• [ANNOUNCE] INN 2.6.5 available

    From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 6 21:50:05 2022
    Internet Systems Consortium is pleased to announce that a new bug-fix
    release of INN is available at:

    https://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/inn-2.6.5.tar.gz

    The MD5 checksum of this release is:

    25aa0b6d88f941846463e27b20d8de43

    A PGP signature, signatures of SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512 checksums, and
    a patch from 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 are available in the same directory.

    This is a bug-fix and minor feature release over 2.6.4. Upgrading an
    existing INN 2.6.4 installation is as simple as building INN 2.6.5,
    running make update, and restarting innd and related programs.

    Many thanks to Julien ÉLIE for preparing this release.

    Changes in 2.6.5

    * A new step in INN development has been achieved with the migration of
    the INN project to GitHub. We now make use of the features GitHub
    provides: issue tracker, pull requests, continuous integration, a
    user-friendly interface to browse the code, etc. Our Subversion
    repository has therefore been migrated to Git, and our Trac tickets to
    the GitHub issue tracker.

    * An up-to-date nocem.ctl file is provided with this release. You
    should manually update your nocem.ctl file with the new information
    recorded about NoCeM issuers, and make sure the right PGP keys are
    present on your system.

    * Up-to-date control.ctl and moderators files are provided with this
    release. You should manually update them (notably for the fido7.*
    hierarchy).

    * Added a stricter validation of article numbers given in NNTP commands
    so that numbers superior to 2^31 are correctly considered invalid.
    Thanks to Richard Kettlewell for the patch.

    * Added a check in rc.news for the existence of the *pathrun* directory.
    INN won't start until this directory is writable. Previously, it
    bailed out quickly after starting, without clear logs about why it
    failed.

    * Fixed parallel builds using "make -j". Thanks to Richard Kettlewell
    for the path.

    * nnrpd now properly gathers timer statistics when a compression layer
    is active.

    * nnrpd now properly discards data received from a news client after a
    timeout when a TLS layer is active. It previously tried to read
    incoming data before closing the socket, leading to decoding errors
    from an underlying compression or SASL layer.

    * innfeed and ovdb_stat now generate status reports in valid HTML
    syntax.

    * Fixed a bug in the buffindexed overview that prevented it from working
    on several systems, amongst them FreeBSD. Unsupported, and useless,
    permission bits were given to semaphores.

    * Fixed the detection of library paths at configure time: multilib
    directories (lib32 or lib64) are now also used if they exist, even it
    the system does not use multilib. It will notably fix the detection
    of the OpenSSL 3.0.0 library.

    * The *tlscertfile* parameter in inn.conf now permits the use of a
    complete certificate chain, instead of necessarily having to use
    *tlscafile* for additional certificates.

    * Added support for the new OpenSSL 3.0.0 API, which deprecated a few
    functions.

    * The inn.conf default value for *tlsprotocols* no longer contains TLS
    versions 1.0 and 1.1, which have been deprecated by RFC 8996.

    * A new inn.conf parameter has been added to tune the length of the
    queue of pending connections to innd, nnrpd and the "ovdb" overview
    storage method: the *maxlisten* parameter now permits configuring
    their listen backlog, whose previously hard-coded values were 128 for
    nnrpd and 25 for the others, which was not high enough for some uses.
    The default value is now 128 for all of them, and configurable in
    inn.conf. Thanks to Kevin Bowling for the patch.

    * The name of seven man pages for routines built in libinn(3) are now
    prefixed with libinn_ so as not to consume namespace and conflict with
    other packages (notably, the list(3) and uwildmat(3) man pages are now
    named libinn_list(3) and libinn_uwildmat(3)).

    * Other minor bug fixes and documentation improvements, notably a
    revised installation checklist and a section summarizing the most used
    configuration at the beginning of a few complex man pages.

    --
    Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

    Please post questions rather than mailing me directly.
    <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.

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