InterNetNews/inn 2.4.5

INN 2.4.5

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2008-06-29
Full changes and diff from previous release

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the "alarm signal" around SSL_read in nnrpd: it allows a proper disconnection of news clients which were previously hanging when posting an article through an SSL connection. Moreover, the clienttimeout parameter now works on SSL connections. Thanks to Matija Nalis for the patch.

• Fixed a segmentation fault when an article of a size greater than remaining in the stack is retrieved via SSL. Thanks to Chris Caputo for this patch.

• Fixed a few segfaults and bugs which affected both Python innd and nnrpd hooks. They no longer check the existence of methods not used by the hooked script. An issue with Python exception handling was also fixed, as well as a segfault fixed by Russ Allbery which happened whenever one closes and then reopens Python in the same process. Julien Elie also fixed a bug when reloading Python filters (they were not always correctly reloaded) and a segfault when generating access groups with embedded Python filters for nnrpd. Many thanks to David Hlacik for its bug reports.

• Fixed a bug in INN.py and add missing methods to it.

• Fixed a long-standing bug in innreport which prevented it from correctly reporting nnrpd and innfeed log messages.

• Fixed a hang in Perl hooks on (at least) HP/PA since Perl 5.10.

• Fixed a compilation problem on some platforms because of AF_INET6 which was not inside a HAVE_INET6 block in innfeed.

• Fixed a bug in innfeed which contained thrice the same IPs for each peer; it unnecessarily slowed the peer IP rotation for innfeed. Thanks, D. Stussy, for having seen that. Miquel van Smoorenburg provided the patch.

New Features

• SO_KEEPALIVE is now implemented for SSL TCP connections on systems which support it, allowing system detection and closing the dead TCP SSL connections automatically after system-specified time. Thanks to Matija Nalis for the patch.

• The nnrpd.py stub file in order to test Python nnrpd hooks, as mentioned in their documentation, is now installed; only INN.py was previously installed in pathfilter.

• A new heavily improved version of pullnews is shipped with this INN release. This new version is provided by Geraint Edwards. He added no more than 16 flags, fixed some bugs and integrated the backupfeed contrib script by Kai Henningsen, adding again 6 other flags. A long-standing but very minor bug in the -g option was especially fixed and items from the to-do list implemented. Many thanks again to Geraint Edwards.

• New header fields are accessible through Perl and Python innd filtering hooks. You will find the exact list in the INN Python Filtering and Authentication Hooks documentation (doc/hook-python) and in Python samples. Thanks to Matija Nalis for this addition of new useful header fields.

• New samples for Python nnrpd hooks are shipped with INN: nnrpd_access.py for access control and nnrpd_dynamic.py for dynamic access control. The nnrpd_auth.py script is now only used for authorization control. See the readers.conf man page for more information (especially the python_auth, python_access and python_dynamic parameters). The documention about INN Python Filtering and Authentication Hooks has also been improved by Julien Elie.