[Leafnode-announce] Leafnode 1.9.33.rel released (STABLE)

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                 leafnode 1.9.33.rel has been released.
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This update is recommended, it contains bug, compatiblity and
portability fixes and minor contributed features deemed safe even for a
stable release. The posting behaviour was adjusted to be compatible with
that of leafnode 1.9.22 and older, to address the "my postings never get
posted and just lie around in the newsq" issue, the fix for the
"incomplete articles might be posted" bug is still intact.

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 1.9.33 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=3D137713
   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.

SHA1 checksums:
cfe8ba0b17ac6ea56394ecc788b920c81326b76e *leafnode-1.9.33.rel.tar.bz2
321c2d997a49eef0f68cb57a2a4d8d0631167853 *leafnode-1.9.33.rel.tar.gz

MD5 checksums:
f55ac1bce56c57f994b67bddd85c2a09 *leafnode-1.9.33.rel.tar.bz2
256a428ab66935466b02f3f1430b57b4 *leafnode-1.9.33.rel.tar.gz

File sizes:
608kB leafnode-1.9.33.rel.tar.bz2
756kB leafnode-1.9.33.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-1.9.32. 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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* 1.9.33, 2003-02-03

### BUGFIXES
o Fix client hang when an article had suffered corruption and its Message=
-ID
  could not be retrieved. Also consider the article broken and unlink it.
o Compatibility: leafnode 1.9.23 to 1.9.32 have used the u+x flag in out.=
going
  to mark an article "complete". This was incompatible with versions 1.9.=
22
  and before. It has been changed to u+r, which improves compatibility, p=
osts
  are no longer stuck in out.going, and even older versions won't read
  incomplete posts.
o Switching delaybody off no longer makes bodies of article headers retri=
eved
  before the switch inaccessible. (affects leafnode, fetchnews)
o Pseudo article display was fixed for newsgroups that were once there bu=
t
  that have expired without their article pointers reset in the groupinfo=
 file.
o Fix local article number extraction again, along the lines suggested by
  Fumiaki Miura. This bug marked the wrong article for download if a head=
er
  of the structure "Xref: my.ser.ver abcabc:20 abc:10" was in the article=
.
o Ralf Wildenhues fixed two subtle bugs in signal handling again, making =
sure
  we don't warp backwards in the program flow when ^C is pressed twice.
o The nodesc flag was not in effect for fetchnews -f or after adding a ne=
w
  server, making fetchnews redownload the FULL active file over and over =
again.
o Downloaded articles don't show up in out.going in multi-server setups a=
ny
  more, they did when articles to post were in out.going because fetchnew=
s
  messed up its directories.

### CHANGES: documentation
o Options added since 1.9.20 now appear with the leafnode version when th=
e
  option was introduced in the manual pages.

### CHANGES: fetchnews
o Leafnode will now use the "ARTICLE" command to download articles if no
  filterfile is defined or if the new "article_despite_filter" option is =
set
  and "delaybody" is off. This speeds up article download, particularly o=
n
  high-latency links such as interleaved DSL or satellite links.
o There is a new global option, "article_despite_filter", defaults to 0 f=
or
  compatibility.
o There is a new per-server option, "noread", which defaults to 0 and is
  therefore compatible with previous releases of leafnode.
  If set, the server is not queried for active files or articles (but
  skipped), but posting to this server is still tried. Useful to  complem=
ent
  "nopost".  Courtesy of Dmitry Samersoff <dsa...@as...>.
o Fetchnews compares the local clock to that of the upstream server it's
  talking to if the upstream supports the "DATE" command, and warns if bo=
th
  clocks are more than 10 minutes apart (but the program will continue fo=
r
  compatibility.)

### CHANGES: leafnode
o The DATE command is now supported.
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