[leafnode-list] [Leafnode-announce] Leafnode 1.9.47.rc2 released (RELEASE CANDIDATE)

[Matthias Andree]

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                 leafnode 1.9.47.rc2 has been released.
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Leafnode 1.9.47.rc2 is a testing release that should have production
quality but needs further testing because some bugfixes have been
non-trivial. No new bugs have been reported against .rc1, so this should
be a safe install.

Please install 1.9.47.rc2, test it and report your findings to the
leafnode-list, which has moved and is now at
leafnode-list at dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de - for further info, see:
http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/mailman/listinfo/leafnode-list/

Leafnode 1.9.47.rc2 is available in .tar.bz2 format and as RPM for i486
glibc-2.2 (or newer) based Linux distributions from:

    http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/
    rsync://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/leafnode-1/

The files are digitally signed with my key 052E7D95 or E65A83DA, please
check the signature after downloading!

Below is the NEWS file excerpt, with changes since leafnode-1.9.46. The
full ChangeLog ships with the tarballs and can also be viewed online at
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/ChangeLog.txt

Have fun,
Matthias Andree, Leafnode maintainer

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* 1.9.47, 2004-01-__

### BUGFIXES
Note: many of these bugs have been long-standing.
o Fetchnews: Protocol conformance: no longer ignores lines when the XOVER data
  obtained from the upstream server lacks the 8th field, Xref:. RFC-2980
  suggests, but does not mandate this field. Reported by Brian Sammon.
o Fetchnews: XOVER mode did not take maxlines, minlines and maxbytes into
  account.
o Fetchnews: XHDR mode did not take minlines and maxlines into account.
o Fetchnews: XHDR mode tried to fetch bogus articles when articles had been
  dropped from the fetchlist because of age or size.
o Fetchnews: XHDR required that Bytes, Date and Lines had been returned in
  exactly the same order as the Message-ID headers and would go out of synch
  if it didn't - but in doubt, would fetch the article. Fixed.
o Leafnode: will detect "list active.times" when trailing garbage (a group
  name) is present. It used to read it as "list active" instead.
o Leafnode: XOVER now works without article number and returns data for
  current article.
o Do not pass uninitialized data to setrlimit() when setting the core file
  size in debugmode.
o Plugged a minor memory leak.

### CHANGES
o fetchnews now supports a new -q option that suppresses the "found no server
  with posting permission" warning, to avoid the "cron sends lots of mail"
  bug. Reported by Joey Hess of Debian.
o fetchnews now supports a server-specific "noxover" option to force the
  use of XHDR when a server does not work with XOVER.
o fetchnews will now try to match the "maxcrosspost" parameter against the
  Xref: overview information that, albeit optional, is returned by most
  servers in response to the XOVER command. This can avoid the download of
  some, but not all, excessively crossposted articles.
o The news administrator address, as shown in the placeholder article, is now
  configurable via the new "newsadmin" option. It used to be hardcoded to
  "news at HOSTNAME", where HOSTNAME was replaced by leafnode's hostname.
o Rebuilt with automake 1.8.

### DOCUMENTATION
o The "port" option description in config.example and leafnode.8 has been
  revised to make clear that it only applies to fetchnews, not the listening
  port.
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