INN 2.4.6 and 2.5.0 releases

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi,

It has been 7 months since INN 2.4.5 was released.

A few bugs have been fixed since that time:

 * full Perl 5.8.9 and 5.10.0 support;
 * proper handling of bodies to Cleanfeed;
 * mod-active did not create aliased groups properly;
 * an incorrect size was given to bind() when IPv6 was enabled
   and the nnrpd binding done using IPv4 (-> segfault);
 * Python dynamic hooks now work (!);
 * XHDR and XPAT were not checking the permissions
   the user has to read articles when using a message-ID;
 * two replies (420 and 224) were sent by XOVER/XHDR/XPAT
   when the newsgroup was empty;
 * LISTGROUP now returns the right code 412 and not 481 when no group
   is currently selected;
 * innd did not honour the Ad flag in newsfeeds;
 * the IP address displayed for localhost in innd's status file
   was not initialized and produced a wrong output;
 * bug fixes in innreport and recognization of perl-nocem error messages;
 * add a keyword to news.daily in order to supply another mail
   address than the one set at configure time for Usenet daily reports;
 * ... amongst other fixes.


Maybe we should release INN 2.4.6 in February.  Unless someone disagrees (?)

I believe we could release INN 2.5.0-beta1 at the same time.

INN 2.4.6 will probably be the last release in the 2.4 branch.  We can hope
for a release of the first INN 2.5.0-RC in March/April and the final INN 2.5.0
this summer.
I think it is a realistic schedule.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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