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Version Release date Notes
3.0.6.0 30 November 2006 GUI tweaks per talk, and some bug fixes, lots of tweaking and updating. Added options to move/delete articles.
3.0.5.2 09 November 2006 More small bugfixes and tweaks.
3.0.5.1 06 November 2006 Bug fixes and tweaks to previous release, option to find an intersection of two lists, basic anti-vandal features in IRCMonitor.
3.0.5.0 01 November 2006 Ususal tweaks and minor fixes (especially for foreign language projects). All projects now work with all supported languages. Added experimental support for non-Wikimedia wikis (use it at your own risk!) Namespaces for projects that are not wikipedia are downloaded on demand. New option to make lists from a wiki-search. New "Advanced" menu option to enable a "module", whereby a user can enter their own c# or VB.NET code to process article text which is then compiled, loaded and executed on-the-fly. New settings file format.
3.0.4.1 04 October 2006 Lots of general tweaks and improvements, including allowing checkpage to work on all projects, using the page PROJECTNAMESPACE:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage and must be the same format as this one (if the page doesn't exist then all users are enabled). Fixed a couple of rare bugs.
3.0.4.0 23 September 2006 Lots of general tweaks and improvements to all areas. A few small bug fixes. Added some statistics to the status bar and save as default option to the file menu.
3.0.3.0 09 September 2006 Some small fixes and tweaks. Added "more" skip options. Added support for more projects and languages.
3.0.2.9 03 September 2006 A few fixes per talk page. Separate typo page for each language. Auto tag now sorts out the by-date categorising of some tags as well, such as {{Wikify}}.
3.0.2.6 29 August 2006 Fixes per talk page, moved ignore non-existing articles option to "Skip articles" section.
3.0.2.5 28 August 2006 Fixed some unusual issues. Improved the plugin feature.
3.0.2.3 25 August 2006 Fixed and tweaked a few small things. Added plugin support (instructions below). Added support for wikinews.
3.0.2.2 20 August 2006 A few bug fixes and general tweaks. Added option to remove/comment out images (be careful with this until it has been tested thoroughly!).
3.0.2.1a 11 August 2006 Fixed a few issues. Added shortcut keys for show changes and preview. Added start button to toolbar. More major internal changes. Added support for da: wiki projects. Added preferences dialog to menu, with some more options, including enhanced diff, which makes the diff page easier to check.
3.0.2.0 08 August 2006 Typos are now downloaded from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos when the typo fixing option is enabled, so they are always fully up-to-date. A couple of minor tweaks and fixes.
3.0.1.9 06 August 2006 Can select multiple list items to add to "Add selected to list". Can now enter multiple entries when making a list from any source by separating the items with the pipe | character e.g. from a category, entering "Cats|Dogs|Fish" will get all the entries in Category:Cats Category:Dogs and Category:Fish. Fixed couple of bugs.
3.0.1.8 05 August 2006 Moved typos into separate file, fixed a few bugs highlighted on talk page.
3.0.1.7 01 August 2006 Upgraded find+replace dialog, more customisable now. Integrated RegExTypoFix, option to enable it "More options" tab - use this very carefully. Fixed a couple of bugs. Added login button to "File" menu. Now works on more projects in other languages.
3.0.1.5 26 July 2006 Improved database scanner, added wordcount option. "Tagger" removes stub tags from long articles. Fixed a couple of small bugs. A few variables can now be changed in the .config file (more can/will be added).
3.0.1.4 24 July 2006 Fixed a few issues. Overhauled and renamed Database Scanner. Find-and-replace summary now says number of each change made as well. Add false positive button to toolbar.
3.0.1.3 19 July 2006 Fixed a couple of small issues, added context menu to list filter dialog, added "Insert human name disambig" option to "insert tag" contect menu, all keywords work on all options now. Works on more wikimedia projects. Find-and-replacements can be detailed in the edit summary, find-and-replace can now skip interwiki links as well. Added more options to special filter. Many other minor tweaks.
3.0.1.2 15 July 2006 Added option so find-and-replace can skip external links, image links, <nowiki>'ed text, <math>'ed text and html comments. Multiple improvements to usage on other wikis. Find-and-replace boxes stay on top now. Fixed bug with making long lists from "what transcludes here".
