| [2004-10-07] Released slrn 0.9.8.1 |
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I decided to make one more release before the upcoming transition to
slang-2, so here it is. Compared to 0.9.8.0, it mainly offers a bunch of
bug fixes, but also gives a (minor, but convenient) bit of new
functionality (see list of
changes). Please use our download
page to get the tarball.
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| [2003-08-25] Released slrn 0.9.8.0 |
Yes, it took quite some time, but the new version of slrn finally
has been released. It has an impressive list of
changes, including the long-awaited true offline reading
functionality. I also integrated a lot of patches and want to thank
everyone who made a contribution.
As always, you can get the source tarball from our project's download
page.
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| [2003-08-19] New slrn FAQ available |
A new, updated and more comprehensive FAQ for slrn is now
available, written by Matthias Friedrich and Thomas Schultz. It will
replace the files FAQ, SCORE_FAQ and
slrnpull/FAQ in the next release of slrn and is based on those
files, which were originally written by John E. Davis.
You can read and
/ or download the new FAQ on our manual
page. Feedback on it (to the slrn-user mailing list or to us
personally) would be welcome.
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| [2003-07-31] slrn 0.9.7.4pl3 offers true offline reading |
The long-awaited true offline reading functionality is now
implemented in the developer snapshot 0.9.7.4pl3, which also offers a lot
of other fixes and enhancements over the last stable release. A full list
of them can be found on the changes
page.
I have to admit that I did not yet test the new code very
thoroughly; if you are willing to help testing it nonetheless, please get
the tarball from our patches
page. If you are a translator and can find some time, please update
your translation, as slrn 0.9.8.0 will now (hopefully) be out soon.
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| [2002-03-13] slrn 0.9.7.4 is out |
Finally, a new release of slrn is out. It has lots of minor bugfixes
(including some rare segfaults) and improvements, a new sorting
implementation (allowing powerful custom sorting), new translations (es,
fr, ko) and a few new intrinsic functions.
As always, there's a full list of changes
and you can get the source tarball from our project's download
page.
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| [2002-02-03] Screenshot page online / "Port" to Mac OS X |
As we got requests for a collection of screenshots on slrn.org, we
now put together what we could find on the web and created a new page for them. It
contains thumbnails of the screenshots, as well as links to the
original pages with the full-sized versions. Felix Schüller
volunteered to maintain it, so please contact him if you want your
own screenshot to be added to our collection.
Felix also resolved the problem people frequently ran into when
they tried to build slrn on Mac OS X. Please see his comment and
patch for details.
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| [2001-11-05] slrn 0.9.7.3 is out |
The new release of slrn is available. This time, the changes are full
gettext and automake support on Unix, a function to display which
scorefile entries matched an article, autosaving of the newsrc file,
some minor new features and new intrinsic functions as well as the usual
bugfixes and even one security fix.
You can get the source tarball from our project's
download
page or just look at the full list of
changes.
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| [2001-09-20] slrn is going international |
The probably most important new feature of the next release will be
gettext support (Unix only), which will make it possible to translate
slrn's user interface into different languages.
The first preview of this new version is now available from our
patches page. If you want to
translate slrn into your language, you can already fetch the snapshot
and start working. For those who never did such a translation, I put
down some brief notes.
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| [2001-08-20] slrn 0.9.7.2 released |
A new stable version of slrn is now online. Besides a number of
bugfixes, better support for non-Unix systems and a bit of new
documentation, it starts up faster on some systems and has minor new
features, like tab completion or detection of ``news:'' URLs. It is
also more RFC compliant than ever.
At your option, you can
download
the tarball directly or look at the full list of
changes first.
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| [2001-08-11] slrn-announce mailing list created / wishlist reviewed |
I created slrn-announce
- a new mailing list which will only be used for announcements, e.g.
when a new version of slrn is released. If you are subscribed to
slrn-user, there is no need to read slrn-announce as well - all postings
to it will get cross-posted.
Sven and I also spent some time reviewing the
wishlist; it now includes some suggestions I
forgot to copy from his page when writing it in the first place. We also
compiled a list of wishes that should go into 1.0, so each feature now
has a status field, telling you for which version it is planned.
