Author: poeml
Date: Sat Apr 21 03:37:46 2012
New Revision: 8287
URL: http://svn.mirrorbrain.org/viewvc/mirrorbrain?rev=8287&view=rev
Log:
update release notes for 2.17.0
Modified:
trunk/docs/changes.rst
Modified: trunk/docs/changes.rst
URL:
http://svn.mirrorbrain.org/viewvc/mirrorbrain/trunk/docs/changes.rst?rev=8287&r1=8286&r2=8287&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- trunk/docs/changes.rst (original)
+++ trunk/docs/changes.rst Sat Apr 21 03:37:46 2012
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
============================
-Release 2.17.0 (rXXXX, XXX XX, 2012)
+Release 2.17.0 (r8288, Apr 21, 2012)
------------------------------------
@@ -12,12 +12,24 @@
* :program:`mod_mirrorbrain`: IPv6 geolocation for IPv6 clients is now enabled.
This requires :program:`GeoIP` 1.4.8 and :program:`mod_geoip` 1.2.7 or newer
(which add experimental
- support for IPv6 resolution). `issue 106`_
+ support for IPv6 resolution) (`issue 106`_).
* program:`mb update`, :program:`mb iplookup`: DNS resolution now works with
IPv4 + IPv6.
-* Support for Metalink/HTTP (RFC 6249) has been implemented (`issue 15`_). It
- was long on my todo list!
+* Support for Metalink/HTTP (RFC 6249) has been implemented (`issue 15`_). This
+ was long on my todo list! This makes MirrorBrain include in its server HTTP
+ responses useful metadata like cryptohashes, mirror URLs and links to
+ alternate representations. There's support for RFC 5988 Web Linking, for RFC
+ 6249 Metalink/HTTP: Mirrors and Hashes, and for RFC 3230 HTTP Instance
+ Digests (including updates from RFC 5843). Here's an `example (screenshot)`_.
+
+* :program:`mb edit`: An editor set via the environmental variable ``$VISUAL``
+ is now used, if none is set in ``$EDITOR``. This fixed `issue 96`_.
+
+* :program:`mb db vacuum`: A new option ``-q`` allows to silence the commands
+ output (`issue 99`_).
+
+Bug fixes:
* :program:`mb makehashes`: A problem was fixed with filenames containing
characters that could be interpreted as magic characters in regular
@@ -27,16 +39,7 @@
bytes sent than announced) spawned an annoying error message. Now this error
is just logged, as it should.
-* :program:`mb edit`: An editor set via the environmental variable ``$VISUAL``
- is now used, if none is set in ``$EDITOR``. This fixed `issue 96`_.
-
-* :program:`mb db vacuum`: A new option ``-q`` allows to silence the commands
- output (`issue 99`_).
-
* :program:`mb scan`: A typo has been fixed (patch by Oliver Beattie)
-
-
-
Internally, a way to migrate the database after updates has been implemented. A
table named ``version`` keeps info about the state of the database. Thus,
@@ -49,9 +52,9 @@
New platforms:
* Ubuntu 11.10 packages are now built and tested.
-
* Debian 6.0 packages have been tested.
+.. _`example (screenshot)`:
http://mirrorbrain.org/static/images/screenshots/metalink_http.png
.. _`issue 15`: http://mirrorbrain.org/issues/issue15
.. _`issue 94`: http://mirrorbrain.org/issues/issue94
.. _`issue 96`: http://mirrorbrain.org/issues/issue96
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