3.0.1.0 13 July 2006 Added "Filter" button, with lots of new filtering options. Added keyword "%%key%%" to "Add new category" option, now if you enter "Living people|%%key%%" it will automatically replace %%key%% with the reversed human name (e.g. "Bush, George W."). Some other tweaks and improvements, including working on more other language projects. Can now make list from Watchlist (using the account you are logged into internet explorer with), "What links here" separated from "what transcludes here".
3.0.0.9 11 July 2006 Added couple more options to list menu (per talk page), and a few other minor tweaks and improvements.
3.0.0.8 08 July 2006 Fixed a couple of small issues from last release.
3.0.0.7 06 July 2006 Added context menu option to add selected sub-category contents to the list. If present, automatically loads "Default.xml" setting on startup. Other small changes, including moving a couple of items on the interface, improvements to the advanced find and replace dialog, and big internal improvements.
3.0.0.6 28 June 2006 Added option to skip article when no find-and-replacement is done, now skips articles that were not re-categorised. Now beeps as well as flashing the taskbar. Added advanced find and replace option. Added IRC recent changes monitor program, accessible from File menu - still under development. And fixed couple of small bugs.
3.0.0.5 17 June 2006 Fixed bug with google search, added another language, integrated dump searcher.
3.0.0.4 14 June 2006 Lots of general improvements (listing is now faster and better), added function for replacing images, made much stuff work better in other language wikis.
3.0.0.3 05 June 2006 Improved log in process on other language wikis.
3.0.0.2 04 June 2006 Can make a list from image file links, other general tweaks, can now transform the list into talk pages, e.g. "Cat" => "Talk:Cat", added exit message. Added basic support for sl wiki.
3.0.0.1 28 May 2006 Some minor tweaks, does not apply fixes to text in <math> tags. The "remove excess whitespace" function is now in the textbox context menu. New way of generating lists from special pages, e.g. enter "Lonelypages" to get a list from Special:Lonelypages, you can also enter "Lonelypages&limit=500&offset=500" to get more or from an offset. Added option to menu to enable the toolbar, and the main panel can be minimised to view diffs more easily.
3.0.0.0 22 May 2006 Many minor improvements, does not apply fixes to nowiki'd text, re-categorising should work in other languages. Functions separated into separate dll file that can be re-used.
2.9.0.0 15 May 2006 Many minor tweaks, flashes in taskbar when ready to save, automatically replaces a few common deprecated templates.
2.8.0.0 09 May 2006 Now sorts interwikis in exactly same order as pywiki bots, removed alpha sorting of cats - it annoys some people. Improved making lists, particularly making list from category. When the diff loads, it now automatically scrolls down a bit to see more of it. Note: SourceForge is having problems again, so the source code is not up-to-date.
2.7.0.0 06 May 2006 Added menu option to record "ignored" articles in log file, to help avoid false positives in future. Some other general tweaks.
2.6.0.1 28 April 2006 Fixed case sensitivity bug in last release.
2.6.0.0 27 April 2006 Fixed small "find" bug, tweaked link simplifier, added support for multi and single line to regexes. Added keyboard shortcuts, added basic russian support.
2.5.0.1 20 April 2006 Fixed another issue regarding previous change which stopped manual editting of large pages.
2.5.0.0 20 April 2006 Fixed a couple of problems from last release, including "go to line", added basic support for ca wiki.
2.4.0.0 17 April 2006 Upgraded textbox to richtextbox, can now "redo" and drag text about. Option to "skip articles with no changes" now skips some changes where only change was adding/removing whitespace.
2.3.0.0 09 April 2006 Added option to not skip blank pages. Other minor usability tweaks.
2.2.0.1 07 April 2006 Added back "using AWB" to summary by popular demand, and fixed minor bug.
2.1.9.0 04 April 2006 Many general tweaks to the parsing engine, added "paste more" option to context menu.
2.1.8.0 29 March 2006 added go to line function
2.1.7.0 28 March 2006 Improved unicodifyer, added "go to line" to context menu, some other minor improvements.
