1 yapfaq 0.10 (unreleased)
3 * Add: Charset definition.
6 * Mark yapfaq.pl executable.
13 * Fix: Test mode: Add X-Supersedes only if Supersedes would be set.
15 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Oct 31 18:42:52 2010 +0100
20 * Drop use of Fcntl (not needed).
21 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Tue Jun 15 22:30:11 2010 +0200
24 - Drop .yapfaqrc and yapfaq.cfg in favor of .yapfaqrc.sample
25 and yapfaq.cfg.sample; rename test.txt to sample.txt.
26 - Change contents of these files to reflect the new names.
27 - Update some defaults, change sample.txt contents to English.
28 - Add "INSTALLATION" chapter to documentation.
30 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 19:16:40 2010 +0200
32 * Change default Message-ID format.
33 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 19:04:24 2010 +0200
35 * Change: Modify headers for test posts.
36 - Change MID so you can do multiple tests.
37 - Replace Supersedes with X-Supersedes so you do not delete
38 postings while testing.
39 - Add remark ("This is a test message.").
40 - Change documentation accordingly.
42 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 17:22:20 2010 +0200
44 * Change: Drop %LM from subject if Last-Modified is not found.
45 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 16:36:52 2010 +0200
50 * Fix: Accept leading/trailing whitespace for Last-modified pseudo header.
52 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 16:32:58 2010 +0200
57 * Fix broken implementation of "Program" in .yapfaqrc.
59 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> 2010-05-14 21:58:15
64 * Documentation: Add Git repository and bug tracker.
65 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:21:05 2010 +0200
67 * Making use of Getopt::Std's --help and --version.
69 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:33:25 2010 +0200
71 * New: Add "Program" to .yapfaqrc.
73 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:31:49 2010 +0200
75 * Change: Drop PGP support.
76 You may use tinews.pl from
77 ftp://ftp.tin.org/tin/tools/tinews.pl instead.
79 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:24:44 2010 +0200
81 * Fix: Consistency check for MID-Format fixed (regexp).
82 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:17:16 2010 +0200
84 * New: MID-Format may now contain %t for a Unix timestamp.
85 %t will be replaced by the number of seconds since the epoch.
86 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:18:04 2010 +0200
88 * Documentation changes
89 - Change sample yapfaq.cfg (mark optional settings).
90 Optional settings are mostly commented out.
91 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:10:05 2010 +0200
92 - Fix: Add "-V", NNTPSERVER to documentation, add more examples.
93 Added examples for -s and -c.
94 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:02:48 2010 +0200
95 - Add comments pointing to .yapfaqrc to source.
96 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:10:28 2010 +0200
98 * readconfig(): Add file name to verbose output.
99 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:38:23 2010 +0200
101 * Change: Reset default for NNTPServer to "unset".
102 Since yapfaq fill fall back to Perl's build-in defaults,
103 that should be no problem; furthermore user may now
104 override this setting via .yapfaqrc without changing
106 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:11:45 2010 +0200
111 * Change: readconfig(): Make mid-format optional.
112 Set defaults for expires and mid-format when they're invalid
113 (defaults were already set in postfaq() if undefined).
114 Change documentation accordingly; make it more clear if
115 parameters are optional or mandatory.
116 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Tue Apr 13 23:59:43 2010 +0200
118 * Fix: Save status information only after successful posting.
119 - New Function: updatestaus
120 Move status information save to updatestatus.
121 - post() now returns exit code.
122 - postfaq() will update status information only
123 when post() was successful.
124 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 23:19:44 2010 +0200
126 * New: Add option '-s': pipe article to script.
127 Use an external program to post - or otherwise handle -
130 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:14:59 2010 +0200
132 * New: runtime configuration
133 - Moved configuration to a hash (%Config).
134 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 22:09:15 2010 +0200
135 - Add rcfile (.yapfaqrc) for configuration.
