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This version fixes a bug that shows up with MySQL4 (newsheaders crashes with a 'Duplicate key' message).

Thanks to feedback from a Debian user, this release is now supposed to be gcc3.3-compatible and to build under Debian-unstable.

This is just a bug & performance fix release. See release notes.

A missing index on a new field seems to lead to serious performance problems in 0.3.4. I'll soon release 0.3.5 (tomorrow) with a fix. You should either wait for it or apply this quick fix (with the mysql client utility, or via PHPMyAdmin), by executing these two SQL requests on the base:

CREATE INDEX idx_fix_cat ON Message (category);

UPDATE Param SET value='9' WHERE name='DB_VER';

Sorry...

This release only includes a new feature: incomple messages can be forcefully decoded. They'll end up corrupted, of course, but with the recent release of PAR version 2.0, a corrupt file is more useful than a missing one :)

A small bug has found its way in release 0.3.3; the walkaround is simple, just turn off the Config::categorize option. Symptoms: you can't queue messages.

This release includes various bug fixes and an undocumented new functionnality :) (see NEWS).
This will be the last release in the 0.x.x branch since I'm on the way of completely refactoring NewsSrv. Next version will be "Goldfinger" 1.0.0

Better error handling, message boxes instead of stdout for Win32, and last but not least: moved to autoconf/automake...
This release should only be of interest to people who
1) build from source under Un*x
2) can't get the thing working under Windows and don't have any error message to report :)

A DLL was missing from the Windows installer (libmySQL.dll, namely). Fixed.

The 0.3.1 release fixes the documentation (INSTALL file) and the conf.sh script. Windows user are not interested in this; they should stick with 0.3.0.

NewsSrv is a newsreader specifically aimed at downloading Usenet binaries.
Its main features are: multi-server, grouping of files belonging to a same post, Web interface that allows it to be controlled remotely.
Version 0.3.0 adds post support (yEnc only) and a GUI for the Windows version, together with some bug fixes and features aimed at power-users (regexp knowledge is useful).