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