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| OLDNEWS (leafnode-1.11.12.tar.bz2) | : | OLDNEWS (leafnode-1.12.0.tar.xz) |
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| reported aborts related to corrupt mids files. mids files are removed at | | reported aborts related to corrupt mids files. mids files are removed at |
| start of any leafnode program. | | start of any leafnode program. |
| - Documentation: Some minor formatting problems in the manual pages were | | - Documentation: Some minor formatting problems in the manual pages were |
| corrected. Reported by Laurent Fousse. | | corrected. Reported by Laurent Fousse. |
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| ### CHANGES | | ### CHANGES |
| - Logging: the number of duplicates that texpire has deleted is now printed. | | - Logging: the number of duplicates that texpire has deleted is now printed. |
| - Feature: The maximum time that programs wait for a lock file can now be | | - Feature: The maximum time that programs wait for a lock file can now be |
| configured through "timeout_lock" in the configuration file and overridden | | configured through "timeout_lock" in the configuration file and overridden |
| by the LN_LOCK_TIMEOUT environment variable, to simplify running fetchnews | | by the LN_LOCK_TIMEOUT environment variable, to simplify running fetchnews |
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| and texpire from a cron job. A workaround was suggested by Dirk-Lüder Kreie. | | and texpire from a cron job. A workaround was suggested by Dirk-Lüder Kreie. |
| - Feature: texpire has a new "-r" (repair) option that checks harder whether | | - Feature: texpire has a new "-r" (repair) option that checks harder whether |
| the hard links are correct. | | the hard links are correct. |
| - Documentation: INSTALL reminds the user to erase the distributor package | | - Documentation: INSTALL reminds the user to erase the distributor package |
| first before doing a source install. | | first before doing a source install. |
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| ============================================================================== | | ============================================================================== |
| * 1.9.53, 2004-05-05 | | * 1.9.53, 2004-05-05 |
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| ### BUGFIXES | | ### BUGFIXES |
| - Bugfix: do not re-authenticate if server requires authentication for the | | - Bugfix: do not re-authenticate if server requires authentication for the |
| same command twice - to avoid an unterminated re-authentication loop. | | same command twice - to avoid an unterminated re-authentication loop. |
| - Bugfix: Various error conditions now cause the problem to be logged. | | - Bugfix: Various error conditions now cause the problem to be logged. |
| - Bugfix: Newly-added groups that are not in a server no longer cause | | - Bugfix: Newly-added groups that are not in a server no longer cause |
| fetchnews to proceed to the next server. | | fetchnews to proceed to the next server. |
| - Bugfix: texpire did not repair the spool in archived groups | | - Bugfix: texpire did not repair the spool in archived groups |
| (groupexpire some.news.group = -1) which caused duplicates and articles | | (groupexpire some.news.group = -1) which caused duplicates and articles |
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| inaccessible by Message-ID after corruption. Reported by Dirk-Lüder Kreie. | | inaccessible by Message-ID after corruption. Reported by Dirk-Lüder Kreie. |
| - Portability: One string was split for C89 conformance (string constants | | - Portability: One string was split for C89 conformance (string constants |
| cannot exceed 509 characters). | | cannot exceed 509 characters). |
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| ### CHANGES | | ### CHANGES |
| - Feature: fetchnews supports an environment variable, LN_SKIP_GROUPS, that is | | - Feature: fetchnews supports an environment variable, LN_SKIP_GROUPS, that is |
| treated as a comma-separated list of wildmats, any match sufficient. All | | treated as a comma-separated list of wildmats, any match sufficient. All |
| matching groups are skipped, so you can skip your binary groups during | | matching groups are skipped, so you can skip your binary groups during |
| daytime, for instance. Don Geddis had complained a configuration cheat he'd | | daytime, for instance. Don Geddis had complained a configuration cheat he'd |
| been using had stopped working with one of the recent fixes. Let there be an | | been using had stopped working with one of the recent fixes. Let there be an |
| official way to do things instead. | | official way to do things instead. |
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| - Texpire: now updates .overview information should a previous fetchnews run | | - Texpire: now updates .overview information should a previous fetchnews run |
| have been interrupted hard. | | have been interrupted hard. |
| - Texpire: support -q to suppress all non-error output. | | - Texpire: support -q to suppress all non-error output. |
| - Cosmetic: texpire no longer counts unlink failures as kept articles. | | - Cosmetic: texpire no longer counts unlink failures as kept articles. |
