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whatsnewfm HISTORY


2004/04/13  -  0.6.5
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- Regular expressions for scoring the releases now match
  over multiple lines.



2004/02/15  -  0.6.4
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- Fix rare problems with '=20' appearing in whatsnewfm mails.
  Charset and encoding are now copied from the newsletter.



2003/08/18  -  0.6.3
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- Parameters of sendmail(1) call can be configured.  You propably
  need to add "MAIL_OPT=-oi -t" to your configuration file.



2003/04/27  -  0.6.2
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- BUGFIX: Multiline subjects in the newsletter were not handled
  correctly.
- Removed obsolete filenames from documentation.
- Changed expiration algorithm for old database.  Entries will stay at
  least 15 days in the database.
- Use different parameters for sending mail.



2003/01/11  -  0.6.1
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- BUGFIX:  Number of projects added to the old database shown in the
           newsletter statistics was wrong.



2003/01/04  -  0.6.0
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- No changes, v0.5.3 seems stable and is released as v0.6.0.



2002/12/29  -  0.5.3
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- Location and name of configuration file can be changed.
- Small documentation updates.



2002/12/04  -  0.5.2
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- BUGFIX:  v0.5.2 didn't run at all.



2002/12/03  -  0.5.1
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- Added a manpage.
- Instructions on how to import old databases from v0.4.x.
- DATE_CMD configuration variable mustn't be used any more.



2002/11/24  -  0.5.0
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- Use Berkeley DB to store data.



2002/11/21  -  0.4.11
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- BUGFIX: Perl 5.8 showed some warnings on startup.
- Some minor changes in README file.



2001/11/07  -  0.4.10
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- BUGFIX: Newsletter format has changed.



2001/10/19  -  0.4.9
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- BUGFIX: Welcome message was not working correctly.
- Added scoring of editorial articles.
- A list of skipped articles can be shown (new parameter LIST_SKIPPED).
- Warnings concerning your configuration file are sent via mail.
- Items skipped with 'low score' will not be added to the list of
  'already seen' projects any more.



2001/08/15  -  0.4.8
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- BUGFIX: Categories were missing in 'hot' mails.



2001/08/10  -  0.4.7
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- BUGFIX: Newsletter format has changed.



2001/07/28  -  0.4.6
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- Added scoring of Freshmeat Categories.
- Updated help text (whatsnewfm.pl -h).



2001/07/19  -  0.4.5
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- BUGFIX: Newsletter format has changed.



2001/06/23  -  0.4.4
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- BUGFIX: Welcome message was not working correctly.
- BUGFIX: Warning message about changed newsletter format was not
  generated correctly.
- "view" accepts optional regexp to filter the output.
- Minor documentation updates.



2001/02/11  -  0.4.3
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- BUGFIX: Existing comments in 'hot' database could not be updated.
- BUGFIX: URL was missing in articles.
- BUGFIX: Project ID was missing in 'hot' mails.
- The newsletter summary can be printed at top or bottom of a parsed
  newsletter (add SUMMARY_AT=top to your ~/.whatsnewfmrc).
- Comments from 'hot' database are included in 'hot' mails.



2001/02/05  -  0.4.2
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- BUGFIX: freshmeat has changed the syntax of the newsletter.
- Improved detection of changes in newsletter format.
- Two releases of the same project within one newsletter are handled
  correctly.



2001/02/02  -  0.4.1
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- BUGFIX: A line with a single dot "." within freetext fields
  (e.g. release details) caused sendmail to end the mail at that
  point.
- Changes in the newsletter format should be detected and
  the user gets a warning mail telling him to update whatsnewfm.



2001/01/31  -  0.4.0
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- BUGFIX: freshmeat has changed the syntax of the newsletter.



2001/01/30  -  0.2.6
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- New items with less than a specified score will not be shown.



2000/11/25  -  0.2.5
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- Freshmeat editorials are included in the list of new applications.



2000/11/10  -  0.2.4
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- BUGFIX: Perl 5.6 showed some warnings on startup.



2000/10/30  -  0.2.3
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- Reacted to a change in the newsletter format (item name).
- "add" and "del" give more verbose messages.



2000/09/22  -  0.2.2
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- Added scoring of newsletter items.
- Adding and removing items from the "hot" database now gives
  affirmative messages.



2000/09/10  -  0.2.1
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- BUGFIX: Statistic calculations at the end of a parsed newsletter
  were broken.
- Configuration is read from a configuration file (you don't need to
  edit the script any more).
- You can print the contents of your 'hot' database.



2000/08/22  -  0.2.0
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- BUGFIX: freshmeat has changed the syntax of the newsletter.
- Updates can be sent as one big or several small mails.



2000/08/04  -  0.0.3
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- BUGFIX: Empty update mail were sent when there were no updates.
- BUGFIX: Comments in the "hot" database were deleted every time.
- Entries can be added or removed from the "hot" database.
- A help text is shown when wrong command line arguments are given.
- *Major* code cleanup (even subroutines now!).
- added this HISTORY file