[Leafnode-announce] Leafnode 1.10.4.rel released (STABLE) CRITICAL FIX INSIDE

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

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                 leafnode 1.10.4.rel has been released.
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                    http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/

Leafnode 1.10.4.rel fixes a critical texpire issue that was introduced
in leafnode 1.9.54: texpire can lose articles from message.id when
another leafnode process is started while texpire is running. Symptoms
are truckloads full of "relink" messages at texpire time, figures of
message.id expiry "articles deleted" not matching the count of articles
deleted in groups and duplicate articles in newsgroups. These have been
reported by Rein Klazes who found the exact location of the bug and Rick
Pasotto.

A binary RPM for Linux with glibc 2.2 and i486 or compatible processors
is provided. It also requires a package providing libpcre.so.0 and xinetd.

This version is or will become available in .tar.bz2 format from these sites:

o SourceForge -- Source .tar.bz2 and i486 Linux RPM
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57767&release_id=260697
   rsync://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/leafnode/

o Dortmund University -- Source .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, upgrade patch, i486 Linux RPM
   http://home.pages.de/~mandree/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

Not all sites carry all files.

Below are file checksums and the NEWS file excerpt, with changes since
the previous release.  The full ChangeLog ships with the tarballs and
can be viewed at http://home.pages.de/~mandree/leafnode/ChangeLog.txt

Have fun,
Matthias Andree, Leafnode maintainer

SHA1 checksums:
f14d8a7e66813c0848c58535aa1d8b92ee66e221 *leafnode-1.10.4.rel.tar.bz2
5eedd1e4fc6ee0d2076bf2777bebee94ca255e75 *leafnode-1.10.4.rel.tar.gz
179e42f4561430953d306030fd6ab522071f2cf4 *upgrade-1.10.3-to-1.10.4.diff.gz

MD5 checksums:
ec29b123d98ae111f986defa1d8568a1 *leafnode-1.10.4.rel.tar.bz2
8680b419e4fe0dad5aa8daf01bf9be5e *leafnode-1.10.4.rel.tar.gz
cd14447b0ba050ce7c72b999c1a084a3 *upgrade-1.10.3-to-1.10.4.diff.gz

File sizes:
385245 leafnode-1.10.3.rel.tar.bz2
459275 leafnode-1.10.3.rel.tar.gz
  6120 upgrade-1.10.2-to-1.10.3.diff.gz

NEWS since previous release:
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### CRITICAL BUGFIX
- - Only texpire will now delete the message.id/XXX/mids files and only after it
  has the lock, to prevent premature (but reversible) expiry of message.id
  files followed by gazillions of relinks at the next texpire run.
  Bug located and fix tested by Rein Klazes, thanks a lot.

### CHANGES
- - Make debug mode logging of texpire a bit more verbose, log the reason why a
  message.id file was unlinked.
- - Minor internal cleanups to make the code a bit more efficient, reduced
  memory use in texpire a bit.
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