Contents of /trunk/NEWS

Changes in version 2.0.3 - 2002-10-12
        * Set program name according to current action.
        * Fix a typo that showed up in perl 5.0005_02 (had a , instead of a .
          in an open() when reading mboxen as input).

Changes in version 2.0.2 - 2002-09-21
        * Die immeditatly if there is no Version information in metadata.
        * Make regular backups of metadata and rotate them properly.

Changes in version 2.0.1 - 2002-09-21
        * Store unkown fields from mix summary lines and put them in keyrings.

Changes in version 2.0 - 2002-09-17
        * New version number, this is 2.0, really!
        * Minor spelling fixes.
        
Changes in version 2.0rc3 - 2002-09-12
        * Write SENDMAIL to mix.cfg
        * Add sendpings command.
        * Only decrease a remailer's ttl during requesting -conf if
          it was requested by the usualy timer run and not by the
          user.
        * Template cleanup: fix a link and add links to .txt versions
          to front page.
        * Have install-perl-modules tool.
        * Spelling fixes.
        * seperate_rlists was renamed to separate_rlists.
        * README was improved.

Changes in version 2.0rc2 - 2002-09-08
        * Reopen stdin to /dev/null instead of closing it to avoid
          perl 5.8 warnings.

Changes in version 2.0rc1 - 2002-09-05
        * new version number.
        * Random spelling fixes.
        * Do not show hidden remailers in thesaurus.

Changes in version 2.0beta34 - 2002-09-04
        * Make ping/request time more random.
        * Encrypt pings (symmetrically), so that dup detection of some
          remailers (austria) fails and pings get processed.
        * Write total number of unique remailers to echolot.html.

Changes in version 2.0beta33 - 2002-08-23
        * Scheduler fixes (inserted jobs for one time processing got requeued
          over and over again according to their interval).
        * Give a short summary about current stats on index page.

Changes in version 2.0beta32 - 2002-08-23
        * Fix a major bug introduced in 2.0beta31 that resulted in no
          remailer-xxx queries beeing sent out.

Changes in version 2.0beta31 - 2002-08-21
        * Have a consistent name for the ~/echolot directory in README.
        * If you request keyconf from only a few remailers, more requests could
          have been sent. Fixed that.
        * Write REMAIL n to mix.cfg - apparently it defaults to yes, which
          means Mixmaster will want to create keys.
        * Fix random typos.
        * Fix pingctl script.

Changes in version 2.0beta30 - 2002-08-15
        * Write NAME and ADDRESS to mix.cfg - mix cannot figure it out
          if detached.

Changes in version 2.0beta29 - 2002-08-14
        * Create .meta files with the expiry date of pages.
        * Also put the expiry date in HTML meta headers.
        * Make indexfilebasename a configure option.
        * Code cleanup: renamed some functions.

Changes in version 2.0beta28 - 2002-08-13
        * Write a standard mix.cfg configuration file for mixmaster.
          It only sets PUBRING and TYPE2LIST. Needed for systems where
          those values are overriden by systemwide defaults.

Changes in version 2.0beta27 - 2002-08-13
        * Some small fixes to the Debian Package

Changes in version 2.0beta26 - 2002-08-12
        * Fix a few typos in the echolot.html template.
        * Added /etc/echolot/pingd.conf to the list of configfiles.
        * Have a debian/ directory to build a Debian package.
        * Config option mailindir was renamed to mailin. You now
          can also point it to a mbox format mailbox.
        * Have --quiet.
        * Stricter permissions for most newly created directories (go-rwx).

Changes in version 2.0beta25 - 2002-08-10
        * Produce echolot.html, an index file for echolot results.
        
Changes in version 2.0beta24 - 2002-08-10
        * Remove �x� from end of pubring.mix summary lines.

Changes in version 2.0beta23 - 2002-08-07
        * Unlinking Thesaurus files works now.
        * Detach correctly now.

Changes in version 2.0beta22 - 2002-08-05
        * Actually use the sane basedir. *sigh*

Changes in version 2.0beta21 - 2002-08-05
        * Using a sane basedir by default. You no longer need to specify
          it in pingd.conf.

Changes in version 2.0beta20 - 2002-08-02
        * Added pingctl wrapper to tools.
        * echolot --help now gives a brief list of commands.
        * Added acknowledgements.

