## 4.7 - 22.05.2005 - Bugfixes and improved docs (by Hans Fr. Nordhaug)
   - Fixed several bugs related to local file search (on hard drive or
     CD-ROM) reported in the "Open Discussion" forum.
   - Fixed stupid design bug in test for HttpURLConnection.
   - Added rudimentary support for iframes.
   - Added info about link handling; qoutes and types.
   - Made the applet supports links where the URL is enclosed by single
     quotes. (Before it only followed URLs inside double quotes.)

## 4.6 - 18.09.2004 - Charset improvements and standalone app (by Hans Fr. Nordhaug)
   - HouseSpider can now be run as an standalone application
     avoiding the troublesome security settings of the appletviewer when
     indexing. This is a major improvement. (New classes HouseSpiderStub and 
     BrowserControl doesn't add much to the size of the jar file.)
   - Added checks for missing trailing slash, default index pages and
     permanent redirects in start URL (URLstart parameter).
   - Using HttpURLConnection if possible to detect redirects (missing trailing
     slash in particular) and dead (404) URLs.
   - Fixed a bug in the Spider causing long files to load slowly. Changed
     from (misuse of) String to StringBuffer when building body text.
   - Translations now in UTF-8 to support languages that needs more characters
     than ISO-8859-1 can offer. The log file is (of course) also in UTF-8.
   - Added Charset parameter to select charset used for reading webpages.
     (ISO-8859-1 is the default charset if none is given.) The same charset
     is (of course) used for the index file. Solving feature request
     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=832325&group_id=42811&atid=434247
     NB! "†" is still not supported because of a bug in the Java
     implementation - need to rewrite everything using Swing ...

## 4.5 - 21.05.2004 - Major improvements  (by Hans Fr. Nordhaug)
   - Added explicit charset set to ISO-8859-1. This fixes most problems with 
     letters not correctly shown and such. (The goal is UTF.) 
   - Added IndexPath applet tag to set (relative) path the index file.
   - Added IgnoreWords applet tag to set words that should be excluded while
     indexing/searching.
   - Added StatusLabel applet tag determining whether to show the status 
     label or not. 
   - Added StatusLine applet tag determining whether to show the status 
     line or not. 
   - Added Action applet tag determining whether to index or not as default.
     You may then use either "<!-- housespider index -->" or 
     "<!-- housespider index -->" to switch between index or not indexing modus.
     (Useful if you don't want to index a menu that is common on all pages).
   - Added font name and size applet tags.
   - Added ShowURL applet tag determining whether to show the URL 
     after the title in the result list.
   - Made the applet name (lower left hand corner) a clickable link.
   - Added applet tags to set the color of the clickable link.
   - Added internationalization support (i18n). Can also be used to change 
     *all* messages from HouseSpider since the text isn't hard-coded but read
     from file. (Template available.) Use Lang applet tag to select language.
   - Meta keywords are now searched/indexed.
   - Meta description may be used in the result list (in addition to the
     title). The description is not included in the search.
     NB! As a result the format of the index-file has changed to:
            page contents
            title
            meta keywords##meta description
            URL
         where "##" is a separator (and must be included even though
         meta description is empty).
   - Added timing of search.
   - Added 'no results found'-message.
   - Added 'wait:'-keyword to InitRun parameter.
   - Minor improvements for URLs where filename has no extension. 
   - Default index pages as "index.html", "index.htm", "index,php"
     are stripped of the URLs (to avoid duplications).

## 4.4 - 14.01.2003 - General improvements  (by Hans Fr. Nordhaug) 
   - Added parameters TargetHelp and TargetSearch for better control when 
     opening pages. (Target still works and sets both to the same.)
   - Added parameter InitInput used for initial commands/search. (Useful for
     indexing via batch file.)
   - Added FileExclude parameter (accepting comma seperated list of files). 
     Extended URLExclude to accept comma seperated list of URLs.
   - Added MaxSearch parameter (setting maximum number of hits for search).
   - Added check for empty name attribute for URLExclude and FileExclude
     parameter. (This is a bug fix - see 
     http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=794725&forum_id=139768)
   - Added version info to applet. Improved gridbaglayout code.

## 4.3 - 20.09.2002 - General improvements  (by Hans Fr. Nordhaug) 
   - Much improved treatment of pages using framesets.
   - Much improved search functionality: phrases, exclude words and logical
     expression. 
   - Changed searching of index file. The applet now searches the joint 
     string of line 1 and 2, i.e., body text and title. 
   - Changed use of index file. Line 1 now contains only the body text; 
     everything inbetween <head> and </head> is ignored especially the
     title which was (and is) repeated in line 2. This decreases the size
     of the index file.
   - Added status line (for index file) to applet. Added parameter to turn
     the status line off. Added search/index progress to the status line.
   - Added debug parameter to applet. (0 - no debugging, 3 - full debugging.)
   - Added documentation URL parameter to applet. 
   - Added Make.bat. Makefile for Windows.
   - Added applet parameter bgtextcolour and texcolour
 
## 4.2 - 01.04.2002 - General improvements  (by Hans Fr. Nordhaug)
   - Support for a compressed index-file added. HouseSpider can now create
     a zipped index-file (using the kewword 'houseindex-zip' in stead of 
     'houseindex') and read a zipped index-file if it exists.
   - Improvement of crawling. It now handles href-tags with spaces/line 
     shitfs, i.e '<a  href  =  "...">', and URLs with missing 
     slash, i.e '<a href=../somedirectory">...</a>'. 
   - Improvement of crawling. It now handles pages with frames.

## 4.1 - 22.01.2002 - Major bug fixes (done mostly in 2001 by Hans Fr.  Nordhaug)
   - Bug in the Spider class that made spider search fail on Netscape 6.0 
     and Opera 6.0 is removed.
   - Major improvement of the spidering (crawling) procedure. 
   - Added the possibility of excluding a directory from the search/indexing.
    
## 4.0 - 11.01.2002 - Major rewrite (done in 2000 by Keith L. Jackson).
   - Spider searching is added.
   - The functionality of the HouseIndexer class is put into
     HouseSpider, and hence, HouseIndexer and related files are removed.
   - Keywords are no longer used in the indexing or in the search applet.
   - Icons replace text buttons. No more internationalization.

## 3.1 - 06.01.2002 - Initial release on SourceForge