Newsstar News

1 March 2005: Version 1.2.2

  • Better compatibility with old versions of BSD/perl

24 August 2004: Version 1.2.1

  • Fixed memory bug in 1.2's per-group article counts

  • Fixed Debian dependencies for Woody (3.0 stable)

  • Improved docs about role of path option for header-only scoring

17 August 2004: Version 1.2

  • New -b (brief) option

  • Fixed sn overview bug and improved portability of perl script

  • Several new --with-*-dir configure options aid portability

  • Fixed missing server name in warning message about forcing xover for scoring

  • Fixed reporting of group name in message about backfills

  • Email address in HTML docs now obscured from spammers by Javascript

3 July 2004: Version 1.1.1

  • Fixed crashing on reporting messages containing % chars in curses

  • Script resets terminal if binary crashes in curses

  • Cleaner stats line in non-curses mode

  • Fixed missing server name in warning message about forcing xover for scoring

  • Fixed reporting of group name in message about backfills

  • Email address in HTML docs now obscured from spammers by Javascript

17 March 2004: Version 1.1

  • New master.score file applies to all servers

  • Added debian directory to distribution

  • Improved derivation of variables in configure and newsstar (configure no longer needs sed)

8 December 2003: Version 1.0

  • "Stable" release with a Debian package

  • Sample configs are no longer installed

10 November 2003: Version 0.17

  • SSL support

  • Supports manual configuration of INN's PATH

  • More improvements to docs and build scripts etc

  • Corrected out-by-one errors writing newsrcs

23 October 2003: Version 0.16.4

  • Reorganisation of docs etc and moved to sourceforge

6 October 2003: Version 0.16.3

  • Bug-fixes to prevent crashes or skipping of temporarily unavailable articles in some situations

  • Fixed erroneous negated ignore pattern example in manual

  • Clarified status of binary-only CLI options in manual

  • Added debugging messages for ignore file processing in script

17 July 2003: Version 0.16.2

  • Improved warnings in the perl script

  • Changed location of lockfile

15 July 2003: Version 0.16.1

  • Fixed bug added in 0.16 when shutting down threads

13 July 2003: Version 0.16

  • Fixed sending of very long lines from child to parent

  • Two-stage interruption process allowing clean shutdown

  • Forgets backfill entries for article numbers no longer within server's range

  • Error status shown in full-screen mode when appropriate

27 April 2003: Version 0.15.1

  • Several minor enhancements and bug-fixes, mainly in handling backfills; see ChangeLog

9 April 2003: Version 0.15

  • Several minor enhancements and bug-fixes; see ChangeLog

25 November 2002: Version 0.14.1

  • Several minor enhancements and bug-fixes; see ChangeLog

19 October 2002: Version 0.14

  • Supports articles being created out of order, or backfilling

  • Miscellaneous minor bug-fixes and robustness improvements

22 August 2002: Version 0.13.2

  • Fixed bug in duplicating NULL strings

  • Corrected macros used when curses isn't supported

17 August 2002: Version 0.13.1

  • Takes more steps to avoid groups that have had all their articles downloaded already

  • Transfer rates are updated less often to avoid flicker

26 June 2002: Version 0.13.0

  • Added rudimentary Newsgroups header support to scoring

  • Added -r option for compacting history database

  • Negative pattern matching for ignore files

News summaries for older versions are available in the file OLDNEWS in the distribution's docs directory.