From: Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
-Subject: [WIP] public-inbox 1.4.0
+Subject: [ANNOUNCE] public-inbox 1.4.0
+Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:47:00 +0000
+Message-Id: <20200417084700.public-inbox-1.4.0-rele@sed>
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+This release focuses on reproducibility improvements and
+bugfixes for corner-cases. Busy instances of PublicInbox::WWW
+may also notice memory usage reductions.
+
+For rare messages lacking Date and/or Received headers, mirrors
+now fall back to using the git author/commit times to reindex
+them. This ensures search and filtering queries behave
+identically on mirrors as they do on the original machine.
+
+"altid" SQLite dumps are now accessible to all over the WWW
+interface via `POST /$INBOX/$ALTID.sql.gz'.
+
+Busy instances of PublicInbox::WWW (whether via
+public-inbox-httpd or another PSGI server) may notice
+significant memory usage reductions from the single message
+"permalink" lifetime optimization. There also ongoing work to
+improve memory lifetime management to reduce the potential for
+memory fragmentation in daemons.
+
+* general changes:
+
+ - `include.*' directives in the public-inbox-config(5) file
+ are now honored as documented in git-config(1),
+ thanks to Andreas Rottmann.
+
+ - `+0000' is assumed for dates missing TZ offsets;
+ thanks to Leah Neukirchen for spotting this regression from
+ v1.2.0.
+
+ - `<' and `>' characters are dropped to avoid errors in git
+ in addresses for git, thanks again to Leah for noticing
+ this long-standing bug.
+
+* PublicInbox::WWW:
+
+ - memory reductions for message display and rendering
+ - code preload improved to reduce memory fragmentation
+ - remove redundant "a=" parameter in links to solver
+ - escape '&' in hrefs properly
+ - fix optional address obfuscation in search results
+ - `POST /$INBOX/$ALTID.sql.gz' endpoint to retrieve SQLite dumps
+
+* public-inbox-httpd + public-inbox-nntpd:
+
+ - fix SIGUSR2 upgrade in worker-less instances (-W0)
+
+* public-inbox-httpd:
+
+ - fix RFC 7230 conformance when Content-Length and "chunked"
+ are both specified
+
+* public-inbox-index:
+
+ - reproduce original date and time stamps in mirrors for messages
+ lacking Date: and/or Received: headers
+
+ - new `--compact' (or `-c') switch to perform the equivalent of
+ public-inbox-compact(1) after indexing each inbox
+
+* documentation:
+
+ - add Documentation/technical/data_structures.txt for new hackers
+
+* scripts/import_vger_from_mbox: (not really a production-level script)
+
+ - fix ">From" unescaping thanks to a bug report from Kyle Meyer
+
+Thanks to Andreas Rottmann, Leah Neukirchen and Kyle Meyer
+for their contributions to this release.
+
+Release tarball available for download over HTTPS or Tor .onion:
+
+https://yhbt.net/public-inbox.git/snapshot/public-inbox-1.4.0.tar.gz
+http://ou63pmih66umazou.onion/public-inbox.git/snapshot/public-inbox-1.4.0.tar.gz
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