2002-04-25
Full changes and diff from previous release
Highlights
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The sample control.ctl file has been extensively updated.
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Users can no longer post articles containing Approved header fields to moderated groups by default; they must be specifically given that permission with the access parameter in readers.conf. See the man page for more details.
Bug Fixes
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Two bugs in repacking overview index files and a reliability bug with writing overview data were all fixed in the tradindexed overview method, hopefully making it somewhat more reliable, particularly for makehistory.
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The implementation of the -w flag for expireover was fixed; previously, the value given to -w to change expireover's notion of the current time was scaled by too much.
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The default history table hash sizes were increased because a too-small value can cause serious performance problems (whereas a too-large hash just wastes a bit of disk space).
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Various other more minor bug fixes, standards compliance fixes, and documentation improvements.
New Features
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pgpverify now supports using GnuPG to check signatures (rather than PGP) without the pgpgpg wrapper. GnuPG can check both old-style RSA signatures and new OpenPGP signatures and is recommended over PGP 2.6. If you have GnuPG installed, pgpverify will use it rather than PGP, which means that you may have to create a new key ring for GnuPG to use to verify signatures if you were previously using PGP.
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If rc.news.local exists in the INN binary directory, it will be run with the start or stop argument whenever rc.news is run. This is available as a hook for local startup and shutdown code.
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Wildmat exclusions (
@and!) should now work properly in storage.conf newsgroup patterns.