-- 2.6.4 release 20241224 "Helmsdale" --
024) Bjarni Ingi Gislason <
[email protected]>
ADD. manpage fixes (debian bug #1089489)
FIX. tin.1
023) Thomas E. Dickey <
[email protected]>
REM. bundled-intl stuff
ADD. disallow giving both --with-socks and --with-socks5
ADD. try also libsocks5 and libsocksd if using --with-socks5
FIX. intl/*, aclocal.m4, configure[.in], autoconf.hin, nntplib.h
tcurses.h, Makefile[.in], conf-tin
022) Enrik Berkhan <
[email protected]>
ADD. avoid implicit conversion
FIX. curses.c, misc.c, nntplib.c, rfc2047.c
021) Matt Anton <
[email protected]>
ADD. updated French translation
FIX. fr.po
020) Dennis Preiser <
[email protected]>
ADD. ArticleInfo-page ('\'')
ADD. always cast arg to is*()-functions to unsigned char
ADD. avoid implicit conversion
ADD. formatted output for -vZ and large article counts
ADD. avoid malloc()/free() overhead in match_group_list()
ADD. dont_break_words tinrc option, if set don't break long
lines inside words, just on SPACE or TAB if possible.
ADD. charset guessing via undeclared_cs_guess in attributes
ADD. syntax check for content subtype
ADD. handle multiple addresses in From, Reply-To, Approved
ADD. addresses in %T are now separated by comma instead of space
ADD. no longer use fixed length buffers in t_cmdlineopts
ADD. limit tinrc/attributes value strings to 1022 chars
(they were "randomly" cut off before around 1k)
ADD. avoid fixed length buffers in t_config, t_filter_rule and
t_fmt
ADD. "ternary"-operator to format-strings %F, %s, %T
ADD. max screenwidth ('<') condition to format-strings
ADD. avoid fixed length buffer for lines on terminal when using curses
ADD. reorder t_config to avoid padding
REM. MAX_MSG_HEADERS limitation
BUG. txt_help_config_search_opt_forwards,
txt_help_config_search_opt_forwards and
txt_help_attrib_search_opt_backwards,
txt_help_attrib_search_opt_forwards were mixed up
BUG. memleak when using bsd-sockets without getservbyname()
BUG. possible memleak on quit in version.c:upgrade_prompt_quit()
BUG. multiple addresses in From, Reply-To, Approved (allowed since
RFC 5536) we're not handled correct.
FIX. active.c, art.c, attrib.c, charset.c, config.c, cook.c, debug.c
feed.c, filter.c, getline.c, group.c, header.c, help.c, inews.c
init.c, keymap.c, lang.c, main.c, mail.c, makecfg.c, memory.c
misc.c, nntplib.c, nntps.c, options_menu.c, page.c, pgp.c, post.c
prompt.c, refs.c, regex.c, rfc2046.c, rfc2047.c, save.c, screen.c
search.c, select.c, sigfile.c, signal.c, string.c, tags.c, thread.c
version.c, xref.c, parsdate.y, extern.h, keymap.h, newsrc.h, proto.h
rfc2046.h, tin.h, tinrc.h, tincfg.tbl, tin.1, tin.5
019) Urs Janssen <
[email protected]>
ADD. silence some unused parameter warnings
ADD. avoid sscanf(3) in check_upgrade()
ADD. avoid fixed length buffer in my_mktmp()
ADD. configure check for buggy snprintf(3)
ADD. changed snprintf(3) fallback implementation from Patrick Powell
to the one by Mark Martinec
ADD. use snprintf(3) in STRCPY macro
ADD. config.guess, config.sub update
ADD. avoid tmpfile(3) usage
ADD. configure check for blockable signal-type (POSIX, BSD, SYSV, NONE)
ADD. configure check for tiuser.h (TLI; SVR3, SVR4)
ADD. configure check for arc4random_uniform(3), lrand48(3) and random(3)
prefer over rand(3)
ADD. configure check for tcflag_t
ADD. configure check for PRIdLEAST64 and SCNdLEAST64
ADD. configure check for ucsdet_detect() from libicui18n
ADD. configure check for getpeername()
ADD. configure check for uconv_open() and unicode/ucnv.h
ADD. configure check for liburiparser
ADD. configure check for libidn2
ADD. simplify _Noreturn check, just note the C11 standard
REM. configure check for varargs.h
ADD. removed fixed buffer from copy_body()
ADD. SASL info to connection-info ('J')
ADD. -L cmd.line switch
ADD. create missing newsrc-dir
ADD. -g "[ipv6::address]"[:port] also in .newsauth and newsrctable
ADD. check that a recipient is present in mailgroups
ADD. mention location of files being read on startup
ADD. only display MOTD on startup if it did change since the last
connect (use 'J' to see it anyway).