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| ============================================================================== | | ============================================================================== |
| * 1.9.49, 2004-01-09 | | * 1.9.49, 2004-01-09 |
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| ### REGRESSION BUGFIX | | ### REGRESSION BUGFIX |
| - Fetchnews: the 1.9.48 security bugfix broke delaybody mode, it is now fixed. | | - Fetchnews: the 1.9.48 security bugfix broke delaybody mode, it is now fixed. |
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| Bug reported by Berthold Höllmann. | | Bug reported by Berthold Höllmann. |
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| ============================================================================== | | ============================================================================== |
| * 1.9.48, 2004-01-09 | | * 1.9.48, 2004-01-09 |
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| ### SECURITY BUGFIX | | ### SECURITY BUGFIX |
| - Fetchnews: when a. minlines=0 (default) and b. delaybody=0 (default) and | | - Fetchnews: when a. minlines=0 (default) and b. delaybody=0 (default) and |
| either c. no filterfile is configured (default) or a. and b. and d. | | either c. no filterfile is configured (default) or a. and b. and d. |
| article_despite_filter=1 are configured, an article with missing mandatory | | article_despite_filter=1 are configured, an article with missing mandatory |
| headers and without body can hang fetchnews and/or prevent the fetch of | | headers and without body can hang fetchnews and/or prevent the fetch of |
| further articles from the current group or server. CVE Name: CVE-2004-2068 | | further articles from the current group or server. CVE Name: CVE-2004-2068 |
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| Reported by Toni Viemerö, SourceForge bug 873149. | | Reported by Toni Viemerö, SourceForge bug 873149. |
| This was a denial-of-service bug, not one that could lead to local or remote | | This was a denial-of-service bug, not one that could lead to local or remote |
| privilege escalation. | | privilege escalation. |
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| ### BUGFIX | | ### BUGFIX |
| - Fetchnews: log group name when articles are skipped that match the minlines, | | - Fetchnews: log group name when articles are skipped that match the minlines, |
| maxlines, maxbytes or age filters, for more consistent logging. | | maxlines, maxbytes or age filters, for more consistent logging. |
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| ### CHANGES | | ### CHANGES |
| - Rebuilt with autoconf 2.59. | | - Rebuilt with autoconf 2.59. |
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| before contacting the first server. (Reported by Nikita V. Youshchenko). | | before contacting the first server. (Reported by Nikita V. Youshchenko). |
| - Debugmode is now documented in config.example. | | - Debugmode is now documented in config.example. |
| - Debugmode has been cleaned up in fetchnews. It is now possible to log | | - Debugmode has been cleaned up in fetchnews. It is now possible to log |
| XOVER replies with debugmode=3. | | XOVER replies with debugmode=3. |
| - One meaningless system error that was included on "illegal article:" log | | - One meaningless system error that was included on "illegal article:" log |
| lines was removed from the line. (Reported by Nikita V. Youshchenko.) | | lines was removed from the line. (Reported by Nikita V. Youshchenko.) |
| - Fetchnews no longer moves articles into failed.posting if the upstream | | - Fetchnews no longer moves articles into failed.posting if the upstream |
| server refuses the POST command (before seeing the article). | | server refuses the POST command (before seeing the article). |
| - The XOVER updater no longer aborts when encountering a group when there is | | - The XOVER updater no longer aborts when encountering a group when there is |
| a sub-group with an all-numeric name. (This only happens in badly | | a sub-group with an all-numeric name. (This only happens in badly |
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| administered newsgroup hierarchies.) Reported by Dâniel Fraga. | | administered newsgroup hierarchies.) Reported by Dâniel Fraga. |
| - The RPM is now more careful when handling /etc/xinetd.d/leafnode and | | - The RPM is now more careful when handling /etc/xinetd.d/leafnode and |
| /etc/cron.daily.leafnode, both are marked %config(noreplace) now. Reported | | /etc/cron.daily.leafnode, both are marked %config(noreplace) now. Reported |
| by William Hooper. | | by William Hooper. |
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| ### PORTABILITY | | ### PORTABILITY |
| - __attribute__ is only used with __GNUC__ (gcc), to avoid compiler trouble. | | - __attribute__ is only used with __GNUC__ (gcc), to avoid compiler trouble. |
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| ### CHANGES | | ### CHANGES |
| - Fetchnews now accepts any 2XX reply to NEWGROUPS, to work around a problem | | - Fetchnews now accepts any 2XX reply to NEWGROUPS, to work around a problem |
| with an MC-link news server. (Reported by Paolo Amoroso.) | | with an MC-link news server. (Reported by Paolo Amoroso.) |
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