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[leafnode-list] [Leafnode-announce] Leafnode 1.9.43.rel released (STABLE)
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leafnode 1.9.43.rel has been released.
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Leafnode 1.9.43 contains a number of bug fixes, documentation
refinements and restores performance of the fetchnews background XOVER
updater process, reducing system load. It had been too slow after the
past releases. fetchnews stdout output is now line buffered.
News readers that access the spool directly may show a minus sign in
front of all-numeric components in news group names. These do not show
up in NNTP traffic.
Note that you can subscribe to a moderated (non-spam) leafnode-announce
mailing list or you can watch file releases at sourceforge below, if you
want to be notified when new leafnode releases become available.
Leafnode 1.9.43 is or will become available in .tar.bz2 format from these sites:
o SourceForge -- this site also carries patches to upgrade
http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57767&release_id=182196
rsync://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/leafnode/
Patch:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57767&release_id=182199
o Dortmund University -- this site also carries .tar.gz tarballs
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/
rsync://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/leafnode-1/
o IBiblio/MetaLab (will take some days to pick up) -- has FTP sites
http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html
Check the system/news/transport directory
(They suffered hard disk trouble recently, it may take longer than
usual to pick up.)
NOTE that the .gz tarballs are EXCLUSIVELY
available from http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/, and the upgrade
patches are only available from sourceforge and
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/. They are not on ibiblio or
http://www.leafnode.org/
SHA1 checksums:
40e19de39e2081bde4d4a161b733bdd1a9d936c7 *leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.bz2
0c3c7b095d6310a57419846833487cb1c428dc44 *leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.gz
1c1da7e1b50fbafc99b3ff968bc725bad3498337 *upgrade-1.9.42-to-1.9.43.diff.gz
MD5 checksums:
40e19de39e2081bde4d4a161b733bdd1a9d936c7 *leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.bz2
0c3c7b095d6310a57419846833487cb1c428dc44 *leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.gz
1c1da7e1b50fbafc99b3ff968bc725bad3498337 *upgrade-1.9.42-to-1.9.43.diff.gz
File sizes:
620K leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.bz2
780K leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.gz
152K upgrade-1.9.42-to-1.9.43.diff.gz
The .bz2 format is used by the OpenSource bzip2 compressor that is
available from http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
Below is the NEWS file excerpt, with changes since leafnode-1.9.42. The
full ChangeLog ships with the tarballs and can be viewed at
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/ChangeLog.txt
Have fun,
Matthias Andree, Leafnode maintainer
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* 1.9.43, 2003-09-04
### INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE
o 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
o Fix leafnode.8 manual pages (EN and DE languages) to explain 0 and negative
values for expire/groupexpire.
o Avoid premature abort (that causes .overview and groupinfo files to become
stale) when the stdout becomes disconnected. Reported by Sytse van Slooten.
o Make sure that texpire fixes the groupinfo lines of groups in "archive mode"
(groupexpire -1). Reported by Sytse van Slooten.
o Repair groupexpire 0 (= use global default, rather than expire immediately).
Broken since 1.9.23.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o Make sure XOVER related error messages don't show up in the NNTP client.
### CHANGES
o fetchnews puts stdout into line buffered, or -- failing that -- unbuffered
mode (Patch by Mark Brown, Debian maintainer).
o 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
o Added FAQ item on running leafnode as nntps server.
o Mention SuSEconfig difficulties with /etc/hosts in README-FQDN*
o Clarify item #13 in INSTALL.
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