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Version 1.13.0, by Aleksey Cheusov, Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:58:48 +0300
dictd:
* add support for IPv6 (the default is IPv4)
- Add global configuration option "address_family" and
command line options --address-family
- Options "listen_to" and --listen-to accepts host name
in addition to IP address, "*" means "bind to all interfaces".
dict:
* add support for IPv6.
- New command line options -4 and -6.
- dict + dict:// URL: add support for IPv6 address
surrounded by [ and ] symbols
dictfmt:
* fix overlap of source and destination buffers in memcpy(3).
Use memmove(3) instead. This fixes failures on Linux/musl.
* DICTFMT_SORT environment variable may be used for
setting non-default sort(1)
Fix build on recent Solaris/IllumOS (missing -lnsl at link time)
Remove support for --use-dictorg and socks5. Clean-ups for build system.
Remove support for non-utf8 dictionaries.
tests:
* new test for dictd as a daemon
* always use @AWK@
* test/dictzip_test.in: avoid printing binary \0. This fixes test on some systems
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Version 1.12.1, by Aleksey Cheusov, Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:33:39 +0300
dictl.in:
Fix for Debian bug #677868 reported by Stepan Golosunov.
dictd.8:
Fixes for mistypes found by A. Costa. Thanks!
dictzip:
Fix for sf.net bug #3390567 reported by Ivo Danihelka.
INSTALL:
Fix for sf.net bug #3398178
colorit:
Fix for option -c. Now it works correctly.
examples/dictd_virtual.conf:
Fix incorrect keyword for virtual database.
Thanks to Marc-Jano Knopp for the report!
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Version 1.12, by Aleksey Cheusov, Sun, 9 Jan 2011 18:16:34 +0200
New script dict_lookup for translating words and phrases from X
selection. It makes sense to configure launching dict_lookup on a
keyboard shortcut in the window manager.
dictd: Fix for SHOW SERVER command (dict -I). On systems where
sizeof(int) != sizeof (long) values in "Uncompressed" column may
contain random garbage. This problem was seen on NetBSD/x86_64/5.1
Fix for sf bug #3098788
https://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3098788&group_id=605&atid=100605
Regresson tests for dictzip were added.
Fix in Makefile: non standard option for lex(1) was removed
(This may unbreak compilation on SunOS, HP-UX...).
dictfmt:
Internal buffer size was increased from 10240 to 102400 bytes.
Fixes for Tru64.
Other minor fixes and cleanups
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Version 1.11.2, by Aleksey Cheusov, Sun, 4 Oct 2009 10:55:28 +0300
FIX: When search is handled by dict_search_bmh() function, the first
character from the first entry in the index file is missing. Usually
this is some of 00-database-* entries. Thanks to Goran Tal for a
bug report and patch.
fix in dictfmt.1: s/--index-keep-headword/--index-keep-orig/
dictfmt: superfluous spaces are removed not only from the beginng
and the end of a headword but also inside a multiword headwords.
Thank to Goran Tal for pointing out.
dictfmt spawns sort command to sort the index. When there are
several entries for the same headword, they get sorted BY OFFSET AND
SIZE (in addition to headwords). As a result, the order of identical
headwords is messed up. To fix these problem -k1,3 option is
replaced with -k1,1. Thanks to Goran Tal for pointing out. With
-k1,1 options not all flavours of sort(1) command keeps an original
headword order but now you a have chance.
Regression tests updated.
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Version 1.11.1, by Aleksey Cheusov, Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:16:49 +0200
FIXES:
Minor fix in dictd.8 (paths to config files), sf.net bug #2407717
Thanks to Peter Volkov
Bug fixed in installing plugins, sf.net bug #2218879,
Thanks to Peter Volkov
DICTFMT sorts entries in 00-database-alphabet entry
lexicographically, that is now this order doesn't depend on
sizeof(long). This fixes sf.net bug #2197588.
Thanks to Peter Volkov and his tests on PowerPC.
DICTD: SHOW STRAT: s/databases present/strategies present/
found and reported by Goran Tal <goran.tal@gmail.com>. Thanks.
DICTFMT: 'dictfmt -I' never worked (regrettable oversight, heh),
found and reported by Goran Tal <goran.tal@gmail.com>. Thanks.
Makefile.in, configure.in:
"building and installing different set of things based
on configure results considered harmful"(C) me :-)
Plugins support in dictd is enabled by default (if available).
DBI and JUDY plugins are disabled by default.
Enable them explicitly by using
./configure --with-plugin-dbi
and
./configure --with-plugin-judy
This fixes sf.net bug #2218879 by Peter Volkov.
By using DICTL_USE environment variable dictl utility can now use an
external program for charset2charset conversions. This addresses
sf.net bug #2407725, again by Peter Volkov
* Makefile.in, configure.in:
(Clean-ups)
--with-local-libmaa option is removed from "configure" script.
You should build libmaa manually before dictd/dict/...
This removes lots of garbage from configure.in and Makefile.in and
makes them MUCH cleaner. If you want to link dictd with libmaa statically,
use Makefile's LIBMAA variable.
configure.in, include_regex.h.in, index.c:
(Clean-ups) Ages ago, I've add to "configure" script an option
--with-regex-include to make possible to build dictd with PCRE.
Now, I've removed this option. If you want to build dictd with with PCRE,
ask PCRE developers to install pcre/regex.h file linked to pcreposix.h.
