1.8.11
  * catch httplib.error exceptions
  * ugh, urllib.py asks for passwords with getpass(); we switch
    to urllib2.py which is nicer anyway.

1.8.10
  * new option --no-anchor-caching
    Changed files: linkchecker, linkcheck/{Config.py, UrlData.py}, FAQ
  * quote empty attribute arguments
    Changed files: linkcheck/parser/htmllex.[lc]

1.8.9
  * recompile with bison 1.875a
    Changed files: linkcheck/parser/htmlparse.[ch]
  * remove stpcpy declaration, fixes compile error on RedHat 7.x
    Changed files: linkcheck/parser/htmlsax.h
  * clarify keyboard interrupt warning to wait for active connections
    to finish
    Changed files: linkcheck/__init__.py
  * resolve &#XXX; number entity references
    Changed files: linkcheck/{StringUtil.py,linkname.py}

1.8.8
  * All amazon servers block HEAD requests with timeouts. Use GET as
    a workaround, but issue a warning.
    Changed files: linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py
  * restrict CGI access to localhost per default
    Changed files: lc.cgi, lc.fcgi, lc.sz_fcgi, linkcheck/lc_cgi.py

1.8.7
  * #define YY_NO_UNISTD_H on Windows systems, fixes build error with
    Visual Studio compiler
    Changed files: setup.py
  * use python2.2 headers for parser compile, not 2.1.
    Changed files: linkcheck/parser/Makefile

1.8.6
  * include a fixed robotparser.py (from Python 2.2 CVS maint branch)

1.8.5
  * fix config.warn to warn
    Changed files: linkcheck/__init.py
  * parser changes:
    o recognise "<! -- -->" HTML comments (seen at Eonline)
    o recognise "<! !>" HTML comments (seen at www.nba.com)
    o rebuild with flex 2.5.27
    Changed files: linkcheck/parser/htmllex.[lc]
  * added another url exclusion example to the FAQ
    numerate questions and answers
    Changed files: FAQ
  * fix linkchecker exceptions
    Changed files: linkcheck/{Ftp,Mailto,Nntp,Telnet,}UrlData.py,
      linkcheck/__init__.py

1.8.4
  * Improve error message for failing htmlsax module import
    Changed files: linkcheck/parser/htmllib.py
  * Regenerate parser with new bison 1.875
    Changed files: linkcheck/parser/htmlparser.c
  * Some CVS files were not the same as their local counterpart.
    Something went wrong. Anyway, I re-committed them.
    Changed files: a lot .py files
 
1.8.3
  * add missing imports for StringUtil in log classes, defer i18n of log
    field names (used for CGI scripts)
    Changed files: linkcheck/log/*.py
  * fixed wrong debug level comparison from > to >=
    Changed files: linkcheck/Config.py
  * JavaScript checks in the CGI scripts
    Changed files: lconline/lc_cgi.html.*
    Added files: lconline/check.js
  * Updated documentation with a link restriction example
    Changed files: linkchecker, linkchecker.1, FAQ
  * Updated po/pygettext.py to version 1.5, cleaned up some gettext
    usages.
  * updated i18n
    Added files: linkcheck/i18n.py
    Changed files: all .py files using i18n
  * Recognise "<! --" HTML comments
    Changed files: linkcheck/parser/htmllex.l
  * -a anchor option implies -w because anchor errors are always warnings
    Changed files: linkchecker
  * added AnsiColors.py and debug.py to split out some functions
    Changed files: a lot .py files using these things
  * use yy_size_t for parser alloc definitions, fixes build errors on 64bit
    architectures
    Changed files: linkcheck/parser/htmllex.l

1.8.2
  * - ignore invalid html attribute characters
    - ignore trailing garbage on html end tags
    - fixed debugging code with flex
    - use flex memory management interface
    - use only double quotes for attribute quoting
    - check quoting of all attributes
    Changed files: linkcheck/parser/htmllex.l
  * build parser with flex 2.5.25
    Changed files: linkcheck/parser/{Makefile, htmllex.c}
  * put shared code of cgi scripts in lc_cgi.py
    Changed files: lc.cgi, lc.fcgi, lc.sz_fcgi, linkcheck/lc_cgi.py
  * put some linebreaks and target="top" into HTML output
    Changed files: linkcheck/logging/HtmlLogger.py
  * add translated cgi files
    Changed files: setup.py, MANIFEST.in, debian/rules
    Added files: lconline/*.{de,en}
    Removed files: lconline/{leer.html,lc_cgi.html}

