Changelog
=========
0.18 Bugfix: Encoder for MIME encoded-words fixed (folding in the first
line of a header field should work now)
Bugfix: Header parser no longer collapse whitespace in FWS for
unstructured header fields (as defined by RFC5322)
Bugfix: MIME decoder now ignores WSP between adjacent encoded-words
(formerly HTAB was not ignored)
Bugfix: UTF-7 decoder fixed (has dropped character that terminates
shift sequence directly before EOD)
Bugfix: UTF-8 repair function fixed (failed to resync in some cases)
Bugfix: Use FLTK default foreground color (was formerly overwritten
with FL_BLACK and not readable in darkmode environments)
Bugfix: Use defined gray for signature color (formerly the FLTK
FL_GRAY_RAMP was used that is different in darkmode environments)
Bugfix: Length highlighting in editor doesn't work for pasted
external text (only when text containing empty lines is inserted)
Bugfix: Cancelled articles at end of range are no longer counted
as unread in the group list (was only broken when overview is used)
Searching for Unicode string in current article is now supported
(case insensitive variant based on Unicode case folding algorithm)
Switch for case-sensitive or case-insensitive search added to GUI
(last state is loaded from configfile on startup)
Unicode database updated to version 13.0.0 (CaseFolding.txt added)
The new 'force_unicode' entry in configfile set to a nonzero value
sends all outgoing articles in Unicode, if they contain non-ASCII
characters
Dark background color is now usable
Thanks to Christian Schumacher for his help
MIME conformance reached (as defined in RFC2049 Section 2)
MIME content type "message/rfc822" is now supported
MIME content type "multipart/digest" is now supported
MIME entity with unsupported content can now be saved to a file
MIME content disposition "attachment" is respected (including the
suggestion for a filename)
MIME encoded-word decoder now treats LF and CR as unwanted control
characters too
If selected text is present, quote only selected text for followup
In threaded view (or article list) HTAB characters are now replaced
with SP (for consistency with OVER command according to RFC3977)
XDG desktop entry and icon theme added (option 'CFG_XDG_DISABLE')
Thanks to Detlef Graef and Martin Hauke for their help
This option defaults to 1 (former behaviour)
Introduction line can now contain newsgroups list (%g conversion,
proposed by Marcel Logen)
Build system: Additional awk check and useful error message added
for POSIX character classes (detects broken mawk from Debian)
Error tolerance of header parser improved, does now correctly split
References header field if mandatory CFWS separators are missing
Command line switch "-notooltips" documented in manual page
Support for character set CESU-8 (and its IANA aliases) added
Configuration window in GUI now allows to disable the "User-Agent"
header field for outgoing articles (defaults to former behaviour)
It is now possible to enable AUTHINFO USER/PASS without encrypted
connection (option CFG_NNTP_AUTH_UNENCRYPTED). This allows to
use stunnel instead of the internal TLS module
TLS module no longer calls functions HMAC*(), RSA_size() and
SSL_get_peer_certificate(). They are deprecated for OpenSSL
API 3.0.0
TLS module now configures the DHE groups that are negotiated for
key exchange with LibreSSL API too
TLS module now always prints library name and version number
0.17 Bugfix: Configuration test result for inttypes.h presence is used,
reintroduce the test that was removed for 0.16
Bugfix: BSD version of ntohl() for old systems was broken
Bugfix: ISO-2022-JP decoder: Mask for unassigned codepoints fixed
Bugfix: SHA2 support in OpenSSL 1.0.0 must be explicitly enabled
Display article from "news" type URI in separate window (if it's not
found in current group)
Clickable References added (articles displayed in separate window)
Search for Message-ID added to the Tools menu (Keyboard shortcut
is Ctrl-s)
Previous read article (in current group) menu entry added
Keyboard shortcut for "Quit" changed from Ctrl-x to Ctrl-q (Proposed
by Marcel Logen)
Keyboard shortcut for "View source" changed from Ctrl-v to Ctrl-e
(Proposed by Marcel Logen)
Menu entry "Article->Mark as unread" (Ctrl-u) changed to toggle
between read and unread state (Proposed by Marcel Logen)
Command line option "-4" added (force usage of IPv4 network protocol)
Flowed format: The 'flowed_insert_crlf' entry in configfile adds an
empty line separator after every paragraph that ends with an empty
line. Defaults to 0 (former behaviour)
Flowed format: The behaviour of 'flowed_insert_crlf' can be requested
by the sender of an article with "InsLine=yes" in the Content-Type
header field.
