 2006 Fixed some small issues, added %%title%% keyword to find and replace to represent the page title.
2.0.7.0 07 March 2006 Fixed issue with listing from categories, some other small improvements.
2.0.3.0 06 March 2006 More features, faster, more reliable.
2.0.2.0 04 March 2006 Buttons now enabled/disabled as appropriate. Fixed some issues on other wikis. General tweaks and improvements.
2.0.1.0 02 March 2006 Fixed "find" button, added (some) support for other language wikis. And some other small tweaks.
2.0.0.0 27 February 2006 Lots of bug fixes and minor improvements.
1.98 20 February 2006 Some bugs fixed.
1.97 17 February 2006 Some small bug fixes, handles downed server a bit better.
1.96 16 February 2006 Can filter "inclusion" when making list, now has stop button.
1.95 15 February 2006 Many improvements to interface, logging in and other. Now has case sensitive option for skipping pages.
1.94 14 February 2006 Hopefully fixed logging in issue, also improved automatic mode, but most can't use this at the moment.
1.93 14 February 2006 Many minor improvements and tweaks, now checks user registered when "makelist" clicked, can load and save settings from/to specified path, if you appear unregistered it will offer to send an error report, this emails me some settings and variables, otherwise it is extremely difficult to work out what the problem is. Plus issue with usernames with some punctuation fixed.
1.92 14 February 2006 Minor regex improvements.
1.91 13 February 2006 Numerous general improvements, notably to the interface.
1.9 12 February 2006 More minor tweaks and fixes, plus addresses some issues involving clicking inside the browser.
1.89 12 February 2006 Tweaked bad-link fixing code
1.881 11 February 2006 Fixed bug involving bolding page title.
1.88 11 February 2006 Mathwiz2020 fixed the annoying issue with losing user focus, it now works seemlessy in the background. Plus some minor improvements (performance + stability).
1.87 10 February 2006 Fixed IE bug with fancy fonts in URLs (thanks to Ligulem's research). Now converts interwiki links to unicode and option in edit textbox context menu to convert any selected text to unicode. Some other minor improvements.
1.86 09 February 2006 Two minor bugs fixed, plus handles failure of Wikimedia servers better.
1.85 08 February 2006 Option in menu to skip pages that it hasn't made any changes to, fixed minor bug.
1.84 07 February 2006 Saves settings.xml file now as well.
1.83 06 February 2006 Fixed bug with moving category in deletion templates.
1.82 06 February 2006 Case insensitive find and replace. Can now load settings, not save yet though, the values can be changed in the XML file.
1.81 05 February 2006 Now does multiple find and replaces.
1.8 02 February 2006 Bug fix and minor improvements per talk page.
1.7.9 01 February 2006 Option to enable timer in menu. Make list from user contribs (last 5000, although it removes duplicates, so will be less). Core program is more efficient. Automatically does not perform "general fixes" on talk, user, template and Wikipedia namespaces. Plus some other minor improvements.
1.7.8 29 January 2006 Changed how AWB works in the background.
1.7.7 29 January 2006 Fixed bug in removing categories.
1.7.6 28 January 2006 Re-arranged options, hopefully more intuitive now. Can now add/remove categories. Some other minor improvements, and possibly fixed issue some have with logging in.
1.7.5 26 January 2006 Minor tweaks and fixes, including now bulleting all links in "external links" section.
1.7.4 24 January 2006 Fixed enabled-user-checker.
1.7.3 24 January 2006 Fixed enabled-user-checker.
1.7.2 24 January 2006 Fixed enabled-user-checker.
1.7.1 18 January 2006 Minor tweaks.
1.7 17 January 2006 Minor tweaks, plus now has "ignore if doesn’t contain".
1.6.9 15 January 2006 Minor improvements.
1.6.8 13 January 2006 Yet more tweaks and minor improvements, what links here not limited to 5000 anymore.
1.6.7 12 January 2006 Even more tweaks and minor fixes, what links here limited to 5000 due to apparent change in mediawiki software.
1.6.5 11 January 2006 More tweaks and minor fixes, Mathwiz2020 fixed occasional problem with bypassing redirects.
1.6.4 9 January 2006 Multiple improvements to re-categorisation and general fixes. Now alerts user if page has multiple links to the same page.
1.6.3 9 January 2006 Improved regexes, fixed a couple of minor bugs. New messages cause the AWB to check that you are still an enabled user. Mathwiz2020 fixed security issues on enabled user-checking, and added internal and external bad link repair (under general fixes).
1.6.2 7 January 2006 A few small bug fixes.
1.6 2 January 2006 Fixed a couple of minor bugs, disabled date removal until it becomes uncontroversial.
1.5 1 January 2006 Put the Link FA template and Wikipedia:Persondata in correct place. Removes any duplicate categories.
1.4 30 December 2005 Checks you are logged in on every edit and a few other improvements.
1.3 29 December 2005 Can now make a list from a google search, a couple of other tweaks.
1.2 28 December 2005 Fixed a couple bugs, some other improvements.
1.1 27 December 2005 Fixed a few bugs, improved the layout.
1.0 27 December 2005 Sorts interwikis, categories and stubs so they are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page, added context menu item that inserts birth and death categories (it works out the dates from the first dates in the page). Some other tweaks and fixes. New date regex.
0.995 23 December 2005 Added progress bar, tweaked the re-cat feature, added Bobblewik's new regexes, "ignore if contains" looks in title and text now.
0.99 22 December 2005 "What links here" now gets all pages rather than 5000 limit, new regex for removing dates, option to replace some html entities with unicode, worked around bug that IE has with some URLs containing fancy fonts in certain situations.
0.98 19 December 2005 Can get links from a text file now, improved ability to get links on a page. Can mark all edits as minor or add to watchlist via menu option. Improved menu system.
0.95 19 December 2005 Added "Preview instead of diff" option to menu, will make image tagging easy as it loads the preview instead of diff, (need to add more image tags to context menu). Made list a bit wider. Added "Preview" and "Diff" buttons that show or refresh (if already showing) the diff and preview. Added "beta" menu tab, which has option to remove excess links using Bobblewik's regex, be careful using this.
0.9 18 December 2005 Added context menu for page list, which now includes ability to filter out duplicates (which sorts alphetically for sake of efficiency). Bypasses redirects (disable in options menu).
0.85 17 December 2005 Fixed couple of bugs, added context menu to list of pages box, improved filter, can save list to txt file now.
0.8 15 December 2005 Couple of minor bugs fixed, added "filter" to get only main namespace pages, added regex to "ignore if contains". Disabled auto mode, as it can only be used when you have permission from Wikipedia:Bots.
0.72 14 December 2005 "Auto tag" feature will add wikify and stub tags when appropriate, couple of other features, "append message" only works on talk pages now.
0.71 14 December 2005 Bug fix release. Hey, I said it was a development version didn't I!
0.7 13 December 2005 Added ability to get links from a page (still need to be able to get links from a txt file), added Multiextended mode and remove for the list box, fixed a couple of bugs.
0.6 12 December 2005 A few bug fixes, made it so you have to be registered here to eliminate risk of vandalism. Added some features, still can't make a list by getting all the links on a page, that's next.
0.5 10 December 2005 Added a few things, fixed a few things. Bot mode is disabled for security reasons, but if you want it, please ask.
0.4 09 December 2005 Recategorisation enabled, "pages in category" finds sub-categories now, better context menu for the textbox, some other stuff.
0.3 09 December 2005 Added "what links here" support and some other tweaks.
0.2 08 December 2005 Surprisingly stable, many features to come.
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