ADD. cache MOTD during session
ADD. REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD define to prevent recoding of __DATE__, __TIME__,
$CFLAGS, $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS in the binary if set
ADD. disallow Distribution: all, warn about Distribution: world
ADD. charset guessing via undeclared_cs_guess in attributes
ADD. disallow set but empty $NAME or $REALNAME to prevent reading
the users name from /etc/passwd
ADD. expand tabs in multiline wait_messages
ADD. calculate offset to article body for postponed articles
ADD. UNICODE-1-1, SCSU, csSCSU to unsupported charsets
ADD. try charset conversion with ICU ucnv_* if iconv() fails or is
not available.
ADD. use gmtime() and 4 digigt year for NEWGROUP on RFC 3977 servers
instead of localtime and 2 digigt year
ADD. basic (no custom-messages) $MAILPATH support
ADD. skip reading attributes with -Z
ADD. skip reading filter-file with -u
ADD. warn about -u[owXzZ] and -o[SZ] -R[ACcgkLSTZ] -XS (useless
combinations)
ADD. mention $TINRC value in useless combination message
ADD. create INDEX_LOCK (used by 'u') in ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin
instead of $TMPDIR
ADD. if reading from local spool, try to read inn >= 2.3 nov-files
in case reading traditional nov-files failed
ADD. allow argument names for -D (case insensitive, comma separated
list).
ADD. URI syntax-check and normalization it with uriNormalizeSyntaxA() if
liburiparser was found
ADD. $LC_NUMERIC for RADIXCHAR (used when showing attachment sizes)
ADD. allow valid IPv6-addresses in brackets in gnksa-filters
(requires that the system has inet_pton() and knows AF_INET6)
ADD. allow ccTLD .ss, disallow ccTLD .an and .tp
ADD. updated the gTLD list (needs disable_gnksa_domain_check=ON in
tin.defaults)
ADD. -F filter-file cmd.-line option
ADD. warn on "Re:"/"Re: " only Subject
ADD. allow hex-numbers for cmd.-line switches which take numeric args
ADD. %C, %F, %P, %k, %l, %s, %u to strftime(3)-fallback
ADD. compress_overview_files tinrc-option
REM. tmpfile.c
REM. --with-sum specifying the sum of uue-file got more and more
uncommon at the end of last century and uue mostly vanished
laster on ...
REM. %G, %P expansion in $MAILCAPS
BUG. AUTHINFO SASL * didn't check possible 283 return code
(as we do not support anything but SASL PLAIN yet, not an issue)
BUG. -t not mentioned in -h
BUG. malloc(3)- and fopen(3)-leaks on error exits
BUG. didn't remove '.' from normalized charset when looking for a
keymap-file
BUG. socket(3)-leak on early exit due to TLS-errors
BUG. possible NULL-pointer dereference in connection-info ('J') if
CAPABILITIES does not return IMPLEMENTATION
BUG. wrong sign for shown default kill-score value in kill-menu
BUG. art_mark_xref_read() didn't allow '\t' between locations
BUG. a From longer than > cCOLS wasn't properly truncated
before appending organitazion in the pager
BUG. may truncate format string instead of result in draw_page_header
BUG. -X did not disallow EditFilter and -S
BUG. -o did not read keymap-file but it may ask questions so it should.
