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.


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Julien ÉLIE

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