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    This file describes the changes which have been made in NNTP
since the initial release.  Individuals who either reported the bug or
inspired the bug fix are in square brackets.

1.5.8
	Better support for SCO Xenix 2.3 with TCP/IP. [sob@bcm.tmc.edu]
	Better integration of nntpxmit and nntpxfer with the rest of the
	distribution. [muller%sdcc7@ucsd.edu]
	Inodes can now be checked to availability as well as disk space.
	See the new parameter MINFILES in common/README and common/conf.h.dist.
	[budd@bu.edu]
	USG systems with DBM can use it (assuming you compiled your news to use
	it) with less problems from nntp getting compiled wrong. 
	[igb@fulcrum.british-telecom.co.uk]
	IHAVE speed up by having gethistent() just do a check for an article
	instead of a full retrieval. [fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Maddox),
	david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson)]
	If the article is garbled, it should be rejected. Hopefully, it will be
	now. [ warren@schizo.samsung.com (Warren Lavallee)]
	nntp now sets the USER and LOGNAME environmental variables to POSTER if
	POSTER is defined. This is mostly for CNEWS.[weening@neon.stanford.edu]
	mini-inews now places the fully qualified domain name in the Path:  lie
	to help those poor unfortunate that still think it supposed to contain
	a valid route for return mail. [ david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull) ]
	The reply to XHDR no longer appends extra blank lines. [ (Pekka
	Kytolaakso) netmgr@finsun.csc.fi ]
1.5.7
	Typo in batch.c left the CNEWS BATCH_FILE undefined. [ Joe Weening
	<weening@neon.stanford.edu> ]
	Malformed history line messages were being logged when this was not
	the case. [fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)]
	Corrected MACH space call to correctly reflect that it only works
	with the CMU MACH and not NeXT. NeXT is also supported, but it
	uses a statfs call that is similiar to Sun. [Tom.Lane@zog.cs.cmu.edu]
	Added support for the REUSEADDR socket option to make it easier
	to deal with multiple copies of the daemon running. [rick@uunet.uu.net]
	Fixed a bug in nntp_awk so that the connection count from unknown
	explorers is correct. [Samuel Lam <skl@wimsey.bc.ca>]
	Fixed getword() subroutine in newnews.c so that it will work with 
	history files from B News 2.11 patch 17 and before and patch 18 and
	beyond and with CNEWS.[Rein Tollevik <rein@ifi.uio.no>]
	Corrected a bug in seekuntil() that caused the NEWNEWS command to
	never work correctly. [Rein Tollevik <rein@ifi.uio.no>,Dan Oscarsson
	<Dan@dna.lth.se>]
	Getting the .signature file from DOTDIR (in fakeinews) was inconsistent
	with real "inews"'s. It is now conditional. Define DO_DOTDIR if you
	want to have it use this environmental variable. [ Mark Davies
	<mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
	Added support for the CNEWS active.times file. If you run CNEWS, you
	won't need mkgrdates to get NEWGROUP to work as it should.
	[Felix Lee <flee@shire.cs.psu.edu>]
	Minor changes to nntpxmit so that it will get some information from
	common/conf.h like everything else does. [Michael A. Cooper
	<mcooper%acamar.usc.edu@usc.edu>]
	Bug fix to clientlib.c to allow systems that don't know about the new
	hostent structure to work. [Edwin Kremer <edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl>]
	UMASK support added so that CNEWS will not create world writeable 
	batches.[ Mark Nagel <nagel@wintermute.ics.uci.edu>]
	Updated nntpxfer to use get_tcp_conn.c from nntpxmit. This make it
	work on System V. nntpxfer is still largely unsupported, but we'll
	keep working to get it into shape. [Stan Barber <sob@bcm.tmc.edu>]
	Fixed access.c so that comma seperated lists of newsgroups in the
	nntp access file will be interpreted correctly. [mta@tut.fi]
	New version of shlock.c for nntpxmit. [fair@apple.com]