BUG. -vD NTTP didn't log full LISTGROUP responses
FIX. active.c, art.c, attrib.c, auth.c, charset.c, config.c, cook.c
curses.c, debug.c, feed.c, filter.c, getline.c, global.c, group.c
header.c, help.c, inews.c, init.c, keymap.c, lang.c, list.c, lock.c
mail.c, main.c, makecfg.c, memory.c, mimetypes.c, misc.c
my_tmpfile.c, newsrc.c, nntplib.c, nntps.c, nrctbl.c, options_menu.c
page.c, pgp.c, post.c, prompt.c, read.c, refs.c, regex.c, rfc1524.c
rfc2046.c, rfc2047.c, save.c, screen.c, search.c, select.c
sigfile.c, signal.c, snprintf.c, string.c, tags.c, tcurses.c
thread.c, version.c, xface.c, xref.c, parsdate.y, debug.h, extern.h
nntplib.h, policy.h, proto.h, snprintf.h, tin.h, tinrc.h, tnntp.h
tincfg.tbl, autoconf.h[in], configure[.in], Makefile[.in]
config.guess, config.sub, tin.1, tin.5
-- 2.6.3 release 20231224 "Banff" --
018) Florian Weimer <
[email protected]>
ADD. fix incompatible pointer types
FIX. aclocal.m4, configure.[in]
017) Enrik Berkhan <
[email protected]>
ADD. "COMPRESS DEFLATE" support (RFC 8054)
ADD. ensure that no TLS implementation can activate compression
ADD. some more error messages for various TLS issues
ADD. don't use tls_default_ca_cert_file(3) due to a behavioural
difference between libretls and libressl
BUG. typo in configure[.in]
FIX. init.c, main.c, misc.c, nntplib.c, nntps.c, extern.h, autoconf.hin
aclocal.m4, configure[.in]
016) Dennis Grevenstein <
[email protected]>
ADD. EXIT_*-fallback for NEWS-OS 3.3
FIX. makecfg.c
015) Dennis Preiser <
[email protected]>
ADD. do not interpret \n in editor_format
ADD. mime encode long header-lines (> 998 octets) if !post_8bit_header
and warn about long unbroken header-lines otherwise
ADD. configurable display format of attachments
(page_mime_format, page_uue_format, attachment_format)
ADD. new options show_art_score, col_score_neg, col_score_pos
ADD. avoid fopen(3)/fclose(3) overhead in subscribe_pattern()
ADD. allow up to 64k long lines in posted_info_file
ADD. make -vZ less verbose (skip Reading messages)
current output now available via -vvZ
ADD. move strings to lang.c
ADD. silence some compiler warnings
ADD. unset of ranges
ADD. display umlauts in ssl-certs with OpenSSL and GnuTLS and LibreSSL
if also lybcrypto is available
BUG. tls_peer_cert_notbefore(3)/tls_peer_cert_notafter(3) used with
LibreSSL without crypto-lib (from OpenSSL) returns time in UTC
not localtime
BUG. with several consecutive soft hyphens, every second one is
displayed despite suppress_soft_hyphens=ON
BUG. -vZ output was ugly due to one missing and one superfluous newline
BUG. tagging articles in group and thread level may grabble the
screen after reading them and returning to that level if
art_mark_width = 1
BUG. crafting a f'up to a non existent group lead to a crash
BUG. changing hide_uue via 'M'enu in pager missed to recook
the article
REM. show_info from manuals, unused t_filter->next
BUG. fix the memleak in read_cmd_line_options(envargs()) if $TINRC is
set
BUG. -I$srcdir/libcanlock/include missing in CHECK_DECL_FLAG
FIX. active.c, art.c, attrib.c, color.c, config.c, cook.c, filter.c
group.c, inews.c, init.c, keymap.c, lang.c, main.c, misc.c, newsrc.c
nntplib.c, nntps.c, nrctbl.c, options_menu.c, page.c, pgp.c, post.c
read.c, refs.c, rfc2046.c, rfc2047.c, save.c, select.c, signal.c
tags.c, thread.c, xface.c, extern.h, proto.h, tin.h, tinrc.h
tnntps.h, tincfg.tbl, tin.[15], configure[.in]
014) Matt Anton <
[email protected]>
ADD. updated French translation
FIX. fr.po
013) Urs Janssen <
[email protected]>
BUG. "\x" sequences (x != '\0', 'n') in editor_format got
replaced by "%x"
BUG. verification_func undefined with HAVE_LIB_GNUTLS but without DEBUG
BUG. missing HAVE_MEMMOVE / HAVE_BCOPY guards in nntplib.c
BUG. without including tin.h we can no longer use _Noreturn in makecfg.c
BUG. txt_translit was included in binary without HAVE_ICONV
BUG. timeout counter was not reset on reconnect
BUG. fix uncritical TOCTOU issue in read_newsrc() and
open_save_filename()
BUG. use of potentially uninitialized this_resp instead of respnum
in strfquote() when calling my_strftime()
