[tin-dev] [tin 2.6.6] snapshots

Urs Janßen urs at tin.org
Sun Jul 12 08:59:43 CEST 2026


New snapshots available. Not much new except turned utf8_graphics
from bool to int so it can be enabled for ellipsis only, tree and
indicator or both. Also revived the IRIX port. This is likely the
last snapshot before the next real release in about 6 weeks.

<ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/v2.6/snapshots/tin-2.6.6.tar.gz>
<ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/v2.6/snapshots/tin-2.6.6.tar.bz2>
<ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/v2.6/snapshots/tin-2.6.6.tar.xz>

Changes since 2.6.5:
 038) Daniel Nylander <po at danielnylander.se>
      ADD. updated Swedish translation
      FIX. sv.po

 037) Temuri Doghonadze <temuri.doghonadze at gmail.com>
      ADD. Georgian translation
      FIX. ka.po

 036) Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
      ADD. update configure macros
      FIX. aclocal.m4, configure[.in]

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

 034) Dennis Preiser <dennis at d--p.de>
      ADD. undo dash-escaping in inline pgp signed messages
      ADD. turn show_art_score into show_art_info to (also) show (guessed)
           language
      ADD. strwdith() no longer fails on \n or \r
      ADD. turn undeclared_cs_guess from bool to int so it can
           override undeclared_charset
      ADD. turn utf8_graphics from bool to int so it can be enabled for
           ellipsis only, tree and indicator or the combination
      ADD. generate tinrc and serverrc structs from a template to ensure
           correct initialization under all possible configurations
           automatically
      BUG. old artnum in thread was lost after 'L' from thread-level
      BUG. off by one for internal rfc1522_decode() buffer may truncate
           result
      FIX. active.c, art.c, attrib.c, config.c, cook.c, feed.c, getline.c
           header.c, init.c, lang.c, makerc.c, memory.c, misc.c, nntplib.c
           nntps.c, options_menu.c, page.c, pgp.c, post.c, read.c, refs.c
           rfc2046.c, rfc2047.c, screen.c, string.c, thread.c, xface.c, xref.c
           extern.h, tin.h, tinrc.h, version.h, tincfg.tbl, tinrc.tbl,
           Makefile, Makefile.in, tin.1, tin.5

 033) Daniel Nylander <po at danielnylander.se>
      ADD. update Swedish translation
      FIX. sv.po

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

 031) Urs Janssen <urs at tin.org>
      ADD. --{dis,en}able-language_guessing; requires libexttextcat
      ADD. in debug builds warn about unknown lines in tin.defaults
      ADD. -J cmd.-line switch to specify an different tinrc
      ADD. -i cmd.-line switch to specify a proto article
      ADD. filter hits/rules are now recorded with -D filter
      ADD. show permissions and owner of config-files on ConnectionInfo ('J')
      ADD. configure check for __attribute__((format(type,fmt,var)))
      ADD. configure check for inet_ntop()
      ADD. check mail_address in OptionMenu upon change and issue
           a warning or error if appropriate
      ADD. make gnksa-parser more strict
      ADD. disallow obsolete Control messages sendsys, version, whogets and
           senduuname
      ADD. disallow obsolete headers Also-Control, Article-Names, See-Also,
           Article-Updates, Date-Received, Posting-Version and Relay-Version
      ADD. disallow server-side headers Xref, Injection-Info,
           NNTP-Posting-Host and NNTP-Posting-Date
      ADD. warn about uppercase chars in Newsgroups and Followup-To
      ADD. use $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in version string if set
      ADD. configure check for isblank(3)
      ADD. config.guess, config.sub update
      BUG. missing screen redraw in config menu when toggling utf8_graphics
      BUG. do not validated mail_regex URIs with libcurl
      BUG. missed to reset CFLAGS after failed --with-url-normalization check
      REM. atol(), atoll(), atoq() and quad_t configure checks
      FIX. active.c, art.c, attrib.c, auth.c, charset.c, config.c, cook.c
           curses.c, debug.c, feed.c, filter.c, global.c, group.c, header.c
           help.c, inews.c, init.c, joinpath.c, keymap.c, lang.c, list.c
           lock.c, mail.c, main.c, mimetypes.c, misc.c, my_tmpfile.c, newsrc.c
           nntplib.c, nntps.c, nrctbl.c, options_menu.c, page.c, parsdate.y
           pgp.c, post.c, prompt.c, read.c, regex.c, rfc1524.c, rfc2045.c
           rfc2046.c, rfc2047.c, save.c, screen.c, search.c, select.c
           sigfile.c, signal.c, string.c, tags.c, tcurses.c thread.c, version.c
           wildmat.c, xface.c, xref.c, bool.h, extern.h, keymap.h, policy.h
           proto.h, rfc2046.h, tin.h, tnntps.h, autoconf.hin, configure[.in]
           Makefile.in, tin.1, config.guess, config.sub



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