[Leafnode-announce] Leafnode 1.9.38.rel released (STABLE)

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

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                 leafnode 1.9.38.rel has been released.
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Leafnode 1.9.38 has been released and replaces the withdrawn 1.9.37
version of leafnode. Leafnode 1.9.37 tried to fix the replacement
snprintf that is used on systems with inadequate native snprintf() that
had been broken for a long time, but the fixes in 1.9.37 were not
complete; leafnode 1.9.37 was reported broken among other systems from
FreeBSD 4.8. Please apologize the inconvenience.

Leafnode 1.9.38 also improves NewsCache compatibility and has tighter
checks to make sure that the prerequisites are there when building the
RPM binary package.

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

o SourceForge -- this site also carries patches to make 1.9.36/37 into 1.=
9.38
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D57767&release_=
id=3D154765
   rsync://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/leafnode/

   Patch:
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D57767&release_=
id=3D154764

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 are EXCLUSIVELY
available from http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/, and the upgrade
patches are only available from sourceforge and
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/. They are not on ibiblio or
http://www.leafnode.org/

SHA1 checksums:
0b9df2db6cc3e2f296ac389c06a96caaafde2868 *leafnode-1.9.38.rel.tar.bz2
7401dcc7af52fc361387f09ec11456e8f8f90269 *leafnode-1.9.38.rel.tar.gz

MD5 checksums:
684d47a127393d7c6755b371b7d70046 *leafnode-1.9.38.rel.tar.bz2
6760cba38e1f9d9c6516fef8e0239d99 *leafnode-1.9.38.rel.tar.gz

File sizes: (K =3D 1024 Bytes)
608K leafnode-1.9.38.rel.tar.bz2
760K leafnode-1.9.38.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-1.9.37. 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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* 1.9.38, 2003-04-23

### BUGFIX
o The replacement snprintf trampled hash marks over digits in the output =
when
  the output length matched the minimum field width or exceeded it, in
  violation of Single Unix Specification. Fixed now. (Corresponding
  conformance testing code has been added to "make check".)

### CHANGES
o The RPM spec file checks if pcre.h is in /usr/include/pcre or /usr/incl=
ude.
  This hopefully addresses RedHat 9 RPM build failures. (The leafnode RPM
  should rely on the pcre RPM rather than including its own copy of PCRE
  files, to avoid conflicts.) This is untested because the snprintf bugfi=
x
  above is critical and does not allow for further delay for testing.
o The NewsCache compatibility code was changed to allow the DATE command
  for NewsCache 0.99.22* and 0.99.2? as well as 1.1.12 and newer.
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