TLS module can now use OpenSSL 3 API (required for FFDHE group
negotiation with TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3 protocols)
TLS module can now use LibreSSL 3 (formerly major version 2 was used
to identify LibreSSL and distinguish it from OpenSSL)
TLS modules compile time option 'CFG_USE_TLS_OWNCERTS' replaced by
the new 'tls_owncerts' entry in configfile
TLS modules experimental compile time option 'CFG_USE_TLS_CRLS'
replaced by normal option 'CFG_TLS_CRLS_DISABLE'. Default is to use
no CRLs (former behaviour) because this option increases the system
requirements (to POSIX.1-2001 or XSI extension)
TLS module now supports new 'crl_check' entry in configfile (ignored
if CFG_TLS_CRLS_DISABLE is nonzero)
TLS module now prints real LibreSSL version instead of generic 2.0.0
TLS module no longer supports options 'CFG_USE_TLS_DHPARAM_CHECK' and
'CFG_USE_TLS_SETSIGALG'. They were obsoleted by the OpenSSL 1.1 API
Unicode database updated to version 12.1.0
GUI module no longer supports experimental FLTK 1.3 option
'USE_X11_GLYPH_SUBSTITUTION'. It was obsoleted by FLTK 1.4
Modified LaTeX documentation to work with recent doxygen
0.16 Bugfix: Supersede now preserves Followup-To header field
Bugfix: The code that generates the attribute "reply to own article"
now checks the Message-IDs too (to avoid errors if the parent
article is missing in the hierarchy)
Bugfix: Header parser and MIME parser fixed to correctly handle
MIME entity delimiters (for boundary strings that contain spaces)
Bugfix: Removed Unicode range U+E0020 ... U+E007E from rejected
control characters (deprecated since Unicode 5.1, reintroduced for
different purpose since Unicode 9.0) (Reported by Marcel Logen)
TLS: Protocol version TLSv1.3 according to RFC8446 is now supported
(requires at least OpenSSL 1.1.1)
CORE module now supports multiple article hierarchies
Unicode database updated to version 11.0.0
IBM852 to UTF-8 converter added
If the OS doesn't report IPv6 as available, usage can now be forced
with the option 'CFG_FORCE_IP6'
Support for reproducible builds added (option 'CFG_REPRODUCIBLE')
Some checks for system header files removed to speed up configuration
(Build fails in any case if they are missing)
Documentation updated
0.15 Bugfix: The Cancel-Lock was not generated with the correct Message-ID
(since 0.14 for every posting attempt a new Message-ID is created)
Bugfix: Unicode Canonical Composition Algorithm fixed for Hangul
syllables (that can be represented only in decomposed form)
Bugfix: MIME quoted-printable decoder now ignores whitespace at EOL
Bugfix: Filenames are now generated according to the locale category
'LC_CTYPE'
Bugfix: NULL pointer dereference (if Message-ID generation failed)
fixed
Bugfix: ISO 8859-13 decoder fixed (Codepoints 0xAB to 0xAE are now
mapped to the Unicode codepoints U+00AB to U+00AE)
Bugfix: Character set IBM858 is now recognized as "IBM00858" too
(its official name in the IANA registry for MIME character sets)
Bugfix: Some of the IANA registered character set alias names were
not accepted
Bugfix: Removed C99 syntax from C code. Now C90 as documented
(Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: Cancel control messages now use the original newsgroup list
(Recommended by RFC5537, Section 5.3)
Cancel control messages are no longer created with original Subject
header field as default
Cancel-Lock support now compliant to RFC8315 (default scheme SHA256
uses a secret from a separate file, the old system with scheme SHA1
and secret in configfile is still available)
TLS: Extension "server_name" (SNI) according to RFC6066 and RFC8143
is now supported
Signature file can now be specified with the 'signature_file' entry
in configfile (defaults to "~/.signature")
NNTP: The network socket is now configured to 15s timeout (if the
operating system supports that)
The configfile entry "domain" is now checked to be a valid dot-atom
according to RFC5322 (Suggested by Emil Schuster)
New 64x64 pixmap for X11 window icon (Contributed by Stefan Claas)
Unicode database updated to version 10.0.0