All other regexp libraries compatible with POSIX API do the same,
rx/regex.h, rxspencer/regex.h etc. etc.
So, this is good and well known convension.
Makefile.in: LIBMAA variable added. Change it if you want to link
dictd against libmaa statically or...
* configure.in: Enable additional gcc warnings on all platforms
unconditionally, not only under Linux, I need them under NetBSD.
Makefile.in: fix for "uninstall" target
Lots of clean-ups in dictl.
Other minor clean-ups in Makefile.in and configure.in
Minor spelling fixes in NEWS
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Version 1.11.0, by Aleksey Cheusov, Sun, 7 Dec 2008 23:05:21 +0200
dictd tarball no longer contains libmaa library. Now
dictd/dict/dictfmt/dictzip/... are built with external libmaa
library. Also, by default local "libmaa" directory is not used to
detect libmaa even if this directory is present,
use './configure --with-local-libmaa' option to force this.
configure:
removed: --with-cc, --with-cflags, --with-prog, --with-gprof,
--with-checker, --with-efence, --with-insure and --with-purify
options. Use standard CC, CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS etc.
environment variables instead
Compilation errors fixed on Solaris, Interix, HP-UX and others.
dictfmt_index2suffix: \001 -> \1 inside regexp. It seems it is better
eccepted by different awk/regexp_engines. (heirloom posix2001/awk and
libuxre)
fixed: sf.net bug #1627458 (make samples fails to build)
fixed: sf.net bug #1941358 (first connection is denied)
dictfmt_index2suffix: no need for GNU awk
dictfmt_index2suffix and dictfmt_index2word are generated from *.in
Lots of minor fixes and clean-ups in regression tests, Makefiles,
configure...
Lots of GCC warning messages were also fixed
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Version 1.10.11, by Aleksey Cheusov, Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:28:10 +0300
Everything can now be compiled with pcc (Portable C Compiler),
tested under NetBSD
clean-ups in C code, configure.in etc. Warning messages generated by
NetBSD/alpha were fixed. Lots of warning messages produced by icc-10
(Intel C Compiler) were fixed too.
FIX: now dictd/libmaa can be built from external "object" (any!)
directory just like many other autobloat-based projects can do.
That is, the following works fine now
cd obj-dir
/path/to/dictd-sources --with-libmaa
gmake
gmake install
dictd:
- FIXED: compilation failure on Linux if --disable-plugin
option is specified.
- index.c:
FIXED: while processing MATCH command unicity of only first
column of .index is checked, but fourth column (if present)
is not.
- timestamp log marker (log_option "timestamp") is changed from
:T: to :t: because :T: begins client's full command (log_option
"command")
dictfmt:
- FIXED: maximum length of headwords is limited to hardcoded
constant just by cutting the end of headword. Now internal
arrays are realloced automatically.
dict:
- ADDED: -F|--flush option for flushing stdout after each
definition/match. This may be useful in combination with -f
colorit:
- bashism fixed: 'echo -en' -> more portable 'printf'.
Thanks to Debian users.
libmaa:
- fixed: DESTDIR support
dictdplugin_popen:
- fixed: missed header file, seen with gcc-4.3.
Thanks to Martin Michlmayr for report
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Version 1.10.10, by Aleksey Cheusov, Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:03:06 +0200
dict, dictl, colorit:
- all these programs do NOT support paging to a special program, i.e.
--pager|-P option.
As of this version everything is output to stdout only.
Now, 'dict' program for dictionary protocol is like wget for http.
Sorry for breaking backward compatibility but this change makes
the code cleaner, smaller and more manageable.
If you run 'dict' (or 'dictl') interactively, write the following
to your interactive shell startup script (.ksh, .zsh, .bashrc etc.)
mydict () { dict "$@" 2>&1 | colorit | less; }
and then use 'mydict' instead of 'dict' (or 'dictl')
'-P -' option is allowed.
dictd:
- added support for utf-8 symbols other than BMP
other minor fixes and cleanups
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Version 1.10.9, by Aleksey Cheusov, Tue, 29 May 2007 23:20:14 +0300
dictd:
- ADDED: 'limit_time' keyword for limiting time (in seconds)
during which a client may talk to the server.
This is for preventing DOS attacks.
This option may be used as a replacement for 'delay' option.
See dictd.8 for the documnetation
- ADDED: new keyword 'limit_matches' and 'limit_defintions'
limiting a number of matches and definitions respectively
that the server may send to the client.
This is for preventing DOS attacks.
See dictd.8 for more information
- ADDED: new keyword 'limit_queries'
limiting a number of queries that client may send to the server
This is for preventing DOS attacks.
See dictd.8 for more information
- ADDED: new keyword 'limit_childs' equal to old 'limit'.
'limit' is now deprecated. Use 'limit_childs' instead.
- ADDED: Two new search strategies, 'first' and 'last'.
They match first or last word only in a multi-word entries.
See dictd.8 for more information.
- ADDED: new keywords 'site_no_banner', 'site_no_uptime'
and 'site_no_dblist' for changing the way dictd answers on SHOW SERVER
command (dict -I)
See dictd.8 for more information.
- ADDED: support for the case-sensitive search.
For this database should be created with dictfmt --case-sensitive.
- 'site' keyword has been moved to 'global' section of dictd.conf file
Do not place it at the top level!
