$Id: NEWS,v 1.74.2.6 2002/01/29 22:12:30 egil Exp $

NEWSX HISTORY
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V1.4pl6 - 28 feb 2002

      Switched from mktemp() to mkstemp()
      Support for RPM package
      Fix for reallocation problem in sim.c by Bernhard R. Erdmann


V1.4pl5 - 27 feb 2002

      Fixed name space collisions for newer INN versions: xmalloc et al.
      INN storage manager fixes from Petter Gustad.
      Tagged hash fixes from G. Paul Ziemba.


V1.4pl4 - 14 feb 2001

      Patches from Winston Edmond.


V1.4 - 9 apr 1999

      Scanlogs silly error message removed; mea culpa.

      NeXT detail again.

      Updated to automake 1.4 and autoconf 2.13

      Repaired and updated --groups behaviour.

      Fix for combination of --tag and --no-path by Stefan Huelswitt,
      huels@iname.com

      Standard profile in $PATHETC/newsx.conf
      Standard profile per server in $INHOSTS/spoolname.conf

      Documentation now shows reasonably sane filenames even for
      runtime configuration.

V1.4pre3 - 3 Apr 1999

      Implemented --profile "filename" that allows command line
      options to be placed in a profile file.

      New options, useful for profile files: --spoolname --hostname
      and --port.

      Added feature for inn scanlogs lock. Only required if INN 
      scanlogs is patched to read newsx logs. Requires option
      --scanlogs. By Uli Zappe, uli@zappe.de.

      Experimental runtime configuration. Can even support a list of 
      alternative configuration files:
		--with-newsconfig=FILE
		--with-newsconfig=FILE:FILE

      Also possibly useful for runtime configuration:
		--with-newslib=DIR

      Options --config and --config-is now actually reads the
      configuration. Add option --verify to just verify it.

      A couple of remaining NeXT peculiarities handled.

      Fixes for INN storage-API.

      Updated INSTALL document somewhat.

      Also removing "NNTP-Posting-Date:" when posting.

      Option --tag will always add "newsx" tag to path of incoming 
      messages.

      Updated documentation.

V1.4pre2 - 24 Mar 1999

      Implement support for "newsx" as newsfeeds exclude pattern,
      adding "newsx" to incoming paths as required.

      Name of host lockfiles made compatible with INN innstat.

V1.4pre - 16 Mar 1999

      Made INN incoming batch file names correspond to INN convention,
      i.e. hostnameXXXXXX.

      Fixed --forget-inactive so that it also works when there are no
      news, and fixed message too. Reported by Uli Zappe.

      Now removing "X-Complaints-To:" and "X-Trace:" on posting, in the
      same manner as "NNTP-Posting-Host:".

      Implemented interface for INN 2.x storage API.

      Made configure complain if no libinn is available for INN. This
      could be a problem for INN 2.x

      Split dbz v3 and v6 to prepare for more runtime configuration. In 
      cnews mode, always selects v3 mode. Removed DBZ_VERSION version 
      tracking in configure, and postponed to runtime.

      Implemented a "--minfree n" options that check that the news spool
      must have room for a minimum of n kilobytes before fetching more 
      news.

      Fixed error re. multiple locks.

      Altered log format so that it is compatible with innreport. Patch 
      from Uli Zappe.

      Now filtering faked DNEWS-generated articles. The --keep-fake option
      will retain them - if you really insist.

      Fixed a couple of bugs in early 1.4pre

V1.3 - 30 Dec 1998

      Unchanged from V1.3pre2

V1.3pre2 - 21 Nov 1998

     The ME specification of the INN newsfeeds file should be treated
     in quite another manner from the Cnews sys file. In Cnews, the ME
     field is the sites general subscription list for incoming news.
     In INN, the content of ME is simply prepended to all other entries,
     and bears no influence on incoming news that INN will accept.

     It can be argued that the Cnews interpretation is more intuitive,
     whereas the INN interpretation is more useful.

     Up to now, newsx has handled the ME field in the Cnews manner at
     all times. This has now been corrected, so that INN interpretation
     is used in INN mode.

V1.3pre - 21 Nov 1998

     Fix for newsx wrongly assuming a good current-pointer after
     a STAT error message, from Steinar Haug, sthaug@nethelp.no

     Configure updates for INN 2.1. Most importantly, it now does a
     much better search for the libinn library.

