[ANNOUNCE] INN 2.6.0 available
Russ Allbery
rra at isc.org
Tue Sep 22 03:23:22 UTC 2015
Internet Systems Consortium is pleased to announce that a new major
release of INN is available at:
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/inn-2.6.0.tar.gz
The SHA-256 checksum of this release is:
ba96be8e87c2b56bf896c9f96492ed7706beb68e082794f8fabc7058a1804da7
A PGP signature is available in the same directory. Due to the extensive
changes between INN 2.5 and INN 2.6, no patch is available.
INN 2.6.0 is almost entirely compatible with INN 2.5, and most INN 2.5
users will be able to upgrade with a simple "make update". A few checks
explained in the upgrade changes below should also be made.
All of the applicable bug fixes from the INN 2.5 STABLE series are also
included in INN 2.6.
Further 2.6.x releases will be made for bug fixes. New features will go
into the 2.7.x series, which is already under development. Please note
that the STABLE development branch is now INN 2.6.x, and there will be no
further INN 2.5.x releases after INN 2.5.5.
Many thanks to Julien ÉLIE for preparing this release.
Upgrading from 2.5 to 2.6
The following changes require your full attention because a manual
intervention may be needed:
* The name and location of the pullnews configuration file have changed.
It is now pullnews.marks, located in *pathdb* when pullnews is run as
the news user, or otherwise in the running user's home directory.
This file was previously stored in .pullnews in the running user's
home directory (even for the news user). If you use pullnews, you
need to manually move and rename the configuration file; otherwise, it
will no longer work. Note that the -c flag passed to pullnews allows
to specify another configuration file, if need be.
* The default location of the mailpost database directory has changed
from *pathtmp* to *pathdb*. If you use mailpost without an explicitly
specified database directory (using the -b flag), then you should
manually move your current database files mailpost-msgid.dir and
mailpost-msgid.pag from *pathtmp* to *pathdb*.
* If you have been using SSL/TLS with nnrpd before, be aware that the
default value of a few inn.conf parameters have changed: the server
now decides the preferred cipher (instead of the client), and only TLS
protocols are allowed (using the flawed SSLv2 and SSLv3 protocols is
now disabled). If you want to change these settings, the respective
*tlspreferserverciphers* and *tlsprotocols* parameters can be tuned to
your needs.
* The --with-kerberos configure flag used to add Kerberos v5 support has
been renamed to --with-krb5.
* The --with-berkeleydb configure flag used to add Berkeley DB support
has been renamed to --with-bdb.
* The --enable-ipv6 configure flag no longer exists. IPv6 is now
unconditionally enabled, if available.
* $HOME is no longer exported as an environment variable by
innshellvars, innshellvars.tcl and the Perl module "INN::Config". It
was previously overriding the default user home directory with
*pathnews*. If you use these scripts in your own scripts, you will
have to take care of that change.
* Owing to the implementation of RFC 4643 (AUTHINFO USER/PASS) in innd,
if remote peers have to authenticate in order to feed articles, they
now have to send a username (which was previously wrongly optional),
before sending their password. The mandatory username, though
currently unused by innd, can be whatever the remote peer wishes. In
previous versions of INN, inncheck was already complaining when
passwd.nntp contained an empty username associated with a password.
A manual review of authenticated feeds should then be done so as to
ensure that they are properly working.
* The Injection-Date: and Injection-Info: headers are now generated by
nnrpd at injection time instead of the NNTP-Posting-Date:,
NNTP-Posting-Host:, X-Complaints-To: and X-Trace: headers. Local
scripts that were using (for authentication, privacy, etc.) these now
deprecated headers should be updated. Also note that the Path: header
of locally posted articles can also contain the contents of the
deprecated NNTP-Posting-Host: field.
* The two *addnntppostingdate* and *addnntppostinghost* parameters in
inn.conf have been respectively renamed to *addinjectiondate* and
*addinjectionpostinghost*. innupgrade takes care of the modification
only for inn.conf; a manual change will therefore be needed for
readers.conf, if these parameters are overridden in this file.
* The default values of a few inn.conf parameters have changed to make
use of the vastly expanded storage and RAM commonly available today:
datamovethreshold (from 8192 to 16384), msgidcachesize (from 16000 to
64000), overcachesize (from 64 to 128), and wireformat (now enabled by
default).
The generation of status reports and performance timings are now also
enabled by default: logstatus and nnrpdoverstats parameters, with a
frequency of 10 minutes (status and timer parameters).
* The default value of max-queue-size has changed from 5 to 20, and
use-mmap now defaults to true for innfeed.conf.
If you are upgrading from a version prior to INN 2.5, see also
"Upgrading from 2.4 to 2.5" in the INSTALL file included in the
distribution.
