Posts for July 2015

2015-07-05: INN 2.5.5

(This release has actually been ready for a while, but there were a few technical difficulties with getting it copied up to the right places, and then I got very distracted by various life stuff.)

This is the first new release of INN in about a year, and hopefully the last in the 2.5.x series. A beta release of INN 2.6.0 will be announced shortly (probably tomorrow).

As is typical for bug-fix releases, this release rolls up a bunch of small bug fixes that have been made over the past year. The most notable changes include new inn.conf parameters to fine-tune the SSL/TLS configuration for nnrpd (generally to tighten it over the OpenSSL defaults), a few new flags to various utilities, multiple improvements to pullnews, and support for properly stopping cnfsstat and innwatch if INN is started and then quickly stopped.

As always, thanks to Julien ÉLIE for preparing this release and doing most of the maintenance work on INN!

You can get the latest version from the official ISC download page or from my personal INN pages. The latter also has links to the full changelog and the other INN documentation.

2015-07-05 22:13 — Permanent link

2015-07-06: INN 2.6.0 release candidate

In more INN-related news (and catching up on my substantial backlog), a second release candidate for the INN 2.6.0 release is now available. (The first one was only circulated on the inn-workers mailing list.)

INN 2.6.0 is the next major release of INN, with lots of improvements to the build system, protocol support, and the test suite, among many other things. Changes have been accumulating slowly for quite some time.

There are a lot of changes, so I won't go into all the details here. If you're curious, take a look at the NEWS file. You can get the release candidate from ftp.isc.org. (Note that this link will be removed once INN 2.6.0 is released.)

As always, thanks to Julien ÉLIE for preparing this release and doing most of the maintenance work on INN!

For more information about INN, see the official ISC download page or from my personal INN pages. The latter also has links to the full changelog and the other INN documentation.

2015-07-06 20:23 — Permanent link