yapfaq/ChangeLog

yapfaq 0.10 (unreleased)

* Add: Charset definition.
  Fixes #29.


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