2.1.6.0 27 March 2006 Fixed bug with adding watchlist items.
2.1.5.0 26 March 2006 Many general improvements and changes.
2.1.4.0 19 March 2006 Minor improvements.
2.1.2.0 16 March 2006 Fixed re-categorisation problem, some general improvements.
2.1.1.0 14 March 2006 General tweaking, removes excess space around pipes, added checkbox to automatically unicodify entire article, makes exception for &ndash; &mdash; and &nbsp;
2.1.0.0 12 March 2006 General fixes and tweaks
2.0.8.0 08 March 2006 Fixed some small issues, added %%title%% keyword to find and replace to represent the article title.
2.0.7.0 07 March 2006 Fixed issue with listing from categories, some other small improvements.
2.0.3.0 06 March 2006 More features, faster, more reliable.
2.0.2.0 04 March 2006 Buttons now enabled/disabled as appropriate. Fixed some issues on other wikis. General tweaks and improvements.
2.0.1.0 02 March 2006 Fixed "find" button, added (some) support for other language wikis. And some other small tweaks.
2.0.0.0 27 February 2006 Lots of bug fixes and minor improvements.
1.98 20 February 2006 Some bugs fixed.
1.97 17 February 2006 Some small bug fixes, handles downed server a bit better.
1.96 16 February 2006 Can filter "inclusion" when making list, now has stop button.
1.95 15 February 2006 Many improvements to interface, logging in and other. Now has case sensitive option for skipping articles.
1.94 14 February 2006 Hopefully fixed logging in issue, also improved automatic mode, but most can't use this at the moment.
1.93 14 February 2006 Many minor improvements and tweaks, now checks user registered when "makelist" clicked, can load and save settings from/to specified path, if you appear unregistered it will offer to send an error report, this emails me some settings and variables, otherwise it is extremely difficult to work out what the problem is. Plus issue with usernames with some punctuation fixed.
1.92 14 February 2006 Minor regex improvements.
1.91 13 February 2006 Numerous general improvements, notably to the interface.
1.9 12 February 2006 More minor tweaks and fixes, plus addresses some issues involving clicking inside the browser.
1.89 12 February 2006 Tweaked bad-link fixing code
1.881 11 February 2006 Fixed bug involving bolding article title.
1.88 11 February 2006 Mathwiz2020 fixed the annoying issue with losing user focus, it now works seemlessy in the background. Plus some minor improvements (performance + stability).
1.87 10 February 2006 Fixed IE bug with fancy fonts in URLs (thanks to Adrian Buehlmann's research). Now converts interwiki links to unicode and option in edit textbox context menu to convert any selected text to unicode. Some other minor improvements.
1.86 09 February 2006 Two minor bugs fixed, plus handles failure of wikimedia servers better.
1.85 08 February 2006 Option in menu to skip pages that it hasn't made any changes to, fixed minor bug.
1.84 07 February 2006 Saves settings.xml file now as well.
1.83 06 February 2006 Fixed bug with moving category in deletion templates.
1.82 06 February 2006 Case insensitive find and replace. Can now load settings, not save yet though, the values can be changed in the XML file.
1.81 05 February 2006 Now does multiple find and replaces.
1.8 02 February 2006 Bug fix and minor improvements per talk page.
1.7.9 01 February 2006 Option to enable timer in menu. Make list from user contribs (last 5000, although it removes duplicates, so will be less). Core program is more efficient. Automatically does not perform "general fixes" on talk, user, template and wikipedia namespaces. Plus some other minor improvements.
1.7.8 29 January 2006 Changed how AWB works in the background.
1.7.7 29 January 2006 Fixed bug in removing categories.
1.7.6 28 January 2006 Re-arranged options, hopefully more intuitive now. Can now add/remove categories. Some other minor improvements, and possibly fixed issue some have with logging in.
1.7.5 26 January 2006 Minor tweaks and fixes, including now bulleting all links in "external links" section.
1.7.4 24 January 2006 Fixed enabled-user-checker.
1.7.3 24 January 2006 Fixed enabled-user-checker.
1.7.2 24 January 2006 Fixed enabled-user-checker.