136 All configuration data is read from .yapfaqrc
137 with defaults set in yapfaq.pl
138 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 22:02:24 2010 +0200
139 - Add sample .yapfaqrc with defaults.
140 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 23:16:20 2010 +0200
141 - Add option '-c': define another .rcfile.
142 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:41:43 2010 +0200
143 - Update documentation for .rcfile.
144 Add the according sections to the POD documentation.
146 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:17:00 2010 +0200
149 -t CONSOLE: Change delimiter.
150 No leading \n is necessary.
151 Add some more comments.
152 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 01:43:19 2010 +0200
154 * Add option '-V': print version and copyright information.
155 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:36:11 2010 +0200
157 * Change: -h: Replace version/usage information with man page.
158 Feed script to perldoc when called with -h.
159 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 06:21:05 2010 +0200
161 * Change: Authenticate only if $NNTPUser is set.
162 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 00:49:24 2010 +0200
164 * Add check for MID-Format and fallback to FQDN.
165 Uses hostfqdn from Net::Domain.
166 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:33:01 2010 +0200
168 * Add checks for mandatory content in configuration file.
169 Enhance and optimize existing checks.
170 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:30:21 2010 +0200
172 * Code optimisation (verbose output).
173 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:00:04 2010 +0200
178 * Fix default for Expires.
179 Bug introduced in v0.6.1.
180 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 09:29:01 2010 +0100
185 * Fix: Test mode must not update status information.
186 Also fix runtime warning concerning expires.
187 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 08:28:06 2010 +0100
192 * Add documentation in POD format.
193 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 17:00:07 2010 +0100
195 * Add commandline options.
197 - Implement option '-h':
198 Display version and usage information.
199 - Implement option '-v':
200 Print progress information to STDOUT on reading the configuration,
201 skipping a FAQ, preparing it for posting, posting it and writing
202 status information to disk.
203 - Implement option '-f':
204 Limit operation to the given project name. Skip parsing all other
205 information from yapfaq.cfg, skip posting all other FAQs.
207 'dry run', simulation mode: nothing is posted.
209 'post anyway', files are unconditionally posted irrespective of
210 Posting-Frequency settings.
211 - Add option '-t <newsgroups>':
212 'test mode', post to (an)other newsgroup(s) given on the command
213 line or to STDOUT ('console').
214 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 19:22:15 2010 +0100
216 * Add variable expiry.
217 - New Function: calcdelta
218 Move date calculation for new posting date to
220 - Add 'Expires' to yapfaq.cfg
222 Use calcdelta to calculate expiry.
223 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 12:55:04 2010 +0100
225 * Cleanup on yapfaq.cfg
226 Reformat, translate to English language, add descriptions.
227 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 16:16:49 2010 +0100
229 * Change handling of warnings/errors.
230 Don't output line number if .cfg file can't be opened.
231 Inform user when writing to ERROR.dat.
232 Add script name and Warning/Error to warn() and die() output.
233 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 09:23:14 2010 +0100
235 * Fix: Accept case-insensitive Last-modified pseudo header.
236 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Feb 21 18:39:05 2010 +0100
239 Don't use PGP by default.
240 Default $NNTPServer to 'localhost'
241 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 15:15:57 2010 +0100
243 * Update header/introduction, bump version/copyright information.
244 Fix typo/language in header/introduction.
245 Add new author / copyright information.
246 Bump version to 0.6-unreleased.
247 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Feb 21 18:51:39 2010 +0100
252 - Fixed bug in readconfig().
253 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 16 Feb 2003 00:35:37
258 - Fixed PGP-Support (merging some code from tinews.pl). Seems to work well.
259 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 3:46:57
262 - General cleanup of the code, changing some weird behaviour and so on.
263 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 2:27:23
266 - Changed the name of the project. There was another postfaq before, so I
267 switched to yapfaq (yet another postfaq). I like the idea of a software-line
268 called ya-software for a possible commercial: "Buy ya software!"
269 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 1:43:09