1.5.6
 	Added support for Cnews [geoff@utstat.toronto.edu]
 	Bug fix for space() to work on BSD 4.3 [sob@bcm.tmc.edu]
 	Added MACH definition to space() routine 
 	[Tom.Lane@zog.cs.cmu.edu]
 	Added LOAD definition so that the load average could be used
 	as a criterion for rejecting a connection 
 	[Wes Craig <wes@terminator.cc.umich.edu>,Brian Kantor <brian@ucsd.edu>]
 	Bug fix to subnet.c to work on Sun 4 which delints it somewhat
 	[karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)]
 	Changed parsit.c to deal with whatever size words someone wanted
 	to pass it (until malloc() fails) [sob@bcm.tmc.edu]
 	Fixed LOG/SYSLOG definitions so they both don't have to be 
 	defined to work correctly [Felix Lee <flee@shire.cs.psu.edu>]
 	Bug fix for systems that used void as the return value for
 	signal() [ Peter J Nilsson <pjn@ida.liu.se>]
 	Added a feature to clientlib.c to allow the use of an IP number
 	(versus a name) for the NNTPSERVER [trn@warper.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo)]
 	Inews.c was modified to use the RN DOTDIR to find .signature and
 	to make a better attempt to check header syntax before passing it
 	off. [Mark Nagel <nagel@PARIS.ICS.UCI.edu>]
 
1.5.5	June 5, 1989
	Bug fix to server.c which allows TIMEOUT to be included correctly.
	[ marcl@vax.SPD.3Com.COM (Marc Lavine) ]
	Bug fix to mkgrdates. [ Tom Kloos <tomk%leia.wv.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET>]
	Conf.h altered to properly set READ_SUPER on BSD 4.3 systems.
	[grandi@noao.edu]
	Bug fix to newnews.c to support GMT time stamps in 2.11 history file
	correctly.[Tom.Lane@ZOG.CS.CMU.EDU]
	Speed up to newnews.c to keep from chewing up so much CPU time.
	[ Rein Tollevik <rein@ifi.uio.no> ]
	More documentation fixes. [sob@bcm.tmc.edu]
	Added changes to deal with DGUX more effectively. [gary@svx.sv.dg.com]
	Changed parsit.c to deal with 255 character words instead of 132
	character words. [ dp@chorus.fr ]
	
1.5.4	May 11, 1989
	README and documentation updated to reflect reality. [sob@bcm.tmc.edu]
	Added HIDDENNET support (like news 2.11.17) to nntp "fake-inews."
	[allan@cs.strath.ac.uk]
	Clearer error messages from the GROUP command. [dww@stl.stc.co.uk
	(David Wright)]
	Out-of-space support for SunOS, ULTRIX and 4.[23]BSD added. [Tad Guy
	<tadguy@cs.odu.edu>, Chris Japeway <japeway@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>]
	Initial TMNN reader support added. [suggested by erict@snark.UUCP,
	written by sob@bcm.tmc.edu] (NOTE: Support for the TMNN history file
	format IS NOT in this release.)
	Extended the nntp_access file to include domain name suffix support.
 	[esj@banana.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)]
	Replaced the 4.2-like fakesyslog with 4.3-like fakesyslog.
 	[John Robert LoVerso <loverso@xenna.encore.com>]
 	Bug fix to the newnews command to make it show the first article
 	posted since the specified time/date. [mg@ukc.ac.uk (M.W.Guy)]
1.5.3	September 18, 1988
	Under the USGHIST option, the history file was not being closed
	before the next article coming in (via XFER) was processed. After
	about 20 articles, "No more files" would come up on the console.
	NNTP would take articles from incoming connection even though there
	was no space to store them. [sob@bcm.tmc.edu]

1.5.2	May 6, 1988
	Arguements were reversed in ahbs.c.
	Stoopid typo in strcasecmp.c for System V. [sob@bcm.tmc.edu]

1.5.1   March 1, 1988
	System V fixes to strcasecmp.c, SIGCLD handling and memory
	management. [sob@bcm.tmc.edu, apt@uhnix1.uh.edu]
	Fixed Excelan support. [sob@bcm.tmc.edu]
	
1.5	February 26, 1988

	New top level Makefile.  [Casey Leedom, casey@lll-crg.llnl.gov]

	Now using strcasecmp/strncasecmp instead of streql/strneql.
	Due credit is given to the University of California at [sic]
	Berkeley for the use of this software.  :-)

	Combined common/response_codes.h and common/rfc977.h into
	common/nntp.h.

	Better fix for getifnetmask ioctl returning 0 netmask.

	Patch to Configure to handle domains for non-portable code.
	[Brad Smith, brad@saturn.ucsc.edu]

	New version of nntpxmit with article retransmission.
	[Erik Fair, fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU].

