Newsstar News


10 November 2003: Version 0.17
  • SSL support

  • Supports manual configuration of INN's PATH

  • More improvements to docs and build scripts etc

  • Corrected out-by-one errors writing newsrcs

23 October 2003: Version 0.16.4
  • Reorganisation of docs etc and moved to sourceforge

6 October 2003: Version 0.16.3
  • Bug-fixes to prevent crashes or skipping of temporarily unavailable articles in some situations

  • Fixed erroneous negated ignore pattern example in manual

  • Clarified status of binary-only CLI options in manual

  • Added debugging messages for ignore file processing in script

17 July 2003: Version 0.16.2
  • Improved warnings in the perl script

  • Changed location of lockfile

15 July 2003: Version 0.16.1
  • Fixed bug added in 0.16 when shutting down threads

13 July 2003: Version 0.16
  • Fixed sending of very long lines from child to parent

  • Two-stage interruption process allowing clean shutdown

  • Forgets backfill entries for article numbers no longer within server's range

  • Error status shown in full-screen mode when appropriate

27 April 2003: Version 0.15.1
  • Several minor enhancements and bug-fixes, mainly in handling backfills; see ChangeLog

9 April 2003: Version 0.15
  • Several minor enhancements and bug-fixes; see ChangeLog

25 November 2002: Version 0.14.1
  • Several minor enhancements and bug-fixes; see ChangeLog

19 October 2002: Version 0.14
  • Supports articles being created out of order, or backfilling

  • Miscellaneous minor bug-fixes and robustness improvements

22 August 2002: Version 0.13.2
  • Fixed bug in duplicating NULL strings

  • Corrected macros used when curses isn't supported

17 August 2002: Version 0.13.1
  • Takes more steps to avoid groups that have had all their articles downloaded already

  • Transfer rates are updated less often to avoid flicker

26 June 2002: Version 0.13.0
  • Added rudimentary Newsgroups header support to scoring

  • Added -r option for compacting history database

  • Negative pattern matching for ignore files

News summaries for older versions are available in the file OLDNEWS in the distribution's docs directory.