Pkgsrc changes since previous version:
* Add the news user if necessary (and be compatible with the INN package).
* Use bsd.pkg.install.mk.
Vendor changes since previous version:
(see the Changelog for more details)
* Security fix. Do not lock up when the news header ends prematurely.
* Revise some memory handling and catch out-of-memory conditions.
* Fixes to syslog handling.
* Support XOVER without argument.
* Fix SEGV in fetchnews.c.
Newsx is an NNTP client for Unix. It will connect to a remote NNTP server and
post outgoing articles batched by the news system, as well as fetch incoming
articles.
It provides the NNTP capabilities required for small local news spools on
installations with NNTP access only through limited ISP accounts. It works well
via a dialup SLIP/PPP connection.
Newsx is also well suited for large spools with normal feeds, being used for
pulling newsgroups from specific NNTP servers that are not distributed in the
usual manner. Since newsx obeys the normal news spool configuration file and
requires little or no specific configuration, the administrative burden should
be minimized.
New / changed Features:
-----------------------
. Rebindable keys
. New pager
. Searched for strings are highlighted
. GPG support
. NLS support
. Charset conversion using iconv(3)
. Indicator for articles newer than n-days
. art_mark_read, art_mark_killed, art_mark_selected are now configurable
. Piping '|' now works on the thread menu
. configurable scrolling via scroll_lines
. configurable URL handler via url_handler
. '.' sorts the newsgroup list
. Lots of bug fixes
. xref filter rules are now matched against a the reformatted xref line
. some others
Retired Features
----------------
. INDEX_DAEMON is no longer supported
. -U indexing is no longer supported
. ~/.tin/headers file is no longer directly supported. Use:
. filter rules xref_num and xref_score have been removed
. some others
PR pkg/18081.
Complete change log at http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/changes.html .
Changes since slrn 0.9.7.4:
-1. Changes when building on Un*x: [...]
0. Bug fixes include: [...]
1. Changes to the user interface: [...]
2. When used in combination with slrnpull, slrn now supports "true offline
reading". [...]
3. slrnpull no longer completely rewrites the overview files when expiring
articles. [...]
4. If your terminal supports it (and you are not using Win32 or OS/2), you
can now use colors and attributes at the same time. [...]
5. Set use_recommended_msg_id to 1 in your config file if you want slrn to
make use of server-proposed Message-IDs. [...]
6. Added intrinsic functions [...]
7. Custom sorting now allows you to use different criteria for sorting
initial articles of threads and articles inside threads. [...]
9. When reading in spool mode with spool_check_up_on_nov set, slrn now finds
out the number of bytes of each article, even if it is not included in
the news overview file (based on a patch by Jurriaan W Kalkman).
10. Support Cancel-Locks using the canlock library (--with-canlock) that can
be obtained from <http://cssri.meowing.net/> [...]
11. Support GNU TLS via its new OpenSSL compatibility layer (--with-gnutls).
[...]
12. New command-line option "-w0" that waits on startup, but only if a
warning or error is displayed.
13. Updated cleanscore, see contrib/NEWS.cleanscore (Felix Schueller)
14. Verbatim text can be hidden using toggle_verbatim_text (default binding
'{') or hide_verbatim_text in the config file. (Arek Sochala)
15. The "BEGIN PGP SIGNED ARTICLE" line is displayed using the "pgpsignature"
color and stripped on followups. (Emmanuele Bassi)
16. If query_read_group_cutoff is set to -n, slrn will automatically
(without prompting) download n articles when more than n are present.
17. Support Turkish characters on Win32 - set charset to "ibm857" for this.
With help from A. Alper ATICI
18. Re-structured the manual and added a chapter about slang's
pre-processing facilities. (Matthias Friedrich)
19. The config variable cc_followup_string is obsolete [...]
20. New translations: [be, fi, tr]
21. Remove duplicates when browsing URLs (Ruediger Sonderfeld)
22. IPv6 support (requires getaddrinfo; patch by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
23. A new, updated and more comprehensive FAQ (doc/FAQ) - it replaces the
files FAQ, SCORE_FAQ and slrnpull/FAQ (written by Matthias Friedrich and
me, based on John E. Davis' original files).
USE_GCC2 or USE_GCC3 where appropriate.
the functionality of the old gcc.buildlink2.mk has been rolled into
compiler.mk now, which is automatically used.
more changes to come later...
==============================================================================
* 1.9.43, 2003-09-04
### INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE
- In the traditional spool, newsgroups with all-numeric components show up
with a - (minus, hyphen) prefixed to the number, the newsgroup example.1234
will be stored as /var/spool/news/example/-1234.
It is believed this change does not cause troubles because news systems that
offered the traditional spool have been incapable of providing news access,
and because the count of news groups with such names is way below 0.1% on
the news servers I have access to. The gain in functionality justifies the
incompatibility.
NOTE: this only affects newsreaders that directly access the spool.
NNTP-based newsreaders will see no difference.
### BUGFIXES
- Fix leafnode.8 manual pages (EN and DE languages) to explain 0 and negative
values for expire/groupexpire.
