1 yapfaq 0.10 (unreleased)
3 * Add: Charset definition.
6 * Mark yapfaq.pl executable.
11 * Fix: Test mode: Add X-Supersedes only if Supersedes would be set.
13 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Oct 31 18:42:52 2010 +0100
18 * Drop use of Fcntl (not needed).
19 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Tue Jun 15 22:30:11 2010 +0200
22 - Drop .yapfaqrc and yapfaq.cfg in favor of .yapfaqrc.sample
23 and yapfaq.cfg.sample; rename test.txt to sample.txt.
24 - Change contents of these files to reflect the new names.
25 - Update some defaults, change sample.txt contents to English.
26 - Add "INSTALLATION" chapter to documentation.
28 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 19:16:40 2010 +0200
30 * Change default Message-ID format.
31 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 19:04:24 2010 +0200
33 * Change: Modify headers for test posts.
34 - Change MID so you can do multiple tests.
35 - Replace Supersedes with X-Supersedes so you do not delete
36 postings while testing.
37 - Add remark ("This is a test message.").
38 - Change documentation accordingly.
40 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 17:22:20 2010 +0200
42 * Change: Drop %LM from subject if Last-Modified is not found.
43 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 16:36:52 2010 +0200
48 * Fix: Accept leading/trailing whitespace for Last-modified pseudo header.
50 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 16:32:58 2010 +0200
55 * Fix broken implementation of "Program" in .yapfaqrc.
57 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> 2010-05-14 21:58:15
62 * Documentation: Add Git repository and bug tracker.
63 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:21:05 2010 +0200
65 * Making use of Getopt::Std's --help and --version.
67 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:33:25 2010 +0200
69 * New: Add "Program" to .yapfaqrc.
71 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:31:49 2010 +0200
73 * Change: Drop PGP support.
74 You may use tinews.pl from
75 ftp://ftp.tin.org/tin/tools/tinews.pl instead.
77 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:24:44 2010 +0200
79 * Fix: Consistency check for MID-Format fixed (regexp).
80 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:17:16 2010 +0200
82 * New: MID-Format may now contain %t for a Unix timestamp.
83 %t will be replaced by the number of seconds since the epoch.
84 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:18:04 2010 +0200
86 * Documentation changes
87 - Change sample yapfaq.cfg (mark optional settings).
88 Optional settings are mostly commented out.
89 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:10:05 2010 +0200
90 - Fix: Add "-V", NNTPSERVER to documentation, add more examples.
91 Added examples for -s and -c.
92 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:02:48 2010 +0200
93 - Add comments pointing to .yapfaqrc to source.
94 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:10:28 2010 +0200
96 * readconfig(): Add file name to verbose output.
97 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:38:23 2010 +0200
99 * Change: Reset default for NNTPServer to "unset".
100 Since yapfaq fill fall back to Perl's build-in defaults,
101 that should be no problem; furthermore user may now
102 override this setting via .yapfaqrc without changing
104 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:11:45 2010 +0200
109 * Change: readconfig(): Make mid-format optional.
110 Set defaults for expires and mid-format when they're invalid
111 (defaults were already set in postfaq() if undefined).
112 Change documentation accordingly; make it more clear if
113 parameters are optional or mandatory.
114 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Tue Apr 13 23:59:43 2010 +0200
116 * Fix: Save status information only after successful posting.
117 - New Function: updatestaus
118 Move status information save to updatestatus.
119 - post() now returns exit code.
120 - postfaq() will update status information only
121 when post() was successful.
122 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 23:19:44 2010 +0200
124 * New: Add option '-s': pipe article to script.
125 Use an external program to post - or otherwise handle -
128 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:14:59 2010 +0200
130 * New: runtime configuration
131 - Moved configuration to a hash (%Config).
132 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 22:09:15 2010 +0200
133 - Add rcfile (.yapfaqrc) for configuration.
