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What's new in 0.54?
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Well, first, some bugs are fixed:
- a message used by !MailList wasn't being sent by 0.53, this is fixed.
- folder operations from TTFN could cause a Newsbase crash in 0.53.
- automatic expiry works more correctly!
- some small fixes to ka9q transport programs.
- extra checks in filter redirection to prevent any message loss (if the
redirection is invalid).
Second, some improvements are:
- improved user interface in some places.
- extra options for expiry behaviour.
- can create and use long usernames (though TTFN doesn't support these fully
at present). Username aliases. User passwords.
- Mail and news accepted from multiple transports.
- Outgoing mail & news can be sent to different transports.
- Support for external "New groups" programs.
- article lookup by message-ID is now supported.
- several functions are faster.
- online help is now provided.
Now, the "bad news" - really more of a slight inconvenience during the
upgrade. The format of the group information and configuration files has
changed, and so you will have to reconfigure Newsbase 0.54 when you install
it. Most of the default choices should be sensible. There will also be a
short delay the first time it is run, while it recreates the new-format
newsgroups file.
*** if you have specific exiry times configured for newsgroups, you will
have to reset them ***
** If you are upgrading from an earlier version of 0.54... **
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... and suffer from "phantom articles" in TTFN - where new/unread articles
are reported to be available, but aren't there - then this bug is fixed in
this version. You can either wait for the problem to go away by itself (as
new articles arrive), or you can regenerate the "groupinfo" file by
ADJUST-clicking on "Rescan" in the groups setup window. The latter will, or
should, fix the problem immediately, at the expense of losing
individually-configured group expiry times.