Invalid UTF-8 encoding is now repaired for better error tolerance
Unassigned codepoints of 8 bit character sets and rejected (ignored)
control characters are now replaced with Unicode codepoint U+FFFD
"REPLACEMENT CHARACTER"
Windows codepages are now accepted with IBM names (CPxxxx) too for
better error tolerance
IBM775 to UTF-8 converter added
Windows-1253 to UTF-8 converter added
Windows-1254 to UTF-8 converter added
Windows-1255 to UTF-8 converter added
Windows-1257 to UTF-8 converter added
Windows-1258 to UTF-8 converter added
KOI8-U to UTF-8 converter added
If FLTK 1.3.1 or higher ABI is available, the Enter key is now
accepted to select an article from the tree/list
If FLTK 1.3.3 or higher ABI is available, the method 'calc_tree()' is
used for calculation of new size (instead of the ugly workaround
that includes scrolling to the top that is required for FLTK 1.3.0)
If FLTK 1.3.3 or higher ABI is available, the 'next_visible_item()'
method is used to ensure that article tree/list doesn't lose focus
if down (cursor) key is pressed on last item
If FLTK 1.3.3 or higher ABI is available, window icon is set on X11
(no longer an experimental feature)
Article post processor pathname is printed to stdout in debug mode
External editor name/pathname is printed to stdout in debug mode
Experimental feature 'CORE_DATETIME_WITH_TZ_NAME' replaced by entry
'timestamp_comment' in configfile (default value unchanged)
Usage of local time for Date header field can now be disabled in GUI
(default is local time as recommended by RFC5322)
OpenBSD added to list of supported OS (Tested by Marcel Logen)
0.14 Bugfix: Score rule type "group" can now be used with NNTP servers
that provide OVER capability. This is limited to the current group
in the case of Xposts (Reported by Frank Graf)
Bugfix: Header parser now supports RFC2231 parameter sections
Bugfix: Windows-1250 decoder fixed (Codepoint 0x9F is now mapped to
the Unicode codepoint U+017A)
Bugfix: Windows-1251 decoder was broken beyond codepoint 0x8F
Bugfix: UTF-7 decoder now accepts unterminated shift sequences at the
end of input data
Bugfix: UTF-7 decoder now decodes shift sequences with context (allow
combining character sequences with codepoints outside of the shift
sequence)
Bugfix: Potential NULL pointer dereference fixed in UTF-8 to ISO8859
converter (Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: Potential NULL pointer dereference fixed in TLS check for
root certificate (Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: 2 memory leaks fixed in TLS CRL handling (Reported by Dennis
Preiser)
Bugifx: Potential NULL pointer dereference fixed in TLS module
Bugifx: Potential NULL pointer dereference fixed in MIME word encoder
Bugfix: Potential memory leak fixed in group handling
Bugfix: Script 'mkconfig' should now be more POSIX compliant (Thanks
to Joerg Schilling for his help)
Bugfix: MIME decoder now supports nested multipart entities
Bugfix: MIME decoder now use correct default for missing content type
Bugfix: Timestamp parser now accepts CFWS in 'obs-hour', 'obs-minute'
and 'obs-second' tokens
Bugfix: FILTER module considered two empty strings as equal in
function that detects own articles (should be not equal there)
Bugfix: Format "flowed" decoder no longer append additional line
breaks to the end of paragraphs after overlong words
IPv6 is now supported (can be disabled with option 'CFG_IP6_DISABLE')
TLS module can now use OpenSSL 1.1.x
TLS module (in strong encryption mode) now creates a randomart image
from the RSA key of the server using the "drunken bishop" algorithm
Unicode database updated to version 9.0.0
Unicode canonical composition engine is now able to compose starter
pairs and hangul syllables. It should now be fully Unicode compliant
Test program for Unicode now executes the official Unicode
conformance test for NFC normalization
Tooltip messages can now be disabled with the "-notooltips" command
line switch
Distribution suggestions (NNTP command LIST DISTRIB.PATS) can now be
used with the 'dist_suggestions' entry in configfile (set to a non-
zero value).
