INN 2.5.5 release candidate
Julien ÉLIE
julien at trigofacile.com
Mon Mar 30 20:38:20 UTC 2015
Hi all,
A release candidate for INN 2.5.5 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 2.5.5 release
is scheduled in May.
Suggestion for the changelog follows.
This is a bug-fix release over 2.5.4. Upgrading an existing INN 2.5.4
installation is as simple as building INN 2.5.5, running make update, and
restarting innd and related programs.
This will be the final release of the INN 2.5.x series, barring major
security holes. INN 2.6.0 will soon be released, and is recommended
for new installs.
Changes in 2.5.5
* New inn.conf parameters used by nnrpd to fine-tune the SSL/TLS
configuration have been added: *tlsciphers*, *tlscompression*,
*tlseccurve*, *tlspreferserverciphers*, and *tlsprotocols*. Many
thanks to Christian Mock for his contribution that permits to tighten
the level of security provided by TLS/SSL.
* innwatch no longer creates a child process only for sleeping and then
waits on that process. The forked-off process only died after it had
done sleeping, which caused the INN service to drop into maintenance
state when for instance running under SMF on illumos/Solaris (since
not all processes die within timeout). Thanks to Lauri Tirkkonen for
the patch.
* Add new -i flag to both cnfsstat and innwatch to specify how many
seconds they should sleep at startup. It will especially be useful in
rc.news so that these scripts are actually started and then sleep by
themselves, instead of being started a minute after innd and therefore
not being properly stopped if "rc.news stop" is invoked during that
minute.
* Add new -f flag to "innwatch" to specify the configuration file to
use, in case it is not the default innwatch.ctl file.
* Fixed how innupgrade is executed during an update of an INN
installation; on a few systems like AIX, it fails to run because its
taint mode was unproperly declared.
* Several improvements have been contributed to pullnews by Geraint
Edwards: the new -a flag adds the Diablo-compatible hashfeed ability,
the new -B flag triggers header-only feeding, the -m flag now permits
to remove headers matching (or not) a given regexp, and rnews
reporting is improved.
* Add the nnrp.access2readers.conf contribution script written by
Jeffrey M. Vinocur to convert old-style nnrp.access file to
readers.conf.
--
Julien ÉLIE
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