Here is the author's anouncement:
Hello, fellow Usenet enthusiast!
NewsPlex 4.1 is now available for downloading at
http://newsplex.webstylists.com/download/
in Windows and Linux versions.
This is a maintenance release, fixing some of the problems
reported for 4.0.
I also generated the Linux version on an older distribution,
to ease shared library version requirements.
Some of the updates:
- Ambiguous characters in URLs, typically a @ escaped as %40 in the
login name, were rewritten in etc/servers.ini without proper
escaping, so NewsPlex could not reread the file later and generated
errors.
- Fixed problems related to the async retrieval of articles not
belonging to any news-group.
- Introduced the clients.provideXrefs= setting in etc/newsplex.ini,
which should allow using NewsPlex with news-readers which require
that article descriptions provided by the XOVER command include the
Xref: field.
- Introduced the boolean explore.useXrefs= setting in
etc/newsplex.ini, whose default value is 1 or true, to complement
the per-news-server server.useXrefs= settings. In some setups,
involving probably very large news-groups, managing
cross-references
received from news-servers caused excessive memory usage and system
trashing. This new setting allows to disable it globally, rather
than having to disable it individually for each news-server.
- Added a Support link on the Web interface.
- NewsPlex could panic and terminate with an Assertion failed: code
!=
AG_RUNNING || ag->code != AG_RUNNING, file newsplex.c, line ...
message in the panic file. This meant that a duplicate parallel
retrieval was internally attempted for an article scheduled for
asynchronous article retrieval. Such a situation will now cause an
internal restart, which might recover it. Debug information is
logged to the journal file.
- Added the general.mutexUnlockBeforeCondSignal= setting, which
allows
to deal with certain buggy Linux pthread libraries. If NewsPlex
hangs on Ctrl-C instead of shutting down, then try this setting.
As usual, enjoy!
-Adam Mirowski
Regards
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