Summary of changes since 1.9.27 (please see the ChangeLog):
* Add leafnode-version.
* Various changes to fetchnews.c including:
+ In verbose mode, print if we're using the STAT
command or the HEAD workaround.
+ nntpactive: cache current time, saves time() calls and gives a
consistent 'age' for the newsgroups.
+ Avoid duplicate articles that raced from another server
against our fetchnews from ending up in failed.postings. We
assume that a server that refuses a posting with 441 435
Duplicate can at the same time deliver it to STAT (or HEAD if
the workaround is in effect).
+ Only touch active.read if the active has been successfully written.
+ Also apply only_groups_pcre when updating the active, to avoid
presenting groups that are not really fetched.
+ Bugfix: cope with multiple upstreams that have the same server name
but different ports.
* Various changes to nntpd.c including:
+ Point to syslog when reading the configuration fails.
+ Fix very subtle and intricate infinite loop bug
* Various changes to nntputil.c. Blacklist STAT for "NNTP news cache."
Whitelist NewsCache 1.1.*. Whitelist NewsCache 0.99.18, 0.99.19, 0.99.2?.
* Changes to activutil.c including:
+ Check for duplicate newsgroups after reading, before writing and after
merging the active file.
* Fixs for SEGV problems to activutil.c and artutil.c
Changes:
* Bug fixed: missing Subject caused crashes when followupping
* allow new GTLDs: .biz, .info, .name, .museum
* base64 encoding was broken
* format-string fixes
* empty random organization file could crash tin
and some more.
Changes:
This release adds Custom Filters back to the header pane. It also
fixes some charset & memory bugfixes, some minor new features, and
refreshed dialogs for better adherence to the the Gnome HumanInterface
Guidelines.
of bugfixes, plus
NEW FEATURES
* Added the ability to specify which characters are recognized
as quote prefix characters, so nonconformists not using '>' to
quote text will still have their articles colored right in Pan.
* Added "Go to previous article" navigation button.
* Added support for decoding yenc-encoded attachments!
UPDATES
* Add a new preference option, dictating whether failed tasks
should be removed from the Task Manager. Unconditionally clearing
the queue didn't go down too well with some of the leechers.
* Added support for mime articles which explicitly specify a
Content-Transfer-Encoding of x-uuencode.
* Make sure that the default window size is large enough that a
full line, up to the default number of wrap characters and with
the default font, will fit without scrolling.
* The 'Download Articles' dialog now switches the articlelist to
the group when the headers have been downloaded.
Since this dialog is mostly used to sample a (potentially large)
group, this seems the more intuitive approach.
* Added Message-ID to Find Article's search criteria.
* If an article no longer exists on the news server, tasks to read
that article are now automatically removed from the Task Manager.
* Use gcc/buildlink2.mk instead of Makefile.gcc.
* Use the functionality on bsd.pkg.install.mk to generate INSTALL/DEINSTALL
scripts that match the functionality of the custom ones we're removing,
and handle the rc.d script automatically.
* Name the full paths of the binaries that are installed setuid.
Differences to Leafnode version 1.9.26:
* Bug fixes and changes including:
+ checkpeerlocal.c:
% Fix infinite loop problem when interface list is longer than
2 kB (reported by Brian Somers).
% Fix for non-IPv6 compilation on Solaris
% Fix compiler warnings
+ Portability fixes for 64bit platforms in activutil.c, nntpd.c
and texpire.c
+ nntpd.c: if allowstrangers is set, don't call checkpeerlocal
at all.k
(For more details, please see the Leafnode ChangeLog file)
Differences to previous NetBSD package:
* Use devel/pcre rather than the one supplied with Leafnode.
Differences to Leafnode version 1.9.22:
* Bug fixes and changes including:
+ No longer install lsort
+ Merge in timeout_client patch from Jonathan Larmour
+ Fix file descriptor leak in markdownload()
+ No longer emit "400 Service discontinued" to clients.
+ Drop connection when the upstream server runs NNTPcache 2.3.x
+ More verbose POST reject messages.
+ Fix two filtering bugs in fetchnews.
+ Expire groups that are not in group.info
+ Fix several memory leaks (e.g. in fetchnews.c, newsq.c &
artutil.c)
+ Fix possible overflow in nntpd.c
+ Some speed improvements (e.g. in getline.c and mastring.c)
+ Fix bogus error messages.
+ Several documentation fixes.
+ Various fixes from Leafnode 2.
(For more details, please see the Leafnode ChangeLog file)
- pgpverify now supports using GnuPG to check signatures (rather than
PGP) without the pgpgpg wrapper. GnuPG can check both old-style RSA
signatures and new OpenPGP signatures and is recommended over PGP 2.6.
If you have GnuPG installed, pgpverify will use it rather than PGP,
which means that you may have to create a new key ring for GnuPG to
use to verify signatures if you were previously using PGP.
- An item that was noted in NEWS below but was inadvertently left out of
nnrpd has actually been added this time: users can no longer post
articles containing Approved: headers to moderated groups by default;
they must be specifically given that permission with the access:
parameter in readers.conf. See the man page for more details.
- Two bugs in repacking overview index files and a reliability bug with
writing overview data were all fixed in the tradindexed overview
method, hopefully making it somewhat more reliable, particularly for
makehistory.
- If rc.news.local exists in the INN binary directory, it will be run
with the start or stop argument whenever rc.news is run. This is
available as a hook for local startup and shutdown code.
- The default history table hash sizes were increased because a
too-small value can cause serious performance problems (whereas a
too-large hash just wastes a bit of disk space).
- The sample control.ctl file has been extensively updated.
- Wildmat exclusions (@ and !) should now work properly in storage.conf
newsgroup patterns.
- The implementation of the -w flag for expireover was fixed;
previously, the value given to -w to change expireover's notion of the
current time was scaled by too much.
- Various other more minor bug fixes, standards compliance fixes, and
documentation improvements.
Remove `-p' from mkdir arguments, it is already part of ${MKDIR}.
While here substitute a couple of ${PREFIX} by `%D' in
`@exec ${MKDIR} ...' lines and add a couple of missing `%D' in such lines too!
as news/leafnode.
Leafnode is a USENET software package designed for small sites, with a
few tens of readers and only a slow link to the net.
The work in this package is based on that of Ingolf Steinbach
in PR#13830. wiz@ made some suggestions as well. Thanks to both of them.