- removed: --test-XXX options. Use -i and --stdin2stdout for debugging.
dictfmt:
- FIXED: longopts passed to getopt_long as argument was not
ended with zeros. I even don't how this code could work
for so many years.
Affected dictfmt versions: 1.6.1-1.10.8
- ADDED: --index-data-separator option that allows
to set index and data parts of the headword in .index file
(first and fourth columns respectively) completely independantly.
That is, the first column in .index file can now be treated
as an index and an optional fourth columns - as a data, all this for
MATCH protocol command. See dictfmt.1 for more information.
- added: -i and -I for resorting .index files.
See dictd.8 for more information.
- added: By default a special headword 00-database-dictfmt-X.Y.Z
is generated, i.e. every created database is marked
"what version of dictfmt was used to create it".
added: --without-ver option for preventing this.
dictunformat:
- minor fixes and improvements for 4-column .index file input
See dictfmt --index-data-separator and
dictunformat --index-data-separator
dictfmt_index2suffix and dictfmt_index2word
- fixes, now these utilities are ready for 4-column input and
use 'dictfmt -i/-I' for resorting .index entries.
See dictfmt.1 for more information.
dict:
- ADDED: -f option that enables formatted output, i.e. output
convenient for postprocessing by standard UNIX utilities.
See dict.1 for more information.
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Version 1.10.8, by Aleksey Cheusov, Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:20:04 +0200
libtool is now used for building dictd and libmaa.
This makes them more portable, especially
libmaa with the shared object files support.
dictd:
- fixed: sourceforge.net bug #1554437 ('nprefix' strategy)
- added: --stdin2stdout option for debugging purposes.
See dictd(8)
- fixed: daemon3.c on Solaris
Minor selftests improvements.
./configure.in|Makefile.in:
- WCFLAGS, XTRACFLAGS, WLDFLAGS, XTRALDFLAGS,
LDSHARED, XTRAHEADERS variables are no longer used.
For configuring dictd use CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS
and LDFLAGS variables only.
- fixed: finding lex and yacc (fails on NetBSD).
- --without-local-libmaa is the default now
Makefile.in:
- fixed: install target on Solaris
(Solaris install != BSD install)
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Version 1.10.7, by Aleksey Cheusov, Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:36:49 +0300
DICTD:
- FIXED: pidof(dictd) != `cat /var/run/dictd.log` because writing
a pid is made before call of daemon(3) that runs fork(2).
Affected versions: 1.10.6
- FIXED: nmap utility or just a client that aborts connection
for any reason can cause dictd server to exit with error
on NetBSD-3.0 and probably other OSes. This happens because
accept(2) returns ECONNABORTED error code allowed by SUSv3,
but this error code is treated as a critical error code by dictd.
Linux seems not affected.
Affected versions: ALL, i.e 1.4.9-1.10.6
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Version 1.10.6, by Aleksey Cheusov, Tue, 4 Jul 2006 01:17:53 +0300
DICTD:
- FIXED: 'word' strategy works incorrectly with UTF-8
on non-glibc systems, i.e. BSD, Solaris and probably others.
- new selftest added
- if opening a pid file or log file failed,
error messages are printed to stderr, older versions did not
generate error messages at all in this case.
DICTFMT:
- --index-keep-orig option is added to dictfmt.
When --utf-8 option is applied, headwords are lowercased and
non-alphanumeric characters are removed from it
before writing them to .index file
in order to simplify the search.
With --index-keep-headword option
the fourth column is created (if necessary) in .index file,
and contains the original headword which is returned by MATCH command.
This option may be useful to prevent converting "AT&T" to "att"
or to keep German nouns with uppercased first letter.
LIBMAA:
- added: new function b64_decode_buf
- FIXED: sf.net bug #1463396 in hash.c
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Version 1.10.5, by Aleksey Cheusov, Fri, 26 May 2006 23:12:49 +0300
DICTD:
- FIXED: In case database_exit directive is used in dictd.conf
SHOW DB command returns incorrect number of databases available.
Afected versions: 1.10.2 -- 1.10.4
- As of dictd-1.9.14 dictd creates log file being root and then
releases root priviledges. This was my bad idea because log file
may have % sign and may be used as a **pattern for log files**.
NOW OLDER BEHAVIOUR IS RESTORED, i.e.
log file is created after releasing root priviledges.
If you want to create log file under /var/log directory, create
/var/log/dictd with appropriate permissions and create log files there.
I apologize for inconvenience and breaking backward compatibility.
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Version 1.10.4, by Aleksey Cheusov, Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:36:32 +0200
DICTD
FIXED: pid file was created with 0666 permissions.
Affected dictd versions: 1.10.1 - 1.10.3
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Version 1.10.3, by Aleksey Cheusov, Thu, 8 Dec 2005 20:54:23 +0200
REGEX/ZLIB libraries have been removed from dictd CVS tree.
Most UNIX-like OS'es and distributions have these libraries
in a prebuilt form. Otherwise, build and install them yourself.
MAKE TEST:
- lots of new tests for 'dictd'.
