ripnews/CHANGELOG.md

from 0.5.4 to ripnews-20200311
- add option to only rip one group
- add option to list configured groups
- add date field to caches
- reduce memory footprint and speed ups
- fix authentication
- add option to filter on posting date
- fix long standing bug in cache handling
- better housekeeping

from 0.5.3 to 0.5.4
- filtering on posters useing OPT_IF, OPT_XF, OPT_MRF
- cacheconverter2 to convert caches (or just throw them away)
- OPT_CP also includes poster in combined name

from 0.5.2 to 0.5.3
- fix the occasional deadlock
- implement Mark Remaining Read option
- throw articles that are marked read out of the caches
- implement username & password option
- lots of small improvements

from 0.5.1 to 0.5.2
- major improvement in memory usage
- speed ups
- don't try to fetch really old headers

from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1
- fix some yenc problems with threads
- fix some thread return problems

from 0.2.3 to 0.5.0
- changes to make it work with ruby 1.8.1
- internal structures changed in article.rb
- huge of memory usage improvements... - 90% less memory usage
- (more) gracefully handle bad yencodings
- enable file inclusion
- add MODE READER command
- use a thread for decoding for multi-part posts
- locking cleaned up, no more calling of ps(1)

from 0.2.2 to 0.2.3
- notify when cachedir doesn't exist
- expand ${HOME} in config to your homedir
- fix problem where the limiting of the number of headers to get in one call wouldn't work
- don't change cache files in place
- keep old config if there are errors while reloading
- change cache format to a file per server model (use cacheconverter to convert cache files)
- add license text
- lots of small fixes

from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2
- improve output layout
- show running time
- PID lockfile implementation
- catch another error
- fetch subjects sorted so you get a better chance at getting full series
- now your TEMPDIR can be on another drive than your DATADIR
- reread config on SIGHUP

from 0.2.0 to 0.2.1
- fail gracefully at a lack of configuration
- fail gracefully if tempdir doesn't exist or isn't writable
- implement DELEXT configuration option
- implement OPT_MR configuration option

from 0.1.0 to 0.2.0
- fix extension enforcing
- code cleanups
- split of uudecoding and ydecoding
- add some regression tests
- various bug fixes
- remove articles from newsrc that aren't on the server any longer
- major speed improvements

from 0.0.9 to 0.1.0
- allow comments after continuing lines, like this:
	OPT_I=(?i)( \
	agresion| \		# Paul
	apex theory| \
	at the drive in| \	# Paul
	bad religion| \
- some speed ups
- many more exceptions are handled
- more consistent error messages

from 0.0.8 to 0.0.9
- maxfilelength check
- improved subject checking
- linebuffered stdout
- always use push when adding stuff to an array, this is way more efficient than +=
- always use << when adding stuff to a string, this is way more efficient than +=

from 0.0.7 to 0.0.8
- more and simpler exceptions
- better argument checking
- more helpful help

from 0.0.6 to 0.0.7
- use exceptions for a lot of problems
- code cleanups

from 0.0.5 to 0.0.6
- new option -C for combined filenames eg. "subject-[filename]"
- prevent reconnect loops
- be more paranoid with decoding yEnc-encoded articles
- more/better timeouts

from 0.0.4 to 0.0.5
- implement timeouts on article fetching (no more "hangs", hopefully)
- remove servers from list on connection failure
- much more robust

from 0.0.3 to 0.0.4
- server reconnects now work

from 0.0.2 to 0.0.3
- filtering on file extensions
- multiple servers are now tried in order

from 0.01 to 0.02
- yEnc support by Stijn Hoop. Thanks.
- change cache file format
- sort cache file
- minor bugs