bogofilter 1.2.5.rc1 (release candidate #1) now available

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Mon Sep 9 00:09:21 CEST 2019 

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Greetings,

bogofilter 1.2.5.rc1 is now available.

Bogofilter can now also be used with KyotoCabinet (code contributed by Denny
Lin), LMDB (code contributed by Steffen Nurpmeso). There have been several
major bug fixes, many minor bug and a few efficiency fixes, polishing, a
license change for the security announcements (for easier distribution they now
permit dual-licensing per the GPL v3 or newer), and a bit of maintenance under
the hood.  Bogofilter can be compiled with C++ compilers where the system's
C compiler is lacking.

The NEWS and RELEASE.NOTES files are shown below.


On an inconceivably sad note, David M. Relson, the former #1 bogofilter
maintainer and main contributor, suddenly and unexpectedly passed away in 2013.

I thank his family for offering and transferring the bogofilter data,
it was David's youngest son Eric who did all the hard work in difficult times
back then.  It was the desire of David's family to continue the bogofilter
project as a monument to David.

I have taken over maintenance of bogofilter since and intend to continue
to maintain it.  I have made several changes to ease my task, and that
encompasses a migration of the source code repository from Subversion to
Git, and co-hosting it on Gitlab.com.

Given the reduced development heads and hands on the project, I will have to
more radically leave support for old or rare systems behind and focus on
halfway modern POSIX-compliant systems.  The next release will certainly
require at least 2001 compliance (Open Group Base Specs. Issue 6, Single Unix
Specification v3) and C99.
  Later subsequent releases may well incur upgrades to C11 and IEEE Std 1003.1,
2013 edition and/or C++14 or C++17 depending on development pace,
contributions, and what benefits newer standards would bring.
  Rest assured that bigger changes will happen with a sense of proportion.

Regards,
Matthias Andree

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1.2.5.RC1
	2019-09-08
	* Release candidate #1 for bogofilter 1.2.5.
	* Add a file "OBITUARY" to inform the bogofilter community
	  that and how David M. Relson has passed away in 2013.
	* Matthias Andree has been maintainer since.

	2019-08-04
	* Const-ness fix initiated for KyotoCabinet driver (fixing a const
	  qualifier warning there) also improves performance in some
	  "full-database" operations for LMDB and SQLite3, through reduced
	  memory allocation and copy operations.

	2019-06-21
	* Plugged more memory leaks (one-shot leaks in bogoutil/bogotune).
	* RPMs or scripts for static library builds have been removed.
	  Bogofilter no longer supports systems that are too far out of date.
	  This removes .spec files from the package (for now, it is still
	  built during ./configure), disables "make rpm", and drops the
	  install-staticdblibs.sh script, and removes "--enable-static"
	  support from ./configure.

	2019-05-19
	* Bogofilter's source code repository has been converted to Git,
	  and is hosted on GitLab and mirrored onto SourceForge.net.
	  In contrast to Subversion (SVN), the prior system, Git is
	  a distributed open-source version control system and has
	  gained a lot of ground over the past years, and is solid and
	  scales well.

	2018-07-19
	* Support for using LMDB (Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager)
	  as the database back-end. Suggested, courteously implemented and
	  contributed by Steffen Nurpmeso, steffen .at. sdaoden.eu.

	2018-07-17
	* The Berkeley DB backend driver forgoes DB_NOSYNC in transactional
	  mode, so as to synchronize changes from the logs back into the .db
	  files to keep them up to date and make environments more robust
	  against a loss of log.* files, for instance, when moving databases.

	2017-09-18
	* The contrib/spamitarium.pl, originally written by Thomas 'Tom'
	  Anderson, was enhanced by Jonathan Kamens and grew a few features.
	  Run perldoc contrib/spamitarium.pl, or spamitarium.pl -h, to read
	  its manual.

	2016-01-26
	* Apply patch from Denny Lin, with one fix, to add support for the
	  KyotoCabinet embedded database library.  To enable, install
	  KyotoCabinet including the development files, and run
	  configure --with-database=kyotocabinet when building bogofilter.
	  Thanks!

	* Apply patch from Denny Lin to plug a few memory leaks in bogofilter's
	  TokyoCabinet implementation, contributed through the bogofilter-dev
	  mailing list.  Thanks!

	2015-10-10
	* Fix build with C89 compilers.
	* Fix several memory leaks.
	* Fix an out-of-bounds memory read in maint.c's discard_token().
	  Found with clang 3.6's address sanitizer.

	2015-02-28
	* Fix the lexer to not try to delete parts from HTML tokens if it is
	  reading garbage (for instance, binary files misdeclared as HTML).
	  This was exposed on Fedora 20 and 21 but not Ubuntu 14.04 (x86_64),
	  and is possibly related to its newer flex 2.5.37 that may have
	  changed the way it uses yyinput() a bit.  Reported by Matt Garretson.

	2015-02-25
	* Fix the lexer to handle MIME multipart messages properly when the
	  boundary ended in "--".  The parser would previously never find the
	  MIME parts because it mistook all boundaries ending in two dashes to
	  be the final boundary of the multipart, rather than checking if the
	  two dashes were extra.  Add a test case, t.lexer.boundary--.
	  Reported by Matt Garretson to the bogofilter mailing list today.

	2014-07-10
	* Take patch from Julius Plenz to fix a bug in the charset converter
	  that causes truncation of messages in pass-through mode in rare
	  circumstances, for instance, if binary data is misdeclared as
	  text/html.  Also add his test case, t.passthrough-truncation.

	2013-11-30
	* Updated autoconf/automake stuff so that tests work properly with
	  automake versions that default to running parallel-tests.

	2013-07-06
	* Relicensed all security announcements under a dual-license, at the
	  user's option, to ease distribution without repackaging:

	  - Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Germany License
	    (CC BY-ND 3.0)
	  - GNU General Public License v3 or newer (GPL v3+).

1.2.4	2013-07-01 (previous release)
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[Major 1.2.5] Kyoto Cabinet and LMDB support added.

Bogofilter, as of release 1.2.5, supports:
+ Kyoto Cabinet databases, courtesy of Denny Lin.  The Kyoto Cabinet database
  is written and maintained by the same author as the Toyko Cabinet database,
  and they recommend to use Kyoto Cabinet instead of Tokyo Cabinet.

+ LMDB databases (Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager), courteously
  implemented and contributed by Steffen Nurpmeso.
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