- fixes, code clean-ups and improvements of tests for 'dictfmt'
DICTD/DICT/DICTFMT/DICTZIP
config.sub and config.guess have been updated (GNU/kFreeBSD)
DICTD
-ADDED: new search strategy `nprefix'.
dictd.8:
...
nprefix
Like prefix but returns the specified range of matches. For
example, when prefix strategy returns 1000 matches, you can
get only 100 ones skipping the first 800 matches. This is
made by specified these limits in a query like this:
800#100#app, where 800 is skip count, 100 is a number of
matches you want to get and "app" is your query. This
strategy allows to implement DICT client with fast
autocompletion (although it is not trivial) just like many
standalone dictionary programs do.
NOTE: If you access the dictionary "*" (or virtual one) with
nprefix strategy, the same range is set for each database in
it, but globally for all matches found in all databases.
NOTE: In case you access non-english dictionary the returned
matches may be (and mostly will be) NOT ordered in alphabetic
order.
-fixed: setenv.c (Solaris)
-fixed: compilation bug under Solaris (decl.h)
-fixed: strange segfault in log_info function under Interix 3.5
(4096-byte array on stack + va_XXX calls)
-FIXED: buffer overflow (segfault) in log_{error,info} functions.
This may happen when dictd is run with -L option
and it definitely segfaults on condition that:
- -dinit option is enabled;
- Japanese of Chinese dictionary created by dictfmt-1.9.14
(or later) is in dictd.conf
- -L
This happens due to too long 00-database-alphabet "definition"
Affected versions: all?
DICTL
-fixed: sf.net bugs #1223489 and #1227624, patches by micha137
DICT
-minor fixes with pager, patches by Kirk Hilliard
-fixed: assert(3)
Affected dict calls:
dict -M -S
dict -M -D
dict -M <query>
LIBMAA
-fixed: compilation bug (alloca)
Documentation:
- Samples configuration files for 'dictd' and 'dict' have been moved
to samples/ subdirectory.
- File names directories in manual pages
are specified according to ./configure options
- A few references to samples/ are added to dictd.8.
I hope this will make dictd.8 a bit simplier for new users.
- minor fixes and improvents
removed: dictfmt_virtual, dictfmt_plugin utilities.
The only way to configure plugin or virtual databases
is by using dictd.conf file.
I hope nobody used these utilities.
Otherwise, sorry for inconvenience.
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Version 1.10.2, by Aleksey Cheusov, Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:31:29 +0300
I started to create selftests for dict project.
There are a few tests yet.
Run 'make test' on your platform and notify me if
some errors happend.
FIXES:
- fixed: compilation bugs on FreeBSD4, Solaris and MacOS-X
Affected versions: 1.10.1
dictd:
- because of optimization code and strange binary search
the 'regexp' strategy may work incorrectly
Thanks to Slava Kravchenko for bug report.
Affected versions: 1.4.9(?) - 1.10.1
- 'SHOW DB' command shows the special entry '--exit--'
as a normal database which cannot be used for searching.
This contradicts rfc-2229.
To see when the default search stops, use 'SHOW SERVER' command
instead.
dictfmt:
- because not only index part of .index file was used for sorting
bu 'sort' utility, 'dictfmt' may create incorrect index file.
Now sort is run with '-t <tab> -k 1,3' options.
Affected dictfmt versions: 1.6.1-1.10.1
It is recommended to rebuild existing databases.
- because 'sort' utility inherits LANG and LC_... variables
from 'dictfmt', incorrect .index files may be created if
you run dictfmt with non_C locale even if you create ascii (non-utf8)
database. To fix this LC_ALL environment variable is always set to C
before running 'sort'.
It is recommended to rebuild existing databases.
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Version 1.10.1, by Aleksey Cheusov, Thu, 9 Jun 2005 20:03:22 +0300
fixes:
- compilation bugs on sparc64/{Free,Open,Net}BSD has been fixed
Thanks to koresh for bug report and patch.
dictd/dictfmt:
- By default, local implementations of UCS-2/UTF-8 functions
are used. As a result 'dictd' run
with no option works in UTF-8 mode,
but ASCII one. The option '--locale xx_YY.UTF-8'
is no more requied for both dictd and dictfmt.
In contrast with 'dictd', 'dictfmt' is run in ASCII mode
by default. In order to create utf-8 dictionary,
run 'dictfmt' with --utf8 option.
Thus both 'dictd' and 'dictfmt' should work the same way
on all platforms even if it doesn't provide necessary functions
or UTF-8 locale. Tested on MS Interix 3.5.
If you dislike this feature, ./configure dict with
--with-system-utf8-funcs option.
dictd:
- By default dictd, when running as daemon, writes a PID
to /var/run/dictd.pid file. This can be overriden by
'pid_file' keyword in dictd.conf (See dictd.8) or command line
option '--pid-file'.
Thanks to Josef Novak for sudgestion and patch.
documentation:
- fixed: dictd.8 says that 'lev' strategy doesn't work
with UTF-8 dictionaries, but it does since release 1.9.13
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Version 1.10.0, by Aleksey Cheusov, Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:51:01 +0300
dictd:
- Most parameters can be passed to `dictd' via configuration file.
See 'Global Setting section'
in dictd.8 for more information.
Also see example.conf for the sample config.
- Added: ability to create special databases that work
differently depending on
whether client sent OPTION MIME command or not.
This allows to provide dictionaries returning either plain text or
specially formatted (html, roff, TEI etc...) definitions depending on
client's capabilities or needs.
See example_mime.conf file for example and dictd.8 for documentation.
- fixed: `default_strategy' keyword was not implemented
for `database_plugin' section.
