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This page lists all changes to my web site in 2021, except for new journal entries, along with a brief description. For more recent changes and the current RSS feed, see the current changes page. For older changes, see the changes for 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008.
Review of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson.
The package for my personal archive is now eyrie-archive-keyring, not eyrie-keyring. Update that and some of the personal package information.
Review of A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow.
Review of Out of Office by Charlie Warzel & Anne Helen Petersen.
Fix warning for navbar with no headings. Always output \heading. Treat an undef title the same as no title. Update some outdated documentation.
Add more INN documentation that has been converted to POD (by Julien ÉLIE) so that it can be formatted as HTML: clientlib, inndcomm, nntpget, send-ihave, and, for INN 2.6, send-nntp.
Add a new *.spin pointer to external files. Add support for Markdown and POD using those pointers and deprecate *.rpod files. Support creating distributions from main branches as well as master. Fix unintented date localization in RSS output. Refactor some internals and add some new APIs.
Fix IN6_ARE_ADDR_EQUAL Autoconf probe on macOS. Fix RRA_PROG_CC_FLAG and RRA_PROG_LD_FLAG to properly reject unknown flags when used with Clang. Disable vertical code alignment in perltidyrc. Disable -Wreserved-identifier in RRA_PROG_CC_WARNING_FLAGS for Clang for now. Update .clang-format for Clang 13.0.
Review of Shattered Pillars by Elizabeth Bear.
Review of The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo.
Add the 2021 winner of the Hugo Award for best novel (Network Effect, by Martha Wells).
Review of Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko.
Review of A World Without Email by Cal Newport.
Review of Soul Music by Terry Pratchett.
Review of A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.
Add new POD conversions of INN documentation from Julien ÉLIE: innreport, innreport.conf, innstat, innxbatch, shrinkfile, writelog, and (for INN 2.6 only) filechan.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Add the 2021 winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel (Trouble the Saints, by Alaya Dawn Johnson).
Review of The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik.
Add winner of the 2021 Mythopoeic Award for adult literature (The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune).
Review of Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman.
Add HTML versions of the manual pages for innwatch.ctl, nnrpd.track, and history, and add a sample for nnrpd.track, for both the current development version and the 2.6 release.
Remove RRA_SET_LIBDIR. Fix RRA_SET_LDFLAGS to always use the multiarch directory if it exists. Require Perl 5.10 or later. Update RRA_LIB_PYTHON to use sysconfig. Fix SUN_LEN on macOS X Big Sur. Add support for testing pam_end arguments in the PAM testing framework. Fix error handling in the k_haspag replacement. Fix deprecation warnings with Autoconf 2.71. Improve Perl::Critic tests. Tweak the perltidy configuration. Add a new t/docs/changes.t Perl module test.
Do not delete the user's ticket cache if PAM_DATA_SILENT was passed to pam_end. Stop trying to guess the PAM module installation path on Linux systems.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Drop a bunch of links to things I no longer read, are no longer available for free, or have stopped updating. Add a bunch of new things I currently read and redo the categorization somewhat.
NNTP now registers two values for the TLS ALPN extension. Document them on the NNTP protocol page.
Add the winners of the 2021 Arthur C. Clark award (The Animals in That Country by Laure Jean McKay) and the 2021 British Fantasy Robert Holdstock Award (The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow).
Review of The Problem with Work by Kathi Weeks.
Mention the winner of the 2021 Otherwise Award, although it's not listed in the table since it's a short story ("Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon" by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki).
Point to https links at ISC instead of no-longer-working FTP links. Update the development information to point to GitHub. Document the snapshot generation. Change some of the page templates to use my current page layout. Drop information about ancient Debian releases.
Add a static site generator by incorporating spin and spin-rss. This implementation should mostly work the same as spin and spin-rss but with some fixed bugs and better error reporting, although support for the \id command was dropped. Improve formatting for thread pages for software packaged for Debian. Ignore configure~ when generating distribution tarballs. Stop assuming all packages have a TODO file.
Remove support for CVS $Id$ strings and \id commands. Stop wrapping output text for easier comparisons. Fix internal section links, including links to headings containing markups and ones where anchors are wrapped. Preserve non-breaking spaces in navbar section names. Fix metacharacter handling in lots of places. Fix nested =over blocks and =over without =item. Fix =for thread and =begin thread. Suppress \signature if the input document was empty, and output the document before erroring if there were POD errors. Improve package metadata.
Add support for kafs by continuing with -t behavior if kafs is present. Use libkeyutils if available to isolate a command's keyring from the invoking program if running a specific command with -t. Use a better exit status when a command is killed with a signal. Use explicit_bzero to clear the password for k5start -s. Other portability fixes and updates.
Review of The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente.
