[Leafnode-announce] Leafnode 1.9.25.rel released (STABLE)

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

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Hello,

leafnode 1.9.25.rel has been released.

This is a recommended update, with the focus on bugfixes, but it has two
new features. *BSD uses will have eagerly waited for this one, as it
fixes the interface IP/netmask misdetection. Details below.


Leafnode 1.9.25 is or will be available in .tar.bz2 format from these sit=
es:

o SourceForge (available, mirror in progress)
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/

o Dortmund University (may be offline on Sat Aug 31st for power line work=
s)
    http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/

o W=FCrzburg University (as Cornelius has time to update the site)
    http://www.leafnode.org/

o IBiblio/MetaLab (will take some ten hours to pick up)
    http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html
    Check in the system/news/transport directory!


NOTE the .gz tarballs are EXCLUSIVELY available from
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/ -- but get bzip2, it compresses
better and has the same command line syntax as gzip.

MD5 checksums:
745cb4d9a89d02016a279f2c73be1fdc *leafnode-1.9.25.rel.tar.bz2
3947786779de0c3e644d6980563d1699 *leafnode-1.9.25.rel.tar.gz
5e5d2fdbfdd4f3fec7c27e31578c8028 *upgrade-1.9.24-to-1.9.25.diff.gz

SHA1 checksums:
6ecbee36fd39a30d324b1db11d7afb0d4721b7f2 *leafnode-1.9.25.rel.tar.bz2
65e97d4260a5cc0984442354e3ece40647c32ad8 *leafnode-1.9.25.rel.tar.gz
cc6481a3d8f734462601e65f507d247a45d8f0d2 *upgrade-1.9.24-to-1.9.25.diff.g=
z

File sizes:
677653 leafnode-1.9.25.rel.tar.gz
546088 leafnode-1.9.25.rel.tar.bz2
203465 upgrade-1.9.24-to-1.9.25.diff.gz


The .bz2 format is used by the OpenSource bzip2 compressor that is
available from http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/

A patch against leafnode 1.9.24 is available from
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/

Below is the NEWS file excerpt, with changes since leafnode-1.9.24. The
full ChangeLog ships with the tarballs and can be viewed at
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/ChangeLog.txt

Have fun,
Matthias

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* 1.9.25, 2002-08-30

### DEDICATION

o Although only a symbolic measure and no consolation to any victim,
  this version is dedicated to all the people in the flooded areas of
  Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Austria, the Czech republic
  and Germany, where many cities have been drowned by the Moldau,
  Danube, Elbe and other rivers rivers that have turned into torrential
  currents by severe rainfall; whole cities in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and
  Brandenburg and the Northwestern Czech republic had to be abandoned
  temporarily.  The material damage is immeasurable, and the personal
  damage considerable.

  Protection of the environment is important and everybody's task.

### INCOMPATIBLE

o Leafnode's LIST EXTENSIONS reply no longer starts with leading
  whitespace. The current NNTP draft no longer wants whitespace there.
o Leafnode's [X]HDR <header> <message-id> commands now return
  the message-ID in front of the header, which is in conformance with
  RFC-2980 but contradicts draft-ietf-nntpext-base-15.txt which has
  expired on 2002-07-15 (which requires the article number to be
  printed, which is not available before GROUP or which is not in unison
  when the article is crossposted).

### GENERAL

o Fix "configured hostname not accepted" issue: Leafnode now reads the
  configuration file before validating the hostname or creating the lock
  file, so the hostname configuration option becomes actually effective.
o 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.
o Documentation updates, including tcpserver/daemontools instructions.
o Build files have been regenerated with automake 1.6.2 (autoconf 2.53)
o A tighter integration of the included PCRE directory into the build
  process.
o German documentation is back.
o Fix some PCRE compile issues.
o The paths of the FILES sections of the manpages should now be correct.
o The FAQ file now ships.
o MacOS X 10.1/Darwin build fixes for -twolevel_namespace issue. We pass
  -flat_namespace to the linker.
o Easier first-time installation: A script to aid setting up leafnode
  when daemontools and tcpserver are present.

### nntpd

o Fix reading interface information on systems that have sa_len in
  struct sockaddr, such as FreeBSD. Leafnode would erroneously refuse
  connections from IPv4 clients on these machines when IPv6 interfaces
  were configured.
o New allow_8bit_headers configuration option (default off) to accept
  unencoded 8-bit data (seems to be common in dk.* and no.* hierarchies)
o Fix lots of minor bugs that splint turned up.
o Fix some minor XHDR issues.
o Fix LIST ACTIVE.TIMES (did not work at all and returned bogus data).
o Add HDR support (same as XHDR, basically).
o Redo the HELP output.
o List HDR in LIST EXTENSIONS reply.
o Fix crash when the client terminates the connection right after a POST
  command.  Not exploitable, reported and fixed by Fabrizio Tironi.

### fetchnews

o 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.
o new server-specific option "noactive =3D 1" to defeat downloading the
  full active file (newsgroups list) from this server. Courtesy of Mark
  Brown of Debian.

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