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From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2007-11-21 09:57:25
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Dear all, since John E. Davis took over slrn's maintenance (again), the previous CVS repository is no longer being updated and only kept for historical reasons. To obtain the current development code, please check out the new subversion repository instead: svn co https://slrn.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/slrn/trunk slrn Alternatively, the repository can be browsed on the web via http://slrn.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/slrn/trunk/ All the best Thomas |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2007-10-07 19:34:23
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Dear slrn community, without doubt, you will have noticed that I have stopped being active on Usenet quite some time ago, for various reasons. Consequently, I have devoted less and less time to the development of slrn. I recently informed John E. Davis, slrn's original author and maintainer up to version 0.9.6.4, of the fact that I wish to lay down responsibility for the project, in order to give it a chance to evolve further. Fortunately, John agreed to take over maintainance again. I believe his technical expertise makes him the perfect candidate for the job and wish both him and the project all the best for the future. Best regards Thomas |
From: Lars S. <lar...@gm...> - 2005-07-29 19:28:04
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This is perhaps a stupid question, but after compiling libcanlock, where should I put the canlock .o-files? This is what I've done: I've put the canlock .h-files in the mingw/include-dir. I've put the canlock .o-files in the slrn/src/gw32objs-dir. I've added the .o-files to $(OBJS) in Makefile.g32. Then I compiled slrn with success and cancel lock worked. But I'm almost sure that this isn't the right way to do it, so what is? |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2005-02-17 20:10:27
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Hi! I finally got round to release a development snapshot of slrn that can optionally be compiled against slang-2. It is available as a tarball from our patches page: <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/index.html#sect_devel> If you have some time, please try it and report any bugs you might find. Here is a brief FAQ entry about the current status of slang-2 support: 1.6. How well are slang-2 and Unicode supported right now? Since version 0.9.8.2, slrn compiles against slang-2. The option to compile with slang-1 will be kept until slang-2 (as well as its support in slrn) proved to be sufficiently stable. The next item on our TODO list will be to implement proper charset conversion. At the moment, slrn in a UTF-8 terminal will only display articles in ASCII and UTF-8 correctly. Also, articles that you write will simply be sent out as slrn finds them on disk, with the charset declaration given in your config file (mime_charset). A current drawback of slang-2 is that its regexp engine lacks UTF-8 support. When you run slrn in UTF-8 mode, you should have your score file in UTF-8 as well. You may still encounter surprising results; in particular, regexp matching has no error handling for invalid UTF-8. Here is a full list of changes since the last stable version: 0. Bug fixes include: * slrnpull fetches marked articles even if no new headers are available. * slrn would sometimes eat the last char of an article when posting. * slrnpull gives permission 600 to debugging files (may contain passwords). * Some minor usability glitches (Alain Bench) * Fixed fd leaks on some error conditions (Sami Farin) 1. Ported to slang-2 (patch by John E. Davis). slrn still compiles with slang-1 and I will keep this option until slang-2 is completely stable. Please see the FAQ for the current status of slang-2 support. 2. Introduced quit_hook, which is executed when slrn quits. 3. Symbolic key names <BackTab> and <F13> through <F20> added (Alain Bench). -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2004-10-07] Released slrn 0.9.8.1 | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2004-11-06 16:00:17
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Hi, it turned out that the patch against eating the last character when posting introduces new problems. Please use <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.8.1-lastchar2.diff> instead. If you want to "upgrade" the previous patch, you can apply <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.8.1-lastchar-incr.diff> -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2004-10-07] Released slrn 0.9.8.1 | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2004-10-14 13:39:00
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Hi! When the editor does not put a newline character at the end of the last line, slrn will eat the last character of the article when posting. Please make sure your editor puts a newline there or use the patch from <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.8.1-lastchar.diff> -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2004-10-07] Released slrn 0.9.8.1 | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2004-10-10 00:18:51
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Hi! I just discovered that the current version of slrnpull will immediately go to the next group when a group contains no new headers. Instead, it should first retrieve article bodies marked for download. Note that fetching marked bodies still works when new headers are present or the --marked-bodies command line option is given. If you still want a fix, you can get it from: <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.8.1-fetch.diff> -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html ..-----------------------------. [2004-10-07] Released slrn 0.9.8.1 | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2004-10-07 00:09:25