Review of Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse.
Review of The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers.
Review of The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Review of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
Review of Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells.
Add the finalists for the 2021 World Fantasy Award for best novel.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Add the nominees for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the winners of the 2021 Locus Awards (Network Effect by Martha Wells for best SF novel, The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin for best fantasy novel, and Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger for best first novel).
A data-only release that updates the Big Eight control signing key and removes some obsolete information about net.*.
New web page summarizing control information for the Big Eight hierarchies with links to the control message signing keys and the PGP Moose key.
Review of Demon Lord of Karanda by David Eddings.
Review of The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis.
Review of Stoneskin by K.B. Spangler.
Add the winner of the 2021 Nebula Award for best novel (Network Effect by Martha Wells).
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Review of The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis.
Review of The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal.
Review of The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Review of A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine.
Review of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis.
Review of Beyond Shame by Kit Rocha.
Review of Learning React by Alex Banks & Eve Porcello.
Add the nominees for the 2021 Hugo Award for best novel.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Add 2021 winner of the BSFA award for best novel (The City We Became, by N.K. Jemisin).
Add 2021 winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for best novel (The Road out of Winter, by Alison Stine).
Review of Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis.
Review of Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher.
Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher is the first of a series. Add the series information and a mention of the sequel.
Review of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan.
In the documentation pages for INN CURRENT, 2.6, and 2.5, add the sample init script and systemd unit.
Handle the navbar and table of contents internally in the module rather than via a pre-scanning pass. Honor CVS Id strings found anywhere in the document. Don't title-case words in section titles in the navbar that contain an underscore.
Convert to Python 3. Update my email address.
Convert to Python 3. Update my email address.
Support formatting of dense bullet lists with line continuations but no blank lines between bullets. Update my email address.
DocKnot has now been uploaded to Debian proper.
As the first step in cleaning up my static site generator pages, and in prepration for uploading it to CPAN in its own right, move Pod::Thread to its own separate web pages.
Fix use-after-free if krb5_cc_get_principal fails on the newly-created ticket cache.
Rename SQLite Autoconf macros and their outputs from SQLITE to SQLITE3. Fix support for optional libraries. Rename KRB5_CPPFLAGS_GCC to KRB5_CPPFLAGS_WARNINGS. Stop defining AM_CONDITIONAL in Autoconf macros. Check for working Kerberos headers as well as libraries. Add C stubs for sd_notify and sd_notifyf and a preprocessor stub for sd_is_socket. Fix portable/sd-daemon.h to include prerequisite headers. Fix RRA_PROG_PYTHON with Python 3.0 and older Python 2.x versions. Fix problems with the util/fdflag test. Use AS_ECHO where possible. Fix perlcritic with YAML::XS.
Refresh the expiration on my signing key and re-export my key with the export-clean flag, which cleans up a bunch of duplicate and expired signatures.
Add the nominees for the 2021 Nebula Award for best novel.
Published a new experimental signing key for Big Eight control messages that was generated with a modern GnuPG.
Add winner of the 2020 British Fantasy Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel (The Bone Ships, by RJ Barker).
Review of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
Review of Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne.
Add support for a global user configuration file. Allow the distribution directory to be specified in it. Add support for GnuPG signing of generated tarballs. Fix docknot --help. Remove the obsolete load_appdata_json helper. Fix some documentation bugs left over from the 4.00 release.
Review of Finder by Suzanne Palmer.
Review of The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal.
Review of Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh.
Review of Spheres of Influence by Ryk E. Spoor.
Add the winner of the (delayed) 2020 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (Snow White Learns Witchcraft, by Theodora Goss).
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Review of The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz.
Remove the changes from December 2020 from the recent changes page.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Added support for systemd notifications and socket activation. Adapt the length of the DH parameter during DHE key exchanges in nnrpd. Return information about retired CNFS buffers from cnfsstat. Externalize the CSS information from generated innreport reports. Support storing wire format articles with sm. Add a flag to rnews to disallow additional unpackers, a flag to save rejected articles, and a flag to log the message ID of duplicate articles. Add a compile-time option to enable hardening flags.
Review of A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik.
Review of The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin.
Review of Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price.
Review of The Secret Barrister by The Secret Barrister.
Update URL to Nicola Griffith's blog, and switch Karl Schroeder's blog to https.
Review of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow.
Add links to all award pages that have good award web sites. Add notes where the 2020 award was canceled or delayed. Add the winner of the 2020 Prix Aurora Award for best adult novel (The Gossamer Mage by Julie E. Czerneda) and the Sunburst award for adults (Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia).
Move all web site changes from 2020 to a separate page and remove all entries older than December of 2020 from the current changes page.
Add an overview of my 2020 reading, main book recommendations, and reading statistics.
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