1.0.0 2021-05-09 Release
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Important notes:
- The new configuration data format is not compatible with versions 0.x
(indicated by the major number bump)!
A script is provided to automatically convert existing configuration
data to the new format. Read "migration/README" for details.
- Because the location of the configuration has changed (see new XDG
module below), the configuration for versions 0.x is preserved.
- It is still possible to downgrade flnews to 0.x, the preserved old
configuration data is used again in this case.
- Now the release version contains 3 numbers "x.y.z"
Major (x) indicates compatibility with configuration data
Minor (y) is incremented for new features
Patch (z) is incremented for bug fixes
Bug fixes:
- CORE: Request for group information is no longer rejected with error
if the group list is empty.
- GUI: After unsubscribing the last group, the article tree/list was not
cleared and the user can click on articles for which the associated
data no longer exists. Such operations will crash the program
(reported by Martin Schnitkemper).
- CORE: Line length limit (998 octets) is now checked before injection.
- GUI: On macOS with system menu bar the status updates to menu entry
"Group->Sort by article number" work now (patch from Dennis Preiser).
The required method update() is not available with old FLTK 1.3
libraries, the option CFG_COCOA_SYS_MENUBAR now requires FLTK 1.4.
- ENC: URI percent encoder for scheme <news> fixed: The characters
defined as <gen-delims> (RFC 3986 Section 2.2) are now encoded
(reported by Marcel Logen).
- GUI: The URI parser now accepts empty <host> for scheme <news>.
- GUI: The current group selection is now restored after a click into
the empty space below the group list (reported by Christian
Schumacher).
- GUI: The article list/tree is now cleared after selecting an empty
group (formerly articles of an unrelated group may still be visible).
- GUI: Some FLTK versions accept selection of deactivated items. There
is now a workaround implemented to make such selections nonfatal.
- GUI: Horizontal scrolling to highlighted result of search fixed.
- GUI: Use FLTK default forground color for group subscription window
too. This should make the content readable with dark background
(reported by Christian Schumacher).
- NLS: German translation "Artikel herunterladen fehlgeschlagen" fixed
(reported by Marcel Logen).
- GUI: If there are multiple signature separators ("-- ") present, now
the last one is used according to "Usenet Best Practice" draft 01
(reported by Marcel Logen).
New features and improvements:
- XDG: Moved default configuration directory to location defined by XDG
Base Directory Specification 0.7 ("$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$CFG_NAME").
Other modules now ask the XDG module for the configuration path.
- MAIN: The new command line option "-confprefix" can be used to
override the configuration directory (proposed by Helmut Waitzmann).
- GUI: It is now possible to mark all articles in all groups as read
(menu entry "Group->Mark all groups as read").
- MAIN: New command line option "-debug" to enable debug mode early.
- CONF: configfile entry "domain" replaced with "fqdn". Some users
saw the hostname field in Message-ID algorithm A1 as privacy problem.
A <dot-atom> can be configured for the new entry "fqdn" (should be a
fully qualified domain name, but without root domain). It is used as
<id-right> element when a Message-ID is created with algorithm A2.
- Support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH Specification 1.1 added to build system.
Reproducible build option CFG_REPRODUCIBLE removed from CONFIG.
The SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH variable from the environment now overrides the
dates in the GUI, the output of the "-v" command line option and the
man pages (original patch from Bernhard M. Wiedemann).
- Support for target "install-strip" added to build system. The target
"install" no longer strips unnecessary symbols from binaries
(proposed by Martin Schnitkemper).
- EXT: Support for external inews added.
Pathname can be specified with the new "inews" entry in configfile.
- TLS: Protocol versions 1.0 and 1.1 are now disabled as required by
RFC 8996. Both versions are still available in "weak" encryption mode.
- GUI: New menu entry "Group->Mark subthread as read".
- GUI: If there is only one entity to display for a MIME multipart
message (e.g. the selected one with multipart/alternative), the
entity header is now displayed too.
- GUI: An initial greeting phrase can now be specified with the new
"initial_greeting" entry in configfile. It is inserted into articles
that start a new thread (proposed by Wolfgang Bauer).
- FUTIL: Function added to create (multiple) missing directories of a
path.
- FILTER: New scorefile syntax to eliminate the workaround with type
"extended". All score rules now have a wildmat in the first field.
- FILTER: Simplified default regex for test group detection to
"\.test$|^test$", removing the ".*" part at the beginning (proposed by
Urs Janßen).
- POSIX: Support for POSIX.1-2008 and SUSv4 added.
No local replacement functions are used anymore on modern operating
systems. snprintf() replacement function now uses SUSv4 semantics.
- ENC: MIME encoded-words are now generated with "US-ASCII" charset
declaration if there is no 8-bit data to encode in the header field
(e.g. to represent words like " =?-?= " in a RFC 2049 conformant way).
This follows the "lowest common denominator" principle decribed in
RFC 2046 Section 4.1.2.
- TLS: Deprecated functions from OpenSSL 3 API are no longer used.
- GUI: Modified question popup windows to handle pressing ESC key as
"No" or "Reject" respectively.
- GUI: Some entries moved from menu "Article" to "Group".