Changes in version 2.0beta19 - 2002-07-29
        * Build keyrings in results.private too

Changes in version 2.0beta18 - 2002-07-23
        * Allow for inclusion of broken chain reports and same operator/machine
          lists in stats pages. Broken chain reports are not generated
          automatically; this is planned for a later release.  For now you need
          to supply this information in the files broken1.txt, broken2.txt, and
          sameop.txt.

Changes in version 2.0beta17 - 2002-07-22
        * You no longer need an extra Mixmaster installation for your pinger.
          Echolot can make use of any Mixmaster binary you alread have
          installed.
        * The config hash �Pinger::Mix� is obsolete now. Please set
          �mixmaster� to the path of your mix executeable. Echolot now
          uses its own mix directory below echolothome by default (config
          option mixhome).
        * The default gnupghome has changed from �gnupg� to �gnupghome�.
        * New config option �gnupg�.
        * Not the current time but the scheduled start time is used when
          deciding which remailers to ping. This is nice if we get delayed for
          whatever reason.
        * Changed URL in templates to point to www.palfrader.org/echolot
          instead of the savannah page.
        
        How to upgrade (assuming you have a default configuration):
           ./pingd stop
           mv gnupg gnupghome
           vi pingd.conf (remove Pinger::Mix, set mixmaster;
                          cf. pingd.conf.sample )
          ./pingd [...] start

Changes in version 2.0beta16 - 2002-07-17
        * Do not send all pings for the same remailer at the same time
        * The cheap hashing function that was used for determining when to ping
          was replaced by md5. The local secret also is an input to the
          function so not all echolot pingers ping the same remailer at the
          same time.
        * In the distribution the pingd.conf file has been renamed to pingd.conf.
          So it should be possible to just untar the new tar.gz over the old
          installation (you have a backup anyway, don't you?).
        * The getkeyconf command takes optional addresses to request config
          data from.
        * The getkeyconf config option was replaced by getkeyconf_interval and
          getkeyconf_every_nth_time. Not all requests are sent at the same time
          any more.
        * Stats can be sorted by latency rather than nick. Set
          stats_sort_by_latency if you want that.

Changes in version 2.0beta15 - 2002-07-16
        * Have echolot version in stats HTML pages
        * Random documentation fixes
        * Make it runs with older perls (5.005_03 is tested)
          - always pass two arguments to mkdir()
          - import SEEK_ constants from POSIX rather than Fcntl
          - do not use warnings

Changes in version 2.0beta14 - 2002-07-16
        * Added commands buildstats buildkeys and buildthesaurus
        * Added legend to templates (Orange)
        * Thesaurus building failed when an id did not return a
          valid remailer. A check was there bug it was wrong
        * Have pingd.conf.5 manpage documenting all options

Changes in version 2.0beta13 - 2002-07-13
        * Have correct title tags and some layout changes in the HTML templates
        * Encode HTML Entities in HTML Stats
        * Only show valid remailers in Thesaurus
        * Support �not a remailer� reply to remailer-xxx
        * Make sure only the right keys are exported to the pgp keyrings
        * Do not skip key if GnuPG returns something in stderr with
          remailer-key replies

Changes in version 2.0beta12 - 2002-07-11
        * Cut strings when they do not fit in the table formats
        * Sort type2.list/pubring.mix

Changes in version 2.0beta11 - 2002-07-11
        * Don't run in Taint mode anymore per default.
          If you still want it, trimm your PATH to something acceptable
          for perl and add �-T� to the first line of pingd.

Changes in version 2.0beta10 - 2002-07-11
        * Don't reset PATH to /usr/bin:/bin any more (Yes, again)
        * Documentation updates

Changes in version 2.0beta9 - 2002-07-11
        * Don't reset PATH to /usr/bin:/bin any more
        * Use confess or cluck instead of croak in some places.

Changes in version 2.0beta8 - 2002-07-10
        * Fix public clist.

Changes in version 2.0beta7 - 2002-07-10
        * fixed a stupid syntax bug.

Changes in version 2.0beta6 - 2002-07-10
        * Did away with Mail::Internet. Using local sendmail binary only.
          This also means the smarthost config option is obsolete and there
          is a sendmail config option now.

Changes in version 2.0beta5 - 2002-07-10
        * Thesaurus filenames changed from nn-foo to nn.foo.
          Use the change-thesaurus-filenames script in the tools
          directory to convert your current thesaurus if you wish
          to keep the data.
        * Seperate rlists for rsa, dsa and plaintext pings are
          supported now. Enable seperate_rlists in pingd.conf.
        * Have a combined list. Enable with combined_list in pingd.conf.

