Bad Behavior 2.1.13
April 25th, 2011 by Michael Hampton
Bad Behavior 2.1.13 (development) has been released. For 2.1 users, this is a maintenance release and upgrading as soon as possible is recommended.
Please note: The 2.0 series of Bad Behavior is receiving limited updates, including unblocks, bug fixes and security fixes only. Future development is taking place in the 2.1 development tree.
Who should upgrade?
All users should upgrade to ensure that their placements in the Google and Yahoo! search engines remain intact.
What’s new?
New in this release (since 2.1.12):
- A logic error in the search engine handling code caused search engine requests to be subjected to additional checks not appropriate for them. This was causing Yahoo! crawler requests to be inadvertently blocked. This error has been fixed.
- New IP address ranges for Google and Yahoo!, which were previously unused for crawling, have been added to Bad Behavior.
What’s coming?
I’m currently preparing to release the next major stable release of Bad Behavior, version 2.2. This release is sufficiently different that anyone maintaining a port needs to update their port to handle the new features immediately (such changes are backward compatible if implemented properly). A backward-incompatible change to the database schema is coming shortly; porters should stand by for further details.
For our enterprise users who require long-term support, the 2.0 branch will continue to receive long-term support through June 30, 2012, and the 2.2 branch (coming shortly) will be fully supported until the 3.0 release, and then receive long-term support through June 30, 2014.
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Support
You’ve probably noticed that my development schedule for 2.2 and 3.0 continues to slip. The reason for this is that I can only spend time on improving Bad Behavior when incoming donations cover the cost of my time. Otherwise I have to engage in paying work to keep food on my table.
At this point I would need approximately US $2000 in donations to meet an end-of-May date for 2.2 and mid-July for a 3.0 alpha; in a typical month I generally see less than $40 in donations.
I happen to like giving spammers a hard time, and it’s frustrating that I don’t get to spend enough time on it. You can help me make Bad Behavior even better by making your most generous donation for any amount. (BTW, I fixed all the broken donation links, I think. If you find any other broken ones, let me know!)
Thank you again for supporting Bad Behavior development!