== FireStats 1.6 ==
11/01/2009 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug in the comments icon appearing in PHP < 5.25 (#945)
08/01/2009 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug in hanlding database name, user or passowrd that contains a + (and other url elements)
02/01/2009 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.6.0-stable released
21/12/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed not to show flag,browser and os icons in recent comments widget.
15/12/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.6.0-RC4 released
15/12/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fix a minor bug with the hits table pagination (#920)
12/12/2008 : Omry : BUG : Improved keyword extraction from some search engines (#919,#926)
06/12/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed not to mark WordPress pages as posts (#924)
06/12/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed mistake in the help for HTML hits recording (#912)
28/11/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.6.0-RC3 released
27/11/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug the Dashboard widget on WordPress 2.7 (#892) 
27/11/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug with JavaScript hits recording - all hits went to the same site (master site) on wpmu blogs.
26/11/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug in the batch hits processing (#874) 
22/11/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed to properly support for google.com.ua (Ukraine) that behaves differently than the rest of Google (#898)
21/11/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Now extracting title text for WordPress pages (#791)
21/11/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug with updating post titles through the wordpress tab (#891)
13/11/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.6.0-RC2 released
13/11/2008 : Omry : DATA : Updated ip2c database to version 2008.11.13
13/11/2008 : Omry : BUG : Changed Joomla plugin not to close MySQL connection because it caused problems with other Joomla plugins. (#879)
13/11/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Added paging buttons to hits table footer. (#885)
13/11/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed JavaScript errors in IE7 (#844)
10/11/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug with new blog registration on WPMU (#884)
03/11/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug with the detection of utf8 encoding which caused problems with some rare search engine urls. (#873)
01/11/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.6.0-rc1 released
19/10/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed Joomla 1.0 bug, wrong mambot name in XML file. (#854)
17/10/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.6.0-beta2 released
16/10/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug that caused all hits to go to the same blog on WPMU. (#852)
15/10/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a the recalculate search engines logic (#843)
04/10/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.6.0-beta1 released
27/09/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug with creation of a new databsae
27/09/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Added the API fs_api_ensure_ip2c_db_updated that makes sure the IP2C database is up to date. (#824)
27/09/2008 : Omry : CORE : Removed unused user_id field from hits and pending hits tables.
27/09/2008 : Omry : CORE : Fixed to use json_encode when available to improve performance on systems that run PHP 5 or newer. 
01/09/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Now supports multiple deletion of urls and bots in the exclude tables.
28/08/2008 : Omry : CORE : Updated to IP2C 2.0.0. helps with the batch hits processing because it's much faster.
28/08/2008 : Omry : CORE : Significant performance improvement when committing hits in batched mode, can now accept 5000 hits/sec and commit 1500 hits/sec (10% and 40% improvements, respectively)
27/08/2008 : Omry : CORE : Significant performance improvement when committing hits in immediate mode, can now process 500 hits/sec in this mode, which is a massive improvement (up to 1000% in some cases) (#810)
19/08/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Made Joomla 1.5 plugin more robust and added a feature to exclude site administrators from the stats.
19/08/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Now shows in WP Dashboard as a widget (#672)
17/08/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed to automatically remove deleted blogs on a WPMU system and added a script to clean the sites table from blogs which have already been deleted. (#796)
16/08/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : New WordPress API function to display popular posts on themes that does not support widgets. (#798)  
04/08/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Hits table pagination + jump to date. (#538)
30/07/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Multiple deletion of excluded ips is now supported (ctrl select)
30/07/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Now sorts excluded ip addresses (#790)
19/07/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Initial support for JavaScript hits recording (#680)
16/07/2008 : Omry : CORE : Enhanced plugins functionality and made RSS support a plugin. 
23/06/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Added basic RSS subscribers support (Currently only WordPress integrates with it).
15/06/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed upgrade mechanism to be more robust and to work correctly with Firefox aggressive caching.
03/06/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Sites management tab improved, now supports pagination and filtering by site name 
01/06/2008 : Omry : CORE : Moved url_site_id back to hits table and optimized queries. Significant improved performance improvements in statistics display.

== FireStats 1.5 ==
16/07/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug with the Widgets in WP 2.6 (#779)
12/07/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.12-stable released
08/07/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a problem with the upgrade on WP 2.5 caused by the FireFox cache problem workaround.
08/07/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.11-stable released
06/07/2008 : OneMarko : ENHANCEMENT : New UI for Joomla 1.5 plugin.
03/07/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed another bug with the UTF-8 detector, and fixed atlas.cz to use cp1251 as default encoding.
02/07/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.10-RC4 released
02/07/2008 : Omry : BUG : Received a port to Joomla 1.5 from onemarko, Thanks! (#760)
02/07/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug in the UTF-8 encoding detection which caused problems in some yandex urls. (#763)
29/06/2008 : Omry : BUG : Worked around a mysql bug that prevented commiting of pending hits in some cases.
