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