spider 2.4.4  (January/February 1999)

spider 2.4.3  (22.12.98)
    + SunOS User Quota Bug fixed
    + C Shell Pager Bug fixed
    + Sysinfo Unpack Double Init Bug fixed
    + Parts Floating Point Bugs fixed
    + C Shell Unpack Bug fixed
    + Automatic shell loading
    + complete C shell support in spider binaries
    + SunOS and Ultrix support
    + Improved CPU, Libs, OS, Parts and User Modul    
    + Improved C shell support, Scripts
    + Recognition of Linux modules with parameters
    + Recognition of Sun CPUs
    + Recognition of Ultrix computers
    + Changed Security Check        
    + Ultrix OS recognition

spider 2.4.2  (25.11.98)
    + Entire Inode Bug fixed
    + HP-UX Real Name Bug fixed
    + HP-UX Program Bug fixed
    + kwm Recognition Bug fixed
    + XEmacs False Version Output Bug fixed
    + Spider Limit Bug fixed
      (for further information look at README point 2.2)
    + Net Modul implemented
    + Completly New Libs Modul
    + C and Korn compatible shell scripts
    + Improved Parts, PCI/AGP, Software and User Modul
    + Improved Cfg, Exec and Text Tool
    + Improved Config File Format and Scripts
    + Improved Security Check
    + Improved System Manager (1.1.3)
    + Improved Sysinfo Creator (1.1.4)    
    + Improved Buginfo Creator (1.0.2)        
    + Multiple Shell Support
    + Shorter Spider Output
      (some spaces at the end of a line are no longer displayed)
    + Recognition of installed libraries on HP-UX
    + Recognition of smbmounted Windows shares
    + Recognition of daemon mounted partitions
    + Recognition of idle time
    + Recognition of quotas
    + Recognition of network devices    
    + Recognition of IPs

spider 2.4.1  (10.11.98)
    + Spider Access Bug fixed
      (only root and I had access to the man pages)
    + Spider Creator Recognition Bug fixed
    + Crypt Tool implemented
    + Improved IDE, Memory, OS, Parts and Sysinfo Modul
    + Improved Conv, Date, Format, Text and XString Tool
    + Improved Config Files, Documentation, Man Pages and Scripts
    + Improved Sysinfo Creator (1.1.3)    
    + Improved Buginfo Creator (1.0.1)
    + Man Page for Spider Buginfo Creator
    + Extended Config File Format
    + A Sysinfo contains more information            
    + Summary for User and Parts Modul
    + GigaByte Sizes implemented
    + Text Tool Error Reporting
    + /etc/group is according to security reasons not longer in a sysinfo
    + New Spider Sysinfo Check Routine
    + Some cryptographic stuff
      (I can't believe that! Some people hexedited the binaries and "updated"
       Spider to version 9.x.x!)
    + Some OO changes
    + Recognition of Sysinfos/Buginfos, former version had only tested for
      a tar, tar.gz and tar.Z file
    + Recognition of Sysinfo Creator Program
    + Recognition of HP-UX and HP-UX version
    + Recognition of Inode Using
    + Recognition of S.u.S.E. Linux also without original /etc/issue
    + Recognition of the real user name and his group
    + Recognition of login date and login time

spider 2.4.0  (29.10.98)
    + Parts Mount Bug fixed
    + Linux Hidden Parts Bug fixed
    + Double Device Recognition Bug fixed
    + Better HP-UX support
    + Improved Security Check
    + Improved OS, Parts, Res, RTC, Sysinfo and User Modul
    + Improved Scripts
    + Improved Date, Text and XString Tool    
    + Improved Sysinfo Creator (1.1.2)
    + Some Formating Changes
    + Changed Language Kit File Name for Software Modul
    + Spider Buginfo Creator 1.0.0 implemented    
    + Completly new Software Modul    
    + Spider Sysinfo Creator has full HP-UX support
    + Some OO changes    

spider 2.3.9  (23.10.98)
    + User $COLUMNS/$TERM Bug fixed
    + Sysinfo chmod Bug fixed
    + Improved Date Tool
    + Improved User Modul
    + Improved Scripts    
    + Sysinfo contains more information        
    + Completly new Parts Modul
    + Better HP-UX support