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Hi, I just released slrn 0.9.8.1. It mainly includes a bunch of bugfixes that I wanted to make available before diving into the transition to slang-2. As always, please get it from our download page: <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7768> Here's the full list of changes since slrn 0.9.8.0: 0. Bug fixes include: * slrnpull's download statistics should work correctly in offline mode. * slrn crashed on some operating systems when posting. * slrn crashed when trying to decode base64 encoded articles without body. * Don't destroy soft links / multiple hard links when writing newsrc file. * Always apply scoring rules in the order given in the scorefile. * When reading cross-posts, slrn sometimes marked additional articles in the other group(s) as read (Joerg Lueders). * slrnpull no longer posts backup copies (*~) of files you edited manually in the out.going directory. * slrnpull tries to write .headers files on interrupts. * The "Has-Body" scoring field sometimes did not work correctly. * When retrieving article children, headers without body were not marked. * Ignore signature delimiters in verbatim text blocks. * Do not choke on long header lines when replying by email. * A workaround for a bug in INN caused problems with leafnode; only use it when the server was recognized as INN from the logon message. * Fixed crash when running in wide terminals (John E. Davis) * Email address parser is more RFC2822 compliant 1. In the config file (and the corresponding intrinsic functions), the following names now denote special function keys: <PageUp> <PageDown> <Up> <Down> <Right> <Left> <Delete> <BackSpace> <Insert> <Home> <End> <Enter> <Return> <Tab> <Space> <Esc> and <F1> through <F12> If using these names does not seem to work for you, please make sure your terminfo settings are correct. 2. In true offline mode, slrnpull can now automatically retrieve bodies of articles that get a high score value (--fetch-score option). 3. Added Swedish translation (Johan Svedberg) 4. Make hide_pgpsignature hide GnuPGs optional "NotDashEscaped" lines. -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html ..-----------------------------. [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2003-07-31] First beta with offline reading |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2004-09-28 09:59:19
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Hello everybody. I got an e-mail from John E. Davis yesterday, informing me that the release of a first preview of slang 2 is imminent. Thus, I decided to release the bunch of bugfixes I made since slrn 0.9.8.0 as a new stable version right now and then start to work on supporting slang 2 as soon as possible. I just put a developer preview of it online at <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.8.0pl1.tar.gz>. Beside the bug fixes, it has two new (minor) convenience features; see <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/changes.html> for details. If you are an experienced user and have some time, please test it and inform me of any problems you may encounter. If you are a translator and find some spare minutes, please send me an updated .po file so it can get into the final release. Please note that I can only answer your e-mails next week, because I will be away travelling from Wednesday to Sunday. -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2003-07-31] First beta with offline reading |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2004-02-12 22:27:15
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Hi! I just got a report that when reading cross-posts, slrn will sometimes mark additional articles in the other group(s) as read. This has been found and fixed by Jörg Lüders; the patch is available from <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.8.0-ranges2.diff> Administrative note: As you probably will have noticed, development of slrn has been almost completely sleeping in the past months. I hope to get back to doing some work on it again when this semester's courses end (which will be in a few weeks), so if you sent me an e-mail I did not yet answer, please be patient. -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2003-07-31] First beta with offline reading |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2003-11-21 17:44:34
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Hi! I got a report that slrn will crash when trying to decode base64-encoded article for which the body is not present. The following patch takes care of this: <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.8.0-mime.diff> -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2003-07-31] First beta with offline reading |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2003-09-06 11:45:36
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Hi! On some architectures (the report I got was for ppc), slrn 0.9.8.0 will crash when trying to post. If you come across this problem, the following patch should help you: <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.8.0-post.diff> -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2003-07-31] First beta with offline reading |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2003-09-02 19:00:28