	System V compatability; will now compile on Hockey-Pux (HPUX).  
	[Stan Barber, sob%soma.tmc.edu@tmc.edu]

	EXCELAN TCP support.  [Stan Barber, sob%soma.tmc.edu@tmc.edu]

	server/subnet.c now supports compiled-in netmasks.
	This is useful if you want subnet support on machines
	that don't have the necessary ioctls for determining
	network masks on a per-interface basis.

	Fake syslog support included for real this time.

1.4	October 15, 1987

	Reorganized documentation directory.  Thanks for the
	extraction stuff, Stan.  [Stan Barber, sob%%soma.uucp@rice.edu]

	Added transfer timeouts.  [Steve Schoch, schoch@ames.arpa]

	Fixed a problem with IHAVE which allowed a remote machine to
	repeatedly feed you articles that you expired (although all
	you'd do with them is throw them away).
	[Fred Avolio, avolio@decuac.dec.com]

	DECNet support (see server/dnet_access.c and common/clientlib.c).
        [Matt Thomas, thomas%syrah.dec@decwrl.dec.com]

	Fixed serious joe code in distribution checks in NEWNEWS.

	NEWNEWS statistics.

	Newsgroup security.

	Performance enhancements (about 2x better for article xfers).

	xhdr command added to improve performance on subject searches.

	Compiled-in server name no longer supported.

	common/clientlib.c/getserverbyfile() now looks at the
	environment variable NNTPSERVER before checking the file.

	inews/inews.c now limits .signature files to MAX_SIGNATURE lines.

	server/misc.c/spawn() now returns the error output of rnews/inews
	alone with the posting failed code.  This is in turn printed by
	inews/inews.c so the user has some idea of why his article wasn't
	accepted.

	rn patches now for patchlevel #40
		Bug fix: rrn no longer leaves droppings in /tmp
		"Skipping unavailable article" problems fixed
		Support for 4.3 TIOCGWINSZ ioctl [sam@okeeffe.berkeley.edu]
		Configure asks for domains
		Pnews/Rnmail understand hostnames with .'s in them.
		Makefile fixes [harvard!lownlab!kiely]

	PYRAMID #defines removed, as it is all being done by default now.

	inews/inews.c now exits 0, since before it had a random exit
	status, causing pyramids to choke.  [forys@boulder.colorado.edu]

	server/server.c now logs user/system/elapsed time as floats
	instead of ints.  [rick@seismo.css.gov]

	server/ihave.c no longer logs every message id transfered but
	instead keeps statistics which are logged at the end.
	[rick@seismo.css.gov]

	server/serve.c now times out after TIMEOUT seconds of idleness.

	server/access.c converts remote hostname to lower case
	when logging, in case you have a nameserver which is helping you.

	server/misc.c/getartbyid now reports message-id's when
	it encounters a malformed line in the history file.
	[gds@spam.istc.sri.com]

	inews/inews.c had an uninitialized variable, which
	could cause trouble.  [jwp%chem@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu]

	common/clientlib.c now understands 4.3 nameserver
	multiple addresses, and tries them all before
	giving up.

	common/clientlib.c has has 2 new functions:
	"getserverbyfile" opens a given file and returns
	the name of the server given in the file to use
	for news.  "handle_server_response" prints informative
	messages based on the initial connection response code.

	server/access.c now is case insensitive when checking
	for host read/xfer permissions.

	server/misc.c/spawn didn't check for a closed connection
	while receiving input from client.  As a result, truncated
	news articles could be received.

	server/newnews.c had a printf which was missing an
	argument.  [louie@trantor.umd.edu]

	Added fake syslog facility to server.  Code is in
	server/fakesyslog.c.  [mckenny@sri-unix.arpa]

	Fixed length argument to accept() in server/main.c
	[mckenny@sri-unix.arpa]

	Now uses pipe to rnews so as to get rnews output for debugging.
	Also chowns temporary file to POSTER's uid and gid.
	[mckenny@sri-unix.arpa]

	Fixed bugs in server/netaux.c to close syslog fd.
	[mckenny@sri-unix.arpa]

	Made bcopy() standard in server/misc.c  [kre@munnari.OZ]

	Documentation changes to make certain things about client
	installation clearer.  [munnari!charlie.oz!craig]

1.3	30 June 1986

	rrn is no longer included as complete source, but
	rather as a set of context diffs and a program to
	apply them to your rn source.  Many thanks go to
	Gene Spafford for an outstanding job doing this.
	[spaf@gatech.csnet]

