[Leafnode-announce] New leafnode 1.9 snapshot

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Hi,

I have just uploaded a new leafnode 1.9 snapshot to
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/

It is to become 1.9.25 this Thursday.

News excerpt below.

Have fun!
Matthias Andree

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* 1.9.25, 2002-__-__

### INCOMPATIBLE

- Leafnode's LIST EXTENSIONS reply no longer starts with leading
  whitespace. The current NNTP draft no longer wants whitespace there.

### GENERAL

- The lsort program is no longer installed. When updating from a
  previous version, then please remove it (the default location is
  /usr/local/sbin) -- it is only used (with explicit path) when you type
  "make update" and is not needed later.

### nntpd

- Fix lots of minor bugs that splint turned up.
- Fix some minor XHDR issues.
- Fix LIST ACTIVE.TIMES (did not work at all and returned bogus data).
- Add HDR support (same as XHDR, basically).
- Redo the HELP output.
- List HDR in LIST EXTENSIONS reply.

### fetchnews

- when updating the active file fails, set a flag to try downloading the
  whole active file again on the next run and keep the old active data
  to avoid losing group lo/hi marks.
- new server-specific option "noactive = 1" to defeat downloading the
  full active file (newsgroups list) from this server. Courtesy of Mark
  Brown of Debian.