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XRN 7.02 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Mar 28 12:07:26 1995
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 15:50:47 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: XRN 7.02 released
Organization: OpenVision Technologies, Inc.
Reply-To: bug-xrn@cam.ov.com
Keywords: X, Usenet, News
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Version 7.02 of XRN, an X News Reader, has been released. This is a
bug-fix release. Two of the bugs fixed in this release can cause XRN
to crash or behave incorrectly, so I encourage all sites which are
using previous versions of XRN to upgrade to this version.
Source code is available in the following locations:
<URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xrn/xrn-7.02.tgz>
<URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/xrn.tgz>
A patch file from release 7.01 to release 7.02 in unidiff format is
available in the following locations:
<URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xrn/xrn-7.01-7.02.patch>
<URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/7.01-7.02.patch>
Source code should also soon be available in comp.sources.x. A binary
distribution for Linux is available in the following locations:
<URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xrn/xrn-linux.tgz>
<URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/xrn-linux.tgz>
These are gzipped GNU tar files.
Below, you will find a list of changes (extracted from the ChangeLog
file in the source distribution) since the last release.
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Thu Mar 16 22:17:12 1995 Jonathan Kamens <jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com>
* Significant user-visible changes in XRN 7.02:
The code that checks before displaying each article whether the
user is allowed to cancel it is now disabled by default, because
it causes significant performance degradation at some sites. A
CANCEL_CHECK compile-time symbol which enables the feature has
been added to config.h, along with an explanation of the feature
and why it's disabled by default.
The COMMON-PROBLMS file now explains why the Subject index is
occasionally redrawn wrong in article mode (it's because of an Xaw
bug) and how to work around the problem.
The COMMON-PROBLMS file now explains why the buttons disappear
when the height of the XRN window is changed (again, it's because
of an Xaw bug) and how to work around the problem.
The way XRN decides if it's talking to a "fast" NNTP server or
not, and therefore if it should prefetch articles, has been
changed. There is now a new "prefetchMinSpeed"
resource/command-line option, which specifies the minimum
kilobytes/second speed that the NNTP server network link must
reach in order for article prefetching to be enabled. The default
is 3 kb/s, which should disable prefetching on most 14.4 or 28.8
SLIP or PPP lines.
The "Session kill" and "Author kill" buttons in article mode no
longer cause non-malloc()ed memory to be free()d. This fix
prevents memory corruption on some systems which could cause XRN
to hang, crash, or function incorrectly.
A minor memory leak when the user tries to open a composition pane
when one is already open has been fixed.
If the user tries to open a composition pane or cancel a message
when a composition pane with a followup or reply in it is open,
XRN no longer gets confused about the header fields of the article
currently being replied to in the composition pane.
The man page now documents that artFedUp is one of the buttons
that can be confirmed. The missing documentation pointed out by
philippe@umich.edu (Philippe Brieu).
The "ngListOld" Xt action procedure was incorrectly named
"ngToggleGroups". It has been renamed "ngListOld". Problem
pointed out by philippe@umich.edu (Philippe Brieu).
--
Jonathan Kamens | OpenVision Technologies, Inc. | jik@cam.ov.com
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