1.7.1 18 January 2006 Minor tweaks.
1.7 17 January 2006 Minor tweaks, plus now has "ignore if doesn’t contain".
1.6.9 15 January 2006 Minor improvements.
1.6.8 13 January 2006 Yet more tweaks and minor improvements, what links here not limited to 5000 anymore.
1.6.7 12 January 2006 Even more tweaks and minor fixes, what links here limited to 5000 due to apparent change in mediawiki software.
1.6.5 11 January 2006 More tweaks and minor fixes, Mathwiz2020 fixed occasional problem with bypassing redirects.
1.6.4 9 January 2006 Multiple improvements to re-categorisation and general fixes. Now alerts user if article has multiple links to the same page.
1.6.3 9 January 2006 Improved regexes, fixed a couple of minor bugs. New messages cause the AWB to check that you are still an enabled user. Mathwiz2020 fixed security issues on enabled user-checking, and added internal and external bad link repair (under general fixes).
1.6.2 7 January 2006 A few small bug fixes.
1.6 2 January 2006 Fixed a couple of minor bugs, disabled date removal until it becomes uncontroversial.
1.5 1 January 2006 Put the Link FA template and Wikipedia:Persondata in correct place. Removes any duplicate categories.
1.4 30 December 2005 Checks you are logged in on every edit and a few other improvements.
1.3 29 December 2005 Can now make a list from a google search, a couple of other tweaks.
1.2 28 December 2005 Fixed a couple bugs, some other improvements.
1.1 27 December 2005 Fixed a few bugs, improved the layout.
1.0 27 December 2005 Sorts interwikis, categories and stubs so they are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page, added context menu item that inserts birth and death categories (it works out the dates from the first dates in the article). Some other tweaks and fixes. New date regex.
0.995 23 December 2005 Added progress bar, tweaked the re-cat feature, added Bobblewik's new regexes, "ignore if contains" looks in title and text now.
0.99 22 December 2005 "What links here" now gets all pages rather than 5000 limit, new regex for removing dates, option to replace some html entities with unicode, worked around bug that IE has with some URLs containing fancy fonts in certain situations.
0.98 19 December 2005 Can get links from a text file now, improved ability to get links on a page. Can mark all edits as minor or add to watchlist via menu option. Improved menu system.
0.95 19 December 2005 Added "Preview instead of diff" option to menu, will make image tagging easy as it loads the preview instead of diff, (need to add more image tags to context menu). Made list a bit wider. Added "Preview" and "Diff" buttons that show or refresh (if already showing) the diff and preview. Added "beta" menu tab, which has option to remove excess links using Bobblewik's regex, be careful using this.
0.9 18 December 2005 Added context menu for article list, which now includes ability to filter out duplicates (which sorts alphetically for sake of efficiency). Bypasses redirects (disable in options menu).
0.85 17 December 2005 Fixed couple of bugs, added context menu to list of articles box, improved filter, can save list to txt file now.
0.8 15 December 2005 Couple of minor bugs fixed, added "filter" to get only main namespace articles, added regex to "ignore if contains". Disabled auto mode, as it can only be used when you have permission from Wikipedia:Bots.
0.72 14 December 2005 "Auto tag" feature will add wikify and stub tags when appropriate, couple of other features, "append message" only works on talk pages now.
0.71 14 December 2005 Bug fix release. Hey, I said it was a development version didn't I!
0.7 13 December 2005 Added ability to get links from a page (still need to be able to get links from a txt file), added Multiextended mode and remove for the list box, fixed a couple of bugs.
0.6 12 December 2005 A few bug fixes, made it so you have to be registered here to eliminate risk of vandalism. Added some features, still can't make a list by getting all the links on a page, that's next.
0.5 10 December 2005 Added a few things, fixed a few things. Bot mode is disabled for security reasons, but if you want it, please ask.
0.4 09 December 2005 Recategorisation enabled, "articles in category" finds sub-categories now, better context menu for the textbox, some other stuff.
0.3 09 December 2005 Added "what links here" support and some other tweaks.
0.2 08 December 2005 Surprisingly stable, many features to come.

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