Releases for Leech

New

• Removed leech_yahoo_terms - use yahoo_terms module (http://www.drupal.org/project/yahoo_terms) instead
• leech_feed_taxonomy module allows parsing and storing of category tags on feed items
• PostgreSQL support added
• Bug fix for organic groups integration
• More resilient handling of different character sets and non-compliant feeds
• More Drupal 5 style interface language including Capitalized links

Update instructions from 1.6 to 1.7

The only thing you need to take care of when upgrading from 1.6 to 1.7 is the leech_yahoo_terms module. Shut it off before you upgrade leech. After leech is upgraded, download and install yahoo_terms. The yahoo_terms module is very similar to leech_yahoo_terms. On the yahoo_terms settings page, chose the vocabulary you have previously used with leech_yahoo_terms and select "Extract terms everytime node is created".

Thank you's

Thanks to douggreen for the code in leech_feed_taxonomy, Shiny for postgresql support; thanks to and, toologic and arsart for improving feed reading, to tonythemediaguy for the organic groups bug patch, aron for relentlessly ploughing through tickets and everybody else who helped making leech better.

New features

• Adaptive leeching: frequency of downloading a feed depends on the new articles a feed yields per visit.
• Multithreaded cron mode (only in leech 1.6 for 4.7.x): feeds are being refreshed in multithreaded mode, this decreases script times.
• PHP5 support
• support of exotic character sets (win)

The 1.6 version of leech for Drupal 4.7 corresponds to the 1.6 version of leech for Drupal 5.x.

A special thanks to Aron Novaak who did the major work in feature adding, bug fixing and cleaning up for this release.

Change log to 1.2:

leech.module
- fixed bugs in organic groups support
- fixed leech_news_insert() bug

leech_yahoo_terms.module
- uses title and body for retrieving keywords from yahoo terms service
- values returned from yahoo terms service are checked for dupes

This version of leech is rewritten in parts, requires one module less to install and comes with an interface to the URL Profile module. URL profile allows you to trace the origin of aggregated articles and retrieve information about the article's sources from technorati or alexa.

Please consult the README file for installation instructions.

If you are upgrading from a later version, please be sure to recheck your permission settings.