sob@lib.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) (11/01/89)
NNTP 1.5.7 will soon be available. It will have the following bugs fixed or enhancements added. The names in the brackets are the people who reported the bug or suggested the improvement and in many cases provided diffs to make my life easier. Thanks for the help. Typo in batch.c left the CNEWS BATCH_FILE undefined. [ Joe Weening <weening@neon.stanford.edu> ] Malformed history line messages were being logged when this was not the case. [fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)] Corrected MACH space call to correctly reflect that it only works with the CMU MACH and not NeXT. [Tom.Lane@zog.cs.cmu.edu] Added support for the REUSEADDR socket option to make it easier to deal with multiple copies of the daemon running. [rick@uunet.uu.net] Fixed a bug in nntp_awk so that the connection count from unknown explorers is correct. [Samuel Lam <skl@wimsey.bc.ca>] Put back the original getword() subroutine in newnews.c and placed #ifdefs around the CNEWS getword(). [Rein Tollevik <rein@ifi.uio.no>] Corrected a bug in seekuntil() that caused the NEWNEWS command to never work correctly. [Rein Tollevik <rein@ifi.uio.no>,Dan Oscarsson <Dan@dna.lth.se>] Getting the .signature file from DOTDIR (in fakeinews) was inconsistent with real "inews"'s. It is now conditional. Define DO_DOTDIR if you want to have it use this environmental variable. [ Mark Davies <mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz>] Added support for the CNEWS active.times file. If you run CNEWS, you won't need mkgrdates to get NEWGROUP to work as it should. [Felix Lee <flee@shire.cs.psu.edu>] Minor changes to nntpxmit so that it will get some information from common/conf.h like everything else does. [Michael A. Cooper <mcooper%acamar.usc.edu@usc.edu>] Bug fix to clientlib.c to allow systems that don't know about the new hostent structure to work. [Edwin Kremer <edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl>] UMASK support added so that CNEWS will not create world writeable batches.[ Mark Nagel <nagel@wintermute.ics.uci.edu>] Hopefully, this will release before Novembver 10th. I expect that I will need to release 1.5.8 around Thanksgiving or Christmas. NNTP 1.6 will be out in January. I hope that will be close to the last release before we start to revise the RFC and add some functionality. Comments on anything about NNTP are always welcome.