InterNetNews/inn 2.4.6

INN 2.4.6

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2009-02-27
Full changes and diff from previous release

Highlights

• An updated moderators file with information about the aioe.*, perl.* and si.* hierarchies is provided.

• An updated control.ctl file is provided.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the segfault of the radius authenticator when none of the radius servers respond. Thanks to Matija Nalis for this patch.

• Fixed a lost initialization in buffindexed, which resolves a potential segfault, thanks to a patch by Kirill Berezin.

• INN now properly supports Perl 5.10.0 (and also 5.8.9); Perl filters were causing innd to segfault on a few systems like FreeBSD.

• Fixed a long-standing bug which affected Perl hooks for innd: the variable containing the body of an article was not properly created, which caused regular expressions matching new lines to fail. It especially affected filters like Cleanfeed which sometimes failed to detect unwanted articles.
  To fix that issue, Julien Elie added the use of a shared string, available since Perl 5.7.2, with a fall back to a slower but reliable copy of such bodies in case the function is not available. Using a Perl version superior to 5.7.2 is therefore recommended.

• Fixed two bugs which could prevent nnrpd from being run as a daemon in FreeBSD. Thanks to Johan van Selst for having identified the problem and to Kai Gallasch for having provided a testing FreeBSD server. The listening address was not initialized to ::0 or 0.0.0.0 when the -b flag was not used and an incorrect size was given when IPv6 was enabled and the binding done using IPv4.

• Some annoying assertion failures occurring in innfeed have been fixed by Russ Allbery and Julien Elie.

• Fixed a bug in mod-active for aliased newsgroups. Only = was written to the active file. Thanks to D. Stussy for this patch.

• Fixed a bug which caused innd not to honour the Ad flag in newsfeeds.

• Fixed a bug in the IP address displayed for localhost in innd's status file. It was not correctly initialized.

• Fixed a permission issue: XHDR and XPAT were not checking the rights the user had to read articles when accessing them by their Message-ID.

• Fixed a bug in the replies of XHDR, XOVER and XPAT when the newsgroup is empty. Two initial replies were sent instead of one: the right 420 code followed by a wrong 224 code.

• When no newsgroup is selected, LISTGROUP now returns the right 412 code (instead of 481).

• Other minor bugs have also been fixed.

New Features

• inncheck now uses a range of permissions to see whether the file modes are correctly set. Therefore, different configurations depending on the security the user wants to enforce on his system are possible.

• A new improved version of docheckgroups is shipped with INN. The -u flag permits updating automatically the newsgroups file (with a proper number of tabulations and an alphabetical sort), removing obsolete descriptions and adding new ones. A second argument on command-line permits specifying which newsgroups should not be checked, so as not to treat them.

• An email= keyword has been added by James Ralston to news.daily in order to supply another mail address than the one set at configure time for Usenet daily reports.

• INN supports Berkeley DB 4.7, which is the recommended version to use owing to various bugs affecting previous versions of Berkeley DB.