Draft of INN 2.4.6 announcement

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi,

Here is what I suggest for the announcement of INN 2.4.6.
In case you notice a mistake or something to add/change, please tell me.

The current link to the testing 2.4.6 release is:
    ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/testing/inn-2.4.6.tar.gz



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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] INN 2.4.6 available


Internet Systems Consortium is pleased to announce that a new bug-fix
release of INN is available at:

    ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/inn-2.4.6.tar.gz

The MD5 checksum of this release is:

    d1cde81a37cbae9f9b09a22dcfa8baae

A PGP signature and a patch from 2.4.5 to 2.4.6 are available in the same
directory.

This is a bug-fix release over 2.4.5.  Upgrading an existing INN 2.4.5
installation is as simple as building INN 2.4.6, running make update, and
restarting innd and related programs.


Changes from 2.4.5 to 2.4.6

    * Fixed the segfault of the radius authenticator when none of the radius
      servers respond.  Thanks to Matija Nalis for this patch.

    * Fixed a lost initialization in buffindexed, which resolves a potential
      segfault, thanks to a patch by Kirill Berezin.

    * INN now properly supports Perl 5.10.0; Perl filters were causing innd
      to segfault on a few systems like FreeBSD.

    * Fixed a long-standing bug which affected Perl hooks for innd: the
      variable containing the body of an article was not properly created,
      which caused regular expressions matching new lines to fail.  It
      especially affected filters like Cleanfeed which sometimes failed to
      detect unwanted articles.

      To fix that issue, Julien Elie added the use of a shared string,
      available since Perl 5.7.2, with a fall back to a slower but reliable
      copy of such bodies in case the function is not available.  Using a
      Perl version superior to 5.7.2 is therefore recommended.

    * Fixed two bugs which could prevent nnrpd from being run as a daemon in
      FreeBSD.  Thanks to Johan van Selst for having identified the problem
      and to Kai Gallasch for having provided a testing FreeBSD server.  The
      listening address was not initialized to "::0" or 0.0.0.0 when the -b
      flag was not used and an incorrect size was given when IPv6 was
      enabled and the binding done using IPv4.

    * Some annoying assertion failures occurring in innfeed have been fixed
      by Russ Allbery and Julien Elie.

    * Fixed a bug in mod-active for aliased newsgroups.  Only "=" was
      written to the active file.  Thanks to D. Stussy for this patch.

    * Fixed a bug which caused innd not to honour the Ad flag in newsfeeds.

    * Fixed a bug in the IP address displayed for "localhost" in innd's
      status file.  It was not correctly initialized.

    * Fixed a permission issue:  XHDR and XPAT were not checking the rights
      the user had to read articles when accessing them by their message-ID.

    * Fixed a bug in the replies of XHDR, XOVER and XPAT when the newsgroup
      is empty.  Two initial replies were sent instead of one:  the right
      420 code followed by a wrong 224 code.

    * When no newsgroup is selected, LISTGROUP now returns the right 412
      code (instead of 481).

    * A new improved version of docheckgroups is shipped with INN.  The -u
      flag permits to automatically update the newsgroups file (with a
      proper number of tabulations and an alphabetical sort), removing
      obsolete descriptions and adding new ones.  A second argument on
      command-line permits to specify which newsgroups should not be
      checked, so as not to treat them.

    * An *email=* keyword has been added by James Ralston to news.daily in
      order to supply another mail address than the one set at configure
      time for Usenet daily reports.

    * An updated moderators file with information about the aioe.*, perl.*
      and si.* hierarchies is provided; control.ctl is also up to date.

    * INN supports Berkeley DB 4.7, which is the recommended version to use
      owing to various bugs affecting previous versions of Berkeley DB.

    * Other minor bugs have also been fixed.


INN is discussed on <inn-workers at isc.org>.  You may also submit bug
reports to <inn-bugs at isc.org> and patches to <inn-patches at isc.org>.

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-- 
Julien ÉLIE

« Alea iacta est, comme je dis toujours. » (César)