INN commit: branches/2.6/doc/pod (news.pod)

INN Commit rra at isc.org
Sun Nov 27 13:43:26 UTC 2016


    Date: Sunday, November 27, 2016 @ 05:43:25
  Author: iulius
Revision: 10127

Reorder compression-related items in NEWS

Modified:
  branches/2.6/doc/pod/news.pod

----------+
 news.pod |   18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Modified: news.pod
===================================================================
--- news.pod	2016-11-27 13:42:58 UTC (rev 10126)
+++ news.pod	2016-11-27 13:43:25 UTC (rev 10127)
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@
 described in draft-murchison-nntp-compress that extends the NNTP protocol
 to allow a connection to be effectively and efficiently compressed.
 News clients that also support that extension will be able to benefit
-from that bandwidth optimization and improvement in speed.
+from that bandwidth optimization and improvement in speed.  Moreover,
+using COMPRESS is more secure than TLS-level compression, as far as
+authentication credentials are concerned.
 
 =item *
 
@@ -28,6 +30,12 @@
 
 =item *
 
+The I<tlscompression> parameter in F<inn.conf> now also permits to
+disable TLS-level compression with S<OpenSSL 0.9.8>.  It previously
+had an effect only when S<OpenSSL 1.0.0> or later was used.
+
+=item *
+
 B<rnews> no longer segfaults at startup when started setuid news.
 Thanks to Marcus Jodorf for the bug report.
 
@@ -55,7 +63,7 @@
 
 When an encryption layer is negotiated during a successful use of the
 STARTTLS command, or after a successful authentication using a SASL
-mechanism which negotiates an encryption layer, B<nnrpd> now updates
+mechanism that negotiates an encryption layer, B<nnrpd> now updates
 the permissions of the news client according to the new secure state
 of his connection (that is to say auth blocks in F<readers.conf> using
 the I<require_ssl> parameter are taken into account).  Previously,
@@ -71,12 +79,6 @@
 
 =item *
 
-The I<tlscompression> parameter in F<inn.conf> now also permits to
-disable TLS-level compression with S<OpenSSL 0.9.8>.  It previously
-had an effect only when S<OpenSSL 1.0.0> or later was used.
-
-=item *
-
 B<nntpsend> now correctly waits until all of the child B<innxmit>
 processes exit before it does.  It was causing B<nntpsend> to fail
 to work properly on systems that use systemd, because when it exits



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