- fixed: compilation bugs on OpenBSD-3.4 which doesn't provide
CODESET macro in <langinfo.h>
dict:
- added: -M option for sending OPTION MIME command to DICT server.
NOTE: client doesn't check whether DICT server supports MIME or not)
dictfmt:
- added option `--mime-header <mime_header>'.
When database is accessed by client and OPTION MIME command
was previously sent, definitions are prepanded by the specified
MIME header. Ability to set the MIME header for the database is
useful in combination with `database_mime' keyword in dictd.conf,
See dictd.8 for more information.
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Version 1.9.15, by Aleksey Cheusov, Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:16:03 +0200
Format of .index files for 8-bit databases (not-ASCII and non-UTF8)
has been changed. This makes `dictd' backward incompatible with
8-bit dagabases built by earlier versions of `dictfmt', i.e.
`dictd-1.9.15' and later doesn't work with 8-bit databases
generated by dictfmt-1.9.14 and earlier. See ChangeLog for details.
If you use 8-bit database, rebuild them using new `dictfmt' like this
dictunformat db.index < db.dict | dictfmt -t --locale <locale> db-new
dictd:
- fixed: Function `dict_search_bmh' works incorrectly in utf-8 mode
on non-GLIBC systems.
As a result `suffix', `substring' and `word' strategies
may work incorrectly with UTF-8 databases
on such platforms (FreeBSD).
- fixed: In dictd-1.9.8 support of CYGWIN was declared,
but it was broken in later versions.
dictd-1.9.15 can be succesfully built with CYGWIN.
- fixed: `dictd' dies when client tries to obtain information
about virtual database (SHOW INFO <virt_db>).
- Every database specified in configuration file
may have its own "default" search
strategy (i.e. `.' strategy).
For this purpose additional
keyword `default_strategy' is implemented.
See example2.conf sample file and dictd.8 for documentation.
- When `-d' is applied,
debugging information is printed to syslog (or log file or stderr).
NOTE: `-dinit' option may show you a reason why dictd doesn't start.
If you are in trouble, apply it first (and -L or -s of course)!
- dictd works correctly even on platforms which do not provide
`iswalnum', `iswspace' and `towlower' functions.
Dictd with utf-8 databases was slightly tested on FreeBSD4.{9,10}
-fixed: logging is directed to stderr when --inetd is applied
- `AC_FUNC_MMAP' is replaced for `AC_CHECK_FUNC(mmap)' in configure.in
As a result `mmap/munmap' functions will be used on CYGWIN and INTERIX
if they are present.
If you dislike it, use --without-mmap option.
dictdplugin_dbi plugin:
- new options: `all_char' and `utf8'.
`all_char' option is set to FALSE by default.
`utf8' option is set to TRUE by default.
Both are overrided by
`00-database-allchars' and `00-database-utf8' special headwords.
dictd/dict/... have been ported to Interix (MS SFU-3.0 and SFU-3.5).
It works fine as Interix daemon
with ASCII databases (tested on Interix 3.0 and 3.5)
NOTE: GNU make is needed for building `dictd'
dictfmt:
- new option --default-strategy. See dictfmt(1).
Documentation update
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Version 1.9.14, by Aleksey Cheusov, Sun, 6 Jun 2004 21:18:19 +0300
dictd:
- fixed: SHOW INFO command sends incorrectly formatted data
to the client if
the information about database was set using 'info' keyword.
Affected versions: 1.9.12-1.9.13
- 'dictd' opens a log file (-L option) before releasing root priviledges.
As a result log file can be created in /var/log directory.
Log file and syslog are opened once.
Error messages of sanity checks are written to log file (or syslog)
but the stderr.
- --listen-to <ip> option binds a socket to the specified address.
See dictd.8 for details.
- SIGUSR1 causes dictd to unload databases.
Then dictd returns 420 status (instead of 220).
See dictd.8 for details
- exit status of child processes is written to log
if '--log server' is specified.
dictfmt:
- fixed: 'dictfmt --locale <8bit-locale>' works incorrectly
and may assert(3) on platforms
having no 'mbrlen' function (FreeBSD-4).
Affected versions: 1.9.12-1.9.13
- -t option implies '--columns 0' to preserve original formatting
- Special 00-database-XXX headwords do not affect 00-database-alphabet,
i.e. only characters from "real" headwords
are added to alphabet.
This makes LEV search strategy a little faster,
especially search in dictionaries
containing non-Latin symbols only, for example, Cyrillic symbols.
dict:
- In case of error 'dict' exits with non-zero status.
See Section EXIT STATUS in dict.1 for details.
libmaa:
- arg_argify function has been reimplemented because it is buggy.
Affected 'dictd' versions: 1.4.9-1.9.13.
More tests for arg_argify function have been added
Testing program has also been reimplemeneted.
See ChangeLog for details.
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Version 1.9.13, by Aleksey Cheusov, 24 Mar 2004 11:32:53 +0200
FIXED: if database has no 00-database-alphabet headword,
"global" alphabet is built incorrectly. As a result
dictd may work (FreeBSD does) incorrectly with LEV strategy.
Affected versions: 1.9.12
ADDED: plugin using libdbi library for implementing DICT database using
SQL server. It is possible to specify custom search strategies
by specifying SQL query.