Changes in version 2.0beta4 - 2002-07-10
        * Minor documentation fixes
        * Added --process switch
        * Die if metadata or conf data cannot be parsed
        * Build manpage into extra file

Changes in version 2.0beta3 - 2002-07-10
        * Fixed a small bug with writing the metadata so that it could not be
          parsed again

Changes in version 2.0beta2 - 2002-07-10
        * Moved from XML to Data::Dumper
          Use convert-xml-to-datadumper in the tools directory to
          convert your setup:
            pingd stop
            mv pingd.conf pingd.conf.old
            mv data/metadata data/metadata.old
            convert-xml-to-datadumper CONFIG < pingd.conf.old > pingd.conf
            convert-xml-to-datadumper METADATA < data/metadata.old > data/metadata
            pingd start

Changes in version 2.0beta1 - 2002-07-07
        * Initial public beta test
1	weasel	313	Changes in version 2.0.3 - 2002-10-12
2	weasel	310	* Set program name according to current action.
3	weasel	313	* Fix a typo that showed up in perl 5.0005_02 (had a , instead of a .
4	weasel	312	in an open() when reading mboxen as input).
5	weasel	310
6	weasel	308	Changes in version 2.0.2 - 2002-09-21
7			* Die immeditatly if there is no Version information in metadata.
8			* Make regular backups of metadata and rotate them properly.
9
10	weasel	307	Changes in version 2.0.1 - 2002-09-21
11			* Store unkown fields from mix summary lines and put them in keyrings.
12
13	weasel	306	Changes in version 2.0 - 2002-09-17
14			* New version number, this is 2.0, really!
15			* Minor spelling fixes.
16
17	weasel	303	Changes in version 2.0rc3 - 2002-09-12
18	weasel	292	* Write SENDMAIL to mix.cfg
19	weasel	298	* Add sendpings command.
20	weasel	293	* Only decrease a remailer's ttl during requesting -conf if
21			it was requested by the usualy timer run and not by the
22			user.
23	weasel	294	* Template cleanup: fix a link and add links to .txt versions
24			to front page.
25	weasel	296	* Have install-perl-modules tool.
26	weasel	297	* Spelling fixes.
27			* seperate_rlists was renamed to separate_rlists.
28	weasel	298	* README was improved.
29	weasel	292
30	weasel	291	Changes in version 2.0rc2 - 2002-09-08
31			* Reopen stdin to /dev/null instead of closing it to avoid
32			perl 5.8 warnings.
33
34	weasel	288	Changes in version 2.0rc1 - 2002-09-05
35			* new version number.
36			* Random spelling fixes.
37	weasel	289	* Do not show hidden remailers in thesaurus.
38	weasel	288
39	weasel	285	Changes in version 2.0beta34 - 2002-09-04
40	weasel	283	* Make ping/request time more random.
41			* Encrypt pings (symmetrically), so that dup detection of some
42			remailers (austria) fails and pings get processed.
43	weasel	284	* Write total number of unique remailers to echolot.html.
44	weasel	283
45	weasel	280	Changes in version 2.0beta33 - 2002-08-23
46			* Scheduler fixes (inserted jobs for one time processing got requeued
47			over and over again according to their interval).
48	weasel	281	* Give a short summary about current stats on index page.
49	weasel	280
50	weasel	277	Changes in version 2.0beta32 - 2002-08-23
51			* Fix a major bug introduced in 2.0beta31 that resulted in no
52			remailer-xxx queries beeing sent out.
53	weasel	276
54	weasel	275	Changes in version 2.0beta31 - 2002-08-21
55	weasel	266	* Have a consistent name for the ~/echolot directory in README.
56	weasel	270	* If you request keyconf from only a few remailers, more requests could
57	weasel	267	have been sent. Fixed that.
58	weasel	269	* Write REMAIL n to mix.cfg - apparently it defaults to yes, which
59			means Mixmaster will want to create keys.
60	weasel	271	* Fix random typos.
61	weasel	274	* Fix pingctl script.
62	weasel	266
63	weasel	265	Changes in version 2.0beta30 - 2002-08-15
64	weasel	264	* Write NAME and ADDRESS to mix.cfg - mix cannot figure it out
65			if detached.
66
67	weasel	259	Changes in version 2.0beta29 - 2002-08-14
68	weasel	258	* Create .meta files with the expiry date of pages.
69			* Also put the expiry date in HTML meta headers.
70			* Make indexfilebasename a configure option.