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Hi! I just found (and fixed) the first bug in slrnpull 0.9.8.0: When some requested bodies are already present on disk, slrnpull won't download them; however, they still might screw up the download statistics. The following patch fixes the problem: <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.8.0-ranges.diff> -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2003-07-31] First beta with offline reading |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2003-08-26 00:26:27
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Hi! I just released the long-awaited version 0.9.8.0 of slrn. Unfortunately, our webpages at sourceforge.net are currently read-only (due to a disk failure), so I cannot update them yet. However, you can already download the tarball at <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7768>. Thanks to everybody who made a contribution. Here is the full list of changes since 0.9.7.4: -1. Changes when building on Un*x: * The configure script accepts new options --with-server-name and --with-server-file (Matthias Friedrich). * Upgrade to more recent versions of gettext, automake and autoconf. Please let me know if this introduces problems on your platform. * The intl/ directory is no longer included in the tarball, as most people who want NLS should already have GNU gettext installed. 0. Bug fixes include: * Setting new_subject_breaks_threads to 2 has an effect again. * Some translations (fr/ko/nl/ru) were broken and could cause segfaults. * Fixed possible buffer overrun when parsing "Xref" header lines. * Fixed memory leak when grouping scorefile entries. * No more rubbish at the end of popup window lines (Jurriaan). * subject_compare_hook leads to the expected result again (Jurriaan). * Ignore "no data found" errors when using uudeview (Chris Hanson). * Don't segfault when toggling past the 10th header_display_format. * Follow convention to use "Message-ID" instead of "Message-Id". * Use "X-Posted-To" instead of "Posted-To" (did not make it into RFC2822) * Also attempt MIME-decoding if no "Mime-Version:" header line is found. * Don't add an empty line at the end of saved articles (Alain Bench). * Use a completely unmodified copy of the article when piping / saving. This is important for some yenc-encoded and PGP-signed articles. * Sometimes, all headers were downloaded even when user set a limit. 1. Changes to the user interface: * view_scores uncollapses threads (suggested by Jurriaan W Kalkman) and can optionally be left by pressing 'q'. * By default, articles are now saved to folders with lower case names; upper case filenames are still used when the file already exists. The new hook make_save_filename allows overriding these defaults. * In header_display_format, %b choses a suitable "unit" automatically. * Browsing URLs will also use rot13 if it's toggled on in the pager. * The prompt when writing a followup to a crosspost should be more understandable and can now be turned off via "netiquette_warnings". When selecting "set Followup-To", this is announced in the message body; this can be configured with the new variable "followupto_string". * toggle_quotes now tries to find a non-blank line to leave on screen. * Defaults for "followup_string" and "followup_date_format" changed. * "postpone_directory" now defaults to "News/postponed"; if necessary, slrn will create this directory automatically (after asking the user) * Warn at startup when setting a variable that doesn't have an effect. * The score value 0 no longer has a special meaning; if you want to assign the score 0 and stop scoring for this article, use =0. * When no server name is given, slrn tries "localhost" as the default. * You now need to escape (double) % signs in custom_headers. 2. When used in combination with slrnpull, slrn now supports "true offline reading", i.e. you can tell slrnpull to download article headers only, mark interesting ones for download in slrn and fetch those article bodies during the next run of slrnpull. Please see doc/slrnpull/README.offline for details. 3. slrnpull no longer completely rewrites the overview files when expiring articles, which should speed the process up quite a bit. If you still need to rebuild the overview, you can use the new --rebuild option (based on a patch by Jurriaan W Kalkman). 4. If your terminal supports it (and you are not using Win32 or OS/2), you can now use colors and attributes at the same time. Just append them to the color lines in your config file, e.g.: color underlinetext "default" "default" "underline" 5. Set use_recommended_msg_id to 1 in your config file if you want slrn to make use of server-proposed Message-IDs; the IDs will get saved along with the article to the save_posts mbox file. (patch by Felix Schueller) 6. Added intrinsic functions article_cline_as_string, article_cline_number, article_count_lines, article_goto_line, article_line_down, article_line_up, has_parent, header_cursor_pos, raw_article_as_string, set_color_attr (see doc/slrnfuns.txt). 7. Custom sorting now allows you to use different criteria for sorting initial articles of threads and articles inside threads (see custom_sort_order in manual.txt for details). (patch by Anatoly Vorobey) 8. locate_article ignores leading "news:" (Jarek Baczynski) 9. When reading in spool mode with spool_check_up_on_nov set, slrn now finds out the number of bytes of each article, even if it is not included in the news overview file (based on a patch by Jurriaan W Kalkman). 10. Support Cancel-Locks using the canlock library (--with-canlock) that can be obtained from <http://cssri.meowing.net/>; you also need to set the new variable "cansecret_file" to a file containing your Cancel-Lock password to enable this (based on a patch by Andreas Barth). 