[Leafnode-announce] Leafnode 1.9.37.rel released (STABLE)

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

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                 leafnode 1.9.37.rel has been released.
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This update fixes several bugs and enhances portability and
compatibility. It is recommended that you update from any previous
leafnode 1.9.x version.

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

o SourceForge -- this site also carries patches to make 1.9.35 into 1.9.3=
6
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D57767&release_=
id=3D154061
   rsync://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/leafnode/

   Patch:
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D57767&release_=
id=3D154062

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:
f921dc0c9e3b49c52ce2eec3d30a22daf7750ecb *leafnode-1.9.37.rel.tar.bz2
8547eb5fe906364163d7b6ff48b61f4a6ea3f54d *leafnode-1.9.37.rel.tar.gz

MD5 checksums:
1cf205a607f5c39ac21f852d59b9ddd8 *leafnode-1.9.37.rel.tar.bz2
518816bc76fb027f608fd0f5655090b6 *leafnode-1.9.37.rel.tar.gz

File sizes:
608K leafnode-1.9.36.rel.tar.bz2
760K leafnode-1.9.36.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-1.9.33. 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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* 1.9.37, 2003-04-19

### BUGFIX
o Fetchnews properly tracks when reading the active file from a server fa=
ils
  and retries and the next run.
o The replacement snprintf has received numerous bugfixes.
o Leafnode now checks if the system's snprintf function really works at b=
uild
  time and substitutes its own snprintf.c if the system's snprintf functi=
on is
  broken (or missing).
o Don't use format modifiers that are unsupported by the shipped snprintf=
.c.
o Build fixes on platforms that need special LDFLAGS (sparc64 for
  example), particularly when no system PCRE library is available.

### PORTABILITY
o Better portability to systems that don not provide DIR and struct in th=
e
  <dirent.h> header file.

### WORKAROUND
o Fetchnews no longer checks the DATE at upstream "NewsCache" servers oth=
er
  than version 0.99.22p1, they return local time rather than GMT.

### INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
o Leafnode programs now REQUIRE that they can read the spooldir (and not =
only
  execute it). As the spooldir has always been readable, the impact of th=
is
  change is negligible.
o The default lockfile location has changed to $spooldir/leaf.node/lock.f=
ile.
  This is meant to prevent packaging errors, as the lock file must be in =
a
  directory writable by the "news" user. --with-lockfile can be used to
  configure the former lock file location which used to be
  /var/lock/news/fetchnews.lck.
o Leafnode programs now enforce a umask of 02, just to be sure. Should ha=
ve no
  visible impact.

### CHANGES
o There is now a "post_anygroup" option to skip the "is the group I post =
into
  on this server" check. Useful on servers that let you post but not read=
.
o Fetchnews now prints an error message when saving the current working
  directory fails when it tries to post articles.
o Fetchnews now prints the reply from the upstream server when reading th=
e
  newsgroup list (all or new) fails.
o The internal directory creation code has been revised.
o Debugging code (assertions) has been removed from the build.
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