71			* Code cleanup: renamed some functions.
72
73	weasel	257	Changes in version 2.0beta28 - 2002-08-13
74	weasel	256	* Write a standard mix.cfg configuration file for mixmaster.
75			It only sets PUBRING and TYPE2LIST. Needed for systems where
76			those values are overriden by systemwide defaults.
77
78	weasel	255	Changes in version 2.0beta27 - 2002-08-13
79	weasel	253	* Some small fixes to the Debian Package
80
81	weasel	248	Changes in version 2.0beta26 - 2002-08-12
82	weasel	232	* Fix a few typos in the echolot.html template.
83	weasel	234	* Added /etc/echolot/pingd.conf to the list of configfiles.
84	weasel	239	* Have a debian/ directory to build a Debian package.
85	weasel	240	* Config option mailindir was renamed to mailin. You now
86			can also point it to a mbox format mailbox.
87	weasel	245	* Have --quiet.
88	weasel	246	* Stricter permissions for most newly created directories (go-rwx).
89	weasel	232
90	weasel	230	Changes in version 2.0beta25 - 2002-08-10
91			* Produce echolot.html, an index file for echolot results.
92
93	weasel	227	Changes in version 2.0beta24 - 2002-08-10
94			* Remove �x� from end of pubring.mix summary lines.
95
96	weasel	225	Changes in version 2.0beta23 - 2002-08-07
97			* Unlinking Thesaurus files works now.
98			* Detach correctly now.
99
100	weasel	222	Changes in version 2.0beta22 - 2002-08-05
101			* Actually use the sane basedir. sigh
102
103	weasel	221	Changes in version 2.0beta21 - 2002-08-05
104			* Using a sane basedir by default. You no longer need to specify
105			it in pingd.conf.
106
107	weasel	220	Changes in version 2.0beta20 - 2002-08-02
108			* Added pingctl wrapper to tools.
109			* echolot --help now gives a brief list of commands.
110			* Added acknowledgements.
111
112	weasel	219	Changes in version 2.0beta19 - 2002-07-29
113	weasel	217	* Build keyrings in results.private too
114
115	weasel	216	Changes in version 2.0beta18 - 2002-07-23
116	weasel	215	* Allow for inclusion of broken chain reports and same operator/machine
117			lists in stats pages. Broken chain reports are not generated
118			automatically; this is planned for a later release. For now you need
119			to supply this information in the files broken1.txt, broken2.txt, and
120			sameop.txt.
121
122	weasel	216	Changes in version 2.0beta17 - 2002-07-22
123	weasel	212	* You no longer need an extra Mixmaster installation for your pinger.
124			Echolot can make use of any Mixmaster binary you alread have
125			installed.
126			* The config hash �Pinger::Mix� is obsolete now. Please set
127			�mixmaster� to the path of your mix executeable. Echolot now
128			uses its own mix directory below echolothome by default (config
129			option mixhome).
130			* The default gnupghome has changed from �gnupg� to �gnupghome�.
131			* New config option �gnupg�.
132	weasel	211	* Not the current time but the scheduled start time is used when
133			deciding which remailers to ping. This is nice if we get delayed for
134			whatever reason.
135	weasel	210	* Changed URL in templates to point to www.palfrader.org/echolot
136			instead of the savannah page.
137	weasel	212
138			How to upgrade (assuming you have a default configuration):
139			./pingd stop
140			mv gnupg gnupghome
141			vi pingd.conf (remove Pinger::Mix, set mixmaster;
142			cf. pingd.conf.sample )
143			./pingd [...] start
144	weasel	210
145	weasel	209	Changes in version 2.0beta16 - 2002-07-17
146	weasel	199	* Do not send all pings for the same remailer at the same time
147	weasel	202	* The cheap hashing function that was used for determining when to ping
148			was replaced by md5. The local secret also is an input to the
149			function so not all echolot pingers ping the same remailer at the
150			same time.
151	weasel	204	* In the distribution the pingd.conf file has been renamed to pingd.conf.
152			So it should be possible to just untar the new tar.gz over the old
153			installation (you have a backup anyway, don't you?).
154	weasel	206	* The getkeyconf command takes optional addresses to request config
155			data from.
156			* The getkeyconf config option was replaced by getkeyconf_interval and
