Newsstar News

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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.

