Posts for February 2019

2019-02-02: Another new year haul

The last haul I named that was technically not a new year haul since it was posted in December, so I'll use the same title again. This is a relatively small collection of random stuff, mostly picking up recommendations and award nominees that I plan on reading soon.

Kate Elliott — Cold Fire (sff)
Kate Elliott — Cold Steel (sff)
Mik Everett — Self-Published Kindling (non-fiction)
Michael D. Gordin — The Pseudoscience Wars (non-fiction)
Yoon Ha Lee — Dragon Pearl (sff)
Ruth Ozeki — A Tale for the Time Being (sff)
Marge Piercy — Woman on the Edge of Time (sff)
Kim Stanley Robinson — New York 2140 (sff)

I've already reviewed New York 2140. I have several more pre-orders that will be delivered this month, so still safely acquiring books faster than I'm reading them. It's all to support authors!

2019-02-02 18:38 — Permanent link

2019-02-18: INN 2.6.3

INN 2.6.3 has been released. This is a bug fix and minor feature release over INN 2.6.2, and the upgrade should be painless. The main ISC downloads page will be updated shortly; in the meantime, you can download the new release from ftp.isc.org or my personal INN pages. The latter also has links to the full changelog and the other INN documentation.

The big change in this release is support for Python 3. Embedded Python filtering and authentication hooks for innd and nnrpd can now use version 3.3.0 or later of the Python interpreter. Python 2.x is still supported (2.3.0 or later).

Also fixed in this release are several issues with TLS: fixed selection of elliptic curve selection, a new configuration parameter to fine-tune the cipher suites with TLS 1.3, and better logging of failed TLS session negotiation. This release also returns the error message from Python and Perl filter hook rejects to CHECK and TAKETHIS commands and fixes various other, more minor bugs.

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

2019-02-18 14:30 — Permanent link