A1 Website Download News and History
A1 Website Download 4.0.4 :
- Split "Max simultaneous connections and threads" into two separate options.
You can find the options in "Scan website | Crawler engine".
A1 Website Download 4.0.3 :
- Website scan progress now also shows "jobs waiting" and "jobs done" counts.
- Memory usage improvements.
- Various small improvements and fixes in crawler.
A1 Website Download 4.0.2 :
- Small improvements in website download crawler.
A1 Website Download 4.0.0 :
- Installer now includes a 64bit A1 Website Download 4.x executable which
is installed on Windows 64bit systems. (Increases website scan capacity!)
- Like earlier versions of A1 Website Download: On Windows 32bit systems,
the 32bit version of the A1 Website Download 4.x execuable is installed.
- A bunch of other small improvements included in this first 4.0 release.
- Future development will go into 4.x branch. Registered users of earlier
versions are eligible to either free or discounted upgrades. More info:
http://www.microsystools.com/products/website-download/upgrade.php
A1 Website Download 3.5.1 :
- Various improvements and fixes.
A1 Website Download 3.4.9 :
- Improved functionality making it easy to configure A1 Website Download, so it
only downloads specific file types during a website download.
- Made available some quick-filter buttons to "exclude" and "limit-to" URLs.
A1 Website Download 3.4.6 :
- Various improvements in handling Javascript.
- Fixed a problem with sorting certain website data columns.
A1 Website Download 3.4.5 :
- Crawler engine improvements.
- Installation now also includes a Win98/NT4 compatible executable.
A1 Website Download 3.4.4 :
- Crawler engine improvements.
- Other website download tool improvements.
A1 Website Download 3.4.0 :
- A good bunch of underlying program improvements.
A1 Website Download 3.3.6 :
- Some website download improvements.
A1 Website Download 3.3.5 :
- Wide range of website downloader tool improvements and fixes.
A1 Website Download 3.3.4 :
- Various small improvements in website downloader tool.
A1 Website Download 3.3.3 :
A1 Website Download 3.3.1 :
- Various small improvements in website download tool.
A1 Website Download 3.3.0 :
- Various small improvements and fixes in website downloader.
A1 Website Download 3.2.9 :
- Various improvments in capabilities of website downloader.
A1 Website Download 3.2.8 :
- Some improvements in website download engine.
A1 Website Download 3.2.7 :
- Fixed a minor CSS parsing issue in website downloader.
- Slightly changed how HTTP content response streams get handled.
A1 Website Download 3.2.6 :
- Improved ability to convert URLs to exact same file names on disk.
A1 Website Download 3.2.5 :
- Various minor improvements in website download.
A1 Website Download 3.2.4 :
- Various improvements allover in site download tool.
A1 Website Download 3.2.3 :
- Various improvements allover in program.
A1 Website Download 3.2.2 :
- Lots of improvements to crawler including new options and features.
A1 Website Download 3.2.1 :
- Added more command line parameters.
- various additions and improvements.
A1 Website Download 3.2.0 :
- Added support for various rare situations.
A1 Website Download 3.1.7 :
A1 Website Download 3.1.6 :
A1 Website Download 3.1.4 :
- Faster project load.
- Faster website download stop.
- Added data column where one can see URL path on disk.
A1 Website Download 3.1.3 :
- Various website download program fixes and improvements.
A1 Website Download 3.1.0 :
- Fixed bug in WinInet HTTP engine crawler support.
- Various program and crawler engine fixes.
A1 Website Download 3.0.9 :
A1 Website Download 3.0.5 :
- Improved detection of HTML5 and XML tags that designate "charset" values.
- Various website download crawler enhancements.
A1 Website Download 3.0.4 :
- Various website download crawler enhancements.
A1 Website Download 3.0.3 :
- Fixed an issue on handling a specifc kind of malformed HTML comment.
- Improved both "analysis" and "output filters "limit to". It now supports
strings, paths and regex, i.e. now supports the same as "exclude filters".
A1 Website Download 3.0.2 :
- Various website download program improvements and fixes.
A1 Website Download 3.0.1 :
- Some critical bug fixes. (Problems introduced in 2.x to 3.x unicode change.)
A1 Website Download 3.0.0 :
- Program is now complete Unicode inside meaning it can handle websites mixing
multiple languages of Eastern and Far Eastern origin in the same website.
- Lots of small fixes and improvements. (And more coming soon.)
A1 Website Download 2.3.9 :
- Again tweaked the code I introduced in 2.3.7.