The following option are currently supported:
driverdir - path to DBI drivers
drivername - DBI driver name, such as pgsql, mysql, sqlite etc.
option_host - host to connect to
option_port - port to connect to
option_dbname - database name
option_username - user name for authorizing to SQL server
option_password - user password for authorizing to SQL server
query_define - SQL query for implementing DEFINE command
query_<strategy> - SQL query for implementing
'strategy' (MATCH command).
Note that 'strategy' is not limited to the "standard" ones.
See the file example_plugin_dbi.conf for sample of how
this plugin can be configured.
SQL queries should return 1-column result by using SELECT command.
%q sequence inside SQL query is expanded to user's query.
%% is expanded to single % sign.
This plugin gives a simplest way to implement editable
dictionaries with a help
of WEB interface, but with a read-only access to it
using DICT protocol.
NOTE! Unless libdbi library is not found on your system
or you configure dictd with --disable-plugin option,
'dictd' is linked with libdbi to resolve DBI driver's symbols.
This should be fixed.
NOTE! Connection to SQL database is made
for every DEFINE/MATCH command.
This slows down plugin and should be fixed.
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Version 1.9.12, by Aleksey Cheusov, 10 Mar 2004 18:45:15 +0200
Both dictd and Judy-plugin correctly implement
the 'lev' strategy for utf-8 databases.
For this purpose an additional headword 00-database-alphabet is
created by dictfmt.
So, if you often use 'lev' strategy with utf-8 dictionaries,
rebuild them using dictfmt-1.9.12
'nl_langinfo' function is used to detect
whether dictd/dictfmt uses 8bit, utf-8, or C locale.
dictd:
- fixes
SHOW SERVER command cuts off long database names
crash on Solaris (and FreeBSD5 ?) due to
toupper('255') returns 376 if utf-8 locale is set.
LC_CTYPE and LC_COLLATE are set according to --locale.
As a result date and time are logged using the C locale
- MATCH|DEFINE *|! ignore invisible dictionaries.
Now there is no reason to separate visible and invisible dictionaries
by database_exit command.
This simplifies the configuration file.
- dictd --test|--test-file notifies about invalid database name
dictl:
- checks whether recode/iconv/konwert/locale commands are available
- analyses PAGER variable to set a pager.
- incorrect charset determination has been fixed
dictfmt:
- new option --break-headwords for use with --headword-separator, so
each headword is written on its own line of the .dict file.
- correctly wraps utf-8 input
- new option --columns to set a number of columns for
wrapping text. See dictfmt.1. By default this value is 72.
All formats are affected and use the same default.
- 00-database-XXX headwords are not copied to .dict file.
The only exception is 00-database-short which should be copied
to .dict file for older 'dictd'
maa:
new functions and #defines:
'str_pool_init_position', 'str_pool_next_position',
'str_pool_get_position', 'str_pool_readonly', 'str_pool_iterate',
'str_pool_iterate_arg', 'STR_ITERATE' and 'STR_ITERATE_END'
to iterate over strings in the string pool.
fixed a bug in flags.c/flg_set function
dictdplugin_judy:
fixed: if a requested headword has more than one definition,
DEFINE command always returns the first one
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Version 1.9.11, by Aleksey Cheusov, 8 Dec 2003 20:55:31 +0200
NEWS file added
dictd:
- dictd is compiled successfully on Solaris, MacOS-X(cc).
A lot of warning and error messages appeared
on 64-bit Opteron and Alpha were fixed.
- fixed: 'suffix' strategy doesn't ignore characters other than
alphanumeric and spaces. Affected versions: 1.9.1-1.9.10
- A multi-lined short name of the database is truncated before sending
to the client
- patch by Michael Bunk <bunk at imn.htwk-leipzig.de} fixing:
- a typo giving the incomprehensible failure message.
Affected versions: 1.7.1-1.9.10
- a typo resulting in 'dict --server-info' showing
same compressed/uncompressed database sizes
Affected versions: 1.9.1-1.9.10
- broken AUTH command.
Affected versions: 1.9.4-1.9.10
- added: keyword "disable_strategy for disabling a specified strategy
for a particular database.
Strategies disabled by 'disable_strategy' keyword
are not passed to plugins.
- info/name keywords in 'database_virtual' section can handle
entry name beginning with @ symbol in a similar way
as 'database' and 'database_plugin' do.
- dictd --pp <prog> sets a preprocessor for configuration file.
If you run DICT server having a lot of dictionaries, you can preprocess
configuration file using m4 (or cpp). This significantly reduces
the size of configuration file.
See dictd.8 and example_complex.conf.
plugins:
- the default directory for databases
is passed to plugins (DICT_PLUGIN_INITDATA_DEFDBDIR)
- plugin support is ported to systems having dlXXX API in libc (FreeBSD).
- added: Judy-based plugin implementing fast "exact" and especially "lev"
strategies. http://sf.net/projects/judy
See example_complex.conf for the sample of usage.
"prefix" strategy is also supported but
for short queries it may be very slow. If you need not this,
disable it by "disable_strategy" keyword.
dict:
- clientparse.y will accept "pager' as the pager.
Thanks to Kirk Hilliard.
dictfmt:
- fixed: dictfmt -f doesn't work correctly if the first two lines are empty
Affected versions of dictfmt: 1.6.1-1.9.10
- fixed: --headword-separator doesn't work with -f, -p and -v formats
dictl - wrapper script for "dict" that permits using utf-8 encoded
dictionaries on a terminal that is not utf-8 aware.