157			getkeyconf_every_nth_time. Not all requests are sent at the same time
158			any more.
159	weasel	207	* Stats can be sorted by latency rather than nick. Set
160			stats_sort_by_latency if you want that.
161	weasel	199
162	weasel	195	Changes in version 2.0beta15 - 2002-07-16
163	weasel	187	* Have echolot version in stats HTML pages
164	weasel	190	* Random documentation fixes
165	weasel	198	* Make it runs with older perls (5.005_03 is tested)
166	weasel	194	- always pass two arguments to mkdir()
167			- import SEEK_ constants from POSIX rather than Fcntl
168			- do not use warnings
169	weasel	187
170	weasel	184	Changes in version 2.0beta14 - 2002-07-16
171	weasel	172	* Added commands buildstats buildkeys and buildthesaurus
172	weasel	176	* Added legend to templates (Orange)
173	weasel	177	* Thesaurus building failed when an id did not return a
174	weasel	187	valid remailer. A check was there bug it was wrong
175			* Have pingd.conf.5 manpage documenting all options
176	weasel	172
177	weasel	173	Changes in version 2.0beta13 - 2002-07-13
178	weasel	162	* Have correct title tags and some layout changes in the HTML templates
179	weasel	171	* Encode HTML Entities in HTML Stats
180			* Only show valid remailers in Thesaurus
181			* Support �not a remailer� reply to remailer-xxx
182			* Make sure only the right keys are exported to the pgp keyrings
183			* Do not skip key if GnuPG returns something in stderr with
184			remailer-key replies
185	weasel	162
186	weasel	161	Changes in version 2.0beta12 - 2002-07-11
187			* Cut strings when they do not fit in the table formats
188			* Sort type2.list/pubring.mix
189
190	weasel	158	Changes in version 2.0beta11 - 2002-07-11
191			* Don't run in Taint mode anymore per default.
192			If you still want it, trimm your PATH to something acceptable
193			for perl and add �-T� to the first line of pingd.
194
195	weasel	157	Changes in version 2.0beta10 - 2002-07-11
196			* Don't reset PATH to /usr/bin:/bin any more (Yes, again)
197			* Documentation updates
198
199	weasel	153	Changes in version 2.0beta9 - 2002-07-11
200	weasel	150	* Don't reset PATH to /usr/bin:/bin any more
201	weasel	153	* Use confess or cluck instead of croak in some places.
202	weasel	150
203	weasel	153	Changes in version 2.0beta8 - 2002-07-10
204	weasel	148	* Fix public clist.
205
206	weasel	153	Changes in version 2.0beta7 - 2002-07-10
207	weasel	143	* fixed a stupid syntax bug.
208
209	weasel	153	Changes in version 2.0beta6 - 2002-07-10
210	weasel	141	* Did away with Mail::Internet. Using local sendmail binary only.
211			This also means the smarthost config option is obsolete and there
212			is a sendmail config option now.
213
214	weasel	140	Changes in version 2.0beta5 - 2002-07-10
215	weasel	137	* Thesaurus filenames changed from nn-foo to nn.foo.
216			Use the change-thesaurus-filenames script in the tools
217			directory to convert your current thesaurus if you wish
218			to keep the data.
219	weasel	138	* Seperate rlists for rsa, dsa and plaintext pings are
220			supported now. Enable seperate_rlists in pingd.conf.
221	weasel	139	* Have a combined list. Enable with combined_list in pingd.conf.
222	weasel	137
223	weasel	140	Changes in version 2.0beta4 - 2002-07-10
224	weasel	134	* Minor documentation fixes
225			* Added --process switch
226			* Die if metadata or conf data cannot be parsed
227			* Build manpage into extra file
228
229	weasel	140	Changes in version 2.0beta3 - 2002-07-10
230	weasel	124	* Fixed a small bug with writing the metadata so that it could not be
231			parsed again
232
233	weasel	140	Changes in version 2.0beta2 - 2002-07-10
234	weasel	123	* Moved from XML to Data::Dumper
235			Use convert-xml-to-datadumper in the tools directory to
236			convert your setup:
237			pingd stop
238			mv pingd.conf pingd.conf.old
239			mv data/metadata data/metadata.old
240			convert-xml-to-datadumper CONFIG < pingd.conf.old > pingd.conf
241			convert-xml-to-datadumper METADATA < data/metadata.old > data/metadata
242			pingd start
243
244	weasel	140	Changes in version 2.0beta1 - 2002-07-07
245	weasel	123	* Initial public beta test