[leafnode-list] [Leafnode-announce] Leafnode 1.9.44.rel released (STABLE)

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>]

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                 leafnode 1.9.44.rel has been released.
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Leafnode 1.9.44 contains a number of bug fixes and minor changes, it
fixes to crash conditions, reduces local I/O in fetchnews with many
filtered articles. See below for details.

NEW: A binary RPM for Linux with glibc 2.2 and i486/80486 or compatible
processors is provided.


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 1.9.44 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=192634
   rsync://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/leafnode/

   Patch:
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57767&release_id=192636

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

Not all sites carry all files, the .tar.bz2 is available everywhere,
the upgrade patch is available everywhere except IBiblio.


SHA1 checksums:
1f6b08f8170fb2a156d522f069903157cdf22e5c *leafnode-1.9.44.rel.tar.bz2
de04511e730f9a2d5ae181716f018dc29d258094 *leafnode-1.9.44.rel.tar.gz
e12b4a3f28d32f58c9fa6b8d6e6826ab18ce94ad *upgrade-1.9.43-to-1.9.44.diff.gz

MD5 checksums:
cdd8fc8a34006b7723971ce81a2e3e50 *leafnode-1.9.44.rel.tar.bz2
6bc4783ffc8e7adfee407b35f91d0de7 *leafnode-1.9.44.rel.tar.gz
1e8fe84ee1e8c2194724f9bde8117697 *upgrade-1.9.43-to-1.9.44.diff.gz

File sizes:
633858 leafnode-1.9.44.rel.tar.bz2
802928 leafnode-1.9.44.rel.tar.gz
 30381 upgrade-1.9.43-to-1.9.44.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-1.9.43. 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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* 1.9.44, 2003-10-22

### BUGFIXES
o A texpire SIGSEGV was fixed, it struck when expiring articles from groups
  that were no longer in interesting.groups. (Reported by Iain D. Broadfoot.)
o Interesting.groups expiry was bugfixed and streamlined, it now happens
  before contacting the first server. (Reported by Nikita V. Youshchenko)