[leafnode-list] leafnode 1.9.44.rc4 available (also as RPM)

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>]

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Hi,

I've uploaded the 4th release candidate to leafnode 1.9.44, leafnode
1.9.44.rc4, as source tarball and Linux glibc 2.2 i486 RPM, to be
downloaded at http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/

Please test this version, particularly on AIX and on other systems
that don't have GCC. I plan to release this code with just a new
version number on Tuesday or Wednesday. Let me know if you're testing
and need a day or two more than that.

SHA1 hash: (check with sha1sum)
ab433a1649a7084696a4d9708457516a9a910dde *leafnode-1.9.44.rc4.tar.bz2

MD5 hash: (check with md5sum or md5)
6362ce72647400efb704a8cf4fc33666 *leafnode-1.9.44.rc4.tar.bz2

Here's the NEWS since 1.9.43, for the full round-up, a ChangeLog is
available at the forementioned URL -- except with changes since -rc3 is
below the NEWS.

Have fun,
Matthias


### BUGFIXES
+ A texpire SIGSEGV was fixed, it struck when expiring articles from
  groups that were no longer in interesting.groups. (Reported by Iain
  D. Broadfoot.)
+ Interesting.groups expiry was bugfixed and streamlined, it now
  happens before contacting the first server. (Reported by Nikita V.
  Youshchenko).
+ Debugmode is now documented in config.example.
+ Debugmode has been cleaned up in fetchnews. It is now possible to
  log XOVER replies with debugmode=3.
+ One meaningless system error that was included on "illegal article:"
  log lines was removed from the line. (Reported by Nikita V.
  Youshchenko.)
+ Fetchnews no longer moves articles into failed.posting if the
  upstream server refuses the POST command (before seeing the
  article).
+ The XOVER updater no longer aborts when encountering a group when
  there is a sub-group with an all-numeric name. (This only happens in
  badly administered newsgroup hierarchies.) Reported by Dâniel Fraga.
+ The RPM is now more careful when handling /etc/xinetd.d/leafnode and
  /etc/cron.daily.leafnode, both are marked %config(noreplace) now.
  Reported by William Hooper.

### PORTABILITY
+ __attribute__ is only used with __GNUC__ (gcc), to avoid AIX
  trouble.

### CHANGES
+ Fetchnews now accepts any 2XX reply to NEWGROUPS, to work around a
  problem with an MC-link news server. (Reported by Paolo Amoroso.)
+ Texpire, when in verbose mode,  will now print "Expiring
  message.id..." before doing just that.
+ The RPM installation was revised (the German manual pages are now in
  %_mandir/de/, cruft from doc_german was dropped, xinetd example is
  installed).
+ Leafnode excludes glibc-2.3 special ctype.h stuff to let binary
  compiles work on glibc-2.2.
+ Fetchnews has MUCH improved posting behaviour and is more verbose in
  case of trouble.
+ Fetchnews speed-up in XOVER mode: avoid stat() if the article is
  ignored for size or age. Reduces local I/O, particularly with -x,
  when recovering from crashes or after adding new servers.
+ function inlining is now checked for in ./configure, attributes.h is
  gone.

### DOCUMENTATION
+ There is now a new documentation file, ADD-ONS, that currently lists
  leafwa and Nikita V. Youshchenko's "mlgroups" patch.
+ A German manual page for leafnode-version(1) has been added.



2003-10-19  Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>

        --- 1.9.44.rc4 ---
        * Makefile.am, attributes.h, configure.ac, getfoldedline.c,
        ln_log.h, mastring.c: Drop __attribute__ macro definition, rather
        use __attribute__ only when __GNUC__ is defined. Let autoconf handle
        the "inline" issue.

2003-10-16  Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>

        * xoverutil.c: Fix comment.
        * NEWS: Mention .spec fixes (%config(noreplace)), bug reported by
        William Hooper.
        * CREDITS: Add missing circumflex to Dâniel Fraga's name.
        * ChangeLog, NEWS, configure.ac: snapshot ln-1-9-44-rc3

        --- 1.9.44.rc3 ---
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