spider 2.3.8  (22.10.98)
    + Spider 2.3.7 No Argument Bug fixed
    + Spider can use HP-UX sysinfo files
    + Completly new IDE modul 
    + Improved Date Tool
    + Improved Sysinfo Creator (1.1.1)
    + Improved User Modul
    + Improved Scripts
    + Modul Interface with 5 Levels implemeted    
    + Some changes to all moduls to make them level 2 compatible
    + Sysinfo contains more information    
    + Script Preparation for HP-UX
    + HP-UX can run Spider Sysinfo Creator in safe mode

spider 2.3.7  (17.10.98)
    + Double Initialization Bug fixed
    + SCSI modul implemented
      (This does only work good with EIDE SCSI emulation, because
       I have no access to a real SCSI system.)
    + Improved (E)IDE modul
    + Improved Scripts
    + Improved Documentation
    + Improved Version Information
    + Spider works not only with gzip, but also with compress and 
      without compression
    + Sysinfo Error Reporting  
    + Changed config file format
      (If you have a self made config file look at spider.org)
    + Changed Language Kit file names
      (If you have a self translated LK rename your files.)
    + Some OO changes
      
spider 2.3.6  (14.10.98)
    + Improved Sysinfo Creator (1.1.0)
    + Improved Man Pages
    + Improved Scripts
    + Improved Documentation
    + Security Warning if shell scripts are changed
    + Sysinfo contains more information
    + Spidersys Script Checking is now possible
    + 1st step of shell script preparation for SCSI recognition

spider 2.3.5  (07.10.98)
    + man pages for spider and spidersys added
    + system independed Spider Sysinfo Creator 1.0.0 implemented
    + sysinfo contains more information
    + shell script preparation for SYSVR3 operating systems

spider 2.3.4  (03.10.98)
    + spider execution bug of 2.3.3 fixed
    + some formating changes
    
spider 2.3.3  (29.09.98)
    + LANG bug fixed 
      (if you hadn't defined LANG *and* LC_CTYPE spider crashed)
    + some changes to spider.cc
    + some changes to System Manager (1.1.2)
    + some formating changes
    - this version doesn't work according to a output redirection bug

spider 2.3.2  (19.09.98)
    + if you didn't finished the installation or if you have no config file
      spider tries to find the right config file using LANG and LC_CTYPE
    + improved library modul
    + improved os modul	
    + improved ios modul
    + minor changes in all modules according to the new texttool
    + completly new texttool
    + some formating changes    	

spider 2.3.1  (16.09.98)
    + total interrupts formating bug fixed (screen.tab3llr was a screen.tab3l)
    + X modul implemented    
    + improved user modul        
    + improved software modul            
    + improved os modul       
    + zero version info files are deleted before creation of a sysinfo
    + no shell script output before spider output
    + shell script error reporting
    + shell script error redirection
    + some formating changes
    + sysinfo contains more information
    + recognition of 25% more versions    
    + recognition of distribution (only S.u.S.E. 5.x, maybe 4.x)
    + recognition of GID

spider 2.3.0  (14.09.98)
    + string2int bug in texttool.cc fixed
    + library modul implemented
    + ios modul implemented
    + improved user modul    
    + improved software modul
    + improved interrupt modul
    + improved texttool and parser
    + interrupt modul moved into ios modul 
    + sysinfo contains more information           
    + some changes in texttool and in spidersm result in binaries
      that are 11% smaller than in spider 2.2.0
    + recognition of loaded moduls, major device numbers and
      kernel supported filesystems
    + recognition of all IRQ, IO and DMA using devices
    
spider 2.2.0  (07.09.98)
    + "two 2lr screens" bug in texttool fixed
    + syschar modul implemented
    + improved CPU and Partitions modul
    + improved date, parser, text and cfg tool
    + improved scripts and config
    + programming language like configurable date format 
    + creating a sysinfo file grabs more information
    + recognition of all CPUID capable Intel and AMD CPUs (not Intel Xeon)
      (Who has a CPUID capable Cyrix/IDT I can test?)