Path for man page can now be configured with option 'CFG_MAN_PATH'
Support for system menubar on Darwin with Cocoa is now an official
option (can be enabled with 'USE_COCOA_SYS_MENUBAR' in "gui.cxx")
Scoring system extended. A filter rule can now be bound to a group
or group wildmat (Suggested by Frank Graf)
Usage of NNTP overview (OVER capability) can now be disabled with the
'nntp_no_over' entry in configfile (set to a nonzero value). This
allows scoring rules to match on all groups of Xposts (otherwise
only the current group is used for matching)
Error tolerance of header parser improved
Source viewer now shows all characters that are not "printable ASCII"
as colored hexadecimal numbers
Unsupported URI options from RFC5538 (like "news" scheme with server)
are now detected and rejected
Menu entry in GUI for debug mode added (more information on stderr)
New Message-ID is generated after every failed posting attempt
Header field "Organization" is now parsed and displayed in GUI
NNTP compression negotiation can now be enabled/disabled in GUI
Environment variable 'TMPDIR' is now used as recommended by POSIX
Error tolerance of conversion from canonical to local format improved
URI encoder of Composer now use (for the "http" scheme) percent
encoding for all characters that are not slash or defined
'unreserved' by RFC3986
Format "flowed" decoder now support SHY as rewrapping point
CSS patch for documentation style sheets added (recent versions of
doxygen create wrong parameters)
Windows-1256 to UTF-8 converter added
IBM850 to UTF-8 converter added
IBM858 to UTF-8 converter added
0.13 Security bugfix: MIME: Buffer overflow in encoded-word decoder fixed
Security bugfix: Buffer overflow in overview parser fixed (with NNTP
V1 protocol according to RFC977 there was no vulnerability)
Bugfix: Off by one buffer size mismatch in postprocessor fixed
Bugfix: Off by one buffer size mismatch in POSIX to canonical form
converter fixed
Bugfix: MIME: encoded-word decoder now correctly process RFC2231
compliant 'language' tokens
Bugfix: MIME: encoded-word encoder potential error with optional long
ASCII line mode fixed (no problem with the default configuration)
Bugfix: Header parser: Handling of 'encoded-word' tokens fixed
Bugfix: Header parser: Handling of 'quoted-pair' in 'quoted-string'
fixed
Bugfix: MIME: Unknown "Content-Transfer-Encoding" is now handled as
defined by RFC2045 even if no "Content-Type" header field is present
Bugfix: POSIX: 'posix_strftime()' is now available without X/Open
XSI extension if at least POSIX.1-2001 is available
Bugfix: ISO8859-14 decoder fixed (Codepoint 0xFC is now mapped to the
Unicode codepoint U+00FC)
Bugfix: Core thread can now be canceled even if nexus handler is busy
(this should avoid freezing while joining the core thread on exit)
Bugfix: In unstructured header fields only the first leading space is
removed
Bugfix: GUI progress bar is now refreshed at "100%" and then set to
"Busy"
TLS module can now use LibreSSL (Build system modified)
CMPR module for compression added
Support for DEFLATE algorithm added (requires 'zlib' to work)
NNTP module now supports the extension COMPRESS (according to draft)
GUI can now show message of the day (if provided by server)
Spaces (U+0020) are now allowed for the "Keywords" header field.
0.12 Security bugfix: Buffer overflow error in header parser fixed
Following a recommendation of RFC5322, the "Date" header field is
now created using local time
For better compatibility the "Date" and (if created) "Injection-Date"
header fields are now created with the optional 'day-of-week' token
defined by RFC5322 (it was reported that the newsreader "PhoNews"
doesn't work correctly if it's omitted)
0.11 Bugfix: If the last viewed article of a group is not present (e.g.
hidden if "Only unread articles" option is active), the article
window was not cleared and showed the last article viewed from the
former group (Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: NFC normalization was applied to Unicode data in the header
only when conversion to ISO8859 was possible, but not when the data
was used in MIME encoded-words as UTF-8.
Bugfix: TLS certificate check now accept subject names with wildcard
as left-most component
Bugfix: TLS certificate check now matches subject names (domain names
in our case) case-insensitive
Bugfix: If the system reports the hostname with domains, the
generation of Message-IDs don't work as intended. Now only the
left-most part of the hostname is used (Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: MIME RFC3676 decoder now calculates the line length using
glyphs instead of bytes while rewrapping paragraphs
Bugfix: If the identity configuration contain no names (only e-mail
addresses) the header encoder created a space for each missing name.