	The dreaded kill/save bug is fixed; rn was passing
	/bin/sh too many open file descriptors.  Thanks and a tip of the
	proverbial hat to Chris Maio!  Change to rrn/util.c.
	[chris@columbia.edu]	

	Fixed a bug in rrn/artio.c which caused an assertion
	failure on line 114 of artio.c; artopen was returning
	Nullfp without closing the fp associated with the
	bogus article.  [genrad!ens@eddie.mit.edu, beorn@ic.berkeley.edu]

	Added #define PYRAMID in common/conf.h, added some
	#ifdef PYRAMID code in server/misc.c to deal with
	Pyramids not initializing static data to 0, as well
	as an fseek problem.  [spaf@gatech.CSNET]

	Another wait bug fixed in spawn() in server/misc.c.

	Added a required \r in post.c.

	Added signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN) to server/serve.c,
	to fix exit status problem with ALONE defined.

	Statistics logging now returns sum of the nntpd and
	its children for process time.  server/main.c
	[fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu]

	Subnet support for access file finally added.
	server/subnet.c added, common/conf.h now has
	#defines for SUBNET, DAMAGED_NETMASK.

	inews/inews.c now generates a from line with the UUCP
	name instead of always using gethostname().  common/conf.h
	changed to add #defines for UUNAME, GHNAME.
	[jwang@atrp.mit.edu]

	Added LIBS to Makefile. [soma!sob@rice.edu]

1.2c	17 May 1986

	Support for Masscomp added (#define MASSCOMP in ../common/conf.h).
	[soma!sob@rice.edu]

	Syslog output now requires SYSLOG to be defined in ../common/conf.h.
	This is handy on systems which, for some reason or another,
	don't have syslog.  [soma!sob@rice.edu]

	server/post.c had arguments reversed in a printf.  [salex@rice.edu]

	rrn/common.h had PIPESAVER misdefined. [cspencer@bbncc5.arpa]

	server/group.c was missing a \r in a printf.  [lear@rutgers.edu]

	xmit/nntpxmit.c is a new version.  Highlights include
	improved error reactions and logging info.  [fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu]

	xmit/nntpsend is a shell script for sending news via nntp
	in a sane manner, with locking.  [pleasant@topaz.rutgers.edu,
	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu]  The locking mechanism is provided
	courtesy of Mr. Fair's "shlock.c", in xmit/shlock.c.

	support/nntp_awk produces weekly reports from the nntp server
	logging output.  [fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu]

	Makefile (in this directory) would do a "make install" as
	the default action; it now prints a helpful message.
	[arnold@cgl.ucsf.edu]

	server/Makefile and support/Makefile had needless dependencies
	in them; if you didn't do a make depend, you'd have problems
	on a 4.2 system.  The server and support stuff now depend only
	on their own .h files.  [arnold@cgl.ucsf.edu]

1.2b	13 April 1986

	common/clientlib.c stupidly had some debugging printfs
	enabled.

	rrn/{artio.c,head.c} had sprintf("... %d", foo) where "foo"
	was a long.  %d -> %ld.  [cspencer@bbncc5.arpa]

	server/time.c had an order of evaluation problem in the
	macro "twodigtoi".  [fletcher@tzec.cs.utexas.edu, among others.]

	server/common.h included <dbm.h> if DBM was defined,
	caused multiply-defined NULL's.  [cda@opal.berkeley.edu,
	pleasant@topaz.rutgers.edu, among others.]

	server/active.c would lose because variable "i" would be
	at the end of the group array if it was called on a timer
	interrupt.  "i" now set to zero properly.  This only occurs
	if FASTFORK is defined.  [cda@opal.berkeley.edu]

1.2a	20 March 1986

	common/conf.h defined MAX_GROUPS as 300; this was too low on
	some machines.  Upped to 450.  [solex@rice.edu, beorn@ic.berkeley.edu]

	rrn/Makefile.sh had .c instead of .o for OBJS and SRCS
	respectively.  Also had cc -o ../common/clientlib.o (see below).

	inews/inews.c had (char *) 0 for gets(), which made SUN's upset.
	Changed to simply NULL. [brian@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu]

	inews/Makefile had cc -o ../common/clientlib.o which some
	machines don't do.  [brian@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu]

	common/clientlib.c has "untp" instead of "nntp".

	server/active.c made more robust about reading active file
	if active file is longer than MAX_GROUPS.

	server/common.h included common/conf.h after checking for
	DBM, which caused some problems.  [soma!sob@rice.edu]

1.2	15 March 1986

	Released.
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