A1 Website Download 2.3.8 :
- Fixed a bug in version 2.3.7 introduced code which purpose was to scan and
"disable" invalid null bytes inside the response content stream. (Useful for
some websites.)
- Updated to latest HTTP Indy library version which give some speed increase
compared to the one used in version 2.3.7.
- Various small crawler speed improvements.
A1 Website Download 2.3.7 :
- Fixed issue with disabled configuration dropdowns with pre-configured values.
- Minor fixes and improvements.
A1 Website Download 2.3.6 :
- Improved automatic root path alias algorithm.
- Improved downloading of videos including a new settings preset.
A1 Website Download 2.3.5 :
- Fixed an issue when deleting URIs while in "flat" view mode.
A1 Website Download 2.3.4 :
- Fixed a bug in "time edit" controls that could happen with "zero" values.
- Fixed a rare error/crash issue on program closedown.
- Improved page crawl code a few places.
- Various minor user interface improvements, e.g. in "replace text" dialog.
A1 Website Download 2.3.3 :
- Improved "extended data" XML file storage. (Takes less space on disk now.)
- Small improvement in built-in translation tool.
- Fixed minor issue in crawler.
A1 Website Download 2.3.2 :
- Fxied a bug when selecting a different language in "Lingua".
- Improved language files translation tool in About dialog.
A1 Website Download 2.3.1 :
- Fixed a bug where paths could be shown incorrectly sometimes in scan results.
- Added a fallback solution where crawler tries to extract date information from
URL paths.
- Added multi-select support so one could mass delete and edit data of found
website URLs, e.g. importance values or similar.
- Various fixes and improvements.
A1 Website Download 2.3.0 :
- Various bug fixes.
- Added some new columns in "Website data view", e.g. "Linked by".
- Made is easier to make groups of columns visible.
- Added filtering support of "Website data view".
A1 Website Download 2.2.2 :
- Fixed an issue where URL encoding also "cleaned" GET part of URLs.
Examples: 1) "&&" became "&" 2) "?&" became "?".
- Fixed an issue with URLs using multiple anchor "#" and "?" characters.
A1 Website Download 2.2.1 :
- Fixed bug with validators running in browser window.
- New and improved help.
A1 Website Download 2.2.0 :
- Added an option regarding how URLs are converted to file paths.
- Lots of small bug fixes and improvements.
- Speed and memory usage improvements.
A1 Website Download 2.1.5 :
- Fixed a bug in code handling form input radio elements.
- Small fix in crawler in how some URLs get resolved.
- Various small fixes.
A1 Website Download 2.1.4 :
- Minor bug fix in website downloader.
A1 Website Download 2.1.3 :
- Various bug fixes.
- Can now extract some URLs from Flash if Adobe swf2html.exe is available.
A1 Website Download 2.1.2 :
- Fixed a bug that could hinder parsing of HTML inside Javascript.
A1 Website Download 2.1.1 :
A1 Website Download 2.1.0 :
- Now features an optional alternative HTTP engine using Windows API.
- Various bug fixes.
A1 Website Download 2.0.6 :
- Various fixes in site download tool.
A1 Website Download 2.0.5 :
- Various improvements and fixes in website download program.
A1 Website Download 2.0.4 :
- Various improvements and fixes in website download program.
A1 Website Download 2.0.3 :
- Various fixes in website download tool.
A1 Website Download 2.0.2 :
- Various fixes in website download engine.
A1 Website Download 2.0.1 :
- Chinese translation by Xiong.
- Various small issues fixed.
A1 Website Download 2.0.0 :
- Many improvements and feature enhancements.
- For information about free subscription upgrades vs discounted paid upgrades,
click any of the "upgrade" links. There you can also find the latest
website download 1.x.x version available for download.
A1 Website Download 1.4.9 :
Various enhancements in website downloader engine and program.
A1 Website Download 1.4.8 :
- Added support for sending custom request headers.
- Various enhancements, e.g. in website downloader.
- Serbian translation by Goran Nešic, http://www.readyonpcshop.com
- Dutch/Belgian translation by Dries Hauwaert, http://www.1001tips.be
- Improved website download project loading speed and memory usage.
A1 Website Download 1.4.7 :
- Some speed improvements in certain cases.
- Improvements in registration process.
- Various fixes and improvements.
A1 Website Download 1.4.6 :
Various fixes and improvements.
A1 Website Download 1.4.5 :
- Some enhancements in website download crawler engine.
A1 Website Download 1.4.4 :
- Lots of fixes and improvements in program and website download crawler engine.
A1 Website Download 1.4.3 :
- Fixed some issues with crawler and output filters.
- Added crawler and output depth filters.