The syntax was nevertheless valid, but not as intended (Reported by
Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: With empty article tree/list, clicking on "No articles" has
triggered a fatal error that terminated the program
Bugfix: 5 potential NULL pointer dereferences fixed in UI (Reported
by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: Invalid end of line check in header field search engine of UI
(Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: Potential double free error fixed in scorefile handling
(Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: Memory leak in score handling (Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: Potential double free error in group handling of core module
(Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: Potential use after free errors in handlers for 'Newsgroups'
and 'References' header fields (Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: Potential use after free error in date function of core
module (Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: Potential use after free error in line buffer used for
configuration data processing (Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: Potential memory leak in NNTP multiline response handling
(Reported by Dennis Preiser)
Bugfix: Potential NULL pointer dereference and memory leaks fixed
in core module function for article posting
Bugfix: Possible deadlock in postprocessor pipe I/O fixed
OpenSSL version is now displayed correctly up to patch level "zzy"
TLS certificate check now first matches hostname against the
"subjectAltName" extension entries (if present)
Quoting style can now be configured with the 'quote_style' entry in
configfile
Unification of quoting style can now be disabled with the
'quote_unify' entry in configfile
Config option for quoting style in GUI added
NNTP driver now use immediate authentication as the default
Test program for Unicode: UTF-7 test extended with surrogate pairs
Test program for POSIX: Test for 'strcasecmp_l()' added
If there is no 'display-name', use 'addr-spec' for article tree/list
and introduction line
Build system now check for POSIX.2 C-language binding to be available
Scoring can now use POSIX extended regular expression matching (if
POSIX.2 C-language binding is available)
Test program for POSIX: Test for 'regcomp()' and 'regexec()' added
Scoring system extended (can now filter on Subject, Message-ID and
Newsgroups too)
A POSIX extended regular expression for test group matching can now
be configured with the 'testgrp_ere' entry in configfile
A list of keywords that are automatically set for articles posted to
test groups can now be configured with the 'testgrp_kwords' entry in
configfile
Reply prefix check now also detect and repair "re:" and "re: "
Unicode database updated to version 8.0.0
Header parser now extract content from "Distribution" header field
Followup to newsgroup now adopt the distribution from former article
GUI now displays the "Distribution" header field if present
GUI now always sort articles by date for threaded view
GUI can now sort articles with inverted order on request
GUI can now sort articles by number for unthreaded view on request
Build system now check compilers for C90/C++98 conformance
Handler for file download added (HTTP/1.1 is supported)
TLS certificate chain check now check the modulus size of RSA keys in
strong encryption mode (keys with less than 1024 bits are rejected)
TLS certificate chain check now check the signature algorithm in
strong encryption mode (MD2, MD4 and MD5 based signatures are
rejected)
Experimental option to reject any DH parameter size below 1024 bits
in strong encryption mode (requires at least OpenSSL 1.0.2)
Experimental option to specify the signature algorithms for the
TLSv1.2 "signature_algorithms" extension defined in RFC5246
(requires at least OpenSSL 1.0.2)
Experimental support for checking the whole certificate chain for
revoked elements with TLS connections. CRLs are downloaded and
maintained automatically (the GUI shows a popup window that allows
the user to suppress CRL updates for the current session)
Experimental support for displaying article number in tree/list
0.10 Bugfix: The Cancel-Key was not generated with the configured secret
Bugfix: Header field "Date" now contains the correct value according
to RFC5536/5322 (the date when the "Send" button was pressed)
Bugfix: Replacement of header fields in composer failed if the body
was already folded (only first line was deleted in this case)
Bugfix: Check whether nodes are already present before adding them to
subscribe window (Thanks to Dennis Preiser for his help)
Bugfix: Don't strip "(was: ...)" from subject for cancel/supersede
Bugfix: If FLTK library is compiled without multithreading support,
a segfault occur instead of an immediate clean exit (Reported by
Hartmut Figge)
Bugfix: If NNTP V2 capability OVER is available, missing articles in
overview were not automatically marked as read (Reported by Dennis
Preiser)
Bugfix: The threads must synchronize their calls to POSIX functions
that are not thread-safe (because FLTK use some of them internally)
Automatic mail redirection for bug reports if possible
Percent encoder for generation of simple URIs added
Subscription option for URIs with scheme "news" that represent group
Support for external article postprocessor added
Compile time options are now printed with "flnews -v"
Configuration check and POSIX module support for IPv6 added (Thanks
to Dennis Preiser for his help to find and fix bugs that were
introduced with the new code)
Strong cipher suite list no longer contain DSA authentication
Support for article composition with external editor added
Own articles are now marked with icon in article tree/list
Replies to own articles are now marked with icon in article tree/list
Entry "Mark all as read" in article menu was misleading. Renamed to
"Mark all in group as read" (Reported by Marcel Logen)
Scoring support added
Use 'open' instead of 'xdg-open' on Darwin (Patch from Dennis