11. Support GNU TLS via its new OpenSSL compatibility layer (--with-gnutls). Please note that GNU TLS still is under heavy development and that slrn's support for it is still untested (based on a patch by Joey Hess.) 12. New command-line option "-w0" that waits on startup, but only if a warning or error is displayed. 13. Updated cleanscore, see contrib/NEWS.cleanscore (Felix Schueller) 14. Verbatim text can be hidden using toggle_verbatim_text (default binding '{') or hide_verbatim_text in the config file. (Arek Sochala) 15. The "BEGIN PGP SIGNED ARTICLE" line is displayed using the "pgpsignature" color and stripped on followups. (Emmanuele Bassi) 16. If query_read_group_cutoff is set to -n, slrn will automatically (without prompting) download n articles when more than n are present. 17. Support Turkish characters on Win32 - set charset to "ibm857" for this. With help from A. Alper ATICI 18. Re-structured the manual and added a chapter about slang's pre-processing facilities. (Matthias Friedrich) 19. The config variable cc_followup_string is obsolete; cc_post_string now covers all cases. Currently, the only supported escape sequence is "%n" for newsgroup name. 20. New translations: * be.po (Belarusian; Hleb Valoska) * fi.po (Finnish; Lauri Nurmi) * tr.po (Turkish; A. Alper ATICI) 21. Remove duplicates when browsing URLs (Ruediger Sonderfeld) 22. IPv6 support (requires getaddrinfo; patch by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)) 23. A new, updated and more comprehensive FAQ (doc/FAQ) - it replaces the files FAQ, SCORE_FAQ and slrnpull/FAQ (written by Matthias Friedrich and me, based on John E. Davis' original files). -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2003-07-31] First beta with offline reading |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2003-08-19 16:32:42
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Hello! A new, updated and more comprehensive FAQ for slrn is now available, written by Matthias Friedrich and me. It will replace the files FAQ, SCORE_FAQ and slrnpull/FAQ in the next release of slrn and is based on those files, which were originally written by John E. Davis. You can read and / or download the new FAQ on our manual page: <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/manual/> Feedback on it (to the slrn-user mailing list or to us personally) would be welcome. -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2003-07-31] First beta with offline reading | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2002-03-13] slrn 0.9.7.4 is out |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2003-07-31 19:20:08
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Hello everybody! This week, I *finally* could spend a few days on the development of slrn again and I used them to implement the long-awaited true offline functionality in slrnpull. I have to admit that I did not yet test the new code very thoroughly; if you want to help testing it, you can still get it from <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.7.4pl3.tar.gz> If you are only interested in the list of changes since the last stable release, have a look at <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/changes.html> I plan to do some more testing, (hopefully) finish the new FAQ and after that release 0.9.8.0 some time in August. pl3 may well be the last beta before that, so if you are a translator and can find some time, please send me your updated po file. -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2003-07-31] First beta with offline reading | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2002-03-13] slrn 0.9.7.4 is out | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2002-02-03] Screenshot page online |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2003-01-11 15:38:22
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Hi! Happy new year everybody. I am feeling bad about the fact that true offline reading still isn't finished, but I guess that having a new beta without true offline reading is still better than having no new beta at all, so I decided to release 0.9.7.4pl2 for your testing pleasure - there have been a number of fixes, improvements and minor new features since the last beta, so I hope you enjoy it :-) As always, the tarball can be found at <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.7.4pl2.tar.gz> The list of changes is available from <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/changes.html> Translators: I will release at least one more beta before 0.9.8.0, so you do not need to send in updates for your po files yet (if you still do, they will of course get committed to the CVS right away). -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2002-03-13] slrn 0.9.7.4 is out | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2002-02-03] Screenshot page online | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2002-02-03] "Port" to Mac OS X |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2002-08-30 09:36:33
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Hi! First, I need to disappoint you: True offline support will be in 0.9.8.0, but cannot be tested yet (support in slrn is almost complete, but I did not even start hacking on slrnpull). Sorry. Then again, quite a number of new features, bug and usability fixes is already in place, so I decided to release a tarball preview so that those of you who are eager to beta-test new code, but don't want to get daily updates via CVS can already test those. I'd be especially happy if someone could test the new GNU TLS support (--with-gnutls instead of --with-ssl). I don't know any "secure" public news server except secnews.netscape.com and the encryption used by them is not supported by GNU TLS. The tarball can be found at <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.7.4pl1.tar.gz> The list of changes is available from <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/changes.html> Translators: If you want, you can already send me updates for your po files; however, I am quite sure that some strings will still be added or changed before 0.9.8.0, so you might want to wait for the next beta. -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html .-----------------------------. [2002-03-13] slrn 0.9.7.4 is out | Home of the slrn newsreader | [2002-02-03] Screenshot page online | http://slrn.sourceforge.net | [2002-02-03] "Port" to Mac OS X |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2002-04-05 23:07:35
