SurgeNews Changes History

SurgeNews Change History

Current release: Version 2.0a-12 Date: 1 Jan 2008

2007 Summary settings added.

Syntax Description

g_crosspost_max int Limits cross posts for all incoming items

g_expire_replicate bool This attempts to expire local items if they dont exist on the host we got the header feed from. It judges which is the primary host for a group based on the percent of items it holds, so if the upstream server holds less than half of the items it doesn't use it to expire

g_expire_range bool This can tidy up groups with big 'gaps' in the numbering

g_feed_delay int Delay ALL outgoing feeds this many seconds. Please note this delays all outgoing feeds, it is not intended for normal use but for specialised machines sending a delayed feed across an expensive network link

g_feed_once bool Only send cross posts to one outgoing feed. This allows you to split an incoming feed without duplicating crossposts to backends, it is a global setting so applies to all feeds

g_feed_noback bool Just drop messages if we can't send them right away

g_groups_block string Block messages even cross posted to these groups. This can help to stop in appropriate cross posts from porno news groups.

g_no_proxy_user bool If set then doesn't add X-Proxy-User: header. This is useful to hide the identity of your users from upstream machines.

g_post_replace_date bool Replace date header for local posts. This prevents local users abusing the date header

g_pull_tryall bool Try all pull hosts even if xbody header found and failed. Searches harder to find the body of a message

g_ssl_per_domain bool Create/use an SSL certificate for each domain

Several bugs were also addressed during the period.

SurgeNews 2.0a-4 October 2005

New history handling to cope with large servers with long retention.

SurgeNews 2.0a-2 June 2005

Added support for sharing the load between multiple hosts using header feeds.

Fixed crashes during 'reload'

SurgeNews 2.0a-1 June 2005

Fixed bugs with webnews 'join up parts' which was causing a load problem and long delays

Added 'failover' support for proxy host settings, if a list of hosts is specified then each one will be tried and load will be shared between them.

Improved index format so it will be more resilient, on large servers after installing there will be a delay of about an hour to upgrade the index format! (You cannot downgrade to 1.0* versions after upgrading without also doing a rebuild_index)

SurgeNews 1.0a-14 Feb 2005

Added webnews support for user subscription (via email) to news groups (g_webnews_tomail "true")

Added support for smtp->news gateway for replies from messages sent using g_webnews_tomail

SurgeNews 1.0a-13 Feb 2005

Added image thumbnails to webnews interface

Added server wide search engine to webnews for attachment searching.

Various minor bug fixes.

SurgeNews 1.0a 02-July-2004

Added webnews interface

Added proxy mode features

Main public beta release

SurgeNews 0.1 28-July-2003

Wrote all code

Fixed all bugs and wrote all documentation.

Tested everything.

Syntax	Description
g_crosspost_max int	Limits cross posts for all incoming items
g_expire_replicate bool	This attempts to expire local items if they dont exist on the host we got the header feed from. It judges which is the primary host for a group based on the percent of items it holds, so if the upstream server holds less than half of the items it doesn't use it to expire
g_expire_range bool	This can tidy up groups with big 'gaps' in the numbering
g_feed_delay int	Delay ALL outgoing feeds this many seconds. Please note this delays all outgoing feeds, it is not intended for normal use but for specialised machines sending a delayed feed across an expensive network link
g_feed_once bool	Only send cross posts to one outgoing feed. This allows you to split an incoming feed without duplicating crossposts to backends, it is a global setting so applies to all feeds
g_feed_noback bool	Just drop messages if we can't send them right away
g_groups_block string	Block messages even cross posted to these groups. This can help to stop in appropriate cross posts from porno news groups.
g_no_proxy_user bool	If set then doesn't add X-Proxy-User: header. This is useful to hide the identity of your users from upstream machines.
g_post_replace_date bool	Replace date header for local posts. This prevents local users abusing the date header
g_pull_tryall bool	Try all pull hosts even if xbody header found and failed. Searches harder to find the body of a message
g_ssl_per_domain bool	Create/use an SSL certificate for each domain