Calling for Beta Testers!

Steffen Wendzel — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:32:42 -0000

Dear Usenet users,

I am looking for beta testers for WendzelNNTPd as I plan to introduce some still missing NNTP features in upcoming releases, such as TLS support and synchronization with other NNTP servers. Moreover do I look for people who like to test the current release for bugs to improve the overall stability and usability of the server.

If you are interested in helping, let me know: wendzel (at) hs-worms (dot) de.

Kind regards,
Steffen

WendzelNNTPd 2.1.3 released, including a SECURITY FIX!

Steffen Wendzel — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:29:04 -0000

This new release includes a security fix (see changelog below). The security bug can be used to cause the server to exit, i.e. it is a reliability bug. An update is recommended for all users.

Changelog for 2.1.3-stable "Friedrichroda" : 17-Apr-2021:

As usual, every new release gets named after a nice travel location.
This time it is Friedrichroda, Germany.

FIXES:
- Do not exit on SIG_PIPE (broken pipe) security fix (DoS) .
This would be exploitable easily by "echo | telnet hostname port"!
This fix requires support for the send() flag MSG_NOSIGNAL. Seems
to be present in *BSD and Linux (at least).
- Modified regex checks during POST command:
- Prevent postings to Newsgroups: ,,,
- Prevent sender '@'
- Prevent \r\n\t in subjects
- Unified structure of regex tests with macros
- Minor fix in documentation for ACL management.

ADDED FEATURES:
- Created the manpages wendzelnntpd(8) and wendzelnntpadm(8).
- The make target "install" now installs manpages, too.

MISC:
- Listen on ::1 per default, too (in addition to 127.0.0.1).
- Slackware build script does not require make install anymore,
which makes the whole process much cleaner. Also, this is quicker.
- Added additional meta-data for Slackbuild.com compatibility (beta).
- Applied several adjustments and improvements from SBo's repository.
- Improved some comments in the code.

WendzelNNTPd 2.1.2 released and Slackware packages available

Steffen Wendzel — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 16:13:11 -0000

Version 2.1.2 has been released, including several small changes, see changelog file https://github.com/cdpxe/WendzelNNTPd/blob/master/CHANGELOG . Also, there is now an official Slackbuild package for Slackware users, see https://cdpxe.github.io/WendzelNNTPd/ for details.

WendzelNNTPd 2.0.8 released!

Steffen Wendzel — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:27:57 -0000

This new minor release is basically just an improvement for those who are new to WendzelNNTPd. The documentation was improved and the code now compiles a bit easier under FreeBSD. No bugs were discovered or fixed and an update from v.2.0.7 is not necessary. Cf. CHANGELOG file for details.

As usual: Enjoy the new release!

WendzelNNTPd 2.0.7 released!

Steffen Wendzel — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:24:27 -0000

This new release fixes a problem with the XHDR command that led to problems with some Usenet clients (e.g. claws-mail). Additional tiny improvements were made to improve the error reporting.

No security fixes were applied but it is recommended to upgrade from all v2.0.x releases to v2.0.7 in order to prevent NNTP protocol problems with clients using XHDR.

As usual: Enjoy the new release!

Shifted Code Repository

Steffen Wendzel — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 11:02:48 -0000

Please note that the current source code of the server was shifted from SourceForge to GitHub (https://github.com/cdpxe/WendzelNNTPd). However, the project page at SourceForge will remain and all new releases will be immediately published on SourceForge as usual. In other words: I only changed the location where the code will be hosted.

WendzelNNTPd 2.0.6 released!

Steffen Wendzel — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 10:02:33 -0000

This is the release of WendzelNNTPd-2.0.6. This release integrates a new feature to configure the max. allowed size of postings plus several tiny cleanups and improvements (especially in the documentation).

This release contains no security updates or bug fixes. If you run v2.0.5, no update will be required.

As usual: Have a lot of fun with this server!

WendzelNNTPd 2.0.4 released!

Steffen Wendzel — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 17:20:49 -0000

The new release contains several fixes and performs better with several NNTP clients which previously caused problems due to problematic NNTP implementations.

Upgrades from 2.0.x to 2.0.y are now easy to perform and the documentation was improved. Moreover, WendzelNNTPd can now be compiled without MySQL or without SQLite support if desired.

Additionally, a quick-and-dirty solution to upgrade from very old 1.4.x releases to 2.0.x was introduced in the documentation.

Please report bugs and feature requests using the SourceForge Ticket system.

Have a lot of fun with this new release,
Steffen

WendzelNNTPd is not dead!

Steffen Wendzel — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:34:29 -0000

The latest version of WendzelNNTPd was released in August 2012. However, please note that I am keeping this software up-to-date regarding bugfixes, which you can submit using the "Bugs" tab. Also, the latest version of the software is always available via SVN, featuring tiny updates from today (March, 25 2015).

WendzelNNTPd-1.4.1 released!

Steffen Wendzel — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:44:46 -0000

WendzelNNTPd is now able to log the IPs of established and closed connections. There were many bugfixes in this new version including two crashdump fixes.

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