What's new in GeoToad 3.22.0
Oct 31, 2014
- Issue 309: Use new user preferences page after 2014-10-14 site update
- Support for some new ("dotted") data formats
- History logging removed again
- Minor stuff
New in GeoToad 3.20.0 (Jan 17, 2014)
- This release removes "fun factor" support and addresses an issue triggered by HTML reformatting of "printable cache details" pages.
New in GeoToad 3.19.2 (Jan 7, 2014)
- This is an interim release, before removing the "fun factor" functionality completely.
- Also, a few quirks have been addressed.
New in GeoToad 3.19.1 (Dec 23, 2013)
- Issues addressed:
- Issue 198: get some data from PMO caches (but no coords)
- Issue 271 more nuvi adjustments
- Issue 285: no problems with ruby 2.0
- Issue 288: cookie cleanup
- Issue 293: avoid listing filters twice
- Added some long options (to be abridged again)
- "-l" ("--waypointLength") option renamed to "-w" (issue 286 related)
- Numerous minor additions, modifications, cleanups, and bug fixes
New in GeoToad 3.19.0 (Nov 21, 2013)
- This vrsion fixes an issue caused by GroundSpeak's addition of Facebook logins (a.k.a., 20131114.1 HotFix).
- There are packages for OS X (.dmg), Windows (using the InnoSetup installer and the Ocra gem with Ruby 1.9.3), and Debian/Ubuntu Linux (.deb), and a generic tarball. Unfortunately, there's no Ruby 2.0 installer package available yet.
New in GeoToad 3.18.1 (Oct 31, 2013)
- This version addresses a couple of minor issues affecting: date parsing; HTML entities in cache, owner, or finder names, and deprecated gpsbabel output formats.
- The Windows installer comes with Ruby 1.9.3 pre-packaged; otherwise, Ruby 1.9.1 or higher is required.
- Ruby 2.0 isn't officially supported yet. Please do not use pre-3.18 versions anymore.
New in GeoToad 3.17.11 (Sep 13, 2013)
- This version has grown from the convergence of the 3.16(.9) and 3.17(.10) trees, and incorporates a number of fixes to accommodate the 20130821 HotFix changes which rendered the previous versions unusable.
- There's a "dictionary" being used now, and you may want to fill this with knowledge already on your disk before starting GeoToad again.
- See the project wiki on GoogleCode for details.
- Ruby 1.8 support has been removed, and Ruby 1.9 is required.
New in GeoToad 3.16.9 (Jul 4, 2013)
- Two serious bugs were fixed, one obvious and one better hidden.
New in GeoToad 3.16.8 (Jun 27, 2013)
- The version is the last stable version still supporting Ruby 1.8 (which will be phased out soon).
- It is now possible to read found caches from a list (-E name=file), fetch a list of cache logs (-M), and save history to the local disk.
- There were plenty of minor fixes, additions, and cleanups.
New in GeoToad 3.16.7 (May 13, 2013)
- This stable version, codenamed "M'aidez!", is mainly a bugfix release triggered by recent changes in the search result format.
- Minor additions include the "-Y" option (skip fetching details), and "short input" into the TUI.
- Please move to Ruby 1.9, as 1.8 support will be phased out soon.
New in GeoToad 3.16.6 (Apr 27, 2013)
- This stable version fixes GPX file corruption caused by the introduction of UTF-16-encoded characters, in particular "Emoji" (represented as surrogate pairs).
- Smileys in log entries are now converted back into their usual "BB" representation.
- A subtle bug affecting the TUI with automatic filename generation has been addressed.
- The Windows installer now comes with Ruby 1.9.3, in preparation of the Ruby version transition due in June (when support for 1.8.7 ends).
New in GeoToad 3.16.5 (Mar 19, 2013)
- This stable version comes with favorite point filtering, a "not found by me" option, and support for more languages (notably, Latvian and Italian, and a fix for Portuguese).
- There are still a number of known glitches.
New in GeoToad 3.17.4 (Dec 12, 2012)
- This version contains several experimental new features.
- A few of them will, together with accumulated bugfixes, be incorporated into the next stable release.
New in GeoToad 3.16.2 (Sep 29, 2012)
- The GeoToad stable series 3.16 continues to fix known bugs and backport enhancements from the 3.17 development series.
- The new stable release 3.16.2 addresses a couple of issues with corrupted or inconsistent data and foreign language settings, improves selective cleanup for Windows, and speeds queries for single cache types.
- A new progressive delay mechanism, by slowing down excessive queries, can save your account.
- For Windows users' convenience, a PDF version of the manual page has been added.
New in GeoToad 3.16.1 (Jun 30, 2012)
- Recent changes to the GC website (replacing "regular" cache sizes with "medium" for a subclass of queries) forced an update.
- Some other patched have been merged. If you're using Windows and Ruby 1.9, please check issue 247 and report your findings (GeoToad is slowly migrating away from Ruby 1.8, which becomes obsolete in June 2013).
New in GeoToad 3.14.8 (Feb 18, 2012)
- It fixes the issue with text strings erroneously interpreted as "last found" dates.
- It allows output to multiple formats in a single run.
New in GeoToad 3.14.7 (Dec 27, 2011)
- "Early filtering" by Difficulty/Terrain/cacheSize Is now working again.
- The number of search result pages is now limited.
- Country/state queries were added, and information on the syntax was added to the README.
- Small fixes were made to log time format and non-printable HTML entities.
New in GeoToad 3.14.4 (May 13, 2011)
- Updated for the latest GC.com changes.
- Other minor improvements.
New in GeoToad 3.14.3 (Jan 14, 2011)
- New output formats for feeding Garmin GPS units: gclist and gcvisits.
- Improved compatibility with GSAK (new formats: gpx-gsak and gpx-wpts).
- Other minor bugfixes and enhancements.
New in GeoToad 3.13.0 (Nov 11, 2010)
- A new "list" output template for simple ASCII output.
- Now uses GPX 1.0.1 for output, which includes attributes.
- Support for outputting additional waypoints.
- Better support for Cash In Trash Out and Lost & Found caches.
- Many other bugfixes.
New in GeoToad 3.12.1 (Oct 18, 2010)
- The code was updated for the latest GC.com changes.
- HTML output and offline mode were improved.
- Automatic funfactor adjustment (English only) was added, and a new SMS output template was added.
New in GeoToad 3.9.7 (Sep 2, 2008)
- This release adds a new filter (cacheType).
- It has been synced with the latest changes to the Geocaching.com website.
- Broken ampersand munging for XML output types (GPX and KML) has been fixed, and there is improved behaviour when run in disconnected mode.