INN 2.5.4 release candidate

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi all,

A release candidate for INN 2.5.4 has just been made available
for download on ftp.isc.org:

    http://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/testing/


Please report any issue you may encounter.  The final 2.5.4 release
is scheduled in May.

Suggestion for the announcement follows.





Changes in 2.5.4

    * An up-to-date control.ctl file is provided with this release.  You
      should manually update your control.ctl file with the new information
      recorded about Usenet hierarchies.

    * Fixed a long-standing limitation on how controlchan and pgpverify were
      checking the signer of control messages.  They now properly handle the
      case of several UIDs being defined on a single PGP key, as well as the
      presence of spaces into UIDs.  In previous versions of INN, a few
      valid control messages got ignored because of that limitation
      (fido.ger.* and grisbi.* were for instance impacted).

    * As the name of the radius.conf configuration file shipped with INN for
      the nnrpd authenticator against a RADIUS server conflicts with the
      libradius package, this file is renamed to inn-radius.conf (innupgrade
      takes care of the rename during the update).

    * The attributes hash is now accessible to nnrpd Perl posting filter. 
      As a result, filter_nnrpd.pl can make use of it.  Only authentication
      and access Perl hooks could previously use the attributes hash. 
      Thanks to Steve Crook for this addition.

    * INN now properly builds fine with flex 2.5.36 (this version introduced
      a change of type for a variable used by INN).

    * When using funnel feeds, innfeed log files were open forever, which
      resulted in empty log files, once rotated by scanlogs.  innfeed now
      reopens its log files upon receiving a HUP signal; this signal is in
      particular sent by scanlogs during log rotation.  Thanks to Florian
      Schlichting for the patch.

    * Exploder and process channels are now reopened when "ctlinnd
      flushlogs" is used.  Otherwise, they could hold open an already
      deleted errlog file.  The issue affected in particular controlchan or
      ninpaths, running as such channels.

    * Fixed a buffer overflow when using imapfeed with more than a million
      commands during the same IMAP session.  Thanks to David Binderman for
      the bug report.

    * Fixed a segfault occurring in innd on systems where time_t is a 64-bit
      integer.  Thanks to S.P. Zeidler for the patch.

    * Fixed a segfault occurring in nnrpd when a res block was used in
      readers.conf without the program: key.

    * Fixed an issue where users were denied posting because of an
      overlapping buffer copy in a check nnrpd was doing.  Thanks to Florian
      Schlichting for the patch.

    * Fixed a regression that occurred in INN 2.5.3 regarding the path used
      by default by pullnews for its configuration file.  Instead of looking
      in the running user's home directory, it was looking in the *pathnews*
      directory parametered in inn.conf.  Thanks to Tony Evans for the bug
      report.

    * When neither wget nor ncftpget nor ncftp was found at configure time,
      the path to the simpleftp substitution program shipped with INN was
      not proprely set in innshellvars, innshellvars.pl, and the
      "INN::Config" Perl module.  Thanks to Christian Garbs for the bug
      report.

    * ckpasswd no longer tries to use the ndbm compatibility layer provided
      by Berkeley DB if Berkeley DB has been built without ndbm support. 
      Also add support for gdbm libraries in ckpasswd.

    * Fixed a Perl warning in inncheck; using "defined(@array)" has been
      deprecated since Perl 5.16.

    * Fixed the occurrence of an unexpected "cant select" error generated by
      innd.  Thanks to Paul Tomblin for having caught that long-standing
      issue.

    * When building INN with Berkeley DB support, no longer add -L/usr/lib
      to the linker include flags; unconditionally adding it may break the
      build on systems using lib32 and lib64 directories.

    * On a fresh INN install, motd.innd and motd.nnrpd are no longer
      installed by default.  Instead, samples for these files are provided
      in *pathetc*, named differently so that their default contents are not
      displayed to news clients before they get customised.

    * Other minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.




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Julien ÉLIE

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