Podracer ChangeLog

Version 1.4 - 19 February 2006

• Podracer uses some BASH-specific functionality; changed script line to reflect this.
• Redirections are now followed correctly when fetching RSS feeds and podcasts.
• Fixed a bug which caused only the last URL to be retrieved from feeds with no line breaks.
• Blank lines and lines that don't begin with a URL or the absolute path to a local file are now ignored in the subscription file. Comments no longer need a `#' at the beginning of the line.
• Fixed a bug which caused a `cannot open file' error on some systems. This was caused by an unescaped shell metacharacter.
• Added a command line option to retrieve version information.
• Added minspeed and downloadtimeout config options to prevent hanging when downloading non-torrent podcasts.
• Catchup mode now completely replaces the podcast log so that old useless entries are removed.
• Rewrote comment to m3u config file option to specify how to cause the playlist not to be created.
• Updated man page and README file to reflect recent changes.
• The installer script now correctly removes man pages when uninstalling Podracer and Timeout.

Version 1.3 - 1 September 2005

• Fixed a bug where URLs with `&' rather than `&' were fetched incorrectly
• Fixed a rare bug which sometimes caused files to be saved with eronious data appended to their filenames
• Removed code which depended specifically on gawk. Any implementation of awk may now be used.
• Temporary files are now removed when SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGQUIT or SIGTERM is caught
• A TODO file has been added to list major changes in upcoming releases

Version 1.2.2 - 20 June 2005

• Fixed a bug which caused an error when a torrent filename contained spaces
• Seeding of a torrent is only attempted if the download is complete
• Very minor code cleanup

Version 1.2.1 - 17 June 2005

• Installer now shows the errors that cause Podracer to fail to install
• Installer now detects where man pages are installed

Version 1.2 - 15 June 2005:

• Save torrents in their own directory for later use outside of Podracer
• Use btlaunchmany to seed all saved torrents at once
• Added uploadrate config option to limit bandwidth used when seeding torrents
• Removed toplevel config option since poddir can handle this functionality
• directory name may be added to an entry in the subscriptions file to store a podcast feed in its own directory relative to poddir
• The prompt to create the sample subscriptions file may now be answered with a single y or n - it is not necessary to press enter
• The receiver config option has been changed to longname for readability
• Minor code cleanup

Version 1.0 - 7 June 2005:

• Initial Podracer release

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