     Fixed --max-path error message, path line error report, 
     --without-history message.

     Added a --filter option to do filtering with cleanfeed and similar.
     Only tested with cleanfeed, available from
	http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/cleanfeed.html
     Be sure to enable the highwind style interface (similar to the one
     employed by the Cyclone, Typhoon and Breeze servers).

     Added --no-queue option to make newsx bail out if another newsx is
     accessing the same server, instead of queing up for access.

     New --forget-inactive option that will remove inactive groups from
     the in.hosts list.

     New --groups option that allows group specifications in addition to
     the one in sys or newsfeeds. Will only affect fetching. For instance,
     to explicitly avoid fetching of control groups, use:

		--groups '*,!control.*'

     Now correctly opens syslog at an early stage.

     Window size now defaults to 5.

V1.2 - 11 Sep 1998

     All incoming articles are now checked to see if their path
     is consistent with the exclusions given in sys/newsfeeds.
     The --no-path option skips this check.

     All outgoing articles are now checked to see if the length of
     their paths are not too long. This is an extra precaution against
     inadvertently submitting "foreign" articles for posting. The
     --max-path option controls this. Its default value is 1, consistent
     with a simple, local, newsspool. To disable this feature, set it 
     to an impossibly large value, like 999.

     The new --inews option will pipe incoming news to inews. Note that
     this is not an option for ordinary use: it should only be used for
     special configurations where newsx is used as a gateway to inject
     new messages. The --inews-options specifies command line options 
     for inews. The leading '-' must be included. The default options
     are "-hOS".

     The new --add-header allows a specific header to be added to incoming
     messages. The header will be added exactly as specified, except that
     the special case "Path" will be replaced by a header line that says
     "Path: HOSTNAME!not-for-mail". Note that this is definitely not an
     option for ordinary use: it should only be used for special
     configurations, for instance where newsx is used as a gateway to 
     inject new messages.

     The new --pipe-to is similar to --inews, but specifies which program
     incoming news is to be piped to. The pipe is opened and closed once
     for each news message.

     The new --rnews-to is similar to --rnews, but specifies which program
     incoming news is to be piped to. The pipe is continuous for each
     session, and article seperation is in rnews style.

     Made options compatible with GNU standard: Added --help, updated
     --version, renamed --noaction to --dry-run, --keeppath to 
     --keep-path, and renamed --noxx to --no-xx. Retained the old 
     versions for compatibility.

     File locking on posting logfile, folder of posted articles and
     statistics file.

     Check for putenv() and setenv() in configure, and use lib/setenv.c
     if neither are available. Thanks to Helmut Heller
     <heller@altoetting-online.de>.

     Use getopt_long() from standard C library, if available. Moved
     getopt fuctions to lib.

     A couple of further fixes for NeXT, discovered by -Wall.

V1.1 - 6 Sep 1998

     Build libdbz.a only if not HAVE_LIBINN

     Added -Wall for Gnu compiler (again), and fixed various 
     complaints thus raised.

     Fix for make check. Note that make check probably won't be
     reliable for all environments, so don't despair if it fails.

V1.0 - 2 Sep 1998

     Introduced log-entries in all source files.

     Option --nops to disable ps status updates.

     A couple of fixes for NeXT

     Patch from Peter Maydell to handle @-syntax in newsfeeds,
     marked by PMM in sys.c

     Patch from Peter Maydell to support AUTHINFO GENERIC

V1.0pre2 - 28 Jun 1998

     Fixed PACKED in configure.in

V1.0pre1 - 27 Jun 1998

    For INN 2.0, made in.hosts follow the new convention

    Implemented HAVE_MMAP for INN v.2.0 dbz-code

    Added <errno.h> in history.c

    Omitted '-' in newsq ps-command.

    Rephrased the statistics re. omitted articles to make it more clear 
    what happened.

    Support for INN 2.0 extendeddbz

    Will now issue QUIT message on aborted transfers with minimal timeout.

    Various minor install/configure-fixes

    Auto-detection of a suitable libinn, and use that instead. Probably
    only relevant for INN 2.0.

    Made dbz/nonblocking autoconfig more reliable (hopefully).