28/06/2008 : Omry : SECURITY : Fixed a few security holes (XSS, Information disclosure) (#755, #756)
21/06/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.9-RC3 released
21/06/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed upgrade mechanism to be more robust and to work correctly with Firefox aggressive caching.
12/06/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug with the new-version-check mechanism
12/06/2008 : Omry : DATA : Updated ip2c database to version 2008.06.09
12/06/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a that prevented non admin users in standalone installation from choosing site filter. (#743)
11/06/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.8-RC2 released
09/06/2008 : Omry : Converted urls column and useragents column to binary. this works around problems caused by MySQL collations.
28/05/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.7-RC1 released
28/05/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug that caused edited WordPress posts to disappear from the stats (#540)
28/05/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug in buffered hits processing mode that was caused by WordPress adding slashes to urls/useragents.
25/05/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.6-beta released
25/05/2008 : Omry : DATA : Updated ip2c database to version 2008.05.01
24/05/2008 : Omry : BUG : Now attempts to detect utf-8 strings before converting search terms to utf-8 (#707)
24/05/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug with the time display of recent referrers when sorted by newest first on mysql older than 4.1.13
24/05/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug that prevented editing ranges of excluded IP addresses in the settings tab.
24/05/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed parsing of google search terms when user came from advanced search page. (#718)
23/05/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug in buffered hits processing mode that was caused by WordPress adding slashes to useragents.
23/05/2008 : Omry : CORE : Added an upgrade step that eliminated unused urls inserted by the previous bug.
23/05/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug in buffered hits processing mode that caused FireStats to record urls of hit even if the hit is excluded based on useragent (and vise versa).
17/05/2008 : Omry : CORE : Improved performance of some queries by eliminating an unneeded join. 
11/05/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.5-RC3 released
04/05/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug causing Call to undefined function: get_userdata() in wp and wpmu in some cases. (#694, #701)
02/05/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug that caused FireStats to count excluded users in WordPress when using buffered hits mode (#698).
02/05/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed session code not to kill WordPress admin page if there is a problem with the sessions permissions.
18/04/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a WPMU upgrade problem
18/04/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed the Mutex test in the system diagnostics page.
17/04/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.4-RC2 released
17/04/2008 : Omry : BUG : Due to mysql 4.1 bugs the minimum version for delayed commits is now mysql 5.0
16/04/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed another issue with commit-pending-hits on mysql 4.1
13/04/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed commit-pending-hits not to die in case of error (and killing the calling script with it!)
11/04/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug with the recalculation of country codes (#677)
08/04/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.3-RC1 released
08/04/2008 : Omry : DATA : Updated ip2c database to version 2008.3.31
08/04/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug with commit-pending-hits on mysql 4.1 (#671)
05/04/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed bug when upgrading from very old FireStats (#668)
05/04/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed A few bugs introduced by WP 2.5 (#665, #667).
29/03/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.2-beta released
29/03/2008 : Omry : DATA : Updated ip2c database to version 2008.3.10
29/03/2008 : Omry : DATA : Updated bots list to include many new bots
29/03/2008 : Omry : BUG : WordPress plugin no longer includes pluggable.php, which caused problems to wp 2.0 users. (#643)
29/03/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a pass-by-reference syntax error (#641)
29/03/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed bug that caused ips in exclude table to be inserted when using buffered hits mode (#638)
29/03/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed visitors-since-midnight to use the user's timezone correctly AGAIN. (#635)
02/03/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.1-beta released
02/03/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed the mutex test in the diagnostics page to work on IE7
02/03/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed an IE7 bug in the settings tab layout. (#632)
01/03/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed dhtml windows z-index (now they appear under hourglass).
01/03/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed hits-since-midnight to consider time-zone.
25/02/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug that caused bots to be recorded.
24/02/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed the display of visits and page views for the last 24 hours and for since-midnight. 
23/02/2008 : Omry : RELEASE : 1.5.0-beta released
22/02/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Integrated with WordPress version check mechanism, new version message now appears also in WordPress plugins list.
18/02/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Now displays search engine icon and search terms in hits table where appropriate.
18/02/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Now properly converts search.walla.co.il referrers to utf-8.
18/01/2008 : Omry : CORE : Created a generic codepage to utf-8 encoder. 
17/02/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed to convert Cyrillic keywords encoded in windows 1251 to utf-8 (#590).  
13/02/2008 : Omry : BUG : Renamed Services_JSON to fs_Services_JSON to prevent conflict with other instances of this class.
12/02/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : There is a new 'time since added' column In the referrers view, when viewing by 'newest first'.  
09/02/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : It's now possible to control which sites each user is permitted to access (#478).
08/02/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Added support for Norwegian search engines.
05/02/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug which caused pages to appear in the popular posts widget in WordPress (#605).
03/02/2008 : Omry : OPT : Improved startup time by checking for new version asynchrnously.
02/02/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Added support for Russian search engines.
