From brg at dgate.ORG  Mon Jan  3 01:27:53 2005
From: brg at dgate.ORG (Brian R. Gaeke)
Date: Mon Jan  3 01:27:56 2005
Subject: [Webnews] WebNews 1.3 Released
Message-ID: <20050103072753.GA13412@prisoner.dgate.org>


Hello WebNews users,

I'm happy to announce the release of the new 1.3 version of WebNews.

Here are the user-visible changes since version 1.2.4:

Andreas Karrer contributed a large number of patches for this release, which
are listed below. Taken together, they make for a faster and much better-
looking WebNews.  Thanks, Andreas, for all your hard work!

 - Use CSS to display buttons (no more png images); loads much faster now
 - Decode headers encoded after RFC 2047. This is better for handling
   names with Umlauts and other special characters in them.
 - Colorize quoted material in Article Display
 - Implement "Next unread" "Next article" and "Prev article" buttons
   in Article Display.  Display greyed-out buttons if there is no next article.
 - Fix: handle header continuations correctly
 - Fix: construct full "References" header for posts/follow-ups
 - Fix: properly escape headers with < > & etc.
 - Rename submit button in Catch up to "Catch up"
 - Minor rewriting of explanatory text and other misc. code cleanups.
 - Generate From: ''Foo Bar <foo@bar>'', not ''foo@bar (Foo Bar)''
 - Generate shorter attribution line (as recommended by GNKSA)
 - Change wording from "Reply" to "Follow-up"; this does not conflict
   with the normal meaning of "Reply", namely, reply by mail.
 - In Change Subscriptions, just inline contents of the active file if it is
   very short (in our company, it is only some 15 lines)
 - In Article Index, display only Full Name but not email address
   if Full Name can be gleaned from the From: line.
 - Print signature only at Group Index screen.
 - When word-wrapping is requested, wrap only our own lines, but not quoted
   material.
 - Interpret "catchup 4-66" to mark 4-66 as read AND mark first-3  and 
   67-last as unread. This allows to use catch-up to mark articles as new.

Also:

Added better error checking on NNTP authentication.

WebNews will now explicitly set its own 'umask' to 0022. This prevents
problems when WebNews is started up by a web server with a weird 'umask'
setting.

Added a section to the README detailing contributions by WebNews users over
the years. Thanks to all of you!

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Share and Enjoy,
-Brian Gaeke

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