Preiser)
Experimental support for system menubar on Darwin with Cocoa (Patch
from Dennis Preiser)
Experimental support for displaying line count of articles in article
tree/list
Experimental support for custom fontsize in some GUI widgets
Experimental support for window icon (requires at least FLTK 1.3.3)
0.9 Security bugfix: Buffer overflow error in ISO2022 decoder fixed
Security bugfix: Use after free error in hierarchy manager fixed
Security bugfix: Dereference of uninitialized pointer in UI fixed
Bugfix: Memory leak in NNTP driver error handling fixed
Bugfix: Memory leak in group handling fixed
Bugfix: Multiple memory leaks in UI text buffer handling fixed
Bugfix: If a connection was closed by the server (e.g. after timeout)
there was a state that called 'recv()' in an infinite loop creating
100% CPU load for the core thread. This condition is now processed
correctly (re-establish the connection and retry)
Bugfix: Error handling fixed after hierarchy manager failure
Bugfix: Hyperlink detection should now be more RFC3986 compliant
(line breaks inside URIs are still not supported and Unicode white-
space is not accepted as delimiter)
Bugfix: Character set of signature is now checked
Bugfix: Article source is now stored to file in canonical form (raw)
Bugfix: The TLS protocol version of encrypted connections is now
correctly reported on stdout and logfile
Bugfix: Cancel/Supersede now works without self generated Message-ID
Bugfix: Superseding an article with Fup2 no longer execute it
Bugfix: RFC850 address format now works in "Reply-To" field too
Bugfix: The display name of the identity information is now correctly
encoded using atom, quoted-string and encoded-word tokens
Bugfix: RFC3676 decoder no longer ignores last line if the CR+LF
termination is missing
Bugfix: Header parser bug fixed (quoted-pair inside quoted-string)
Bugfix: Header parser bug fixed (Sequence "\\)" inside comment)
Header parser can now handle whitespace and comments inside mailbox
tokens
Header parser can now handle mailbox-list and address-list tokens
(but in both cases only the first address is extracted and used)
Error tolerance of header parser (against stray CR) improved
Build system now add required system libraries to 'LIBS' (dumb
algorithm: fixed list for every operating system)
IBM437 to UTF-8 converter added
UTF-7 to UTF-8 converter added
Test program for Unicode: UTF-7 test added
Article view can now be switched to wrapping mode
Article printing support added
Reply by e-mail support added (requires 'xdg-utils' to work)
"Followup-To: poster" support added (requires 'xdg-utils' to work)
Hyperlink handling added (some URI types require 'xdg-utils' to work)
Limited the "creeping window" workaround offset correction to 20pt
If signature contains no separator it is now automatically inserted
If signature length exceeds 4 lines, a warning message is generated
Compliance to mandatory GNKSA 2.0 rules (with exception of part 4)
Support for generation of Cancel-Lock/Cancel-Key header fields added
Injection-Date header field now contain timestamp of POST command
Documentation for some configfile entries added to man page
Content for Organization header field is now normalized before MIME
(RFC2047) encoding
Group tree with candidates for subscription is now sorted
0.8 Bugfix: Service name "nntps" is no longer truncated to "nntp" in
protocol console and logfile
Bugfix: Header parser of article compositor fixed
Bugfix: "Mark all articles as read" now handles canceled articles too
Bugfix: "\n-- " (without trailing newline) no longer matches as the
signature separator in article composer
Bugfix: A new signature is appended to superseded articles now
Bugfix: No longer display "Cannot open file" error if "~./.signature"
file is not present (Reported by Marcel Logen)
Bugfix: OpenSSL vulnerability checks fixed for shared library
TLS security vulnerability warnings can now be disabled at build time
by setting the config option 'CFG_TLS_WARNING_DISABLE' to nonzero
Option for ephemeral password (not stored in configfile) added
Immediate authentication can now be requested with 'immedauth' entry
in configfile
Introduction format is now taken from 'intro' entry in configfile
German localization improved (Thanks to Marcel Logen for his help)
Organization header field is now set according to 'organization'
entry in configfile
Script 'configure' renamed to 'mkconfig' to prevent confusion with
GNU autoconf
Build system support for 'PREFIX' environment variable added
Build system support for 'DESTDIR' environment variable to 'install'
and 'uninstall' rules added (Suggested by Sven Hartge)
Build system support for 'LIBS' environment variable added
Branches without unread articles in article tree can now be hidden
Unicode database updated to version 7.0.0
Workaround for broken handling of Unicode ZERO WIDTH SPACE added
(likely a bug in FLTK)
ISO2022-JP to UTF-8 converter added
NNTP driver now supports the OVER command
Article header overview support added to core and UI modules
Hyperlink detection code added (currently used only for highlighting)
0.7 Bugfix: RFC3676 decoder now calculates quotations marks to line width
Bugfix: Unicode canonical reordering engine had produced invalid data
Bugfix: Unicode canonical composition engine had produced invalid
data for recursive compositions (with characters that consists of
more than 2 codepoints)
Bugfix: Quoted-printable encoder for MIME encoded-words had split
atomic byte sequences for codepoints when UTF-8 encoding was used
Bugfix: Quoted-printable encoder for MIME encoded-words had split
Unicode codepoint sequences (Starter to next Starter)
Bugfix: Two memory leaks in database module fixed
Workaround for POSIX.2 check on IRIX added to configure script
Build system modified for MIPSpro compiler
Rename 'sa_len' in 'nntp.c' because IRIX use it in 'sys/socket.h'
(Patch from Ingo Paschke)
Print warning if TLS module detects an OpenSSL library containing
potential security vulnerabilities.
