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authorWojciech Polak <polak@gnu.org>2004-05-19 19:40:13 +0000
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4.0 (unreleased)
****************
-* GNU Anubis 4.0 has been rewritten from scratch.
- Changed the message processing algorithm to process
- a message as a whole. Many changes, bugfixes,
- and improvements have been made.
-* Rewritten configuration files support using yacc and lex.
-* Grammar rewritten and improved. The new syntax is:
+ Current v3.9.94 (?? ??? 2004):
+
+ GNU Anubis 4.0 has been rewritten from scratch. Changed the message
+ processing algorithm to process a message as a whole. Many changes,
+ bugfixes, and improvements have been made.
+
+** New features:
+
+* The new authentication and authorization mode has been introduced.
+ It drops the IDENT protocol server authentication requirement...
+ [FIXME: elaborate on this]
+
+* [FIXME: Due to above] ...support for the following databases
+ has been added:
+
+ - GDBM
+ - MySQL
+ - PostgreSQL
+
+* Support for the GNU extension language has been added
+ via Guile 1.6 or newer.
+
+* Added testsuite (make check).
+
+** Grammar rewritten and improved (configuration files support
+ has been rewritten using Yacc and Lex). The new syntax is:
if header[Subject] "regexp"
@@ -20,7 +40,6 @@
if header[Subject] "Re: .*" and body ".*found.*"
Conditional statements may be nested to any depth.
-
New syntactical entities:
add header[KEY] VALUE
@@ -28,6 +47,17 @@
remove header[KEY]
modify header[KEY] [NEW-KEY] VALUE
+ [FIXME: Add more news about the grammar]
+
+ The new statement `stop' allows to abort execution of a RULE section.
+ The new statement `regex' sets the default preferences for the
+ style of the regular expressions.
+
+** Run Control File News:
+
+* Added new security option `drop-unknown-user'.
+* New option 'gpg-sign-encrypt' allows to encrypt and sign messages
+ simultaneously.
* The RULE section is allowed both in system-wide and in user
configuration files. The statement `rule-priority' in the
system CONTROL section defines the order of execution of
@@ -35,25 +65,19 @@
* User-defined sections are allowed in either configuration file.
Such sections may be invoked from RULE section or from another
user-defined section using `call' statement.
-* The new statement `stop' allows to abort execution of a RULE section.
-* The new statement `regex' sets the default preferences for the
- style of the regular expressions.
* The order of processing user CONTROL sections may be altered by
setting `control-priority' in the system-wide CONTROL section.
* Execution of the configuration files can be traced by setting
new CONTROL variable `tracefile'.
-* Support for the GNU extension language has been added
- (via Guile 1.6 or newer).
-* Remailers and ROT-13 support has been removed from
- the main engine (moved to Guile layer).
-* Added testsuite (make check).
-* Added new security option `drop-unknown-user'.
-* New option 'gpg-sign-encrypt' allows to encrypt and sign messages
- simultaneously.
-* New file anubis-mode.el provides an Emacs major mode for editing
+
+** Other changes:
+
+* Remailers and Rot-13 support has been removed from the main engine
+ and rewritten as the loadable extension modules.
+* New file `anubis-mode.el' provides an Emacs major mode for editing
Anubis configuration files.
-* New Ukrainian, Malay, and Romanian message translations.
-* Added Dutch, Polish, and Russian message translations.
+* New Dutch, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Ukrainian message
+ translations.
*******************
3.6.2 (15 Dec 2002)

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