BUG. an unknown Content-Transfer-Encoding was correctly treated as
binary but without updating Content-Type to
application/octet-stream (RFC2045 6.4)
ADD. disallow headers without a name or a name start starts with a dot
when posting
ADD. -[zZMN] now note unsubscribed cmd-line groups
ADD. replace stpwatch.h macros avoiding ftime()
ADD. do not resend HEAD after ERR_GOODBYE response
ADD. config.guess, config.sub update
ADD. version checking during configure for SSL/TLS libraries
ADD. log end of long multiline responses with -D 1 when not using -v
(for timestamps)
ADD. reformat code, remove unnecessary assignments and parameters,
remove DIRSEP, avoid implicit double negative
ADD. :port suffix in newsauth, newsrctable and -g
ADD. cmd. execution via ! for x_body
ADD. missing fchmod fallback code to write_overview()
ADD. only log sensitive auth data if running verbose (-vD 1)
ADD. warn if body contains non printable chars in current locale
ADD. speedup str_trim(), refine valid_msgid()
ADD. -t timeout cmd.-line option
ADD. -vvN / -vvM writes the skipped groups (unset batch_save) to the log
ADD. allow ISO8859* (without hyphen) as mm_charset in
my_isprint()-fallback when compiling with -DNO_LOCALE
ADD. validate_charset() if charset name is read from an article
ADD. show score in "-D 2" filter output if != 0 (instead of only for
killed articles)
ADD. add 'f' / 'F' (post a followup (without quotes)) to thread menu
ADD. add Content-Language (RFC 3282) evaluation (pager only)
ADD. GLOBAL_TOGGLE_COLOR ('&') to info-pager (help-page ('h'),
connection-info ('J') and menu ('M')), posting-history ('W') and
url-menu ('U')
ADD. GLOBAL_VERSION ('v') to attachment-menu ('V'), posting-history
('W') and url-menu ('U')
ADD. GLOBAL_TOGGLE_INVERSE_VIDEO ('I') to url-menu ('U') and
posting-history ('W')
ADD. make date-parsing more fault tolerant
ADD. quit early if rcdir doesn't exist and can't be created
ADD. init backup_article_name just one
ADD. MOTD to connection-info ('J')
ADD. configure check for libcrypto when using LibreSSL
FIX. active.c, art.c, auth.c, config.c, cook.c, debug.c, feed.c, filter.c
group.c, header.c, heapsort.c, help.c, init.c, keymap.c, lang.c
mail.c, main.c, makecfg.c, memory.c, misc.c, newsrc.c, nntplib.c
nntps.c, options_menu.c, page.c, pgp.c, post.c, refs.c, rfc2045.c
rfc2046.c, rfc2047.c, save.c, screen.c, search.c, select.c, signal.c
string.c, tcurses.c, thread.c, tmpfile.c, xface.c, parsdate.y
autoconf.h[in], extern.h, keymap.h, proto.h, rfc2046.h, tin.h
tinrc.h, tin.1, tin.5, Makefile[.in], configure[.in], config.guess
config.sub
012) Thomas E. Dickey <
[email protected]>
BUG. HAVE_LIBINTL_H may get set even when unavailable
ADD. remove tin.h dependency from makecfg.c
ADD. update configure macros
ADD. simplify code
FIX. aclocal.m4, configure[.in], canlock.c, makecfg.c, Makefile.in
011) Brad Littlejohn <
[email protected]>
Urs Janssen <
[email protected]>
BUG. still using dropped alias s_close() instead of close() in some
code path (i.e. without ENABLE_IPV6 and/or with DECNET).
FIX. nntplib.c
010) Toomas Soome <
[email protected]>
ADD. updated Estonian translation
FIX. et.po
-- 2.6.2 release 20221224 "Pittyvaich" --
009) Florian Weimer <
[email protected]>
Thomas E. Dickey <
[email protected]>
ADD. missing #include directives to improve C99 compatibility
FIX. aclocal.m4, configure
008) Enrik Berkhan <
[email protected]>
BUG. remove alleged Y2K38 safety issues
ADD. ~ and $VAR expansion to tinrc option tls_ca_cert_file
ADD. simplify code and refactor to fix an unused variable complaint
ADD. pcre2 support (debian bug #999941, fedora bug #2128388)
ADD. NNTPS support based on libressl/GNUttls/OpenSSL (RFC 8143)
ADD. TLS connection info
ADD. switch from stdio to own buffer implementation
FIX. config.c, cook.c, feed.c, filter.c, group.c, init.c, lang.c, main.c
memory.c, misc.c, nntplib.c, nntps.c, options_menu.c, page.c, read.c
regex.c, save.c, screen.c, search.c, select.c, wildmat.c
autoconf.h[in], extern.h, nntplib.h, proto.h, tinrc.h, tin.h
tnntp.h, tnntps.h, tincfg.tbl, parsdate.y, configure[.in]
Makefile[.in], tin.1
007) Dennis Preiser <
[email protected]>