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| [2001-06-06] slrn 0.9.7.1 released |
The new stable version of slrn is finally there. It has a fully
customizable group mode and status bars, highlights URLs, makes use of
some common NNTP extensions, offers better documentation and has lots of
minor improvements and bugfixes over the previous version.
As always, you can look at the full list of
changes or
download
the thing directly.
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| [2001-04-19] Full documentation online |
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All the documentation that comes with slrn's source distribution can now
be found on our new documentation page.
You will find both plain text and (where available) HTML versions there
and you can download tarballs for offline reading.
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| [2001-03-28] slrn 0.9.7.0 released |
I finally released the new, long awaited stable version of the slrn
newsreader, 0.9.7.0. Besides adding exciting new features, it also fixes
a lot of annoying and some (potentially) security relevant bugs, so I
recommend the upgrade. You might either
want to look at the changes or go
straight to the
download
page.
Thanks to everyone who helped by contributing code, writing
documentation or reporting bugs.
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| [2001-03-15] Public preview of slrn 0.9.7.0 |
I feel that the current development code is now stable enough to be
tested by interested end users, so I released it as a new preview,
0.9.6.4pl4. Although it is now distributed as a tarball, it still can be
found on our patches page.
This is for people who are willing to spend some time testing unfinished
code; others should wait for 0.9.7.0, which should be out Real Soon Now.
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| [2001-01-28] First steps towards slrn 0.9.7.0 |
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I spent the last few days revising our patches and integrating them into
the source tree that will finally become version 0.9.7.0. Now, a first
preview is available as a diff
against 0.9.6.4. It is still incomplete and not intended
for regular users.
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| [2001-01-19] Thomas Schultz new slrn maintainer |
As John E. Davis, the author and long-time maintainer of slrn announced
in news.software.readers, he is
currently not able to devote enough time to the development of slrn.
Thus, he decided to entrust me with this task and I will try to fulfill
it to the best of my ability.
This also means that as of version 0.9.7.0, the slrn web resource will
become the official website of slrn. You can expect this around
mid-February; John sent me a pile of unanswered email that I want to
work through. To keep this process as efficient as possible, please do
not mail me about bugs or patches before the new release if you already
told John about them. Thank you.
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| [2000-12-21] slrn 0.9.6.3pl3 released |
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Finally, a new version of our set of
patches for slrn 0.9.6.3 is out. It includes a number of bugfixes
and a few new features. I recommend an upgrade for users of slrn
0.9.6.3pl2; others might want to have a look at our
bugfixes.
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| [2000-10-22] Matthias Friedrich joins the team |
We are glad to announce that Matthias Friedrich, who works on the
new reference manual and contributed
some patches, is now a regular
member of the slrn web resource staff.
From now on, the manual is developed via CVS and you can do an
anonymous checkout if you want.
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| [2000-09-27] Initial release of the slrn reference manual |
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Matthias Friedrich and Thomas Schultz started to write a new
end user manual. You can now browse and
download its first release, which already explains all slrnrc commands,
configuration and environment variables, as well as the command line
switches.
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| [2000-09-18] slrn 0.9.6.3 is out |
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John E. Davis released the new slrn 0.9.6.3 yesterday, which mainly
fixes a number of bugs. I updated our patches and wishlist page
accordingly.
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| [2000-08-16] Macros page online |
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I just revised three of my macro sets and put them on our new
macros page. More is to come as soon as
I find the time to revise the rest of them.
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| [2000-08-05] www.slrn.org points to our new site |
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Sven Guckes changed the forwarding on www.slrn.org so that it takes you
to the page you are currently reading. If you are looking for
information that has not yet been transferred to our new site, please
refer to his
original pages.
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| [2000-08-04] Mailing list and ``wishlist'' page online |
We created a public mailing list for
suggestions, announcements and discussion about the slrn web resource.
We also have a new page - the wishlist,
on which known bugs and unimplemented feature requests are collected.
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| [2000-07-07] The slrn web resource starts off |
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Last week, Sven Guckes, Felix Schueller and Thomas Schultz met on the
LinuxTag in Stuttgart, Germany. They decided to merge their existing
slrn projects and registered a SourceForge account to be able to
maintain the website together. It already includes the pages from the
``slrn+'' project and some information from www.slrn.org. More is to
come, so stay tuned ...
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