V0.16 - 21 Jun 1998

    Find out about INN 2.0 DO_TAGGED_HASH in configure script.

    Cleaned up the generation of the lsm-file.

    The use of the NEXT command has been rewritten and polished.

    A --missing option tunes the number of missing articles in a row
    before a NEXT command is issued (instead of a sequential STAT).
    A value of zero will cause NEXT to be used extensively. The
    default value is 0 if no window, 2 if a window is specified.

    A --nonext option will disable use of the NNTP NEXT command entirely.

    A --maxnew option sets the max. number of articles fetched in a new
    group.

    A --maxart option sets the max. number of articles fetched in any
    group.

    Disposed of the need for requesting a STAT following a NEXT.

    Removed installation of dbz/endian

    A --no-ps option turns off the process status update.


V0.15 - 18 Jun 1998

    Added support for newer dbz v.3.0 history files that has an extra
    argument in the history.dir file.

    Repaired error reporting when dbz database is in the wrong format.

    Implemented configuration options:
	--with-newshome=DIR   news home directory is DIR
	--without-history     do not perform history database lookup
	--with-errlog=LOG_XX  do error logging to LOG_XX
	--with-inhosts=DIR    use DIR as in.hosts directory
	--with-minspool=size  use size as guideline for incoming spool size
	--with-timeout=secs   use secs as general timeout, default is 600

    Implemented a newsx host access lock in addition to the existing
    spool access lock. Can be turned off with --nohostlock if you really
    insist.


V0.14 - 17 Jun 1998

    Added support for INN ver. 2.0. The dbz data base format is version 6,
    and quite different from the previous version. The hashing function is
    MD5. The configure should be able to detect the this.

    Added PID to temporary name in incoming spool, so as to support
    simultaneous fetches from the same server.

    Replaced colrm by sed in configure script since some Unices
    don't have it.

    Made the debug log look better by terminating lines of dots with
    newlines.

    Use the standard umask for news as specified in the news configuration
    (usually 002).

    Fix for --rnews behavior by per@erix.ericsson.se

    Supplemented the debug output with the state information also available
    via "ps" at debug level 4. The extended debug level moves to 5, the
    full I/O display to 6.

    Implemented -q option, primarily for testing the history database 
    lookup function.

V0.13 - 2 Jan 1998

    Added AC_ISC_POSIX to configure.in. This should add the -posix
    or -Xp option to C compilers that needs it (i.e. NeXT NS3.3,
    heller@altoetting-online.de)

    Added AC_TYPE_PID_T to configure.in, handling missing pid_t under
    NeXTstep.

V0.12 - 31 Aug 1997

    Cleaned up handling of timeouts and interrupts a number of places, 
    so that the incoming messages are not lost (so often).

    Implemented better timeout on TCP/IP connection establishment.

    Fixed bug in handling of -e option.

    Added proper handling of "gotit" when using IHAVE.

    Allowed numeric port number, and finally implemented the network
    byte swopping in a properly portable manner.

    Use of NNTP NEXT command for filling article gaps, significantly 
    speeding up transfers of newsgroups with a lot of missing articles. 
    Contributed by: Voitenko Sergej <sv@sdtcom.lg.ua>

    Made the telnet protocol detect newlines even when there only is a
    single carriage return. Not really a pretty sight ;-)

    Increased debug info for interrupt cleanup.

V0.11 - 14 Aug 1997

    Implemented --list option to get list of newsgroup names from 
    the remote newsserver. This list can be output to a file or piped to a
    command.

    Implemented --newlist option to get list of new newsgroup names from
    the newsserver.

    Implemented --desc option to get all relevant newsgroup descriptions
    from the remote newsserver. This list can be output to a file or piped
    to a command.

    Implemented --alldesc option to get list of all newsgroup descriptions
    available from the remote newsserver.

    Implemented --mfilter option to allow filtering based on message ID.
    A corresponding F-entry in the statistics file reflects how many
    articles were filtered.

    Inserted an extra level of debugging with -d so that the a single -d
    will no longer output a '.' for every article.

    Made --debug take a numeric argument.

V0.10 - 20 Jul 1997

    Group authorization error does not stop news transfer.

    Updated to automake 1.2.   

    Fixed EOF-handling bug in telnet mode.

