| 1 | = BarnOwl 1.8.1 release notes = |
| 2 | |
| 3 | {{{ |
| 4 | After much excessive sitting on patches, the BarnOwl developers are |
| 5 | pleased to announce that they have hatched into BarnOwl version |
| 6 | 1.8.1. Although the egg is slightly squashed from all the sitting, the |
| 7 | little owlet appears to be in reasonably good health. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Ahem. Right. BarnOwl 1.8.1 is a security and bugfix release on top of |
| 10 | BarnOwl 1.8. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | It has been installed in the Athena locker, and you can download it |
| 13 | from the website [1] or get the source from Github [2]. BarnOwl 1.8.1 |
| 14 | fixes the following bugs: |
| 15 | |
| 16 | * Fix a denial of service when receiving empty zcrypted messages, |
| 17 | found by Alex Dehnert. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * Fix a denial of service when receiving a zephyrgram with an |
| 20 | excessive number of fields, found by Luke Faraone. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | * Remove ^noc from the default reply-lockout filter. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | * Fix typo in unbindkey usage text, by new contributor Betsy Riley. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | * Correctly handle invalid filters passed to :view -d. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | * Fix a memory leak when sending a zcrypted message. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * Display foreign realms in the default style. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | * Numerous fixups in handling personal vs non-personal zwrites. In |
| 33 | particular, cross-realm public zwrites will no longer send pings. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | The full Changelog is available online [3]. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | Thank you for using BarnOwl, and we hope you enjoy the new release. As |
| 38 | usual, any bug reports, questions, or feature requests can be directed |
| 39 | to the developers at <barnowl@mit.edu>. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | - David Benjamin |
| 42 | for the BarnOwl developers |
| 43 | |
| 44 | [1] http://barnowl.mit.edu/wiki/Download/ |
| 45 | [2] http://github.com/barnowl/barnowl/ |
| 46 | [3] http://github.com/barnowl/barnowl/blob/barnowl-1.8.1/ChangeLog |
| 47 | }}} |