[Leafnode-announce] Leafnode 1.9.30.rel released (STABLE)

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

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leafnode 1.9.30.rel has been released.

This update is recommended, it contains bug fixes and documentation
updates as well as more example configuration files.

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 1.9.30 is or will become available in .tar.bz2 format from these=
 sites:

o SourceForge
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D57767&release_=
id=3D125957
   rsync://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/leafnode/

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

o W=FCrzburg University
    http://www.leafnode.org/


NOTE that the .gz tarballs and the upgrade diffs are EXCLUSIVELY
available from http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/ and are not on
sourceforge or ibiblio.

MD5 checksums:
934a39709c0d15cd33adf077cd9768e8 *leafnode-1.9.30.rel.tar.gz
3557f751441b880d6321dec475a001d7 *leafnode-1.9.30.rel.tar.bz2

SHA1 checksums:
26c54333f9708423517793229e881ffe8ef62b9c *leafnode-1.9.30.rel.tar.gz
bd1af03287e623e82e496e8ef35169bb531f3b6c *leafnode-1.9.30.rel.tar.bz2

File sizes:
609k leafnode-1.9.30.rel.tar.bz2
750k leafnode-1.9.30.rel.tar.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-1.9.29. 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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* 1.9.30, 2002-12-04

### BUGFIXES
o Fix subtle and rare unterminated loop (100% CPU hang) bug in doarticle(=
). It
  can only strike when an ARTICLE, HEAD, STAT or BODY command in Message-=
ID
  syntax accesses a crossposted article AFTER a GROUP command and if the =
group
  name given there is part of another group's name that the article was
  crossposted to. Credits to Jan Knutar for a detailed bug report.
o Only consider groups (after LIST or NEWGROUPS) that match the
  only_groups_pcre, if one is configured. This avoids offering groups tha=
t are
  never fetched.
o Detect and report write errors when writing the new active ("groupinfo"=
)
  file.
o Whitelist STAT command for NewsCache versions 0.99.18, 0.99.19, 0.99.2?=
.,
  1.1.*
o RPMs built from the included .spec file now install a "config" and "fil=
ters"
  file, both are marked "noreplace". This should prevent these files from
  being lost when a SuSE RPM is replaced by one built from this file.
o Leafnode will delete duplicate newsgroups from its active file. This pr=
ocess
  is case-blind. Some badly maintained upstream servers have the same
  newsgroup more than once, but only differing in capitalization. Leafnod=
e
  will prefer the group with LESS upper-case characters.
o Fix maxage =3D 0 regression of leafnode 1.9.21. maxage =3D 0 seems not =
to be in
  wide use...

### WORKAROUNDS
o Blacklist STAT for servers that contain "NNTP news cache" in their
  greetings, reported to be necessary for NTL (UK) by Robert Marshall.

### CHANGES
o Leafnode now ships with a leafnode.cron.daily file. See INSTALL.
o Leafnode now ships with a filters.example file that was taken from the =
SuSE
  7.3 RPM.

### DOCUMENTATION
o The newsq manual page was reworked and is more comprehensive now.
o README-FQDN was corrected in respect to the dfncis.de host name.
o FAQ has information on the Red Hat inetd vs. xinetd issue.

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