30/01/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed splitting of long unicode strings (no longer split in the middle of a multichar utf-8 character) (#575)
27/01/2008 : Omry : OPT : Optimized commit-pending.php to process 600 hits/sec (!)
14/01/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Now possible to see visits/page views singe midnight as well as in last 24 hours.
12/01/2008 : Omry : CORE : It's no longer possible have newly added hits which match an exclude criteria to be saved. 
12/01/2008 : Omry : FEATURE : Added support for excluding hits by urls and referrers. 
12/01/2008 : Omry : CORE : To improve performance, Excluded entries are no longer excluded from the display before they have been actually purged, but just marked as excluded.
11/01/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug that caused FireStats to check for a new version to often. 
10/01/2008 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug that cause errors in WordPress admin secion if an incorrect FireStats address was entered into the FireStats options page (Satellite mode only)
08/01/2008 : Omry : BUG : Updated flags package to include Surinam and a few other flags.
30/11/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Exclude IP addresses by range
30/11/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : IPv6 Support 
23/11/2007 : Omry : CORE : Now store IP addresses as a pair of bigints instead of as a string, this is required to handle ipv6 addresses correctly.
15/11/2007 : Omry : CORE : Removed site_id from hits table (will use site_id from url)
09/11/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added an option to download the configuration file if it's not writable
09/11/2007 : Omry : OPT : Optimized popular pages query on mysql < 4.1.14
09/11/2007 : Omry : CLEAN : Removed site_id from hits table and from archive_pages table.

== FireStats 1.4 ==
28/06/2008 : Omry : SECURITY : Fixed a few security holes (XSS, Information disclosure) (#755, #756) 
24/11/2007 : Omry : RELEASE : FireStats 1.4.4-stable released (1.4 branch)
10/27/2007 : Omry : BUG  : Fixed a bug effecting IE7 connecting to a Windows server (#496)
10/27/2007 : Omry : RELEASE : FireStats 1.4.3-RC1 released
10/27/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added two Czech search engines (Atlas.cz,Centrum.cz)
10/27/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed registraton of WordPress blog when installing in satallite mode
10/27/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed to delete site from archive tables when deleting a site from the sites tab (#498)
10/26/2007 : Omry : RELEASE : FireStats Installer 1.0.0-beta released (#26)
10/15/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug in the recognition of google search terms 
10/14/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug that effected the display of strings with a particular character (value \255) (#483)
10/13/2007 : Omry : BUG : trac plugin now records query string in urls (#454)
10/13/2007 : Omry : RELEASE : FireStats 1.4.2-beta released
10/13/2007 : Omry : BUG : Worked around a WordPress bug that prevented saving of Widgets with non English names (#469)
10/13/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug with the number of displayed search terms
10/13/2007 : Omry : BUG : Renamed css class wrap to fwrap to prevent conflicts with WordPress 2.3 Hebrew
10/13/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added pending maintenance jobs support, and using it to automatically rebuild search terms after upgrade to 1.4 
10/10/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Now using the plugin activation hook for WordPress > 2.0, this enables mass activation by the Plugin-Commander in WPMU
08/10/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Change UI design of sites table tab to make better use of space
08/10/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added scroll bar to the users list
07/10/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed hits table filters
07/10/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed initial language problem when installed in satellite WordPress
07/10/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed login problem in satellite wordpress installations
06/10/2007 : Omry : RELEASE : FireStats 1.4.1-beta released
06/10/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug that caused all newly inserted referrers to be considered internal, and thus filtered from the referrers list
06/10/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a few bugs with the popular posts widget in WordPress
05/10/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug that prevented upgrade from 1.2 to 1.4
05/10/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed a bug in the way the API is used from an external app
03/10/2007 : Omry : RELEASE : FireStats 1.4.0-beta released
03/10/2007 : Omry : BUG : Fixed javascript security induced bug in wp satellite mode
29/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added password recovery emergency page (through tools.php)
28/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Now uses url title (if available) in hits table, recent referrers and popular pages.
28/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Improved recent referrers, now filters internal referrers and allow sorting by new-first or by more-hits-first.
27/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Removed database lock functionality, no longer needed now that we have real authentication
27/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added database size indication to settings tab (in the Database compaction section)
27/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Merged URLs and Referrers table. this will result in reduced storage and will enable functions that were not possible
19/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added option to set minimum user role that can access FireStats when installed inside WordPress
19/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added caching for WordPress widgets to reduce server load
17/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added the API fs_api_get_popular_pages to api.php
16/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added popular pages WordPress widget
14/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added support for url metadata
10/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Changed all tabs except stats to load lazily, significantly improving startup time
09/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Changed sites managemenet UI to use dhtml windows
08/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Moved all libraries to /lib
07/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Created functionality for delayed data commit for heavily loaded sites. activate from config.php
07/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Added sample-config.php. copy to config.php to control various FireStats options
07/09/2007 : Omry : FEATURE : Created changelog file