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Date: 2004-12-19 13:13:04
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Linux-Announce Digest #985, Volume #4 Sun, 19 Dec 2004 13:13:04 EST
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GNU Anubis 4.0 released. ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
ANNOUNCE: GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.2.0 (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:31:04 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GNU Anubis 4.0 released.
========== Forwarded message ==========
Hello,
The Anubis Team is pleased to announce the release of GNU Anubis 4.0.
The release is available by anonymous FTP from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/anubis/anubis-4.0.tar.gz
and from mirrors worldwide -- see <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>.
The md5 checksums of the files are:
cded94ad14e528e899f5e8f7fd1aa022 anubis-4.0.tar.gz
f63553e7196b397f964fe76fa39507a8 anubis-4.0.tar.gz.sig
Overview:
GNU Anubis is an SMTP message submission daemon. It represents an intermediate
layer between mail user agent (MUA) and mail transport agent (MTA), receiving
messages from the MUA, applying to them a set of predefined changes and finally
inserting modified messages into an MTA routing network. The set of changes
applied to a message is configurable on a system-wide and per-user basis. The
built-in configuration language used for defining sets of changes allows for
considerable flexibility and is easily extensible.
More information is available at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/anubis/
Following is the list of user-visible changes in this release:
GNU Anubis 4.0 has been rewritten from scratch. The message processing
algorithm has been changed. Apart from that, this release includes
a lot of other improvements and bugfixes.
** New features:
* The new authentication and authorization mode has been introduced.
In contrast to the method used previously, the new mode does not require
client machines to run AUTH server (identd). It uses standard
SMTP AUTH capability and can therefore be used with most contemporary
MUAs.
* User's database can be kept on the server machine in any of the following
formats:
- Plain text
- GDBM
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
* GNU Anubis is extensible via Guile (requires Guile 1.6 or newer).
Several Guile extension modules are shipped with the package,
among them a module for signing
* Added test suite (make check).
** Configuration file grammar is rewritten. It features several
new syntactical entities, allows nesting of conditional statements
to arbitrary depth, and is easily extended using Guile. Refer to
the documentation for the detailed information.
** 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
the two sections.
* 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 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 using the
`tracefile' statement in CONTROL section of the configuration
file.
** 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 Dutch, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Ukrainian message
translations.
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Regards,
Wojciech
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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:24:24 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: GNU Image Manipulation Program 2.2.0 (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
Hi,
the GIMP developers are proud to release version 2.2 of the GNU Image
Manipulation Program. About nine months after version 2.0 hit the
road, we have completed another development cycle and can bring a new
stable GIMP to our user's desktops.
About The GIMP
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, the GIMP, is ideal for amateur
photographers, web designers, and many other people who want to
create and edit digital images. It is a very powerful application,
with features including: channels, layers and masks; colour
operations such as levels, curves and threshhold; advanced selection
operations using intelligent scissors and selection channels; and
much more.
GIMP is free software, which means it can be freely distributed and
modified. This makes it well suited to be included on cover disks of
magazines dedicated to digital photography or image editing, or to
be included with digital cameras, scanners, printers etc. As free
software, its capabilities are ultimately limited only by the
collective imagination of the community of free software
contributors. More information about the GIMP is available at
http://www.gimp.org
Download
The GIMP can be downloaded as source code from ftp.gimp.org or from
one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/download.html. We
expect that binary packages for the different supported platforms
and distributions will show up soon. Unless you are experienced with
building software from source, you should wait until binary packages
become available.
Upgrading from GIMP 2.0
Version 2.2 is an update on GIMP 2.0. GIMP 2.2 is fully backward
compatible to GIMP 2.0. Plug-ins and scripts written for GIMP 2.0
will continue to work and don't need to be changed nor recompiled to
be used with GIMP 2.2. We do however hope that plug-in authors will
update their plug-ins for GIMP 2.2 and adapt the GUI changes we did
with this version.
GIMP 2.2 replaces GIMP 2.0. It is advised that you uninstall GIMP
2.0 before installing GIMP 2.2. If you want to keep GIMP 2.0
installed in parallel to GIMP 2.2, you have to choose a separate
prefix which is not in your default library search path.
Help
The GIMP user manual has been improved a lot over the last couple of
months. We stronly suggest that you install the latest version of
the gimp-help-2 package together with GIMP 2.2. You will then have
context-sensitive help in almost all dialogs by hitting the F1 key
or by pressing the Help button which has been added to most dialogs.
gimp-help-2 is available from
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/help/testing/. The manual can also be
accessed online at http://docs.gimp.org/.
Bugs
Thanks to the pre-releases we did over the last month, this code has
already seen quite some testing but a lot has changed since version
GIMP 2.0 and we could very well have introduced new bugs. If you
find any , make sure you report them at bugzilla.gnome.org (after
checking that it isn't reported already).
What's New in GIMP 2.2
We have collected a list of changes and new features in the GIMP
Wiki. Please have a look at http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/WhatsNew2.
For a detailed list of changes, please have a look at the NEWS file,
which is contained in the tarball and available online at
http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS.
What's Next
You can expect updated versions of gimp-gap, gimp-freetype,
gimp-plugin-template and hopefully also gimp-perl to appear over the
next weeks. The GIMP source tree will soon be branched so that
development can continue towards GIMP 2.4. We haven't yet made up a
detailed roadmap, but we will try to publish one soon.
Lots of people have helped to make this release happen. Thanks to all
the contributors who wrote code, sent patches, worked on the docs,
translated the user interface, reported bugs or just made helpful
suggestions. GIMP 2.2 wouldn't exist without your help. Keep it coming!
Happy GIMPing, Sven
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