Previous versions didn't honor CHANGITEMPDIR when creating
temporary files, but stick with TMP. This has been corrected.
Xref Entry in Overview
Due to a bug, Changi didn't insert a required space following
'Xref:' in the overview line and slrn, a newsreader ported
from UNIX, wasn't able to detect crossposts. This bug has
been removed.
GROUP Command Parameter not Case-sensitive
RFC 977 defines, that newsgroup names following the NNTP
GROUP command should be case-insensitive, but previous
version of Changi didn't accept uppercase characters in
group names. This bug has been removed.
Currently Selected Article Number
In case of bad NNTP commands sent by a client or when
entering a new newsgroup, previous versions of Changi
changed the number of the currently selected article
to INVALID. Changi now follows RFC 977 more strictly.
Bad commands won't change the currently selected article
and when entering a new newsgroup, the first available
article number is automatically selected.
Duplicate LISTGROUP Response
Previous versions of Changi respond to a client's
LISTGROUP command with a duplicate response. This has
been corrected.
Crash on Bad Date and Time Parameters
NNTP commands requiring date and time parameters let
Changi crash on bad values (dates earlier than 01/10/1970
etc.). This bug has been removed.
Bad Error Response to NEXT and LAST
If no newsgroup had been selected, previous versions
of Changi responded with 'No current article selected'.
Changi will now correctly respond with 'You are not
currently in a newsgroup.'
Crash on XGTITLE
Due to a compiler problem, the NNTP command XGTITLE let the
Windows NT version of Changi crash. The program has been
changed to avoid this complier problem.
XGTITLE Without Argument
Previous versions of Changi responded to an NNTP XGTITLE
command with a list of all groups, which differs from
the behaviour of other newsservers supporting this extension.
Changi will now respond with the name of the currently
selected newsgroup.
Chanx Won't Send Single Posts
Due to a bug in the Windows NT Version of Chanx, posts
were transmitted only, if more than one post was
available in the spool directory. This bug has been removed.
Chanx Avoids Downloading Crossposts
While running in XOVER mode (option -mx), Chanx downloaded
each new article of every newsgroup specified in the
watermark file. Chanx will check, if an article has been
downloaded already as a crosspost in a previously
queried group.
Skipped Lines in News Batches
If batched articles contained mixed line ends, some with
carriage return plus linefeed, others with linefeed only,
Rnews calculated wrong article sizes and skipped parts
of the batch file. This bug has been removed.
Duplicate Message-ID Header
A problem occured on some messages imported from maus-net,
which contained a lower case 'd' in the Message-ID header.
Rnews added a new id, while Changi, case-insensitive,
rejected the article because of two Message-ID
headers. Now, Rnews and Changi are both case-insensitive.
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URL: changi/manual/whatsnew.html
Created: 24 May 1997
Revised: 24 May 1997
Author: harald@os2point.ping.de