InterNetNews/inn 2.6.2

INN 2.6.2

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2018-03-18
Full changes and diff from previous release

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in inews that was rejecting articles containing header fields whose length exceeded 998 bytes. This limitation is for the length of a single line of a header field (and not for the length of the whole header field, as it was wrongly the case).

• The buffindexed overview method will now hopefully work properly on systems with a native page size larger than 16KB.

• mailpost now removes empty header fields before attempting to post articles, and keeps trace of them in the newly generated X-Mailpost-Empty-Hdrs header field body. Also, mailpost now sanitizes header fields with regards to empty continuation header lines. Thanks to Kamil Jonca for these bug reports.

• A few commands listed in the "Control commands to INND" section in daily Usenet reports were appearing as a mere letter; all of them are now properly converted to meaningful words.

• Use of the ovdb_server helper server is now the default when using the ovdb overview method, that is to say the default value for the readserver parameter in ovdb.conf is now set to true. It improves stability and avoids deadlocks, timing issues and corrupted ovdb databases.

• Added support for GnuPG's gpg binary (in addition to gpgv) in pgpverify. Indeed, gpg still validates signatures made with weak digest algorithms like MD5 whereas gpgv no longer does. Thanks to Thomas Hochstein for the patch, which permits validating control articles for hierarchies that are still using old PGP keys.

• Added similar support for GnuPG's gpg binary in perl-nocem to validate NoCeM notices from issuers who are still using old PGP keys.

• Other minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.

New Features

• A new syntaxchecks parameter has been added in inn.conf. It permits controlling the level of checks performed by innd and nnrpd. Up to now, only one check can be enabled/disabled: when laxmid is mentioned in the values of this new parameter, INN accepts Message-IDs that contain .. in the left part, as well as Message-IDs with two @ (such Message-IDs would otherwise be considered as syntactically invalid). See the inn.conf(5) man page for more details.
  The check is disabled by default (no-laxmid), which corresponds to the legacy behaviour of INN 2.6.1 and earlier.

• A new -z parameter has been added to mailpost to mention a list of header fields to remove from the gated message. Thanks to Dieter Stussy for the patch.

• The tlsprotocols parameter in inn.conf now recognizes the TLSv1.3 value (for OpenSSL versions implementing TLS 1.3, that is to say starting from OpenSSL 1.1.1).