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Release Name: 0.0.7

Notes:
== FEATURES:
* Real-Time OpenGL view
* Multiple logfiles on multiple servers
* Configurable layout
* Multiple logfile parsers
(Apache Combined, Rails, IIS, Postfix/spamd/clamd, Nginx, Squid, PostgreSQL, PureFTPD, MySQL, TShark, qmail/vmpop3d)
* Custom events
* Show rate, total or average
* If you can 'tail' it, you can visualize it
* Written in Ruby using net-ssh & libopengl-ruby
* Free!

== RUNNING:
  gl_tail --help
  gl_tail --new gl_tail.yaml
  gl_tail

  You can press 'f' while running to toggle the attempted frames per second. Or 'b'
  to change default blob type, and space to toggle bouncing.

== REQUIREMENTS:
* rubygems    0.9.4
* ruby-opengl 0.40.1
* net-ssh     1.1.2
* opengl/ruby development packages (ruby1.8-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglut3-dev)


Changes: == 0.0.7 / 2007-10-.. * Make textures from BitmapCharacter font * Use textured quads instead of BitmapCharacter * Cache callLists for complete strings in BlobStore * Clean out callLists in BlobStore regularly * Slide new Elements in from left/right * Don't crash if unable to parse Squid logs * Keep non-showing elements around longer to help with bursts in varied traffic * add_activity(...{:type => 1}) renders quads instead of balls * Use 'f' to toggle attempted framerate * Use 'b' to toggle between balls and quads * Consume all waiting data when checking for SSH activity * Cisco Pix / FWSM parser (Leif Sawyer <leif@denali.net>) * Distribute as Ruby Gem * Configuration of background reverse IP lookups (disable/timeout)