spider 2.1.1  (03.09.98)
    + new procfs CPU model bug fixed
    + /proc/rtc doesn't exist bug fixed
    + empty ring buffer (dmesg) bug fixed (memory)
    + UMSDOS bug fixed
    + host ID bug with real TCP/IP networking fixed
    + IBM-DHEA-38451 bug fixed
    + spider redirection bug fixed
    + newer ps execution bug fixed
    + fetchmail version bug fixed
    + Completly new CPU modul
    + Improved System Manager (1.1.1)    
    + Improved Memory and PCI Modul
    + Recognition of all Intel CPU feature flags
    + Recognition of CPU type
    + Recognition of UMSDOS partitions
    + Recognition of Ultra DMA disks
    + Recognition of kwm
    
spider 2.0.0  (29.07.1998)
    + First official release
    + Hostname Bug fixed
    + Running Procs Bug fixed
    + Sysinfo creator Bug fixed
    + Old ar Bug fixed
    + Old binutils Bug fixed
    + Spider version Bug fixed
    + FPU Detection Bug on AMD CPUs fixed
    + Improved System Manager (1.1.0)
    + Improved Sodtware and User modul
    + Improved Date tool
    + Improved CPU modul
    + Recognition of AMD CPUs
    + Recognition of MMX capability

spider 1.11.1  (20.07.1998)
    - canceled (Cause I had the chance to publish it on Sunsite and 1.11.1 was
      very stable I decided to publish it with some additions as 2.0.0.)

spider 1.11.0  (12.07.1998)
    + format::formatnumber Bug fixed
    + Double mkdir Bug fixed
    + Ints modul implemented
    + Spider System Manager 1.0.0 implemented 
      (for portability of system specific features)
    + Improved Memory, OS and User modul
    + Output of not utilizable memory and host ID
    + Output of running and started processes
    + Recognition of user mode and system mode

spider 1.10.0  (07.07.1998)
    + Make.com Token Bug fixed
    + Improved OS and PCI modul
    + Improved partitions modul (sorted output)
    + Security check implemented (against manipulation of scripts)
    + Recognition of load
    + Recognition of unmountable partitions
    + Recognition of some card features
    + Localized partitions modul

spider 1.9.0  (21.06.1998)
    + Partitions, PCI and RTC modul implemented
    + Improved Memory and OS modul	
    + Recognition of uptime

spider 1.8.0  (19.06.1998)
    + Date Tool implemented
    + Time Zone Support for Europe and Africa (not for Moscow)
    + Localized sysinfo modul

spider 1.7.1  (31.05.1998)
    + First Line Bug fixed
    + Temporary File Bug fixed (File wasn't deleted before exit)
    + bash and info Version corrected
    + Drive Modul implemented
    + Sysinfo Modul implemented (english only)
    + Formated Memory output

spider 1.6.0  (30.05.1998)
    + Language-Country Bug fixed
    + Screen Memory Bug fixed (Screen wasn't fully removed from memory)
    + Memory modul implemented	
    + Some memory saving improvements
    + Binary is 34k (16%) smaller than 1.5.0
    - Screen Management is now static

spider 1.5.0  (23.05.1998)
    + IRC Software Bug fixed
    + Static Screen Management changed to a dynamic version
    + Some trash removed
    + Changed most of the data structures
    + Version information is only taken when necessary
    + Without the Software modul it is 3 times faster than 1.4.0
    + Binary is 106k (56%) smaller than 1.4.0

spider 1.4.0  (22.05.1998)
    + Software modul implemented
    + Changed information handling
    + Extended spider version information
    + Info file now includes user, time and spider version

spider 1.3.0  (16.05.1998)
    + Help screen mixed language bug fixed
    + Extended user modul
    + Changed handling of screen captions
    + Improved argument recognition
    + Improved environment recognition	
    + Info file I/O support	(this was hard work)
    - spider can not longer be executed as binary only version
      (else system independed script handling would be very complicated)

spider 1.2.0   (09.05.1998)
    + ISO language Bug fixed
    + Constructor Bug in Screen management fixed
    + User Exec Bug fixed
    + Improved support for 55 Language Kits
    + Improved modul management
    + Improved inter modul communication
    + Improved output of version information

spider 1.1.0   (01.05.1998)
    + Exec Bug in spider.cfg fixed
    + User modul implemented
    + Screen Managment organized in a class
    + Improved support for german, english and french Language Kits	
    + Language in spider.cfg can also be the language name
      (must not be an ISO code)

spider 1.0.0   (16.04.1998)
    + Original version
