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Upgrading
=========
Migrating from 6.4 to 6.5
-------------------------
Only applies if a custom output loggers has been programmed:
The URL data model for output loggers has changed. The list of
warning messages is now a list of tuples (tagname, warningmessage).
Migrating from 5.5 to 6.0
-------------------------
Python 2.6 or newer is required (Python 3.x is not supported though).
The deprecated --no-proxy-for and --no-anchor-caching options have been
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Migrating from 5.2 to 5.3
-------------------------
The --password option now reads a password from stdin instead
taking it from the commandline. This prevents reading the password
from the commandline string with tools like ``ps``.
Migrating from 5.1 to 5.2
-------------------------
The --no-proxy-for option has been deprecated and will be removed
in a future release. Also, the "noproxyfor" entries in configuration
files will not be evaluated anymore.
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Migrating from 5.0 to 5.1
-------------------------
The --no-anchor-caching option has been deprecated and will be removed
in a future release. This option should not be used anymore.
@ -40,7 +42,6 @@ warnings have been ignored.
Migrating from 4.x to 5.0
-------------------------
Python >= 2.5 is now required.
The CGI script access control has been removed. Please use the access
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Migrating from 4.4 to 4.5
-------------------------
Configuration file entries that were enumerated (``ignoreX``,
``nofollowX``, ``noproxyX`` and ``entryX``) now have a new multiline
syntax. For example the old configuration:
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Migrating from 4.2 to 4.3
-------------------------
The deprecated ``--disable-psyco`` option has been removed.
Migrating from 4.1 to 4.2
-------------------------
If run under Unix system as the 'root' user, LinkChecker drops
privileges and runs under the 'nobody' user account.
The new option --allow-root prevents this, ie. enables the old
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Migrating from 3.x to 4.0
-------------------------
The Python API of the linkcheck module has changed. If you were
using the library directly instead of the commandline or CGI
interfaces, you will have to adjust your code.
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Migrating from 2.x to 3.0
-------------------------
The --warnings option is deprecated since warnings are now printed
per default. A new --no-warnings has been added if one wants to
have the old behaviour. Additionally, some old warnings about have
@ -130,7 +126,6 @@ linkcheckerrc default config for the new syntax.
Migrating from 2.2 to 2.3
-------------------------
The per-user config file is now ``~/.linkchecker/linkcheckerrc``
(previous location was ``~/.linkcheckerrc`` ).
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Migrating from 1.x to 2.0
-------------------------
The --output and --file-output parameters can specify the encoding
now. You should check your scripts if they support the new option
syntax.
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Migrating from 1.12.x to 1.13.0
-------------------------------
Since lots of filenames have changed you should check that any
manually installed versions prior to 1.13.0 are removed. Otherwise
you will have startup problems.