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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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Subject: control-archive 1.3.0 released
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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:02:42 -0800
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I'm pleased to announce release 1.3.0 of control-archive.

This software generates an INN control.ctl configuration file from
hierarchy configuration fragments, verifies control messages using GnuPG
where possible, processes new control messages to update a newsgroup list,
archives new control messages, and exports the list of newsgroups in a
format suitable for synchronizing the newsgroup list of a Netnews news
server.  It is the software that maintains the control message and
newsgroup lists available from ftp.isc.org.

Changes from previous release:

    Special-case public hierarchies with no control message senders and
    add a comment saying that the hierarchy is in use, but has no active
    maintainer.  Move nc.*, nersc.*, and nord.* out of special to use this
    new format, and document the extra information about nc.* in the
    hierarchy notes file.

    Support parsing multi-line vectors in the configuration syntax.

    Add a comment field to the configuration syntax and include its value
    in control.ctl before the metadata headers.

    Add a new reserved hierarchy type, for hierarchies that are reserved
    for special purposes.  This is slightly different than any of the
    existing statuses.

    When generating PGPKEYS and README.html, allow for the possibility of
    having no control message senders for abandoned hierarchies.

    The key fingerprint pseudo-header in control.ctl entries now matches
    the syntax of the other pseudo-headers, using a colon instead of an
    equal sign.

    Hierarchy updates:

    * Update description for belwue.* to be more correct
    * Add contact, URL, and fingerprint for belwue.*
    * Add contact, URL, and admin group for bln.*
    * Add fingerprint and admin group for ffm.*
    * Add admin group for kassel.*
    * Remove sender and URL, add admin group for kiel.*
    * Add key URL for muc.*
    * Add new public hierarchy owl.* (Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany)
    * Update description for sachsnet.*
    * Add contact, fingerprint, and admin group for stgt.*
    * Add contact, URL, sync server, and admin group for thur.*
    * Remove sender, contact, URL, and sync server for ufra.*
    * Add new private hierarchy ulm.* (Ulm, Germany)
    * Remove control sender for fido.*; the domain is for sale
    * Add information about muenster.* to hierarchy notes
    * Include more information in example.* entry
    * Remove control message processing for fa.*, use no sender template
    * Add more explanation for local.*

    Thanks to Thomas Hochstein for the updates to the regional German
    groups and fido.*.

    Documentation updates:

    * Supersedes is allowed but not recommended in control messages

You can download it from:

    <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/control-archive/>

This package is maintained using Git; see the instructions on the above
page to access the Git repository.

Please let me know of any problems or feature requests not already listed
in the TODO file.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>