[tin-dev] [tin 2.6.5] snapshots

Urs Janßen urs at tin.org
Wed Aug 6 13:18:41 CEST 2025


New Snapshots available. New features:
- serverrc-menu via ConfigServerrcMenu ('s')
- nntp_pipeline_limit to serverrc (DISABLE_PIPELINING replacement)
- keep_expired_filters to keep expired rules (debian bug #1109039)
- initial Romanian translation
- -n cmd.line.grp now also allows to specify a group not present in newsrc
- 'g'oto group now works with -n even if group is not present in newsrc
- -L/'L'ookup Message-ID works with -n even if group is not present in newsrc
- lookup "DISTRIB.PATS" and use as default for Distribution
- lookup "DISTRIBUTIONS" descriptions and display if available

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<ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/v2.6/snapshots/tin-2.6.5.tar.xz>

Changes since 2.6.4:

 029) Remus-Gabriel Chelu <remusgabriel.chelu at disroot.org>
      ADD. Romanian translation
      FIX. ro.po

 028) Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig at simnet.is>
      ADD. manpage fixes (debian bug #1093395, #1096177)
      FIX. tin.[15]

 027) Dennis Preiser <dennis at d--p.de>
      ADD. avoid macro in snprintf() as that might be a macro too
      ADD. fallback code for the !CPP_DOES_CONCAT case
      ADD. plural forms
      ADD. prefer MIME filename*-parameter over filename-parameter
      ADD. if a MIME filename parameter is empty after path removal fallback
           to the next filename parameter if available.
      ADD. PageToggleVerbatim (,)
      ADD. validate undeclared_charset in 'M'enu
      ADD. extend verbatim_handling options
      ADD. ignore col_invers_bg == col_invers_fg == -1
      ADD. page_yenc_format
      ADD. per scope hide_inline_data via attributes
      ADD. cleanup draw_page_header(), fmt_option_prompt()
      ADD. color the color-menu items while selecting the color
      ADD. serverrc-menu via ConfigServerrcMenu ('s')
      BUG. -L/'L' did depend on sort_article_type/sort_threads_type
           and failed for some combinations
      BUG. possible memleaks
      BUG. layout issue with multibyte chars on posting history screen
      FIX. art.c, attrib.c, charset.c, color.c, config.c, cook.c, curses.c
           feed.c, filter.c, global.c, group.c, header.c, help.c, init.c
           keymap.c, lang.c, main.c, makecfg.c, memory.c, misc.c, nntplib.c
           options_menu.c, page.c, post.c, prompt.c, rfc2045.c, rfc2046.c
           rfc2047.c, save.c, search.c, select.c, signal.c, string.c, tcurses.c
           thread.c, extern.h, keymap.h, proto.h, rfc2046.h, tin.h, tinrc.h
           tincfg.tbl, tin.[15]

 026) Urs Janssen <urs at tin.org>
      ADD. avoid bison warning
      ADD. use ngettext(3) for plural-forms
      ADD. avoid "install -D"
      ADD. --with-url-normalization[=[uriparser,curl] (default: yes)
           check for liburiparser or libcurl for URL normalization
      ADD. if reading via NNTP Message-ID 'L'ookup in group-, thread- and
           page level now try to find the ID via NNTP if the ID is not in
           the current group
      ADD. adjust IPv6 part of URL_REGEX
      ADD. do not check for libgsasl but zlib if not using NNTP
      ADD. move setlocale in write_overview() out of the loop
      ADD. reject invalid undeclared_charset in attributes
      ADD. if cache_overview_files is set, keep raw Subject and From
           data so the cache is build with the original data instead
           of trying recompile it from our preprocessed data.
      ADD. hash Path in overview-data
      ADD. Xref- and Path-filter to filter-menu
      ADD. ToggleInfoLastLine ('i') to OptionMenu ('M')
      ADD. configure check for getsockopt(), setsockopt(), posix_close(),
           realpath(), lstat(), sig_atomic_t, volatile
      ADD. set TCP_USER_TIMEOUT or TCP_CONNECTIONTIMEOUT and
           TCP_RXT_CONNDROPTIME if available
      ADD. use truncate/append for .oldnewsrc (debian bug #151113)
      ADD. detect "begin-encoded" as start of an uuencoded file with
           a base64 encoed filename.
      ADD. hide_inline_data (was hide_uue) now also can hide (partial) yenc,
           inline pgp and shar
      ADD. crc32()-fallback from Gary S. Brown
      ADD. hideline_regex tinrc/'M'enu option similar to trn4 $HIDELINE
      ADD. merge is_art_tex_encoded() into process_text_body_part()
      ADD. ALPN with TLS (RFC 7301)
      ADD. add_cmd_line_opts and disabled_nntp_cmds to serverrc, the later
           must be used to replace the now dropped --disable-xhdr-xref and
           --enable-broken-listgroup-fix configure options
      ADD. cache_overview_files and compress_overview_files to serverrc
      ADD. nntp_pipeline_limit to serverrc (DISABLE_PIPELINING replacement)
      ADD. keep_expired_filters to keep expired rules (debian bug #1109039)
      ADD. -n cmd.line.grp now also allows to specify a group not present in
           newsrc yet (same for -nw)
      ADD. 'g'oto group now works with -n even if group is not present in
           newsrc
      ADD. -L/'L'ookup Message-ID now works with -n even if Message-ID is in
           a group not present in newsrc.
      ADD. 'S'ubscribe pattern with -n may now work for groups not in newsrc
           yet (local spool with active file and/or RFC 3977 server only)
      ADD. config.guess, config.sub update
      ADD. lower 8bit check for Newsgroups, Followup-To and Distribution
           from error to warning
      ADD. prefer Xref- over Newsgroups-header if performing Message-ID
           lookups via NNTP
      ADD. lookup "DISTRIB.PATS" and use as default for Distribution
      ADD. lookup "DISTRIBUTIONS" descriptions and display if available
      BUG. in NO_LOCALE config get_author() could write outside the
           allocated screen-memory
      BUG. positive getart_limit had several bugs
      BUG. -F was not mentioned in -h
      BUG. mixed up error-messages
      BUG. missing checks for empty string in From
      BUG. possible memleaks
      BUG. "posting" to mailgroups (mailing_list=) wasn't allowed if the
           group had one of the [jnx]-flags, and the moderated warning
           was given if it had the m-flag.
      BUG. double-free group-name on a 502 response to GROUP
      REM. ISO2ASC=6 (CP437) table
      REM. configure check for atoi()
      FIX. active.c, art.c, attrib.c, auth.c, charset.c, config.c, cook.c
           crc32.c, debug.c, feed.c, filter.c, getline.c, group.c, header.c
           help.c, init.c, keymap.c, lang.c, mail.c, main.c, memory.c, misc.c
           newsrc.c, nntplib.c, nntps.c, options_menu.c, page.c, pgp.c, post.c
           prompt.c, regex.c, rfc1524.c, rfc2045.c, rfc2047.c, save.c, screen.c
           search.c, select.c, signal.c, string.c, tags.c, thread.c, xref.c
           extern.h, nntplib.h, policy.h, proto.h, rfc2046.h, tin.h, tinrc.h
           parsdate.y, autoconf.h[in], tincfg.tbl, Makefile[.in]
           configure[.in], config.guess, config.sub, tin.[15]

 025) Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com>
      ADD. updated Estonian translation
      FIX. et.po



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