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Hi! I want to inform you about two new bugfixes for the latest version of slrn: * <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.7.4-mem_leak.diff> Version 0.9.7.0 introduced an improved scoring syntax that allows grouping of scoring rules. Unfortunately, the code that handles this case leaks memory, which has now been noticed and fixed. * <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.7.4-popup_win.diff> The latest version of slrn sometimes displays random rubbish at the end of popup window lines. Jurriaan W. Kalkman took care of this. -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> * Recent news from http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ -> [2002-03-13] slrn 0.9.7.4 is out -> [2002-02-03] Screenshot page online / "Port" to Mac OS X -> [2001-11-05] slrn 0.9.7.3 is out |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2002-03-21 20:22:37
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Hi! I now uploaded a patch for the problems caused by the broken translations (fr, ko, nl, ru) in slrn 0.9.7.4, as reported earlier this week. The translators of ko.po and ru.po submitted corrected versions (thank you); in the other files, I just marked the affected entries fuzzy so they aren't used for the moment. The patch also includes a minor (cosmetic) change to pl.po. If you use one of the affected translations, I recommend to either apply the patch or turn off NLS in slrn until the next version. You can get the file from <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.7.4-po.diff> Note that you'll need msgfmt (included in the gettext package) when applying this patch, as the Makefile needs to rebuild the .gmo files afterwards. -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> * Recent news from http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ -> [2002-03-13] slrn 0.9.7.4 is out -> [2002-02-03] Screenshot page online / "Port" to Mac OS X -> [2001-11-05] slrn 0.9.7.3 is out |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2002-03-17 18:43:59
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Hi! I just got a bugreport saying that slrn segfaults when using the French translation. As the error in the po file was really obvious, I was able to fix it myself. While I was at it, I also checked all other files for errors and found some in ko.po, nl.po and ru.po. In the CVS, I marked the affected entries fuzzy so they are no longer used until they get fixed. I will publish a patch to fix the segfaults in a few days; if you are the translator of one of the affected files, you still have the chance to send me a corrected version before that (zipped versions preferred). From now on, I'll inspect translations a bit closer before accepting them to make sure this problem does not re-appear. Additionally, if you are a translator, _please_ check your po file yourself (either using 'V' in Emacs or calling "msgfmt -c -v -o /dev/null LANG.po" directly) before submitting it. -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> * Recent news from http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ -> [2002-03-13] slrn 0.9.7.4 is out -> [2002-02-03] Screenshot page online / "Port" to Mac OS X -> [2001-11-05] slrn 0.9.7.3 is out |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2002-03-14 18:35:04
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Hi! There are already two bugfixes for the new release of slrn: * <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.7.4-strcasecmp.diff> You need this patch to compile slrn on systems that don't have strcasecmp() in their C library (e.g. on OS/2). * <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/slrn-0.9.7.4-link_subjects.diff> By default, the variable new_subject_breaks_threads is interpreted like it was in 0.9.7.2. This patch re-adds the values first added in 0.9.7.3 and described in the manual. Sorry for inconvenience. -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> * Recent news from http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ -> [2002-03-13] slrn 0.9.7.4 is out -> [2002-02-03] Screenshot page online / "Port" to Mac OS X -> [2001-11-05] slrn 0.9.7.3 is out |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2002-03-13 15:11:49