134 All configuration data is read from .yapfaqrc
135 with defaults set in yapfaq.pl
136 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 22:02:24 2010 +0200
137 - Add sample .yapfaqrc with defaults.
138 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 23:16:20 2010 +0200
139 - Add option '-c': define another .rcfile.
140 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:41:43 2010 +0200
141 - Update documentation for .rcfile.
142 Add the according sections to the POD documentation.
144 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:17:00 2010 +0200
147 -t CONSOLE: Change delimiter.
148 No leading \n is necessary.
149 Add some more comments.
150 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 01:43:19 2010 +0200
152 * Add option '-V': print version and copyright information.
153 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:36:11 2010 +0200
155 * Change: -h: Replace version/usage information with man page.
156 Feed script to perldoc when called with -h.
157 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 06:21:05 2010 +0200
159 * Change: Authenticate only if $NNTPUser is set.
160 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 00:49:24 2010 +0200
162 * Add check for MID-Format and fallback to FQDN.
163 Uses hostfqdn from Net::Domain.
164 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:33:01 2010 +0200
166 * Add checks for mandatory content in configuration file.
167 Enhance and optimize existing checks.
168 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:30:21 2010 +0200
170 * Code optimisation (verbose output).
171 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:00:04 2010 +0200
176 * Fix default for Expires.
177 Bug introduced in v0.6.1.
178 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 09:29:01 2010 +0100
183 * Fix: Test mode must not update status information.
184 Also fix runtime warning concerning expires.
185 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 08:28:06 2010 +0100
190 * Add documentation in POD format.
191 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 17:00:07 2010 +0100
193 * Add commandline options.
195 - Implement option '-h':
196 Display version and usage information.
197 - Implement option '-v':
198 Print progress information to STDOUT on reading the configuration,
199 skipping a FAQ, preparing it for posting, posting it and writing
200 status information to disk.
201 - Implement option '-f':
202 Limit operation to the given project name. Skip parsing all other
203 information from yapfaq.cfg, skip posting all other FAQs.
205 'dry run', simulation mode: nothing is posted.
207 'post anyway', files are unconditionally posted irrespective of
208 Posting-Frequency settings.
209 - Add option '-t <newsgroups>':
210 'test mode', post to (an)other newsgroup(s) given on the command
211 line or to STDOUT ('console').
212 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 19:22:15 2010 +0100
214 * Add variable expiry.
215 - New Function: calcdelta
216 Move date calculation for new posting date to
218 - Add 'Expires' to yapfaq.cfg
220 Use calcdelta to calculate expiry.
221 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 12:55:04 2010 +0100
223 * Cleanup on yapfaq.cfg
224 Reformat, translate to English language, add descriptions.
225 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 16:16:49 2010 +0100
227 * Change handling of warnings/errors.
228 Don't output line number if .cfg file can't be opened.
229 Inform user when writing to ERROR.dat.
230 Add script name and Warning/Error to warn() and die() output.
231 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 09:23:14 2010 +0100
233 * Fix: Accept case-insensitive Last-modified pseudo header.
234 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Feb 21 18:39:05 2010 +0100
237 Don't use PGP by default.
238 Default $NNTPServer to 'localhost'
239 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 15:15:57 2010 +0100
241 * Update header/introduction, bump version/copyright information.
242 Fix typo/language in header/introduction.
243 Add new author / copyright information.
244 Bump version to 0.6-unreleased.
245 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Feb 21 18:51:39 2010 +0100
250 - Fixed bug in readconfig().
251 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 16 Feb 2003 00:35:37
256 - Fixed PGP-Support (merging some code from tinews.pl). Seems to work well.
257 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 3:46:57
260 - General cleanup of the code, changing some weird behaviour and so on.
261 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 2:27:23
264 - Changed the name of the project. There was another postfaq before, so I
265 switched to yapfaq (yet another postfaq). I like the idea of a software-line
266 called ya-software for a possible commercial: "Buy ya software!"
267 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 1:43:09