3 * Fix: Accept leading/trailing whitespace for Last-modified pseudo header.
4 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 16:32:58 2010 +0200
9 * Fix broken implementation of "Program" in .yapfaqrc.
11 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri May 14 21:58:15 2010 +0200
16 * Documentation: Add Git repository and bug tracker.
17 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:21:05 2010 +0200
19 * Making use of Getopt::Std's --help and --version.
21 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:33:25 2010 +0200
23 * New: Add "Program" to .yapfaqrc.
25 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:31:49 2010 +0200
27 * Change: Drop PGP support.
28 You may use tinews.pl from
29 ftp://ftp.tin.org/tin/tools/tinews.pl instead.
31 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:24:44 2010 +0200
33 * Fix: Consistency check for MID-Format fixed (regexp).
34 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:17:16 2010 +0200
36 * New: MID-Format may now contain %t for a Unix timestamp.
37 %t will be replaced by the number of seconds since the epoch.
38 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:18:04 2010 +0200
40 * Documentation changes
41 - Change sample yapfaq.cfg (mark optional settings).
42 Optional settings are mostly commented out.
43 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:10:05 2010 +0200
44 - Fix: Add "-V", NNTPSERVER to documentation, add more examples.
45 Added examples for -s and -c.
46 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:02:48 2010 +0200
47 - Add comments pointing to .yapfaqrc to source.
48 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:10:28 2010 +0200
50 * readconfig(): Add file name to verbose output.
51 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:38:23 2010 +0200
53 * Change: Reset default for NNTPServer to "unset".
54 Since yapfaq fill fall back to Perl's build-in defaults,
55 that should be no problem; furthermore user may now
56 override this setting via .yapfaqrc without changing
58 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:11:45 2010 +0200
63 * Change: readconfig(): Make mid-format optional.
64 Set defaults for expires and mid-format when they're invalid
65 (defaults were already set in postfaq() if undefined).
66 Change documentation accordingly; make it more clear if
67 parameters are optional or mandatory.
68 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Tue Apr 13 23:59:43 2010 +0200
70 * Fix: Save status information only after successful posting.
71 - New Function: updatestaus
72 Move status information save to updatestatus.
73 - post() now returns exit code.
74 - postfaq() will update status information only
75 when post() was successful.
76 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 23:19:44 2010 +0200
78 * New: Add option '-s': pipe article to script.
79 Use an external program to post - or otherwise handle -
82 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:14:59 2010 +0200
84 * New: runtime configuration
85 - Moved configuration to a hash (%Config).
86 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 22:09:15 2010 +0200
87 - Add rcfile (.yapfaqrc) for configuration.
88 All configuration data is read from .yapfaqrc
89 with defaults set in yapfaq.pl
90 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 22:02:24 2010 +0200
91 - Add sample .yapfaqrc with defaults.
92 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 23:16:20 2010 +0200
93 - Add option '-c': define another .rcfile.
94 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:41:43 2010 +0200
95 - Update documentation for .rcfile.
96 Add the according sections to the POD documentation.
98 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:17:00 2010 +0200
101 -t CONSOLE: Change delimiter.
102 No leading \n is necessary.
103 Add some more comments.
104 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 01:43:19 2010 +0200
106 * Add option '-V': print version and copyright information.
107 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:36:11 2010 +0200
109 * Change: -h: Replace version/usage information with man page.
110 Feed script to perldoc when called with -h.
111 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 06:21:05 2010 +0200
113 * Change: Authenticate only if $NNTPUser is set.
114 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 00:49:24 2010 +0200
116 * Add check for MID-Format and fallback to FQDN.
117 Uses hostfqdn from Net::Domain.
118 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:33:01 2010 +0200
120 * Add checks for mandatory content in configuration file.
121 Enhance and optimize existing checks.
122 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:30:21 2010 +0200
124 * Code optimisation (verbose output).
125 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:00:04 2010 +0200
130 * Fix default for Expires.
131 Bug introduced in v0.6.1.
132 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 09:29:01 2010 +0100
137 * Fix: Test mode must not update status information.
138 Also fix runtime warning concerning expires.
139 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 08:28:06 2010 +0100
144 * Add documentation in POD format.
145 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 17:00:07 2010 +0100
147 * Add commandline options.
149 - Implement option '-h':
150 Display version and usage information.
151 - Implement option '-v':
152 Print progress information to STDOUT on reading the configuration,
153 skipping a FAQ, preparing it for posting, posting it and writing
154 status information to disk.
155 - Implement option '-f':
156 Limit operation to the given project name. Skip parsing all other
157 information from yapfaq.cfg, skip posting all other FAQs.
159 'dry run', simulation mode: nothing is posted.
161 'post anyway', files are unconditionally posted irrespective of
162 Posting-Frequency settings.
163 - Add option '-t <newsgroups>':
164 'test mode', post to (an)other newsgroup(s) given on the command
165 line or to STDOUT ('console').
166 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 19:22:15 2010 +0100
168 * Add variable expiry.
169 - New Function: calcdelta
170 Move date calculation for new posting date to
172 - Add 'Expires' to yapfaq.cfg
174 Use calcdelta to calculate expiry.
175 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 12:55:04 2010 +0100
177 * Cleanup on yapfaq.cfg
178 Reformat, translate to English language, add descriptions.
179 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 16:16:49 2010 +0100
181 * Change handling of warnings/errors.
182 Don't output line number if .cfg file can't be opened.
183 Inform user when writing to ERROR.dat.
184 Add script name and Warning/Error to warn() and die() output.
185 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 09:23:14 2010 +0100
187 * Fix: Accept case-insensitive Last-modified pseudo header.
188 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Feb 21 18:39:05 2010 +0100
191 Don't use PGP by default.
192 Default $NNTPServer to 'localhost'
193 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 15:15:57 2010 +0100
195 * Update header/introduction, bump version/copyright information.
196 Fix typo/language in header/introduction.
197 Add new author / copyright information.
198 Bump version to 0.6-unreleased.
199 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Feb 21 18:51:39 2010 +0100
204 - Fixed bug in readconfig().
205 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 16 Feb 2003 00:35:37
210 - Fixed PGP-Support (merging some code from tinews.pl). Seems to work well.
211 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 3:46:57
214 - General cleanup of the code, changing some weird behaviour and so on.
215 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 2:27:23
218 - Changed the name of the project. There was another postfaq before, so I
219 switched to yapfaq (yet another postfaq). I like the idea of a software-line
220 called ya-software for a possible commercial: "Buy ya software!"
221 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 1:43:09