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  • Lock files in the spool, updatenews -l, the reply before the goodbye (#272-#277) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

    @go-while go-while committed Nov 3, 2026
  • Log control bytes, big article files, SIGTERM without reconnect (#267-#271) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

    @go-while go-while committed Nov 3, 2026
  • TLS for clients: "from 1.3.23" again instead of "on main" The pages describe main; "from 1.3.23" stays right after the release, "on main" doesn't.

    @go-while go-while committed Oct 31, 2026
  • Update wiki for current main behavior Document bounded and adaptive upstream replies, multi-server posting dates and stalled client writes. Correct stale client TLS, authentication, command and spool statistics descriptions. Co-Authored-By: GPT-6.1 Terra <noreply@openai.com>

    @go-while go-while committed Oct 31, 2026
  • TLS for Clients: new page (TLSListenTo, certificates, AuthRequiresTLS, -t); links from Home, sidebar, Configuration, Installation, Access, Troubleshooting

    @go-while go-while committed Oct 28, 2026
  • Wiki: changes of #137-#145 (configure options, PAM_RHOST, config open errors, newscacheclean -s -t, upgrade notes)

    @go-while go-while committed Oct 28, 2026
  • updatenews -l alone works as -g -l (#136); newscache -o without the config (#133); XDEBUG dumps with CRLF (#135)

    @go-while go-while committed Oct 28, 2026
  • Wiki: program options as in the corrected man pages From #126: newscache -h, and -o reads the configuration first; newscacheclean -c, -s, -p, -t, -v, -h; updatenews -c, -v, -h, -g wins over -o, -l only with -g, and what it does without -a, -g, -o and -l. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

    @go-while go-while committed Oct 26, 2026
  • Wiki: daemon and log files, upgrading from 1.3.22 Installation: SIGTERM ends the sessions at once, the warning without Username, the log directory needn't be writable for news when the programs start as root, autogen stops when autoreconf fails. Troubleshooting: log file links, fds 0-2 on /dev/null, config errors, 481, and what changes for users of 1.3.22. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

    @go-while go-while committed Oct 26, 2026
  • Wiki: GNU/Hurd, current unit checks NewsCache builds on Debian GNU/Hurd (#119): libcrypt-dev must be installed there, and the e2e tests are skipped (no Go). The list of unit checks adds cNewsgroupList, cLogger and cUtil. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

    @go-while go-while committed Oct 26, 2026
  • Wiki: installation, configuration, access, upstream/TLS, caching, NNTP commands, troubleshooting, development Written from the docs on main (76a1f0b): README.md, FEDORA.md, debian/README.Debian, doc/NewsCache.texi, the man pages, the sample config, NEWS and .claude/CLAUDE.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

    @go-while go-while committed Oct 22, 2026