ripnews/CHANGELOG.md

from 0.5.4 to

• 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