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XRN 7.03 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Apr 15 12:14:26 1995
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 17:51:31 +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@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: XRN 7.03 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 7.03 of XRN, an X News Reader, has been released. This is a
bug-fix release. 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-7.03.tgz>
<URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/xrn.tgz>
A patch file from release 7.02 to release 7.03 in unidiff format is
available in the following locations:
<URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xrn/xrn-7.02-7.03.patch>
<URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/7.02-7.03.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 Apr 6 19:32:34 1995 Jonathan Kamens <jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com>
* Significant user-visible changes in XRN 7.03:
Usages of assert() have been fixed so that they never contain side
effects. This is important on systems (like HP-UX) which define
NDEBUG, and therefore disable assertions, by default. Problem
pointed out by Rein Tollevik <Rein.Tollevik@si.sintef.no>.
When GENERATE_EXTRA_FIELDS is set when compiling XRN, the timezone
inserted into the time string is now truncated after the first
three characters, to work around systems which use timezone values
that are longer than that. Problem pointed out by
nissen@montefiore.ulg.ac.be (Alain Nissen).
A bug in XRN 7.02 which prevented article cancellation from
working has been fixed. The problem was pointed out by
klaus@gauguin.legg.u-nancy.fr (Klaus Hartmuth).
Two uninitialized memory references which might cause XRN to
behave unpredictably on some systems have been fixed.
A minor memory leak which occurs when XRN is started up iconified
has been fixed.
--
Jonathan Kamens | OpenVision Technologies, Inc. | jik@cam.ov.com
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