A1 Website Download 1.4.2 :
- Fixed a couple of issues in Javascript parser.
A1 Website Download 1.4.1 :
- Fixed an issue in Javascript links-converter code.
- Fixed a small issue when using multiple root directory aliases.
- Added MIME type website scan "output" filters in website crawl functionality.
- Added string/path/regex website scan "output" filters.
A1 Website Download 1.4.0 :
- All kinds of source files (e.g. images, css files etc.) located outside
"root directory" (e.g. on an external domain) are now downloaded as well.
- Fixed an issue parsing CSS code inside HTML "comment" tag inside "style" tag.
- Fixed a couple of wensite crawl and download issues.
- Added MIME type crawler filters for website download functionality.
A1 Website Download 1.3.6 :
- Fixed an issue with <base> and <meta> "charset" when storing saved documents.
The issue was introduced during a partial rewrite a few versions back.
- Improvements in memory usage when loading projects with extended website data,
and when building sitemaps for large websites.
- Improved handing of "web analytics" URLs in Javascript code.
A1 Website Download 1.3.5 :
- Various minor fixes and improvements.
A1 Website Download 1.3.4 :
- Fixed a potential issue that could happen when removing found URLs after scan.
A1 Website Download 1.3.3 :
- Made is possible to more finely control which files get downloaded to disk.
- Improved help file with some new website download articles and tutorials.
- Crawler now support robots.txt wildcards * in disallow.
- Better pause and resume scam functionality.
- Ukranian translation by Anatoly Melnyk, http://prybyralnyk.com.ua
A1 Website Download 1.3.2 :
- Lots of improvements, speed optimizations, minor and critical bug fixes etc.
- New command line support for stopping scan after whatever number of seconds.
A1 Website Download 1.3.1 :
- Fixed an issue introduced in 1.3.0
A1 Website Download 1.3.0 :
- Lots of various fixes and improvements.
A1 Website Download 1.2.9 :
- Russian translation by Dead J. Dona, http://deadjdona.co.ua
- Lots of various fixes and improvements.
A1 Website Download 1.2.8 :
- Made the "Lingua" menu more easy to under for first-time users.
- Fixed an issue that could occur on some non-English websites.
- Various small optimization and improvements.
A1 Website Download 1.2.7 :
- Fixed a couple of minor issues.
A1 Website Download 1.2.6 :
- Couple of smaller fixes in website crawl and download engine.
A1 Website Download 1.2.5 :
A1 Website Download 1.2.4 :
- Fixed a bug that could occur when viewing external links.
A1 Website Download 1.2.3 :
- Improved handling of timeouts and resume of website scans afterwards.
- Improved crawling of pages throwing error response codes.
- Various crawler engine enhancements.
A1 Website Download 1.2.2 :
- Made options concerning session/user ID variables better and more logical.
- Fixed and improved various things in the builtin translation and tool.
- Fixed a bug introduced during 1.2.0 development that could sometimes occur
during website crawling, in particular with websites not supporting HEAD
requests.
A1 Website Download 1.2.1 :
- Found a bug that could sometimes occur during website crawling, particular
with very slow websites. (Timing issue with thread pool and cached data.)
A1 Website Download 1.2.0 :
- Heavy research into improving memory usage and speed during website scan. Both
areas have been significantly improved and more will come in the future.
- General website crawling and program user interface improvements.
- Improved the help file.
A1 Website Download 1.1.9 :
- Many improvements and new options in website download and crawler engine.
A1 Website Download 1.1.8 :
A1 Website Download 1.1.7 :
- Fixed a critical issue introduced in 1.1.6 that could prevent startup on
systems using Windows XP with classic themes. Thanks to those who reported it.
A1 Website Download 1.1.6 :
- CSS parser can now handle "#import" statements.
- Fixed a minor issue with empty HTML comments.
- Fixed an issue with HTML tags having an attribute with no value not placed at
the end. Example "noresize": <frame noresize src="example.html">
A1 Website Download 1.1.5 :
- Fixed an issue with root host paths such as www.ExAmPle.com (cased letters).
- Fixed an issue with paths containing "../" and "./".
- Fixed an issue with website login functionality.
- Improved memory usage a couple of places.
A1 Website Download 1.1.4 :
- Fixed a bug concerning reading UTF8 translation files with a leading BOM.
- Fixed a bug with LastMod in Google XML sitemaps.
- Made the HTML parser much faster and able to grab more kinds of links.
- Added BOM checking (in addition to server response headers and the "charset"
meta tag) to identify the character set used in HTML documents.
- Fixed a bug concerning website crawler ignore filters.
