Newsstar News


20 January 2013: Version 1.5.6
  • Use git instead of svn

  • Repaired non-pthreads implementation and made it default

  • Keep recent versions of autotools happy

23 June 2008: Version 1.5.0
  • Uses POSIX threads instead of fork() to spawn child processes.

14 October 2007: Version 1.4.0
  • Allows character encoding of incoming messages to be changed

    I have shut down the mailing list due to an excess of spam and dearth of genuine traffic

26 February 2007: Version 1.3.2
  • Several changes since I last remembered to update news

1 March 2005: Version 1.2.2
  • Better compatibility with old versions of BSD/perl

24 August 2004: Version 1.2.1
  • Fixed memory bug in 1.2's per-group article counts

  • Fixed Debian dependencies for Woody (3.0 stable)

  • Improved docs about role of path option for header-only scoring

17 August 2004: Version 1.2
  • New -b (brief) option

  • Fixed sn overview bug and improved portability of perl script

  • Several new --with-*-dir configure options aid portability

  • Fixed missing server name in warning message about forcing xover for scoring

  • Fixed reporting of group name in message about backfills

  • Email address in HTML docs now obscured from spammers by Javascript

3 July 2004: Version 1.1.1
  • Fixed crashing on reporting messages containing % chars in curses

  • Script resets terminal if binary crashes in curses

  • Cleaner stats line in non-curses mode

  • Fixed missing server name in warning message about forcing xover for scoring

  • Fixed reporting of group name in message about backfills

  • Email address in HTML docs now obscured from spammers by Javascript

17 March 2004: Version 1.1
  • New master.score file applies to all servers

  • Added debian directory to distribution

  • Improved derivation of variables in configure and newsstar (configure no longer needs sed)

8 December 2003: Version 1.0
  • "Stable" release with a Debian package

  • Sample configs are no longer installed

News summaries for older versions are available in the file OLDNEWS in the distribution's docs directory.