Build system now check whether FLTK header files are installed
Build system now check whether OpenSSL header files are installed
Build system now creates a logfile ("config.log")
Line feeds in decoded header field bodies are replaced with '?'
Function "Skip to next unread article" (without scroll down) added
Function "Skip to next group with unread messages" added
Threading of orphaned branches (by reference) improved
Article composition editor line length highlighting added
Support for Xpost added
Support for Fup2 added
Support for "Archive" header field added
Support for "Expires" header field added
Support for "Keywords" header field added
Support for "Distribution" header field (RFC5537) added
Header parser can now repair field bodies with invalid encoding
(improved error tolerance, formerly they were rejected completely)
Test program for Unicode decoder and normalization engine added to
'make test' rule
Support for superseding own articles added
Support for canceling own articles added
Mac Roman character set is now also accepted under some alias names
0.6 Bugfix: Reject "Followup-To: poster" (currently not supported)
Bugfix: If we create own "Message-ID" and "Date" header-fields, an
"Injection-Date" header field is created too (RFC5536, RFC5537)
Bugfix: References are now correctly trimmed according to RFC5537
Bugfix: Object file with thread-safe functions missing in test binary
Bugfix: Header field content containing MIME encoded-word delimiters
is now encoded in RFC2047 compliant way
Bugfix: One byte was lost when MIME encoded-words must be splitted
because of overlength
Bugfix: Expect "TIS-620" declaration for ISO8859-11 character set
Bugfix: Focus is now always set to article tree after group selection
Bugfix: Article tree redraw/scroll fixed. It is now faster and more
reliable (Thanks to Greg Ercolano for his help)
Double buffering support to reduce flickering of Fl_Tree widget (can
be disabled in configfile for better performance on slow machines)
Sharing newsrc groupstate file with other newsreaders is now possible
(Pathname is taken from 'newsrc' entry in configfile)
MIME base64 encoder added
New algorithm A1 for Message-ID creation (Message-IDs are created
only if a domain is specified with the 'domain' entry in configfile)
Header parser can now extract name from RFC850 compliant "From"
header field even if name is inside a comment at the end
Lower refresh rate of progress bar to reduce CPU load
Searching for next unread article: If no newer unread article is
found, wrap to oldest article once and continue searching
ROT13 encoder/decoder added
Article tree can now be switched to unthreaded view
RFC3676 decoder now tolerates broken line breaks
0.5 Bugfix: Mark single article unread with group but no article selected
have crashed the program
Bugfix: Server configuration window no longer waste CPU time
Bugfix: Subscription of existing groups that are not leaf nodes in
hierarchy is now possible
The group subscription tree now shows selectable items with bold font
Support for RFC3676 MIME extension added
Support for simple syntax highlighting in article content added
Menu entry to save cooked article to file added
Unicode NFC normalization engine added
ISO8859-3 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-4 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-5 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-6 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-7 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-8 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-9 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-10 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-11 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-13 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-14 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-16 to UTF-8 converter added
KOI8-R to UTF-8 converter added
Windows-1251 to UTF-8 converter added
Article window now shows "Message-ID" header field
UTF-8 to ISO8859-1 converter added
MIME encoded-word encoder added
Support for article posting added
0.4 Bugfix: NLS: Don't use strings from NLS catalog as format strings
anymore (Reported by Hanno Foest)
This was a potential security vulnerability that can be exploited if
NLS support is enabled and the program was not installed by root
Bugfix: TIMING: 'time_msleep()' now handle remaining time correctly
if it was interrupted by a signal
Bugfix: NNTP: Removal of dot-stuffing was broken
Bugfix: NNTP: Empty multiline responses are now handled correctly