See dictl.1 for documentation.
colorit - a script for colorizing the text input which can be used
as dict pager. It is currently very simple but allows to make
dict's output a bit nicer.
See colorit.1 for documentation.
documentation update
other fixes and improvements
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Version 1.9.10, by Aleksey Cheusov, 22 Jul 2003 19:37:22 +0300
dictd-1.9.10 has been released.
It is available for download from
http://sf.net/projects/dict
Major changes:
- 'filter' option is fully implemented
- Documentation update
- fixes:
- 'lev' strategy (pple' query doesn't match the word 'apple')
Affected version: 1.4.9 - 1.9.9
- 're' and 'regex' strategies
('^apple|orange' and '^apple\|orange' doesn't match a word 'orange')
Affected versions: 1.4.9-1.9.9
- incorrect spaces trimming
Affected versions: 1.9.1-1.9.9
- 'dictd' can be built with a regex engines
other than local Henry Spencer's one.
A system-wide regexec/regcomp are used by default.
The first reason for this is that Henry Spencer's' implementation
is not a fastest one. The second reason is that it doesn't support utf-8.
- added: dictfmt -t. This simplifies rebuilding
databases using 'dictunformat' utility.
- System-wide wcXXX and mbXXX functions are used if present.
- predefined DICT servers dict.org and alt0.dict.org
are not used by default by 'dict' client
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Version 1.9.9, by Aleksey Cheusov, 14 Apr 2003 19:30:54 +0300
dictd-1.9.9 has been released and it is available for download from
http://sf.net/projects/dict
Major changes:
- dictd can be run from inetd.
- cygwin improvements
- dlopen is used instead of lt_dlopen on platforms where it is
available (concerns to plugins)
- bug fixes
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Version 1.9.8, by Aleksey Cheusov, 27 Mar 2003 15:33:34 +0200
dictd-1.9.8 has been released and is available for download from
http://sf.net/projects/dict
Major changes:
- dictd can be compiled on CYGWIN without utf-8 support.
If anyone manages to run dictd on Windows as a service, let me know.
- UTF-8 support is optional. It is disabled on platforms which don't
support 'iswalnum', 'iswspace' or 'towlower' functions.
- fixes:
- 'dictdb_free' plugin function is not called
(affected versions: 1.9.1-1.9.7)
- incorrect dzip format detection
(affected versions: 1.4.9-1.9.7 (all?))
- possible crash while reading too long COMMENT or FNAME fields of
the dzip'ed file (dictzip doesn't create them)
(affected versions: 1.4.9-1.9.7 (all?))
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Version 1.9.7, by Aleksey Cheusov, 09 Mar 2003 20:03:42 +0200
dictd-1.9.7 is released
Download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict.
Major changes:
- 'database_virtual' keyword in the configuration file
specifies 'virtual' dictionary without database files.
- 'database_plugin' keyword in the configuration file
specifies plugin without database files.
- 'info' keyword in the 'database specification'
specifies the information about database. @ prefix is also supported
and specifies an entry name.
- dictd --add-strategy
allows to implement (with a help of plugins)
new strategies not available in 'dictd'.
For example, 'revert' strategy may be implemented.
By using '--with-strategy' and '--add-strategy' options
it is possible to create DICT server with the set of strategies
you need.
- 'invisible' keyword in the configuration file
allows to hide several databases.
This may be useful if you use virtual databases.
- 'string' in the configuration file can be continued between lines.
- ./configure --with-nec-socks5
With this option applied, programs will be linked with
the NEC socks5 library
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Version 1.9.6, by Aleksey Cheusov, 02 Mar 2003 14:19:37 +0200
A bug fixing release is available for download
from http://sf.net/projects/dict
Changes:
critical fix: dictd may crash on BMH search
(substring, suffix and word strategies) because
it accesses memory outside mmap'ed region.
Affected versions: 1.4.9-1.9.5
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Version 1.9.5, by Aleksey Cheusov, 23 Feb 2003 20:28:32 +0200
If the 'name' keyword is used in database section, and
it doesn't begin with '@', dictd may crash on SIGHUP.
Affected versions: 1.9.1-1.9.4.
The following is the patch. This patch is the only difference between
dictd-1.9.4 and dictd-1.9.5 releases.
You can download dictd-1.9.5 from http://sf.net/projects/dict
diff -ruN dictd-1.9.4/dictd.c dictd1/dictd.c
--- dictd-1.9.4/dictd.c Mon Feb 10 21:24:25 2003
+++ dictd1/dictd.c Sun Feb 23 19:13:43 2003
@@ -572,6 +572,9 @@
db->databaseShort = get_entry_info( db, DICT_SHORT_ENTRY_NAME );
else if (*db->databaseShort == '@')
db->databaseShort = get_entry_info( db, db->databaseShort + 1 );
+ else
+ db->databaseShort = xstrdup (db->databaseShort);
+
if (!db->databaseShort)
db->databaseShort = xstrdup (db->databaseName);
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Version 1.9.4, by Aleksey Cheusov, 20 Feb 2003 17:01:30 +0200
dict-1.9.4 is released.
It is available for download from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict
Major changes:
- Documentation update by Bob Hilliard
- 'snprintf' and 'vsnprintf' functions are used instead of
'sprintf' and 'vsprintf' on platforms where they are available.
