NNTP 1.5.11 to release in February

Stan Barber nntp at tmc.edu
Sun Jan 13 08:25:43 AEST 1991


This is a summary of new fixes and features in the next release of NNTP.
This release is currently in beta, so there may be some minor additions to
this list. Unless I am suprised by a killer bug after the release, this will
be the last release of 1.5.X. The next release will be a full source release
which will either be called 1.6 or 2.0.

Those who reported the bug first or inspired the bug fix are acknowledged
in the brackets following the feature/bug fix.

	Fixes to spawn.c and batch.c for those system that need
	execle() to specifically call /bin/sh to exectute a sh script.
	[All CNEWS sites running System V.]
	Fixes to the timeout code to make it all work the GNUS.
	[leres at ftp.ee.lbl.gov]
	Fixes to nntpxmit to support CNEWS batch file formats which
	contain the name of the article file and its message id.
	[flee at guardian.cs.psu.edu]
	Fixes to nntpxmit to not mistake the delete character in an
	article as an EOF indication. [pst+ at ir.stanford.edu]
	Added the $HOME environmental variable in the new environment
	provided to a child process. [steve at avalon.dartmouth.edu]
	Added rudimentary support to clientlib for TLI. [sob at tmc.edu]
	Changes to inews to optionally use gethostbyname() to get canonical
	hostname as needed. [leres at ftp.ee.lbl.gov]
	Changed extern int timezone to extern long timezone in time.c.
	[pk at unidoct.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de]
	Reset SIGCLD before calling serve for WIN/TCP users on System V.
	[wescott%micky%sauron%ncrcae at ncrlnk.dayton.ncr.com]
	Changed references to "server" in clientlib.c to "nntpserver" to
	avoid a conflict with WIN/TCP. [rdc30med at nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil]
	Defining DBZ will take care of defining DBM. [tgt at cblpf.att.com]
	Some minor changes to nntpxfer to remove the risk of doing an update
	when it's not necessary. [ccc141j at monu6.cc.monash.edu.au,
	corbin at utep-vaxa.uucp]
	Changes to nntpxmit to correctly utilize LOG_DEBUG when LOG is
	defined and not when it isn't. [alden at shape.mps.ohio-state.edu]
	Change order of setuid/setgid in spawn.c and batch.c to execute
	setgid first. [apple.com!arc!chet]



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