Bugfix: UI: MIME content of type "text" with unsupported subtype but
supported character set is now displayed raw as required by RFC2049
Bugfix: NNTP: If connection failed, don't try to send QUIT command
Bugfix: CONF: The line length check of the parser was wrong
Bugfix: POSIX: 'posix_snprintf()' failed with zero integer conversion
Support for RFC2184 compliant MIME encoded-words in article header
If content decoding failed, at least the decoded header is shown
Support for MIME "multipart/mixed" content added
Support for MIME "multipart/alternative" content added
Support for NNTPS protocol (NNTP via TLS using dedicated port) added
Support for RFC4643 compliant AUTHINFO USER authentication added
Menu entry to change article count clamping threshold added
0.3 Bugfix: configfile and groupfile are now created again if not present
Bugfix: Subscription now works again with empty group file
Bugfix: Group list refresh after server change works again
Bugfix: "Mark all as read" crashed if there was no current group
Bugfix: 'ui_exit()' must shutdown core before destroying main window
Bugfix: 'db_read()' may call 'close()' with invalid filedescriptor
Bugfix: Potential NULL pointer dereference in 'My_Tree' widget fixed
Bugfix: Data from 'posix_getenv()' is now processed with locked mutex
Bugfix: Potential buffer overflow in 'SubscribeWindow' object fixed
Bugfix: Resubscription added group again instead of recovering state
Article selection via 'Enter' key removed (don't work on FLTK 1.3.0)
Header cache is now maintained by deleting no longer required data
Article count for GUI is now clamped to the latest 250 per group
Menu entry to alphabetically sort group list added
Menu entry to unsubscribe group added
Menu entry to mark single article as unread added
Delimiter line between header fields and article body added
Superseded articles are now marked in GUI (but not hidden)
Raw article source code can now be saved to file from viewer
0.2 Bugfix: Canceled articles are no longer counted as unread
Bugfix: The core module now recovers from disconnected server
Bugfix: Current article is now cleared if current group was changed
Bugfix: Matching of group names with same prefix in groupfile fixed
Bugfix: State machine replaced that lock UI operations against each
other that are not allowed to run simultaneously
Local article header cache added (to speed up group selection)
Don't parse the "Path" header field anymore (because it is not used)
Decoder for 'Newsgroups' header field added
Decoded content of some header fields is now displayed in GUI
Last viewed article is now stored per group and displayed at reenter
Article source code viewer added
The NNTP driver now send a QUIT command before closing a connection
Orphaned (by reference) thread branches are merged by decoded subject
Main window tiling is now saved in configfile and restored on startup
0.1 Bugfix: Invalid memory access fixed when started without configfile
Bugfix: NNTP V2 protocol: LIST capability is now detected correctly
Bugfix: 'main.cxx' must include 'cstring'
Bugfix: Subscribed groups not available on server are now shown empty
Bugfix: Changing server now correctly resets group states
Bugfix: Current group is now correctly restored after group refresh
DNS hostname resolver added
RFC5536 compliant timestamp decoder added
The 'posix_snprintf()' implementation now support field width padding
The article tree now shows the posting date of the articles
Pressing 'Space' key in article tree now scrolls down article
content. On the end of content the next unread article is selected
Pressing 'Enter' key in article tree now selects this article
Mark all read menu entry added
0.0 POSIX based build system added (that don't require GNU tools)
POSIX based operating system API wrapper added
ASCII validity checking function added
NNTP protocol (RFC977, RFC3977) driver added
Server communication log file added
Newsreader core added
FLTK based GUI added
NLS support added
Handling for configfile added
Group state handling added (using '.newsrc' style file)
Article hierarchy manager added
Reading support added
ISO8859-1 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-2 to UTF-8 converter added
ISO8859-15 to UTF-8 converter added
Windows-1250 to UTF-8 converter added
Windows-1252 to UTF-8 converter added
Mac-Roman to UTF-8 converter added
MIME quoted printable decoder added
MIME base64 decoder added
MIME encoded-word decoder added
Unicode UTF-8 validity checking added
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