yapfaq 0.10 (unreleased)
* Add: Charset definition.
Fixes #29.
* Mark yapfaq.pl executable.
* Change mail address.
Version 0.9.1
* Fix: Test mode: Add X-Supersedes only if Supersedes would be set.
Fixes #28.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Oct 31 18:42:52 2010 +0100
Version 0.9
* Drop use of Fcntl (not needed).
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Tue Jun 15 22:30:11 2010 +0200
* Changed packaging.
- Drop .yapfaqrc and yapfaq.cfg in favor of .yapfaqrc.sample
and yapfaq.cfg.sample; rename test.txt to sample.txt.
- Change contents of these files to reflect the new names.
- Update some defaults, change sample.txt contents to English.
- Add "INSTALLATION" chapter to documentation.
Fixes #7.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 19:16:40 2010 +0200
* Change default Message-ID format.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 19:04:24 2010 +0200
* Change: Modify headers for test posts.
- Change MID so you can do multiple tests.
- Replace Supersedes with X-Supersedes so you do not delete
postings while testing.
- Add remark ("This is a test message.").
- Change documentation accordingly.
Fixes #6.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 17:22:20 2010 +0200
* Change: Drop %LM from subject if Last-Modified is not found.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 16:36:52 2010 +0200
Version 0.8.2
* Fix: Accept leading/trailing whitespace for Last-modified pseudo header.
Fixes #5.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 16:32:58 2010 +0200
Version 0.8.1
* Fix broken implementation of "Program" in .yapfaqrc.
Fixes #4.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> 2010-05-14 21:58:15
Version 0.8
* Documentation: Add Git repository and bug tracker.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:21:05 2010 +0200
* Making use of Getopt::Std's --help and --version.
Fixes #3.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:33:25 2010 +0200
* New: Add "Program" to .yapfaqrc.
Fixes #2.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:31:49 2010 +0200
* Change: Drop PGP support.
You may use tinews.pl from
ftp://ftp.tin.org/tin/tools/tinews.pl instead.
Fixes #1.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:24:44 2010 +0200
* Fix: Consistency check for MID-Format fixed (regexp).
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:17:16 2010 +0200
* New: MID-Format may now contain %t for a Unix timestamp.
%t will be replaced by the number of seconds since the epoch.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:18:04 2010 +0200
* Documentation changes
- Change sample yapfaq.cfg (mark optional settings).
Optional settings are mostly commented out.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:10:05 2010 +0200
- Fix: Add "-V", NNTPSERVER to documentation, add more examples.
Added examples for -s and -c.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:02:48 2010 +0200
- Add comments pointing to .yapfaqrc to source.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:10:28 2010 +0200
* readconfig(): Add file name to verbose output.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:38:23 2010 +0200
* Change: Reset default for NNTPServer to "unset".
Since yapfaq fill fall back to Perl's build-in defaults,
that should be no problem; furthermore user may now
override this setting via .yapfaqrc without changing
the code.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:11:45 2010 +0200
Version 0.7
* Change: readconfig(): Make mid-format optional.
Set defaults for expires and mid-format when they're invalid
(defaults were already set in postfaq() if undefined).
Change documentation accordingly; make it more clear if
parameters are optional or mandatory.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Tue Apr 13 23:59:43 2010 +0200
* Fix: Save status information only after successful posting.
- New Function: updatestaus
Move status information save to updatestatus.
- post() now returns exit code.
- postfaq() will update status information only
when post() was successful.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 23:19:44 2010 +0200
* New: Add option '-s': pipe article to script.
Use an external program to post - or otherwise handle -
the article.
Amend documentation.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:14:59 2010 +0200
* New: runtime configuration
- Moved configuration to a hash (%Config).
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 22:09:15 2010 +0200
- Add rcfile (.yapfaqrc) for configuration.
All configuration data is read from .yapfaqrc
with defaults set in yapfaq.pl
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 22:02:24 2010 +0200
- Add sample .yapfaqrc with defaults.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 23:16:20 2010 +0200
- Add option '-c': define another .rcfile.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:41:43 2010 +0200
- Update documentation for .rcfile.
Add the according sections to the POD documentation.
Fix some wording.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:17:00 2010 +0200
* Small changes.
-t CONSOLE: Change delimiter.
No leading \n is necessary.
Add some more comments.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 01:43:19 2010 +0200
* Add option '-V': print version and copyright information.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:36:11 2010 +0200
* Change: -h: Replace version/usage information with man page.
Feed script to perldoc when called with -h.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 06:21:05 2010 +0200
* Change: Authenticate only if $NNTPUser is set.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 00:49:24 2010 +0200
* Add check for MID-Format and fallback to FQDN.
Uses hostfqdn from Net::Domain.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:33:01 2010 +0200
* Add checks for mandatory content in configuration file.
Enhance and optimize existing checks.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:30:21 2010 +0200
* Code optimisation (verbose output).
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:00:04 2010 +0200
Version 0.6.2
* Fix default for Expires.
Bug introduced in v0.6.1.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 09:29:01 2010 +0100
Version 0.6.1
* Fix: Test mode must not update status information.
Also fix runtime warning concerning expires.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 08:28:06 2010 +0100
Version 0.6
* Add documentation in POD format.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 17:00:07 2010 +0100
* Add commandline options.
- Using Getopt::Std.
- Implement option '-h':
Display version and usage information.
- Implement option '-v':
Print progress information to STDOUT on reading the configuration,
skipping a FAQ, preparing it for posting, posting it and writing
status information to disk.
- Implement option '-f':
Limit operation to the given project name. Skip parsing all other
information from yapfaq.cfg, skip posting all other FAQs.
- Add option '-d':
'dry run', simulation mode: nothing is posted.
- Add option '-p':
'post anyway', files are unconditionally posted irrespective of
Posting-Frequency settings.
- Add option '-t <newsgroups>':
'test mode', post to (an)other newsgroup(s) given on the command
line or to STDOUT ('console').
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 19:22:15 2010 +0100
* Add variable expiry.
- New Function: calcdelta
Move date calculation for new posting date to
calcdelta.
- Add 'Expires' to yapfaq.cfg
Parse 'Expires'.
Use calcdelta to calculate expiry.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 12:55:04 2010 +0100
* Cleanup on yapfaq.cfg
Reformat, translate to English language, add descriptions.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 16:16:49 2010 +0100
* Change handling of warnings/errors.
Don't output line number if .cfg file can't be opened.
Inform user when writing to ERROR.dat.
Add script name and Warning/Error to warn() and die() output.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 09:23:14 2010 +0100
* Fix: Accept case-insensitive Last-modified pseudo header.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Feb 21 18:39:05 2010 +0100
* Change defaults
Don't use PGP by default.
Default $NNTPServer to 'localhost'
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Feb 25 15:15:57 2010 +0100
* Update header/introduction, bump version/copyright information.
Fix typo/language in header/introduction.
Add new author / copyright information.
Bump version to 0.6-unreleased.
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Feb 21 18:51:39 2010 +0100
Version 0.5a
- Fixed bug in readconfig().
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 16 Feb 2003 00:35:37
Version 0.5
- Fixed PGP-Support (merging some code from tinews.pl). Seems to work well.
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 3:46:57
- General cleanup of the code, changing some weird behaviour and so on.
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 2:27:23
- Changed the name of the project. There was another postfaq before, so I
switched to yapfaq (yet another postfaq). I like the idea of a software-line
called ya-software for a possible commercial: "Buy ya software!"
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> 11 Jan 2003 1:43:09