- Avoid premature abort (that causes .overview and groupinfo files to become
stale) when the stdout becomes disconnected. Reported by Sytse van Slooten.
- Make sure that texpire fixes the groupinfo lines of groups in "archive mode"
(groupexpire -1). Reported by Sytse van Slooten.
- Repair groupexpire 0 (= use global default, rather than expire immediately).
Broken since 1.9.23.
- Make sure that fetchnews complains when a timeout happens while reading
newsgroups lists ("active file") or newsgroup descriptions. Found after a
related report from Tim Daneliuk.
- Use different fix for newsgroup names with all-numeric components that does
not require two stat() calls in XOVER handling. Tracked down and reported by
Rein Klazes.
- Remove bogus error messages "article * is below/above the *-water mark" that
occur when reading a group that fetchnews is fetching into. Reported by Rein
Klazes.
- Make sure XOVER related error messages don't show up in the NNTP client.
### CHANGES
- fetchnews puts stdout into line buffered, or -- failing that -- unbuffered
mode (Patch by Mark Brown, Debian maintainer).
- leafnode processes warn (syslog and stderr) when a groupexpire is set to 0
(which means "use the default", which some users may not be aware of).
### DOCUMENTATION
- Added FAQ item on running leafnode as nntps server.
- Mention SuSEconfig difficulties with /etc/hosts in README-FQDN*
- Clarify item #13 in INSTALL.
==============================================================================
* 1.9.42, 2003-06-27
### SECURITY RELEVANT BUGFIXES
- Fix hang when trying to download an article that lacked mandatory headers.
(Very old bug, recently found by Joshua Crawford)
NOTE: this assertion that the bug is security relevant (denial of service)
has been made after 1.9.42 release.
### BUGFIXES
- Check lastreply() against NULL, in an effort to fix obscure sporadic and
non-reproducable crashes on OpenBSD sparc64. (Reported by Bruno Rohee)
- Fix bogus "Cannot open .../interesting.group/group.name for reading" when a
group subscription has expired. (Reported by Andreas Muck)
### CHANGES
- The ChangeLog file has been split, older parts (leafnode 1.9.31.rel and
before) have moved to the "new" ChangeLog.old file.
==============================================================================
* 1.9.41, 2003-05-22
### BUGFIXES
- Fix the "leafnode keeps fetching a group I've unsubscribed from long ago"
bug that haunted leafnode since 1.9.18 at the latest and that was more
prominent with the delaybody migration fixes of 1.9.33. Reported by Andreas
Muck and Gerry Doris.
- "make clean" no longer erases t.pcre_extract
### CHANGES
- Add an EXPERIMENTAL feature, delaybody_in_situ. This may work around
problems with particular newsreaders in delaybody mode. Do not rely on this
feature for now, and do send feedback if you use it, regardless of whether
it works or not. Defaults to off (compatible with previous versions). If you
don't know what it is about, leave it off.
- Some messages in fetchnews have been reworded to make them clearer and more
helpful.
### PORTABIILTY
- Find tcpd on OpenBSD at build time. Patch by Bruno Rohee.
==============================================================================
* 1.9.40, 2003-05-08
### BUGFIX
- Leafnode no longer aborts when using the replacement snprintf function
(FreeBSD) and is about to display a pseudo article.
New Features include:
Added support for GNet2, which adds IPv6 support to Pan.
Added Baltic Windows-1257 charset support.
Display the total score for a thread when the thread is collapsed.
Added menu buttons and shortcuts for `go to next new article' and
`go to next new thread'
Also lots of bug fixes and usability improvements.
For the complete list see http://pan.rebelbase.org/ or read the ChangeLog.
Test76 is a bug-fix release that mainly fixes a potential crash
bug, but also has several other minor changes.
Test 75 provides some simple bug fixes and minor improvements that
have been simmering for quite some time.
now and not NetBSD-*-arm32. Changes include one or more of:
- Change MACHINE_ARCH == arm32 to also match arm
- Where ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM includes NetBSD-*-arm32, add NetBSD-*-arm
- Where BROKEN or worked around for arm gcc bugs, set USE_GCC3
The last may shake out a few more broken packages the next bulk build.
- Clients using POST are no longer permitted to provide an Injector-Info
header.
- Fixed a bug causing posts with Followup-To set to a moderated group to
be rejected if the posting user didn't have permission to approve
postings.
- Fixed bugs in inncheck with setuid rnews or setgid inews, in
innconfval with inn.conf parameters containing shell metacharacters
but no spaces, and in parsedate.y with some versions of yacc. Fixed a
variety of size-related printf format warnings (e.g., %d vs. %ld)
thanks to the work of Winfried Szukalski.
While INN 2.3.5 is not the latest officially released version it is the
latest one for which an IPv6 patch is available.
Supports slrn and XNews-style scorefiles.
Added sixth layout mode in the Preferences|Layout dialog.
Added a default character set to the Posting Profiles.
Faster article filters.
Lots of bugfixes.