V0.9 - 05 Mar 1997

    Altered some option when using --ihave, and made MODE READER behave 
    sensibly with --ihave too.

    Further fine tuning of the installation script.

    The lsm-file is no longer part of the tar.gz file - due to the compression
    that is in fact impossible for the byte counts to tally. The self-
    referrence in the lsm-file is bad enough, but it works of sorts since
    it isn't compressed.

    Removed "X-Server-Date:" for normal POST operation.

    Added a small chapter about message header handling in the man page.

V0.8 - 18 Feb 1997

    Implemented --rnews, which will pipe incoming news directly to
    the incoming spool.

V0.7 - 17 Feb 1997

    Introduced --fail <time> option for failing messages older    
    than <time>. Using the text "never" will turn off this mechanism.
    This behavior is also currently the default, although it is expected
    that this might change in future versions.

    Introduced --bounce <where> option for sending info about failed
    messages. If <where> is exactly "none", no message will be sent.
    If <where> is "poster", the message will be returned to whoever
    created it.

    Option --attach controls the way the message is attached for --bounce.

    Introduced the newsq utility that will give various status
    information. See newsq man page.

    Introduced --stat option for gathering of statistics, and decreased
    the amount of statistics dumped to syslog.

    Introduced --ihave option.

    Introduced --inhosts option, for debugging.

    Locks for INN moved to the $LOCKS directory (this was less of
    a problem that it could sound - the locks was to lock out other
    newsx processes). The --locks option can be used for overriding
    the default choice.

V0.6 - 05 Jan 1997

    For INN mode, implemented correct interoperation with 
    "ctlinnd flush" for posting from outgoing spool. NOTE: The 
    previous mode of operation could very easily loose outgoing 
    messages with INN.

    Started using automake.

    Begun adaptation for ansi2knr.

    Added --ignore option

V0.5 - 16 Dec 1996

    Introduced --window that will speed things up a bit, in rare cases
    by a factor of 10.

    Added --syncnew

V0.4 - 14 Dec 1996

    Changed configure so that it reads the news config files.

    Have individual settings for each of the files, a la INN.

    Fixed a bug with line continuation in the middle of tokens
    in the sys/newsfeeds file.

    Clarified the documentation somewhat.

    Expanded the -h option.

    Introduced long options.

    Fixed the inital state (while parsing the command line) of the 
    "ps" title handler. 

    Introduced --togo, --active, --newsfeeds, --home, --batch,
    and --incoming options.

V0.3 - 10 Dec 1996

    Made varargs/stdarg handling more portable.

    Do no longer rely on Gnu realloc() behavior.

    Introduced the FAQ.

    No new functionality.

V0.2 - 09 Dec 1996

    Redone dependencies to work with non-Gnu makes and ccs

    Included Gnu getopt for those systems that doesn't have it.

    Addressed other portability issues.

    No new functionality.

V0.1 - 13 Nov 1996

    Renamed to newsx

    Implemented fetching of news using GROUP/STAT/ARTICLE

    Implemented parsing of C News sys and active files.

    Implemented parsing of INN newsfeeds and active files.

    Interface to news history database.

    Improved signal handling.

    Implemented "ps" status.


POSTIT HISTORY
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V1.0 - 11 Nov 1996

    Supports NNTPSERVER environment variable.

V0.8 - 14 July 1996

    Handling of removal of stale lockfiles and processes.

V0.7 - 18 June 1996

    Introduced autoconf "config.h"

    Minor fixes

V0.6 - 29 April 1996

    Skipping "NNTP-Posting-Host".

    Handle lines > 512 characters properly.

    Started using GNU autoconf/configure.

V0.5 - 9 April 1996

    Cleaned up source quite extensively, and removed references to
    other sources.

    Added support for a seperate log file and for collection of
    posted articles in folders.

    Implemented improved file locking for C News and INN.

    There is now a lock timeout.

    Placed manual page in section 8, where it belongs.

    The INN version has still not been verified properly.

V0.4 - 27 February 1996

    Added top script for file locking. Currently only for C News.

V0.3 - 29 January 1996

    Removed backup in "togo.o" by default (causes "possibly stalled" 
    message).

V0.2 - 28 December 1995

    Support for INN format of outgoing batch files included.

V0.1 - 4 December 1995

    Initial ALPHA version.