INN 2.2.3

2000-07-18
Full changes and diff from previous release

Bug Fixes

• A security hole when verifycancels is turned on in inn.conf (not the default) was fixed.

• Message-IDs are now limited to 250 octets to prevent interoperability problems with other servers.

• Various other security paranoia fixes have been made.

• Embedded Perl filters fixed to work with Perl 5.6.0.

• Lots of bug fixes.

New Feature

• INN no longer installs inews setgid news or rnews setuid root by default. If you need the old behavior, --enable-uucp-rnews and/or --enable-setgid-inews must be given to configure. See INSTALL for more information.

INN 2.2.2

1999-12-13
Full changes and diff from previous release

Bug Fixes

• Various minor bug fixes and a Y2K bug fix. The Y2K bug is in version 2.2.1 only and will show up after Jan 1st, 2000 when a news reader issues a NEWNEWS command for a date prior to the year 2000.

INN 2.2.1

1999-08-25
Full changes and diff from previous release

Bug Fixes

• Various bug fixes, mostly notably fixes for potential buffer overflow security vulnerabilities.

INN 2.2

1999-01-21
Full changes and diff from previous release

New Features

• New storage.conf file (replaces storage.ctl).

• New (optional) way of handling non-cancel control messages (controlchan) that serializes them and prevents server overload from control message storms.

• Support for actsyncd to fetch active file with ftp; configured by default to use ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.Z if you run actsyncd. Be sure to read the manual page for actsync to configure an actsync.ign file for your site, and test simpleftp if you do not configure with wget or ncftp. Also see https://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/README.

• Some options to configure are now moved to inn.conf (merge-to-groups and pgp-verify, without the hyphen).

• inndf, a portable version of df(1), is supplied.

• New cnfsstat program to show stats of CNFS buffers.

• news2mail and mailpost programs for gatewaying news to mail and mail to news are supplied.

• pullnews program for doing a sucking feed is provided (not meant for large feeds).

• The innshellvars.csh.in script is obsolete (and lives in the obsolete directory, for now).

INN 2.1

1998-07-24
Full changes and diff from previous release

See CHANGES for the full ChangeLog.
No summary exists.

INN 2.0

1998-06-08

See CHANGES for the full ChangeLog.
No summary exists.

INN 1.5.1

1996-12-18

This 1.5.1 release, while having various bug fixes and a few minor enhancements, is mostly here to fix a security hole in parsecontrol.
It is recommended that if you are running 1.5, you upgrade immediately.
If you're running 1.4, you have the same bug present, and should probably upgrade as well.

See README for more information about previous versions.