Release Notes 1.12.0
Release 1.12.0 is the first of several planned releases enhancing Heritrix with "smart crawler" functionality. In this release, the theme has been offering new options to reduce the amount of duplicate content crawled and stored when recrawling sites at regular intervals.
A number of other enhancements and bug fixes are also included.
Leading up to this release, Heritrix issue tracking has migrated from Sourceforge to http://webteam.archive.org/jira/browse/HER.
In addition to previous and continuing contributors, this release features code contributed by:
- Oskar Grenholm
- Doug Judd
See Issues with 'Fix Version' 1.12.0 for a list of all tracked issues targeted for 1.12.0.
See Feature Notes - 1.12.0 for an overview of the use of new features in 1.12.0.
See also bundled release notes.
Structured Guides:
User Guide
- Introduction
- New Features in 3.0 and 3.1
- Your First Crawl
- Checkpointing
- Main Console Page
- Profiles
- Heritrix Output
- Common Heritrix Use Cases
- Jobs
- Configuring Jobs and Profiles
- Processing Chains
- Credentials
- Creating Jobs and Profiles
- Outside the User Interface
- A Quick Guide to Creating a Profile
- Job Page
- Frontier
- Spring Framework
- Multiple Machine Crawling
- Heritrix3 on Mac OS X
- Heritrix3 on Windows
- Responsible Crawling
- Adding URIs mid-crawl
- Politeness parameters
- BeanShell Script For Downloading Video
- crawl manifest
- JVM Options
- Frontier queue budgets
- BeanShell User Notes
- Facebook and Twitter Scroll-down
- Deduping (Duplication Reduction)
- Force speculative embed URIs into single queue.
- Heritrix3 Useful Scripts
- How-To Feed URLs in bulk to a crawler
- MatchesListRegexDecideRule vs NotMatchesListRegexDecideRule
- WARC (Web ARChive)
- When taking a snapshot Heritrix renames crawl.log
- YouTube
- H3 Dev Notes for Crawl Operators
- Development Notes
- Spring Crawl Configuration
- Build Box
- Potential Cleanup-Refactorings
- Future Directions Brainstorming
- Documentation Wishlist
- Web Spam Detection for Heritrix
- Style Guide
- HOWTO Ship a Heritrix Release
- Heritrix in Eclipse