1.8.1
  * Add missing () to function call in proxy handling code
    Changed files: FtpUrlData.py
  * Use urlparse.url(un)split instead of urlparse.url(un)parse
    Changed files: FtpUrlData.py, UrlData.py, HttpUrlData.py,
      FileUrlData.py
  * Print size information if its available
    Changed files: FtpUrlData.py, UrlData.py, HttpUrlData.py
  * Add --warning-size-bytes option to print warning if content size
    exceeds the given byte limit
    Changed files: FtpUrlData.py, HttpUrlData.py, linkchecker, Config.py,
      linkchecker.1
  * Updated translations
    Changed files: po/linkchecker.pot, po/*.po
  * Parse supported file types for ftp links
    Changed files: FtpUrlData.py, FileUrlData.py, UrlData.py

1.8.0
  * Require Python >= 2.2.1, remove httplib.
    Changed files: setup.py, INSTALL, linkchecker
  * Add again python-dns, the Debian package maintainer is unresponsive
    Added files: linkcheck/DNS/*.py
    Changed files: INSTALL, setup.py
  * You must now use named constants for ANSII color codes
    Changed files: linkcheckerrc, linkcheck/log/ColoredLogger.py
  * Release RedHat 8.0 rpm packages.
    Changed files: setup.py, MANIFEST.in
  * remove --robots-txt from manpage, fix HTZP->HTTP typo
    Changed files: linkchecker.1

1.7.1
  * Fix memory leak in HTML parser flushing error path
    Changed files: htmlparse.y
  * add custom line and column tracking in parser
    Changed files: htmllex.l, htmlparse.y, htmlsax.h, htmllib.py
  * Use column tracking in urldata classes
    Changed files: UrlData.py, FileUrlData,py, FtpUrlData.py,
     HostCheckingUrlData.py
  * Use column tracking in logger classes
    Changed files: StandardLogger.py CVSLogger.py, ColoredLogger.py,
      HtmlLogger.py, SqlLogger.py

1.7.0
  * Added new HTML parser written in C as a Python extension module.
    It is faster and it is more fault tolerant.
    Of course, this means I cannot provide .exe installers any more
    since the distutils dont provide cross-compilation.

1.6.7
  * Removed check for <applet> tags codebase attribute, but honor it
    when checking applet links
  * Handle <applet> tags archive attribute as a comma separated list
    Closes: SF bug #636802
  * Fix a nasty bug in tag searching, which ignored tags with more
    than one link attribute in it.
  * Fix concatenation with relative base urls by first joining the
    parent url.
  * New commandline option --profile to write profile data.
  * Add httplib.py from Python CVS 2.1 maintenance branch, which has the
    skip_host keyword argument I am using now.

1.6.6
  * Use the new HTTPConnection/HTTPResponse interface of httplib
    Closes: SF bug #634679
    Changed files: linkcheck/HTTPUrlData.py, linkcheck/HTTPSUrlData.py
  * Updated the ftp online test
    Changed files: test/output/test_ftp

1.6.5
  * Catch the maximum recursion limit error while parsing links and
    print an error message instead of bailing out.
    Changed files: linkcheck/UrlData.py
  * Fixed Ctrl-C only interrupting one single thread, not the whole
    program.
    Changed files: linkcheck/UrlData.py, linkcheck/__init__.py
  * HTML syntax cleanup and relative cgi form url for the cgi scripts
    Changed files: lconline/*.html

1.6.4
  * Support for ftp proxies
    Changed files: linkcheck/FtpUrlData.py, linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py
    Added files: linkcheck/ProxyUrlData.py
  * Updated german translation

1.6.3:
  * Generate md5sum checksums for distributed files
    Changed files: Makefile
  * use "startswith" string method instead of a regex
    Changed files: linkchecker, linkcheck/UrlData.py
  * Add a note about supported languages, updated the documentation.
    Changed files: README, linkchecker, FAQ
  * Remove --robots-txt option from documentation, it is per default
    enabled and you cannot disable it from the command line.
    Changed files: linkchecker, po/*.po
  * fix --extern argument creation
    Changed files: linkchecker, linkcheck/UrlData.py
  * Print help if PyDNS module is not installed
    Changed files: linkcheck/UrlData.py
  * Print information if a proxy was used.
    Changed files: linkcheck/HttpUrlData.py
  * Updated german documentation
    Changed files: po/de.po
  * Oops, an FTP proxy is not used. Will make it in the next release.
    Changed files: linkcheck/FtpUrlData.py
  * Default socket timeout is now 30 seconds (10 was too short)

1.6.2:
  * Warn about unknown Content-Encodings. Dont parse HTML in this case.
  * Support deflate content encoding (snatched from Debians reportbug)
  * Add appropriate Accept-Encoding header to HTTP request.
  * Updated german translations

1.6.1:
  * FileUrlData.py: remove searching for links in text files, this is
    error prone. Just handle *.html and Opera Bookmarks.
  * Make separate ChangeLog from debian/changelog. For previous
    changes, see debian/changelog.
  * Default socket timeout is now 10 seconds
  * updated linkcheck/timeoutsocket.py to newest version
  * updated README and INSTALL
  * s/User-agent/User-Agent/, use same case as other browsers