Snownews development journalSnownews development and announcement journalVersion 1.5.9 released- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 2008-02-17, 08:58 GMT 2008-01-25 - Added Ukrainian translation (Anton Lytvynenko) 2008-01-09 - Include Debian patch 403812, FTBFS on GNUkFreeBSD - Mark unread now toggles read status, Debian bug 394312http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/changes#162 Version 1.5.5.1 (Hotfixed Chicken) released- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 2004-10-30, 12:47 GMT Obviously I failed to understand the arcane knowledge Unix signal handling is made of. 1.5.5 creates zombies and fails to exit (hangs) at least on OpenBSD. But I still claim that this is a bug in the OS. Anyway, this release fixes just this one problem. If 1.5.5 works fine you don't need to upgrade.http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/changes#148 Version 1.5.5 (Yellow Chicken) released- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 2004-10-29, 17:47 GMT I've fixed quite an amount of things in the HTTP and related code. Torturing code with randomly generated crap is a fun method to find problems. ;) Cache file handling was also rewritten to avoid problems with filesystems that don't like binary data in filenames very much. I also fixed this on Cygwin where it was totally broken. Snownews may now generate different hashes for the filenames than before so some feeds may appear completely unread after upgrading in certain...http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/changes#147 libxml2 vulnerabilities- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 2004-10-28, 11:24 GMT There are several vulnerabilities in libxml2 that might also affect snownews. You should upgrade to libxml2 2.6.15. If you're using the binary packages, please redownload the latest version. I've recompiled them against a new libxml. http:kiza.kcore.desoftwaresnownewsdownloadsnownews-1.5.4.i386.tar.bz2 http:kiza.kcore.desoftwaresnownewsdownloadsnownews-1.5.4.i386.tar.bz2.signhttp://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/changes#146 OPML export- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 2004-10-22, 16:05 GMT I added support for exporting the subscription list to OPML. This is done via the opml2snow utility. You can find a new version at http:snownews.kcore.dedownloadpatchesopml2snow. Running "opml2snow --export" should print an OPML file with your subscription to the console. See "opml2snow -h" for more options. I haven't found an overly detailed "specification" of the format, apart from the vague rantings on Mr D. W.'s pages, so I just made it produce the same output...http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/changes#145 New URLs- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 2004-10-21, 17:04 GMT As you might have noticed all URLs have changed. The whole page was moved from http:home.kcore.dekiza to http:kiza.kcore.de. All old URLs continue to work of course, just redirect to the new location permanently. This promptly triggered a crash in snownews on platforms that don't like snprintf("%s",NULL) when running the "check for new version" code at exit. It's fixed for the new version and for all existing versions with some crufty, not really working Apache URL rewrite.http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/changes#144 Pipes & gzip- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 2004-10-20, 17:22 GMT What do Unix pipes have to do with gzip Nothing of course, but I'm too uncreative to come up with better title. ;) I've changed the filter code to use pipes instead of a temp file. Previously Snownews would write a file tmpsnownews.tmp and popen() that to process filter scripts. Pretty lame. It now uses pipes to communicate with the forked child process. Took a bit of black magic to find out how not to create zombie processes out of the forked scripts. The decompression..http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/changes#143 Snownews vs. Gmail- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 2004-10-06, 10:52 GMT Since a couple of days Gmail added an Atom feed for your inbox that contains new mails. This seems to be a nifty feature, but it doesn't work with snownews since they require HTTPS. But of course that can't stop us from using it with snownews. ;) Here's how to get it working: Download the 1.5.4.1 patch at http:home.kcore.dekizasoftwaresnownewsdownloadpatchessnownews_vs_gmail.diff and apply it on top of 1.5.4 (patch -p 1 You need to download an atom2rss converter from...http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/changes#142 It's 1.5.4 time!- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 2004-09-29, 16:48 GMT Here's 1.5.4 with just a few changes over the mysterious 1.5.4-beta2 version. Fixed some of the UTF-8 problems. Ncurses still doesn't seem to like what I do. Will solve this in a later version. "Return to previous menu" and "quit" are now two different keys. Default bindings for both is still 'q' so it doesn't brake any previous behaviour, but if you want you can define different keys for it now. The HTTP client now understands chunked transfer encoding. This was...http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/changes#141 More translation stuff- (Found July 2, 2008 ) 2004-09-24, 17:22 GMT I've put up a tar.gz from the main webpage here... there -> http:home.kcore.dekizasoftwaresnownewsdownloadsnownews_web-20040924.tar.gz. If you want to translate the webpage into your language download this, add a filenames.LANG.shtml for your translation and send me back the newly _translated_ files. This includes only the main page, not the extensions page. That should probably be translated as well, but I want to avoid non-English submissions on the page so it may be..http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/changes#140 |