Released trackon 1.0 (2009/10/21)
Version 1.0 of trackon has been released. You can download it here.
Feature complete, many small improvements and bug fixes, ready for public use.
Some of the major changes included:
- Display number of up/down/total trackers. And some html fixes.
- Many html and style improvements. Thanks to the reddit #webdesign folks for feedback and suggestions!
- Check and display SSL support.
- Many html and style fixes and improvements, thanks to 20h and others at #cat-v for their feedback.
- Documentation updates.
- Be more careful converting various error messages to unicode strings.
- Per tracker info pages.
- Tracker aliases and tracker descriptions.
- New /api/all to list all known trackers.
- New api: /api/fail!
- Make damned mako handle utf-8 properly, arrrr!
- HTML5 style charset declaration.
- Point new form to #new by default so errors are easier to find/see.
- Properly html-scape invalid tracker responses.
- Many other fixes and improvements.
Released trackon 0.5 (2009/09/25)
Version 0.5 of trackon has been released. You can download it here.
First official release, all the core functionality is implemented.
Some of the major changes included:
- Tracker persistence (use datastore to backup and restore memcache when needed).
- Beginnings of the admin interface.
- New tracker check scheduling algorithm that is more flexible and takes into account min-interval.
- Log it when we give up on a new tracker, also avoid giving confusing and incorrect messages.
- Bette error detection/tracking, and provide a helper function to retrieve all existing info from trackers.
- Better validation of incoming urls, and report back when an invalid url was provided.
- Script to generate static pages using mako templates.
- Api-docs and FAQ static pages.
- Fluid CSS style.
- Display latency in ‘ms’
- Make sure we keep track of latency even on failure cases. Refactor tracker checking code.