- dictd fails if it is run with "C" locale
and discovers 8-bit/utf-8 dictionaries.
dictfmt/dictfmt_index2suffix/dictfmt_index2word/dictfmt_virtual fails
if they are run with "C" locale
and discover 8-bit/utf-8 input.
- 'make samples' bug fixed
- 'dict --serverinfo' bug fixed
- 'dictd --test-match' bug fixed
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Version 1.9.3, by Aleksey Cheusov, 24 Jan 2003 12:53:48 +0200
dictd-1.9.3 has been released.
It is available for download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict
Major changes:
- fix for dictd.
It crashes on exiting/reloading configuration file
if access section in the configuration file is empty.
Affected versions: 1.8.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2
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Version 1.9.2, by Aleksey Cheusov, 16 Jan 2003 15:42:29 +0200
dictd-1.9.2 has been released
It is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict
Major changes:
- fix for dictzip's segfault
- dictunformat utility
- additional dictfmt arguments:
--without-header
--without-url
--without-time
- error message is returned by 'dictd' for invalid utf-8 requests
IMHO it is better than return code 501 specified by RFC
- DESTDIR env. variable is used for installing/uninstalling
This simplifies building RPMs.
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Version 1.9.1, by Aleksey Cheusov, 17 Dec 2002 17:32:40 +0200
dictd-1.9.1 is available for download
from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/
Major changes:
- Virtual dictionaries support
- New search strategy 'word'
- Configuration file reloading by SIGHUP
- A lot of plugin enhancements and two plugin examples.
You can also disable plugin support explicitly by running
./configure --disable-plugin
- bugs fixing
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Version 1.8.0, by Aleksey Cheusov, 15 Sep 2002 20:54:30 -0400
- better 8bit, UTF-8, and i18n support
- dictfmt is now part of the dictd tarball
- dictd supports plugins
- dictd will use system libz when possible
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Version 1.7.1
(broken support for 8bit dictionaries)
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Version 1.7.0, by Rick Faith, 3 May 2002 10:02:11 -0400
I've released dictd 1.7.0. It's the same as 1.6.93, except:
1) The locale for dictd defaults to "C". So if you've been using
LC_ALL, you probably need to use the new --locale option. I know
this is a kludge and that dictd must move to Unicode/UTF-8/UCS-4.
2) The dict pager is closed on fatal errors. This may help prevent
the screen corruption under Debian when dict is used with less
and there is a fatal error. Please let me know.
3) Log output no longer filters the 8th bit.
I've also updated the databases on www.dict.org to the most recent ones
in use by Debian, and I've put those in ftp.dict.org:/pub/dict/pre. I'm
still using web1913 and wn instead of gcide. However, gcide is
available for testing if you use "dict -ugcide -kgcide -dgcide" [this
may be removed in the future, but try it out now; note that older client
may not pass authenticate unless you also specify -h]. Please don't
hard code a "user gcide gcide" in any example or distributed .dictrc
files. Thanks.
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Version 1.6.93-testonly, by Rick Faith
(no information available)
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Version 1.5.5, by Rick Faith
(no information available)
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Version 1.5.3, by Rick Faith
(no information available)
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Version 1.5.0, by Rick Faith, 22 Dec 1999 10:43:37 -0500
dictd-1.5.0 has been released. This is a bug fix release that should cover
most of the common problems that have been reported. Testing on
Sparc/Linux still needs to be done. The IRIX port is not useful.
This files contains the sources to the dict client, the dictd server, and
the dictzip compression program. Starting with version 2.0.0, sources to
these programs will be in different files.
Sources are available from:
ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/dictd-1.5.0.tar.gz
and from the SourceForge repository, via http:
http://www.sourceforge.net/project/?form_grp=605
or via anonymous cvs (see the appropriate link on the page above).
We have moved the core software development effort to SourceForge, since it
provides a publicly accessible cvs repository and bug tracking. Feel free
* to submit bugs via the SourceForge interface or via dict-beta@dict.org.
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Version 1.4.9, by Rick Faith
(no information available)
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Version 1.4.8, by Rick Faith
(no information available)
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Version 1.4.5, by Rick Faith, 23 Feb 1998 20:00:23 -0500
The DICT Development Group (www.dict.org) announces the dictd-1.4.x
distribution, containing client/server software implementing the
Dictionary Server Protocol, as described in RFC 2229.
The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based
query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary
definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
dict(1) is a client which can access DICT servers from the command line.
dictd(8) is a server which supports the DICT protocol.
dictzip(1) is a compression program which creates compressed files in the
gzip format (see RFC 1952). However, unlike gzip(1), dictzip(1) compresses
the file in pieces and stores an index to the pieces in the gzip header.
This allows random access to the file at the granularity of the compressed
pieces (currently about 64kB) while maintaining good compression ratios
(within 5% of the expected ratio for dictionary data). dictd(8) uses files
stored in this format.
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Version 1.4.3, by Rick Faith
(no information available)
DICT protocol, by Rick Faith, 29 Oct 1997 19:34:58 -0500
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
RFC 2229:
Title: A Dictionary Server Protocol
Author(s): R. Faith, B. Martin
Status: Informational
Date: October 1997
Mailbox: faith@cs.unc.edu, bamartin@miranda.org
Pages: 30
Characters: 59551
Updates/Obsoletes: None
URL: ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2229.txt
The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based
query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary
definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
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