Buku

2017-04-26

What's in?
- Edit bookmarks in EDITOR at prompt
- Import folder names as tags from browser HTML (thanks mohammadKhalifa)
- Append, overwrite, delete tags at prompt using >>, >, << (familiar, eh? ;))
- Negative indices with `--print` (like `tail`)
- Update in EDITOR along with `--immutable`
- Request HTTP HEAD for immutable records
- Interface revamp (title on top in bold, colour changes...)
- Per-level colourful logs in colour mode
- Changes in program OPTIONS
- `-t` stands for tag search (earlier `--title`)
- `-r` stands for regex search (earlier `--replace`)
- Lots of new automated test cases (thanks rachmadaniHaryono)
- REST APIs for server-side apps (thanks kishore-narendran)
- Document, notify behaviour when not invoked from tty (thanks The-Compiler)
- Fix Firefox tab-opening issues on Windows (thanks dertuxmalwieder)

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Added

- Send browser tabs to a "staging area" via context menu, wherein they can be easily edited and added to Buku(brow).

Changed

- Removed fetch bookmarks button. They are now implictly fetched from the binary frequently - on load and upon any change.
- Improved keyboard navigation in bookmark form.
- Improved overflow behaviour of text in listed bookmarks.
- Fixed ability to try and add a bookmark without communication with the binary having been achieved.

2017-02-20

Modifications
- New option `--write` to compose and edit bookmarks in text editor
- Support positional arguments as search keywords
- New option `--oa` to search and open results directly in browser
- Autodetect Markdown mode by file extension during export, import
- Shortened options:
- `--nc` replaces `--nocolor`
- `--np` replaces `--noprompt`
- `-V` replaces `--upstream`
- Option `--markdown` removed as the mode is autodetected now

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2017-01-11

Modifications
- Multithreaded full DB refresh with delayed writes
- Customize number of threads for full DB refresh (default 4)
- Support search and update search results in a go
- Support shortened URL expansion
- Support multiple bookmarks with `--open`
- Support `--nocolor` (for scripting, Windows users)
- Support https_proxy with `--upstream` and `--shorten`
- Remove trailing `/` from search tokens (like Google search)
- Support `--version` to show program version
- Fixed 109: Missing + when shortening URL
- Performance optimizations, few module dependency removals

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2016-11-30

Modifications
- Continuous search at (redesigned) prompt
- urllib3 for all HTTP operations
- Use HTTP HEAD method for pdf and txt mime types
- Add user agent (Firefox 50 on Ubuntu)
- Support URL shortening
- List bookmarks by tag index in tag list
- Show tag usage count in tag list
- Store tags in lowercase (use undocumented option `--fixtags` to fix old tags)
- Support environment variable *https_proxy*
- Support option `--immutable` to pin titles
- Keyword `immutable` to search (`-S`) pinned titles
- Show index in JSON output
- New key *q* to quit prompt
- Support deflate compression
- Add option `--tacit` to reduce verbosity of some operations
- **Removed** option `--st`, only `--stag` to search tags
- Support custom DB file location (for library, not exposed to user)

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2016-11-04

Modifications
- Support Markdown import/export
- Support regex search
- New option `--upstream` to check latest upstream version
- Fix search and delete behaviour
- Lot of code reformatting, performance improvements
- Use delayed commit wherever possible (e.g. bulk deletion cases)
- When a range is specified, consider 0 as ALL
- Added option to control verbosity in some APIs
- In-source documentation update

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