[Leafnode-announce] Leafnode 1.11.0.rel released (STABLE)

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

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                 leafnode 1.11.0.rel has been released.
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Leafnode 1.11.0.rel contains two bugfixes that may in some cases require
changes to existing setups, which prompted a bump of the minor version:

1. fetchnews now supports IPv6. leafnode has already supported IPv6 before.

   leafnode was sometimes filed into categories of IPv6-aware software,
   although only the NNTP server was IPv6 aware, but not the "fetchnews"
   NNTP client program. This has regularly caused irritations. This
   update makes the fetchnews client IPv6 aware.

2. The configuration file parser now supports quoted strings on the
   right hand side of configuration lines. This changes lines that
   contain the QUOTATION MARK character (" = ASCII 34 = 0x22 = 042,
   "neutral double quote") must be changed. Example: password=sec"ret
   now becomes: password="sec\"ret"

   This change also enables the NUMBER SIGN (crosshatch, hash mark,
   octothorpe, however you call it, # = ASCII 35 = 0x23 = 043) to be
   used in passwords, if the passwort is enclosed in quotation marks,
   Example: password="sec#ret"


A binary RPM for Linux with glibc 2.2 and i486 or compatible processors
is provided. It also requires packages 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=313193
   rsync://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/l/le/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 file types (.tar.bz2, .tar.gz, .rpm).

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:
c9cba6c531c25469324d4f3167a50173cd41eb81 *leafnode-1.11.0.rel.tar.bz2
7be6e7325a638b1a9e2f62ea307003cf1d91adfd *leafnode-1.11.0.rel.tar.gz
6680814fbb3b4e724494a2715de93097f46ecf3f *upgrade-1.10.8-to-1.11.0.diff.gz

MD5 checksums:
ed4ce29c24d6f4271ceab72aca67ba7f *leafnode-1.11.0.rel.tar.bz2
6544dbd1b626eb063d861612dac318a3 *leafnode-1.11.0.rel.tar.gz
cf024bfe61b168ae08f5e6f87da12915 *upgrade-1.10.8-to-1.11.0.diff.gz

NEWS since previous release:
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### INCOMPATIBLE BUGFIXES
+ fetchnews now supports IPv6 (this causes the version bump to 1.11)
+ the configuration parser now supports quoted strings on the right-hand
  side, so that "#" can be used in passwords. See the section
  CONFIGURATION in leafnode(8) for details.

### BUGFIX
+ Fix snprintf test that caused leafnode to always use the local
  snprintf rather than the system's. Bug found by Bruno Rohee.
  Regression in leafnode-1.10.7, though with no user-visible effect.
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