BUG. backward search for a non empty line got stuck in endless loop
BUG. reading a faulty mime article via NNTP could hang tin
(debian bug #1005024)
BUG. a long group name isn't shortened appropriately in group level
BUG. config changes via 'M'enu were not immediately active for
show_signatures, verbatim_handling, tex2iso_conf and
trim_article_body
BUG. after posting an article from selection or group level the cursor
remains visible in the lower left corner
ADD. tinrc.show_help_mail_sign
ADD. get $TMPDIR just once
ADD. option to remove SOFT HYPHENs (U+00AD) from non verbatim blocks of
articles in UTF-8 and using a UTF-8 locale
BUG. show actual help-key in txt_type_h_for_help
FIX. config.c, cook.c, debug.c, filter.c, group.c, init.c, lang.c, mail.c
misc.c, my_tmpfile.c, newsrc.c, options_menu.c, page.c, pgp.c
regex.c, rfc2046.c, refs.c, save.c, screen.c, search.c, select.c
thread.c, extern.h, proto.h, tin.h, tinrc.h, tincfg.tbl, tin.1
tin.5
006) Thomas E. Dickey <
[email protected]>
BUG. configure --with-included-gettext was non-functional since tin 2.4.2
ADD. update configure macros
FIX. aclocal.m4, intl/Makefile.in, intl/plural.c
005) Urs Janssen <
[email protected]>
ADD. config.guess, config.sub update
ADD. code cleanup; remove redundant condition and unused var;
add some missing casts and _Noreturn
ADD. ignore set but empty env.-vars
ADD. try harder when looking for keymap-file, try locale "suffixes"
from language[_territory[.codeset]][@modifier] with parts
stripped off in order: codeset, normalized codeset, territory,
modifier
ADD. guard against empty inews_prog and empty mm_charset in
!CHARSET_CONVERSION case
ADD. warn about some more nonsensical cmd.-line option combinations
-ow|-oz|-wz
ADD. exit early at -o when there are no postponed articles
ADD. reduce memory usage for xface
ADD. list of leap years from 2040 to 2068
ADD. restrict URL_REGEX to disallow non ascii chars in path
ADD. accept active file lines even without moderation flag
ADD. do not try NEXT again after an ERR_COMMAND response
ADD. ConnectionInfo page ('J')
ADD. update tin_atol() to new SI prefix names Ronna and Quetta
ADD. experimental MAXARTNUM extension
BUG. missing default tinrc.editor_format on first start
BUG. typo in man page
BUG. possible memleak in check_article_to_be_posted if article has
multiple To:, Followup-To: or Newsgroups:-headers
BUG. possible buffer overflow in find_reply_to_addr
BUG. f'up to an article without a message-id (possible in mailgroups)
crashes
BUG. hypothetic missing string termination
BUG. need to convert utf8pass to network charset unconditionally in
do_authinfo_sasl_plain
FIX. active.c, art.c, auth.c, config.c, filter.c, group.c, help.c
inews.c, init.c, keymap.c, lang.c, main.c, makecfg.c, mimetypes.c
misc.c, nntplib.c, options_menu.c, page.c, post.c, pgp.c, rfc1524.c
rfc2046.c, save.c, select.c, signal.c, string.c, thread.c, wildmat.c
xface.c, parsdate.y, extern.h, keymap.h, nntplib.h, proto.h, tin.h
tin.1, tin.5, config.guess, config.sub, configure[.in]
-- 2.6.1 release 20211226 "Convalmore" --
004) Michael Baeuerle <
[email protected]>
BUG. wrong pkg-config file name for libcanlock3
FIX. aclocal.m4
003) Urs Janssen <
[email protected]>
ADD. config.guess, config.sub update
ADD. don't count comment and empty lines in newsrc-file
ADD. fixed mixed declarations and code
ADD. const qualification for free_if_not_default() and strfpath_cp()
ADD. allow to cancel wait_message() via key press
BUG. missing bounds checking in *highlight_string()
BUG. use of wint_t in !MULTIBYTE_ABLE code
FIX. curses.c, help.c, memory.c, misc.c, newsrc.c, page.c, prompt.c
rfc2046.c, screen.c, select.c, tcurses.c, extern.h, tin.5
config.guess, config.sub
002) Thomas E. Dickey <
[email protected]>
BUG. missing configure check for get_wch and wget_wch
ADD. workaround for possible redefinition of bool type when using
pdcurses
FIX. autoconf.hin, tcurses.h, tin.h, Makefile.in, aclocal.m4
configure[.in]
001) Matt Anton <
[email protected]>
ADD. updated French translation
FIX. fr.po
-- 2.6.0 release 20210823 "Coleburn" --
For changes made till the 2.6.0 release look at CHANGES.old
