ossp-pkg/lmtp2nntp/NEWS
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NEWS
- find fine-grained information in the autocreated ChangeLog
NEWS for 1.4.1
- removal of dormant OSSP tai library to overcome portability
problems.
NEWS for 1.4
- no change in the main application
- update development environment and refresh all embedded OSSP
libraries, picking up bug fixes, closing security holes and
improving portability
NEWS for 1.3
- this is a fully compatible drop-in replacement for lmtp2nntp-1.2
- fix long standing bug where communication problems on the NNTP side
led to a infinite loop, effectivly halting the gateway process and
exhausting all available CPU resources.
- correct and improve configuration code in the areas of ACL settings,
empty newsgroups, zero NTTP servers, default LMTP TCP port, more
verbose messages on system errors)
- update development environment and further improve portability. Fix
all known issues related to Solaris environment including signal
handling.
- no longer based on arbitrary snapshots but reproducible released
versions of OSSP ex, str, l2, sa, var and val. This aids
maintainance, troubleshooting and security engineering.
NEWS for 1.2
Those folks who used previous versions please review the options
carefully, there were significant changes which are not compatible with
previous versions.
Platform support
The software was successfully compiled and tested on the platforms
listed below. The OSSP project makes every effort to maximize the
portability of our software with current POSIX compliant systems being
the preferred choice. You can assume to succeed in similar enviroments
as well.
- FreeBSD Unix 4.7-STABLE
- FreeBSD Unix 5.0-CURRENT
- RedHat Linux 8.0
- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
- Sun Solaris 8
- Sun Solaris 9
New features:
- logging to the extreme (file, local/remote syslog, smtp, irc) [1]
- long options, better option parsing and syntax checking [2]
- command line and multiple configuration files can be mixed
- header rewriting with variable expansion [3], access to many values [4]
- large source code modifications including use of exceptions [5]
[1] OSSP l2 http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/l2/
[2] OSSP popt http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/popt/
[3] OSSP var http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/var/
[4] OSSP val http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/val/
[5] OSSP ex http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/ex/
Changed features:
OLD| Option -V Very verbose logging. This means logging is unbuffered
MOD| This option is obsolete and vanished
NEW| Omit buffer channel from l2_spec
OLD| -a I<addr>/I<mask>[,I<addr>/I<mask>[,...]] (LMTP daemon ACL)
MOD| It is no longer possible to specify more than one addr/ mask per option as a comma-separated list
NEW| Use multiple --acl options
OLD| -d I<addr>[I<:port>][,I<addr>[I<:port>], ...] (NNTP client peer)
MOD| It is no longer possible to specify more than one addr/ mask per option as a comma-separated list
NEW| Use multiple --destination options
OLD| -h I<header>:<value>
MOD| Replaced by header rewrite facility
NEW| see --headerrule
OLD| -l I<level>[:I<logfile>]
MOD| The full functionality of lib_l2 is now exposed to the user
NEW| see --l2spec
OLD| -t I<name>=I<sec>[,I<name>=I<sec>[,...]
MOD| Each timeout has its own option now
NEW| see --timeout* options