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Hi! Finally, there's a new release of slrn. As always, you can get the tarball from <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7768>. Thanks to all contributors. Here's the full list of changes since version 0.9.7.3: 0. Bug fixes include: * slrn sometimes hung when reading via SSL. (Robert Dennis Manchester) * Sometimes headers were cut off during MIME encoding (Andreas Ferber) * Mouse support did not work correctly when using a translation. * Fixed a segfault while scoring. (Byrial Jensen) * Fixed rare segfault caused by broken "References:" lines. (Felix Schueller) * Fixed a segfault while browsing URLs. * get_(fg|bg)_color() mapped color names incorrectly and did not allow quotes[0-7] as an argument. * Use color object "message" for all prompts. * The high / low scoring article counters work correctly. * Don't remove _^H combinations in articles (corrupted yenc-encoded data). * Don't decode headers when writing them into the overview file (slrnpull). * The --with-libdir config option was ignored. * Work around a problem with leafnode when getting articles from a different group by Message-Id. * Recognize SN's timeout messages. * TABs in the text of popup_window()s are now expanded correctly. * Don't turn off scoring when scorefile contains a single invalid regexp. 1. New algorithm for article sorting (based on a patch by Felix Schueller). This adds a highly configurable custom sorting interface (which will completely replace the choice in sorting_method at some point). See custom_sort_order and custom_sort_by_threads in the manual. Moreover, the new code sorts "siblings" inside of threads. 2. Made confirm_actions a bitmapped value to allow more fine-grained control. The new default is 31 (confirm all actions). 3. The output of --kill-log now also shows which scorefile entries match the killed article (like view_scores; based on patch by Jurriaan W Kalkman) 4. New variable max_queued_groups to control batching of GROUP commands at startup, as some servers do not seem to like it. (Craig B. Agricola) 5. In article mode, "expunge" now triggers the newsrc autosave copy feature. 6. Added intrinsic functions bsearch_article, re_bsearch_article, re_search_article_first, search_article_first, set_ignore_quotes, set_strip_re_regexp, set_strip_sig_regexp and set_strip_was_regexp. Added a return value to register_hook (hopefully, you'll find it backwards compatible). 7. Added support for dynamically linking slang modules using the import intrinsic function (where available). 8. Added --with-mta option to the configure script to easily allow the use of alternate mail transport agents (MTAs). 9. In a Cygwin environment, slrn can (and should) now be built Unix-like. 10. More translations: * es.po (Spanish; Walter Echarri) * fr.po (French; slrn-fr project) * ko.po (Korean; Im Eunjea) 11. New config variable "hide_quotes" (see manual for details). 12. When using inews on OS/2 or Windows, the article is now written to a temporary file instead of piped into the program. Enjoy! -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> * Recent news from http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ -> [2002-03-13] slrn 0.9.7.4 is out -> [2002-02-03] Screenshot page online / "Port" to Mac OS X -> [2001-11-05] slrn 0.9.7.3 is out |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2002-03-05 17:17:55
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Hi! As a lot of (mostly minor) bugfixes and some new translations went into the CVS since November, I decided to release slrn 0.9.7.4 before doing the (major) changes that will lead us to 0.9.8.0. It will also contain a neat new sorting mechanism, which is based on code by Felix Schueller and allow Unix-like compilation on Cygwin (in combination with slang 1.4.5). Right now, I'm uploading the first (and probably only) pre-release to: <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/data/slrn-0.9.7.3pl1.tar.gz> If you are a translator, please get that tarball, update your po file and send it to me (diffs and / or zipped versions preferred). The current status of the translations is as following: da.po: 840 translated, 6 fuzzy translations, 5 untranslated. de.po: 829 translated, 13 fuzzy translations, 9 untranslated. es.po: 830 translated, 13 fuzzy translations, 8 untranslated. fr.po: 803 translated, 14 fuzzy translations, 34 untranslated. it.po: 829 translated, 13 fuzzy translations, 9 untranslated. ko.po: 793 translated, 14 fuzzy translations, 45 untranslated. nl.po: 829 translated, 13 fuzzy translations, 9 untranslated. pl.po: 821 translated, 13 fuzzy translations, 17 untranslated. ru.po: 808 translated, 13 fuzzy translations, 30 untranslated. I plan to release slrn 0.9.7.4 in about one week. If you find a bug in the snapshot or if it does not compile on your system, please let me know. There are probably also some of those bugs left that I could not reproduce myself. I will try to fix some of them before 0.9.7.4, but I cannot promise anything. Enjoy :-) -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> * Recent news from http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ -> [2002-02-03] Screenshot page online / "Port" to Mac OS X -> [2001-11-05] slrn 0.9.7.3 is out -> [2001-09-20] slrn is going international |
From: Thomas S. <ts...@gm...> - 2002-02-03 22:02:35
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Hi! As we got requests for a collection of screenshots on slrn.org, we now put together what we could find on the web and created a new page for them: <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/pictures.html> It contains thumbnails of the screenshots, as well as links to the original pages with the full-sized versions. Felix Schüller volunteered to maintain it, so please contact him at <slr...@fs...> if you want your own screenshot to be added to our collection. We would also like to see more people publish their slrnrc files along with the screenshots, so that others can easily adopt their "color scheme" if they like it. Felix also resolved the problem people frequently ran into when they tried to build slrn on Mac OS X. Please see his comment and patch for details: <http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-schuelfe/slrn/> -- Thomas Schultz <ts...@gm...> * Recent news from http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ -> [2002-02-03] Screenshot page online / "Port" to Mac OS X -> [2001-11-05] slrn 0.9.7.3 is out -> [2001-09-20] slrn is going international |