- Searching for Unicode string in current article is now supported (case
insensitive variant based on Unicode case folding algorithm)
- Unicode database updated to version 13.0.0 (CaseFolding.txt added)
- The new 'force_unicode' entry in configfile set to a nonzero value sends
all outgoing articles in Unicode, if they contain non-ASCII characters
- Dark background color is now usable
- MIME conformance reached (as defined in RFC 2049 Section 2)
- If selected text is present, quote only selected text for followup
- XDG desktop entry and icon theme added (option CFG_XDG_DISABLE)
- Configuration window in GUI now allows to disable the "User-Agent" header
field for outgoing articles
- It is now possible to enable AUTHINFO USER/PASS without encrypted connection
(option CFG_NNTP_AUTH_UNENCRYPTED)
This allows to use stunnel instead of the internal TLS module
- TLS module no longer calls deprecated functions HMAC*(), RSA_size() and
SSL_get_peer_certificate() for OpenSSL API 3.0.0
Removed pkgsrc patches merged upstream.
Changelog
=========
0.17 Bugfix: Configuration test result for inttypes.h presence is used,
reintroduce the test removed for 0.16
Bugfix: BSD version of ntohl() for old systems was broken
Bugfix: ISO-2022-JP decoder: Mask for unassigned codepoints fixed
Bugfix: SHA2 support in OpenSSL 1.0.0 must be explicitly enabled
Display article from "news" type URI in separate window (if it's not
found in current group)
Clickable References added (articles displayed in separate window)
Search for Message-ID added to the Tools menu (Keyboard shortcut
is Ctrl-s)
Previous read article (in current group) menu entry added
Keyboard shortcut for "Quit" changed from Ctrl-x to Ctrl-q (Proposed
by Marcel Logen)
Keyboard shortcut for "View source" changed from Ctrl-v to Ctrl-e
(Proposed by Marcel Logen)
Menu entry "Article->Mark as unread" (Ctrl-u) changed to toggle
between read and unread state (Proposed by Marcel Logen)
Command line option "-4" added (force usage of IPv4 network protocol)
Flowed format: The 'flowed_insert_crlf' entry in configfile adds an
empty line separator after every paragraph that ends with an empty
line. Defaults to 0 (former behaviour)
Flowed format: The behaviour of 'flowed_insert_crlf' can be requested
by the sender of an article with "InsLine=yes" in the Content-Type
headerfield.
TLS module can now use OpenSSL 3 API (required for FFDHE group
negotiation with TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3 protocols)
TLS module can now use LibreSSL 3 (formerly major version 2 was used
to identify LibreSSL and distinguish it from OpenSSL)
TLS modules compile time option 'CFG_USE_TLS_OWNCERTS' replaced by
the new 'tls_owncerts' entry in configfile
TLS modules experimental compile time option 'CFG_USE_TLS_CRLS'
replaced by normal option 'CFG_TLS_CRLS_DISABLE'. Default is to use
no CRLs (former behaviour) because this option increases the system
requirements (to POSIX.1-2001 or XSI extension)
TLS module now supports new 'crl_check' entry in configfile (ignored
if CFG_TLS_CRLS_DISABLE is nonzero)
TLS module now prints real LibreSSL version instead of generic 2.0.0
TLS module no longer supports options 'CFG_USE_TLS_DHPARAM_CHECK' and
'CFG_USE_TLS_SETSIGALG'. They were obsoleted by the OpenSSL 1.1 API
Unicode database updated to version 12.1.0
GUI module no longer supports experimental FLTK 1.3 option
'USE_X11_GLYPH_SUBSTITUTION'. It was obsoleted by FLTK 1.4
Modified LaTeX documentation to work with recent doxygen
Provided by Michael Bäuerle in pkgsrc-wip.
Backported patches from 0.17 branch:
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Bugfix: Configuration test result for inttypes.h presence is used,
reintroduce the test
Bugfix: BSD version of ntohl() for old systems now working again
Modified LaTeX documentation to work with recent doxygen
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Changelog:
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V0.16 Bugfix: Supersede now preserves Followup-To header field
Bugfix: The code that generates the attribute "reply to own article"
now checks the Message-IDs too (to avoid errors if the parent
article is missing in the hierarchy)
Bugfix: Header parser and MIME parser fixed to correctly handle
MIME entity delimiters (for boundary strings that contain spaces)
Bugfix: Removed Unicode range U+E0020 ... U+E007E from rejected
control characters (deprecated since Unicode 5.1, reintroduced for
different purpose since Unicode 9.0) (Reported by Marcel Logen)
TLS: Protocol version TLSv1.3 according to RFC8446 is now supported
(requires at least OpenSSL 1.1.1)
CORE module now supports multiple article hierarchies
Unicode database updated to version 11.0.0
IBM852 to UTF-8 converter added
If the OS doesn't report IPv6 as available, usage can now be forced
with the option 'CFG_FORCE_IP6'
Support for reproducible builds added (option 'CFG_REPRODUCIBLE')
Some checks for system header files removed to speed up configuration
(Build fails in any case if they are missing)
Documentation updated
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flnews is a client with graphical user interface to read USENET newsgroups.
It is intended for POSIX compliant operating systems running the X window
system.
The main development goals are (in order of importance):
- No bloat
- Support for old workstations
- Standard compliance
- Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others
- Compatibility with other newsreaders
- Usable X display redirection via network (or ssh tunnel)
- Warn users about things that are not forbidden but considered "bad practice"
Features that are currently not implemented (or not usable yet):
- UUCP
- Multiple servers
- Offline mode (for network connection via dialup line)
Packaged for wip by Michael Bäuerle.
