Dosage 2.2 - Changelog

What's new in Dosage 2.2:

April 30th, 2013

Features:
· comics: Added ARedTailsDream, Carciphona, Curtailed, GirlGenius, Lackadaisy, SabrinaOnline, TheDreamlandChronicles, TwoGuysAndGuy and Unsound. Patches by Dirk Reiners. Closes: GH bug #29
· comics: Comics which are not updated anymore can now be marked. Closes: GH bug #30

Changes:
· cmdline: Ignore trailing '/' at end of comic names. Useful when using shell completion to pick comics. Patch by Dirk Reiners.

Fixes:
· comics: Fix DorkTower, MadamAndEve and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, and improve image filenames of CtrlAltDel. Patches by Dirk Reiners.

What's new in Dosage 2.1:

April 15th, 2013

Features:
· comics: Add some comic descriptions from their webpages.

Fixes:
· cmdline: Fix output encoding errors on comic listing. Closes: GH bug #24

What's new in Dosage 1.14:

March 22nd, 2013

Features:
· comics: Added KeenSpot comic strips and enable ComicGenesis comic strips
· comics: Added CucumberQuest, DasLebenIstKeinPonyHof, DemolitionSquad, DerFlix, DerTodUndDasMaedchen, DogHouseDiaries, FonFlatter, FullFrontalNerdity, GeeksNextDoor, Hipsters, KatzenfutterGeleespritzer, KickInTheHead, MyCartoons, OrnerBoy, ParallelUniversum, Ruthe, SandraAndWooGerman, WormWorldSaga. Closes: GH bug #15, #19

Changes:
· comics: The scraper can check a list of previous and image link regular expressions, not only a single one.
· comics: Continue searching for images if one image is not found. Closes: GH bug #18

Fixes:
· comics: Fix dilbert image naming. Closes: GH bug #20

What's new in Dosage 1.13:

March 12th, 2013

Features:
· comics: Added comic strips AhoiPolloi, AxeCop, Bearmageddon, DeadWinter, HarkAVagrant, IAmArg, LoadingArtist, Nnewts, PHDComics, PokeyThePenguin, SnowFlame, WorldOfMrToast and Zwarwald.

Changes:
· cmdline: Comic lists are displayed one page at a time.
· output: HTML output embeds the images in the page and show the page URLs.
· output: The --output option can be given multiple times.

Fixes:
· cmdline: Catch error when piping output to another program or file under Windows. Closes: GH bug #13
· cmdline: Catch error when multiple comics match. Closes: GH bug #16
· comics: Retry download on empty content to reduce empty file errors.
· comics: Don't save thumbnails in LookingForGroup. Closes: GH bug #17

What's new in Dosage 1.12:

March 5th, 2013

Features:
· comics: Added comic strips AlphaLuna, AlphaLunaSpanish, BrentalFloss BrentalFlossFit, BrentalFlossGuest, DangerouslyChloe, MagickChicks, MenageA3, Namesake, ShadowGirls, StickyDillyBuns.

Fixes:
· cmdline: Fix option parsing for -l, --singlelist and --version. Closes: GH bug #10
· comics: Ensure the file is written to disk on save and detect empty files as an error. Closes: GH bug #11

What's new in Dosage 1.11:

March 2nd, 2013

Features:
· comics: Added comic strips Caggage, ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings, SandraAndWoo and SupernormalStep.

Changes:
· comics: Always use connection pooling when downloading pages or files.
· cmdline: Replace the deprecated argument parser optparse with argparse.
· installation: The Windows installer now adds a help entry to the start menu and has a flag to add dosage.exe to the PATH.

Fixes:
· comics: Correct the list of characters not to quote for URL path encoding. This fixes a lot of download errors of DrunkDuck comics.
· comics: Fixed a lot of comic strips (see git log for details). Closes: GH bug #8

What's new in Dosage 1.9:

January 29th, 2013

Features:
· comics: Added AmazingSuperPowers comic strip.
· comics: Added PandyLand comic strip.
· comics: Added all comic strips from Arcamax (eg. including Hagar the horrible).
· documentation: Document parallel download example with xargs on Unix systems.

Changes:
· comics: CyanideAndHappiness image filename now has the strip number prefixed.
· comics: Indexed retrieval can now retrieve all (-a) or some (-n) strips, not only one.

Fixes:
· comics: Fixed LeastICouldDo image URL. Closes: GH bug #1
· comics: Fix URL norming. Closes: GH bug #2
· documentation: Fix wrong option name: it's -a instead of -c. Closes: GH bug #3
· comics: Fix UnboundLocalError when using indexed retrieval. Closes: GH bug #4
· scripts: Ensure the generated comic names do not exceed 100 characters so they do not cause problems with path length restrictions.
· installation: Set correct homepage url so "pip install dosage" works. Closes: GH bug #5

What's new in Dosage 1.8:

December 21st, 2012

Changes:
· comics: Add compatibility to requests module >= 1.0.
· comics: Updated the comic list with the generator scripts.