[leafnode-list] [ANNOUNCE] First Leafnode-2.0 beta version

[krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel)]

I am very pleased to announce the first leafnode 2.0 beta version.
It is available from
	ftp://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/pub/leafnode-2.0b1.tar.gz
Please do not distribute this version.

This is a beta version. If you want to work with software that is
virtually bug-free, leave it alone. If you don't want to track down
down bugs, leave it alone. It is not unlikely to fail (that's why
it is a beta version). Before you try it, back up your configuration
files, in case you want to switch back to 1.x. Read the documentation
(contained in the much-expanded README file), although it is incomplete.

Leafnode-2.0b1 contains at least the following new features:
- nntpd understands XPAT
- nntpd understands NEWNEWS
- nntpd has rudimentary AUTHINFO support
- texpire does some threading when expiring articles
- fetchnews is much faster than before because (a) it uses XOVER and
  (b) when downloading a newsgroup, commands are sent in an overlapping
  way.
- The filtering in fetchnews is much improved.
- All programs understand at least the options -D, -v and -V.
- It is much easier to run any program with different configuration files
  because the configuration file can be specified on the command line.
- Fetchnews has several new command line options which make it much
  easier to query only specific servers, specific groups or request
  specific articles.

Leafnode-2.0b1 contains at least the following bugs:
- The documentation is still incomplete. Most notably, the README
  misses sections 4.1 and 4.2, and the TODO is partially in German.
- fetchnews is very sensitive against interrupted connections.
- fetchnews sometimes coredumps on fixxover() (reported by Joerg
  Dietrich).
- The AUTHINFO support for the nntpd is incomplete and needs fixing.
- The threading done by texpire is not very good.

If you try out Leafnode-2.0b1 and encounter any bugs, please report them
either to me or to the list.

Thank you for your cooperation,

--Cornelius.

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