Major changes from 2.5 to 2.6
* The NNTP protocol requires a username to be sent before a password
when authentication is used. innd was wrongly allowing only a
password to be sent by authenticated peers. See the note above for
more details.
* The Lines: header is no longer generated by nnrpd at injection time.
* The Injection-Date: header is now generated by nnrpd at injection time
instead of the deprecated NNTP-Posting-Date: header, when
*addinjectiondate* is set to true. Note that *addnntppostingdate* has
been renamed to *addinjectiondate* in inn.conf.
* The Injection-Info: header is now generated by nnrpd at injection time
instead of the deprecated NNTP-Posting-Host: (when
*addinjectionpostinghost* is set to true), X-Complaints-To: and
X-Trace: headers. Note that *addnntppostinghost* has been renamed to
*addinjectionpostinghost* in inn.conf. The Path: header of locally
posted articles now also contains the contents of the
NNTP-Posting-Host: header.
* A new *addinjectionpostingaccount* parameter has been added in
inn.conf. When set to true, the Injection-Info: header field contains
an additional posting-account attribute that mentions the username
assigned to the user at connection time or after authentication. The
default value for this parameter is false.
* A few headers are now considered as obsolete by nnrpd at injection
time: NNTP-Posting-Date:, NNTP-Posting-Host:, X-Complaints-To:,
X-Trace:, Also-Control:, Article-Names:, Article-Updates:, and
See-Also: headers.
Besides, nnrpd will similarly reject obsolete sendsys, senduuname and
version control messages.
* The presence of a Subject: header field beginning with "cmsg " no
longer causes an article to be interpreted as a control message by
nnrpd at injection time.
* nnrpd no longer differentiates IHAVE from POST. Articles injected
with IHAVE are now treated as though they were injected with POST. It
means that if the previous behaviour of IHAVE was expected, innd
should handle itself the connection instead of nnrpd.
* The name of the pullnews configuration file is now pullnews.marks
located in *pathdb* when pullnews is run as the news user, or
otherwise in the running user's home directory. It was previously
stored in .pullnews in the running user's home directory (even for the
news user).
* Fixed a leak of semaphores when using buffindexed. Thanks to Richard
Kettlewell for having fixed the issue.
* Building with Libtool is no longer optional. The --enable-libtool
option to configure has been removed.
* DESTDIR and non-root installs are now properly supported and
documented in INSTALL. The "make install", "make update" and "make
cert" steps properly obey DESTDIR. Besides, it is no longer a
requirement that the installation step be done by the superuser, as
long as the user executing the install has supplied a DESTDIR value
that points to a writable directory, *and* the person or process
performing the install corrects the file ownerships when INN is
installed on the system on which it's going to run. Thanks to James
Ralston for this support.
* When building INN with Berkeley DB, Cyrus SASL, Kerberos v5, OpenSSL,
or zlib support, no longer add standard locations to compiler and
linker include flags. Such default paths are now added only if
explicitly given to one or more of the --with-bdb, --with-bdb-include,
--with-bdb-lib, --with-sasl, --with-sasl-include, --with-sasl-lib,
--with-krb5, --with-krb5-include, --with-krb5-lib, --with-openssl,
--with-openssl-include, --with-openssl-lib, --with-zlib,
--with-zlib-include, or --with-zlib-lib configure flags (the flags
ending with "-include" and "-lib" are new in INN 2.6.0).
* If the Berkeley DB, Cyrus SASL, Kerberos v5, or OpenSSL SSL and crypto
libraries are found at configure time, INN will now be built with
support for them unless respectively the --without-bdb,
--without-sasl, --without-krb5, or --without-openssl flags are
explicitly passed to configure.
Note that it was already the default behaviour for zlib support when
Berkeley DB support was also enabled.
* The configure flag --enable-reduced-depends has been added to request
that library probes assume shared libraries are in use and
dependencies of libraries should not be probed. It therefore tries to
minimize the shared library dependencies of the resulting binaries on
platforms with proper shared library dependencies. This is not
enabled by default, and is of interest primarily to people building
packages for distributions.
* Building INN with Python support now requires the use of Python 2.2.0
or later as the distutils.sysconfig module used was introduced with
Python 2.2.0.
* The INN test suite driver is now fully synchronized with the upstream
version of the C TAP Harness package maintained by Russ Allbery.
Keeping the INN test suite driver up-to-date will be possible thanks
to a new getc-tap-harness script in the support directory that
automatically fetches the latest upstream changes.
Similarly, the new getrra-c-util script permits to keep most of the
utility and portability functions synchronized with the upstream
version of the rra-c-util package maintained by Russ Allbery.
* Other minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
INN is discussed on <inn-workers at lists.isc.org>. Please send any bug
reports or patches to that list.
Russ Allbery
rra at isc.org
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