- Korean translation by Eunsook Kim, http://www.famun.com
A1 Website Download 1.1.3 :
- Can now handle servers that throw 403 (forbidden) on HEAD requests.
- Fixed a deadlock/freeze bug in website crawler that could occur when using
multiple root paths. (And another very rare case.)
- Fixed an issue in urlencode / urldecode (affecting certain characters).
- Disabling case sensitive paths will no longer influence strings after "# ?".
- Domain names are now always lower cased.
- Made some speed and memory optimizations in website crawler.
- Added some support for website scan logging.
- Polish translation by Witold, http://www.naszacena.pl
- Added "allow" crawler filters (can complement "ignore" and "output" filters)
- Website scanner now uses a load balancing thread pool.
A1 Website Download 1.1.2 :
- Portuguese translation by Claudio Souza, clsbrasil#hotmail.com
- Improved some visual aspects related to the integrated browser.
- Fixed a bug in urlencode / urldecode handling.
A1 Website Download 1.1.1 :
- Arabic translation by Amin Sidky, http://www.sawtelarab.com
- Added support for translation files to be UTF8 encoded.
- Can now handle translated right-to-left languages.
- Added some new crawler engine options, e.g. connection timeout.
- Added basic support for following references in <form> tags.
- Improved storage of unicode (e.g. UTF8 and UTF16) documents.
- Added better support for parsing Javascript and CSS.
- Added support for <area> tag.
- Fixed a bug with <base> tags.
- Improved HTTPS handling.
A1 Website Download 1.1.0 :
- Fixed a bug with <base> tag and links starting with "/".
- Made a new crawler configuration tab called "Data collection".
- Optimized memory usage with certain "Data collection" configurations.
- Now shows flags for different languages support in "Lingua" menu.
- Fixed bugs and enhanced functionality in the "About | Translation" editor.
- Spanish translation by Washington Chevez, uia1#hotmail.com
- French translation by Stéphane Matte, http://www.veri-sites.com
- Did so program windows no longer "flashes" at program start and shutdown.
- Fixed a bug concerning internal links redirecting to external pages.
- Website scan progress now shows status of both "scanned" and "listed" files.
A1 Website Download 1.0.9 :
- Added a new option regarding default directory for user data.
A1 Website Download 1.0.8 : [update]
- Fixed a critical bug that could occur when saving. This bug became easier to
spot because of a crawler engine speed enhancement in the previous release.
A1 Website Download 1.0.8 :
- Some minor improvements and bug fixes in website crawler and downloader.
- Enhanced website crawler to better ignore and/or handle javascript code.
- Added an option more concerning extracting links from Javascript code.
A1 Website Download 1.0.7 :
- Fixed a bug that would occur with some types of relative HTTP redirects.
- Added an option for website crawler not to "collect" external links.
- Added website crawler support for HTML "base" tag.
- Various enhancements to the download part of the website crawler.
- Various minor improvements in the website crawler.
A1 Website Download 1.0.6 : [update]
- Fixed a website crawler issue related to HTML comments.
- Relative paths are also now accepted when setting website crawler option:
"Limit final sitemap output to certain directories"
A1 Website Download 1.0.6 :
- Fixed an issue in website crawler concerning handling of HTML entities.
- Fixed an issue (introduced in 1.0.5) in website crawler with paths such as:
"http://www.example.com/?var-has-slashes=mydir/mypage.html"
A1 Website Download 1.0.5 :
- Fixed "tip of the day" dialog.
- Added proxy support (username / password support still experimental).
- Fixed an issue in website crawler concerning links starting with "?".
A1 Website Download 1.0.4 : [update]
- Small fixes related to the introduction of the 1.0.4 crawler engine update.
A1 Website Download 1.0.4 :
- Overall improvements in speed and memory usage.
- Added a new crawler engine option concerning tracking of links and redirects
to and from all pages. Disabling this option will improve speed in certain
parts of crawler and lessen memory usage (a lot), useful for large websites.
- Made buttons for opening downloaded websites in external webbrowsers.
A1 Website Download 1.0.3 :
- Fixed a bug in website crawler.
- Improved Javascript support.
- Added buttons for viewing downloaded websites with Firefox and Opera
A1 Website Download 1.0.2 :
- Fixed an issue with crawler filters always being case sensitive.
- Did so "crawler filters" are checked before and now also after redirects.
- Did so "listed file extensions" comparison are done after redirects.
A1 Website Download 1.0.1 :
- Various improvements and fixes in website crawler.
- Fixed a bug with automating website crawl from command line.
A1 Website Download 1.0.0 : (20th of April 2006)
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