Leafnode 1.9.43.rel released (STABLE) - correct MD5 sums inside

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This is a corrected version of the announcement with corrected MD5 sums
(I listed the SHA1 sums twice rather than SHA1+MD5 in the previous
announcement), file sizes with byte accuracy, a Reply-To: header
pointing to the leafnode-users list and mentioning GnuPG key change and
sources.

As some of you, dear readers, have already noticed, I changed my GnuPG
key to DSA, the new key ID is 0x052E7D95. My new public key is available
=66rom http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/pubkey.asc and from all PGP key
servers. It is no longer compatible with PGP 2.x.
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Leafnode 1.9.43 contains a number of bug fixes, documentation
refinements and restores performance of the fetchnews background XOVER
updater process, reducing system load. It had been too slow after the
past releases. fetchnews stdout output is now line buffered.

News readers that access the spool directly may show a minus sign in
front of all-numeric components in news group names. These do not show
up in NNTP traffic.

Note that you can subscribe to a moderated (non-spam) leafnode-announce
mailing list or you can watch file releases at sourceforge below, if you
want to be notified when new leafnode releases become available.

Leafnode 1.9.43 is or will become available in .tar.bz2 format from these s=
ites:

o SourceForge -- this site also carries patches to upgrade
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D57767&release_id=
=3D182196
   rsync://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/leafnode/

   Patch:
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D57767&release_id=
=3D182199

o Dortmund University -- this site also carries .tar.gz tarballs
    http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/
    rsync://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/leafnode-1/

o IBiblio/MetaLab (will take some days to pick up) -- has FTP sites
    http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html
    Check the system/news/transport directory
  (They suffered hard disk trouble recently, it may take longer than
  usual to pick up.)



NOTE that the .gz tarballs are EXCLUSIVELY
available from http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/, and the upgrade
patches are only available from sourceforge and
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/. They are not on ibiblio or
http://www.leafnode.org/

SHA1 checksums:
40e19de39e2081bde4d4a161b733bdd1a9d936c7 *leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.bz2
0c3c7b095d6310a57419846833487cb1c428dc44 *leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.gz
1c1da7e1b50fbafc99b3ff968bc725bad3498337 *upgrade-1.9.42-to-1.9.43.diff.gz

MD5 checksums:
4e1182cfeba69dfd182d21f51edad77e *leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.bz2
46e0920051ccac52ea3486d139a1b62a *leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.gz
2578f4ce090af16a1ce3f4b1bcea942b *upgrade-1.9.42-to-1.9.43.diff.gz

File sizes:
628364 leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.bz2
794179 leafnode-1.9.43.rel.tar.gz
150039 upgrade-1.9.42-to-1.9.43.diff.gz

The .bz2 format is used by the OpenSource bzip2 compressor that is
available from http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/

Below is the NEWS file excerpt, with changes since leafnode-1.9.42. The
full ChangeLog ships with the tarballs and can be viewed at
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/ChangeLog.txt

Have fun,
Matthias Andree, Leafnode maintainer

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* 1.9.43, 2003-09-04

### INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE
o In the traditional spool, newsgroups with all-numeric components show up
  with a - (minus, hyphen) prefixed to the number, the newsgroup example.12=
34
  will be stored as /var/spool/news/example/-1234.

  It is believed this change does not cause troubles because news systems t=
hat
  offered the traditional spool have been incapable of providing news acces=
s,
  and because the count of news groups with such names is way below 0.1% on
  the news servers I have access to. The gain in functionality justifies the
  incompatibility.

  NOTE: this only affects newsreaders that directly access the spool.
  NNTP-based newsreaders will see no difference.

### BUGFIXES
o Fix leafnode.8 manual pages (EN and DE languages) to explain 0 and negati=
ve
  values for expire/groupexpire.
o Avoid premature abort (that causes .overview and groupinfo files to become
  stale) when the stdout becomes disconnected. Reported by Sytse van Sloote=
n.
o Make sure that texpire fixes the groupinfo lines of groups in "archive mo=
de"
  (groupexpire -1). Reported by Sytse van Slooten.
o Repair groupexpire 0 (=3D use global default, rather than expire immediat=
ely).
  Broken since 1.9.23.
o Make sure that fetchnews complains when a timeout happens while reading
  newsgroups lists ("active file") or newsgroup descriptions. Found after a
  related report from Tim Daneliuk.
o Use different fix for newsgroup names with all-numeric components that do=
es
  not require two stat() calls in XOVER handling. Tracked down and reported=
 by
  Rein Klazes.
o Remove bogus error messages "article * is below/above the *-water mark" t=
hat
  occur when reading a group that fetchnews is fetching into. Reported by R=
ein
  Klazes.
o Make sure XOVER related error messages don't show up in the NNTP client.

### CHANGES
o fetchnews puts stdout into line buffered, or -- failing that -- unbuffered
  mode (Patch by Mark Brown, Debian maintainer).
o leafnode processes warn (syslog and stderr) when a groupexpire is set to 0
  (which means "use the default", which some users may not be aware of).

### DOCUMENTATION
o Added FAQ item on running leafnode as nntps server.
o Mention SuSEconfig difficulties with /etc/hosts in README-FQDN*
o Clarify item #13 in INSTALL.
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