newsd/CHANGES

newsd -- Change Log
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1.50 -- ??

	- Fixed a potential denial-of-service attack with the GROUP command.
	- Added support for message subdirectories for improved performance on
	  systems that don't like more than a few thousand files per directory.
	- STR #25: Fix builds on 64-bit systems (socklen_t instead of size_t)
        - Fix for communication problem w/opera 9 news readers
	- STR #6: Added simple 'server-wide' authentication
	- sprintf() -> snprintf()
	- code made 80 column compliant
	- Added popen() return value check in Server.C
	- Removed cruft

1.44 -- October 19, 2005

	- Method name change: ReformatArticle -> ParseArticle
	- Important fix to multiline headers being split during
	  header reordering
	- STR #15: Path: now maintained and passed through mail
	  gateway
	- STR #16: Mailgateway: "From" field now renamed to
	  "X-Original-From: "

1.44rc4 -- Dec 7, 2004

	- Improved the 'HELP' command messages
	- Article key/val parser now uses strspn()
	- Added XOVER field sanitizer to prevent \t being
	  mistaken as an xover field delimiter
	- Converted Article class to use STL strings internally
	- Fixed problem with multiline header parsing, cited
	  RFC's
	- Fixed bug w/first msg of new group not showing up:
	  NewGroup() creates .info file via BuildInfo(), first
	  msg starts msg count at 1
	- Documented error handling for methods returning errors
	- Added article start/end range checks to
	  HEAD/BODY/ARTICLE/STAT, eg. '423 No Such Article In
	  Group'
	- Server class uses new Overview() method with string
	  return type.
	- Various important fixes to -mailgateway; removed
	  redundant header loop (looks like a diff error crept
	  in), missing \n at end of Errors-To:, and added error
	  detection + debug output for popen()/pclose()
	- Fixed NULL checks for char* oriented messageid/from
	- Changed the NewsHostname and LogFile configuration
	  directives to ServerName and ErrorLog, respectively to
	  match Apache.

1.44rc3 -- Nov 17, 2004

	- The makefile incorrectly tried to strip the
	  inn2newsd.sh script on installation (STR #13)
	- The generated date reported the wrong day of the week
	  (off by 1 day)
	- Added "-t" option to default sendmail command.
	- Added "-d" option to run newsd in the foreground with
	  full debugging to stderr.
	- Added daemonization when running in the background:
	  redirect stdio and call setsid().
	- Changed default for "Listen" to "Listen nntp".
	- Fixed getservbyname() error message.
	- Small fixes to echo announcements in news.sh
	- Added extra error checking for unknown args + conf
	  commands
	- You can now log to a program by starting the log file
	  name with a pipe ("|" - STR #9)
	- Added MaxLogSize to newsd.conf and log rotation stuff
	  (STR #9)
	- Implemented message lookups by message ID (STR #5)
	- The Server class no longer uses the "find" command to
	  get a list of newsgroups (STR #2)
	- Group::Post() didn't start at the last message, so it
	  could reuse deleted message IDs and cause the end ID
	  to be incorrect (STR #3).
	- Group::BuildInfo() is now implemented so that it is no
	  longer neccessary to create the .info file in the
	  inn2newsd.sh script (STR #4)

1.44rc2 -- Nov 02, 2004

	- First public release
	- Cleaned up MacOS X and Linux startup scripts
	- Documentation fixes
	- Added pointers to web site
	- Newsd now forks into the background
	- Now change the ownership of the log files to the
	  news user
	- "newsd -mailgateway group" now overrides "postok"
	  configuration setting
	- No longer use strcpy() with overlapping buffers
	- Added inn2newsd.sh script for converting INND news
	  servers to Newsd

1.44rc1 -- Jul 11, 2004

	- Now provide autoconf-based configure script for
	  building and installing.
	- Now provide init-style startup/shutdown script.
	- Added spam filter support.
	- Added global configuration file newsd.conf and man
	  pages.
	- Added new Configuration class to support logging to
	  stderr, syslog, or a file, along with loading
	  newsd.conf.
	- Added support for non-root execution.
	- Fixed end-of-message state machine code.
	- Removed dependence on iostream

1.43 -- Jun 01, 2004

	- Preserve Content-Type and Mime-Version: across to
	  email gateway, to ensure mime attachments cross over
	  to the mail gateway correctly.
	- added newsd command line option -port

1.42 -- May 24, 2004

	- Check for X-Loop: and deliver to Errors-To: in case
	  remote bounces message back to sender, ie. doesn't
	  respect "Errors-To:" !
	- Added 'DeadLetter()'
	- Added 'X-Newsd-Loop:' header to avoid mail loops when
	  delivering errors

1.41 -- Sep 01, 2003

	- Removed 3dsite specific code (hard coded hostnames!)
	- Moved static functions from newsd.C into the Group
	  class to 'clean up' code.

1.40 -- Aug 07, 2003

	- Changed 'ccpost' to allow multiple lines, for
	  unlimited names
	- Fixed problem where Message-Id casing (ID vs Id) was
	  causing two Message-IDs to be in messages.
	- Enabled ARTICLE <msgid>, HEAD <msgid> etc, so that ^U
	  would work in mozilla to view message header text.

1.30 -- June 02, 2003

	- Added GCC3 flag to handle the new 'using namespace
	  std;' stuff.
	- Added platform specific Makefiles
	- Tested compiles on Redhat 9.0, OSX 10.2.6, and BSDI
	  3.1

1.20 -- May 09, 2003

	- Changed outbound email to use Bcc instead of To
	- Added version to gatewayed mail and -help
	- Added -mailgateway, modified docs
	- Added "replyto" and "voidemail" to .config file and
	  'newsd -newgroup'
	- Removed extraneous .config parsing code from .info's
	  parser
	- Moved ReformatArticle from Server -> Group class

1.10 -- Jan 08, 2003

	- Added DATE, -t timeout, -c maxchild, -d

1.00 -- Jan 02, 2003

	- First release -- merry xmas 2003!