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4 <title>NOFFLE Changelog</title>
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9 <center>
10 <h1>NOFFLE Changelog</h1>
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13 <hr>
14
15 <h2>Since 1.0pre4</h2>
16
17 <ul>
18 <li>
19 Core files are always enabled when running as server and debugging
20 symbols are always in the executable.
21 <li>
22 Use GDBM_FAST flag for hash files.
23 <li>
24 Minor changes and improvements
25 </ul>
26
27 <h2>Version 1.0pre4</h2>
28
29 <ul>
30 <li>
31 Fixed a bug that broke cross-posting of articles
32 <li>
33 Long overview header lines are now split into multiple lines in response
34 to HEAD or ARTICLE commands.
35 <li>
36 Fixed a bug that caused a crash sometimes when updating the requested
37 article list after releasing/regetting the global lock
38 <li>
39 Server is now allowed to generate core files on crash (in spool directory)
40 if compiled with -DDEBUG option
41 <li>
42 Opening an article additionally marks all references as interesting,
43 so more articles are fetched in thread mode, if one article of a thread
44 was opened.
45 <li>
46 New config option "connect-timeout"
47 <li>
48 Minor improvements and bug-fixes
49 </ul>
50
51 <h2>Version 1.0pre3</h2>
52
53 <ul>
54 <li>
55 Added XPAT command. Not full syntax, but enough for making slrn's thread
56 reconstruction work
57 <li>
58 Storing of requested message-ids completely rewritten (thanks to
59 Volker Wysk for the patch). Much more efficient now. Bug removed
60 that broke requesting articles with message-IDs containing a slash.
61 Added --requested option.
62 <li>
63 When fetching requested articles, do not send more than 20 ARTICLE commands
64 at once, before parsing the server response.
65 <li>
66 Minor bug fixes and improvements.
67 </ul>
68
69 <h2>Version 1.0pre2</h2>
70
71 <ul>
72 <li>
73 Added RPM_BUILD_ROOT variable to Makefile (useful for creating RPM source
74 packages)
75 <li>
76 Removed terrible bug that truncated article body after releasing and re-getting
77 global lock
78 </ul>
79
80 <h2>Version 1.0pre1</h2>
81
82 <ul>
83 <li>
84 <em>needs complete re-installing, some formats have changed</em>
85 <li>
86 Support for multiple remote servers
87 <li>
88 Faster download when fetching news, because articles are prepared
89 in database while parsing response to XOVER and all ARTICLE commands
90 are sent at once
91 <li>
92 Bug removed that made authetication only work with lower-case passwords
93 <li>
94 Other small bug fixes and improvements
95 </ul>
96
97 <h2>Version 0.19</h2>
98
99 <ul>
100 <li>
101 Fix broken full mode
102 <li>
103 Fix cutting of articles after line beginning with '.'
104 <li>
105 Other bug fixes
106 <li>
107 LIST commands can have pattern argument now
108 <li>
109 initial-fetch option removed (same as max-fetch now)
110 </ul>
111
112 <h2>Version 0.18</h2>
113
114 <ul>
115 <li>
116 <em>needs complete re-installing, most file format have changed</em>
117 <li>
118 Group database uses gdbm, databases moved to /var/spool/noffle/data
119 <li>
120 Most config options changed their names, some do not longer exists
121 <li>
122 New fetch mode "thread" added
123 <li>
124 Different --fetch invocations replaced by single option
125 <li>
126 Meaning of "--database" option changed, "--article" option added
127 <li>
128 Failed postings are now returned to sender by "mail" command
129 <li>
130 Expire uses last access time
131 <li>
132 Auto-subscribe option only subscribes groups now, if an article
133 body is opened (no longer if group is selected).
134 <li>
135 Improve posting at German T-Online provider: rename X-Sender header,
136 Reply-To header is added, if missing (T-Online overwrites From headers),
137 allow to remove Message-ID as a config option.
138 <li>
139 Doc files are now copied to $(PREFIX)/doc/noffle
140 <li>
141 Y2K compliance of NEWGROUPS command
142 <li>
143 Various bug fixes (thanks to all users helping with bug reports)
144 <li>
145 Various changes for tuning and improvement
146 </ul>
147
148 <h2>Version 0.17</h2>
149
150 <ul>
151 <li>
152 Bug removed that caused NOFFLE to exceed the allowed maximum number
153 of open files on longer sessions.
154 </ul>
155
156 <h2>Version 0.16</h2>
157
158 <ul>
159 <li>
160 Noffle generates Message-ID if a message received for posting has none.
161 </ul>
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