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This is an update of the executable only, you can overwrite you existing executable (newsreader3.exe) with this version.

The original installer including help files can be found here.

OpenSSL DLLs

Spelling checker (ISpellIns.exe)

File with “random” quotes which can be used in signatures:  (scroll down to the bottom and download quotes.txt)

Revision log:

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Changes since v1.19.1.269

• Imp: Batches dialog, the batch list is sorted alphabetically
• Imp: MessageBase Management, remember last setting (mark as read, delete, etc) per account.
• Fix: “Set as Default Newsreader” didn’t work on Vista and later Windows version (UAC).
• Fix: Menu “Find Folder Message in Message Base” option didn’t work for servers that altered the message-ids of posted messages.
• Fix: improved support for relative signature file path/name.
• Fix: handling of image attachments with a wrong file extension.
• Fix: text/plain parts with an ContentDisposition header set to attachment are no longer displayed inline but instead as an down-loadable attachment (icon).
• Imp: better handling of empty Username or Password when authenticating.
• Fix: prevent errors when ISpell isn’t properly installed.
• Imp: workaround for Jive forums (details see QC85154, more specific the “pipeline out of sequence” part)
• Fix: resizing of the font lists in the Options Dialog.
• Imp: only update newsgroup.dat file (and reporting that new groups are available) when valid new groups are received.
• Imp: using Unsubscribe of the context-menu on several groups within the subscribed groups pane, should now be as fast as unsubscribing of groups from the newsgroups dialog.
• Imp: “replies to me” from (other) XanaNews users will now use the “reply to me” color.
• Imp: threads started by XanaNews users which didn’t receive a reply yet will now be more visible as being from a XanaNews user.
• Imp: attachments and transfer encoding.
• Imp: error handling (to prevent XN from flooding servers with some specific server errors).
• Imp: update Date header when an post has been edited.
• Fix: btnOk OnClickHandler was missing, causing the CrossPost check to be no longer executed.
• Imp: speeding up formatting of quoted text when formatting/streaming in.
• Fix: initial (clean setup) would cause the alternate background to default to black instead of the just a little darker version of the normal window background color, it should have been.
• Fix: (reverted) TreeView header columns are now using a fixed sized font again.

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Posting:
========
For certain server errors it will no longer continuously attempt
to post the same article over and over.  This is indicated in
the Queued Requests pane by a red stop mark (thread is paused).
If this happens verify if the post already made it to the server.
If it did cancel the post request, in case it didn’t, use the
(un)pause function from the context menu and post it again.

Vista:
======
On Vista it defaults to using the Vista explorer theme to draw the
tree. If you don’t like this, turn it off

See Tools-> Options -> Program Settings -> Use Vista Explore Theme.

Note:
=====
Just for those upgrading from a version older than 1.18.1.5 and

have the feeling that it isn’t very clear if a thread contains

unread messages…

See Tools -> Options -> Message Tree
- Uncheck the option “Hide Folder Icons”.

… to get the folder icons back.

Revision log:
=============

Changes in v1.19.1.269

• Chg: Different way of handling text/plain attachments. This also enables saving them.
• Fix: Display of the registered user and organization in the about box.
• Imp: Made TrimReferences compliant to RFC5537.
• Fix: Displaying of “highlighted” characters in signatures.
• Fix: Check on existing “new” newsgroups.
• Imp: Header, Q-encoded words.
• Fix: The previous (screwed up) implementation of the new GetLineCount could/will cause AVs!
• Upd: Indy 10.5.7 rev 3940
• Fix: When a header contained multi-byte-characters the Q-encoding could split such a character in multiple encoded words. This is not allowed according to RFC2047 (and some newsreaders were not able to handle it).  Note: only fixed for UTF8.
• Fix: Character formatting (highlighting) of text in the message pane.
• Imp: Replaced GMTToLocalDateTime with RawGMTToLocalDateTime which uses a global gOffsetFromUTC instead of the Indy library function OffsetFromUTC. This is done because GetTimeZoneInformation used by OffsetFromUTC is very slow on D2010.
• New: NNTPX.GetServerDateTime; (not used yet).
• Upd: VirtualTreeview 5.0.0 revision 240
• Fix: When asking for NEWGROUPS, the command did not take the local UTC time-offset in to account.
• Fix: Multiple MIME related fixes
• Fix: When the log file was in use it would interrupt the “Move Messagebase” function. The log file is now closed before moving all files from the Messagebase to the new location.
• Imp: Added defines to the dpr file to reduce the size of the executable (thanks to Fikret Hasovic).
• New: Added displaying of icons attached to posts.
• Imp: Determine the amounts of Lines and Bytes in case the news server does not provide this information.
• Imp: Handling of a corrupted articles.dat file!
• Fix: Generating References header (before there was a space too much at the first reply)
• New: Logging of TCP/IP traffic (only when Tools->Test->Logging is on).
• Fix: Handling off extra headers as received as a result of the XOVER command.
• Imp: When marking a message as unread the “auto mark as read after x seconds” mechanism is temporary switched off for that specific article.
• Fix: Prevent the post message form from being closed when there are still (owned) dialogs open.
• Fix: Added exception handling when disconnecting while handling an exception. This should also stop the “Socket Error # 10053 Software caused connection abort.” exception when TCP/IP connection is wonky.
• Fix: Thread-safety of email request list.
• Fix: When an unsent email was saved at shutdown and then restored at program startup the attachments property was set to nil (when there actually were no attachments), email sending thread did not take this in to account and it lead to an AV.
• Fix: SSL/TLS usage when sending email by using an gmail account.
• Fix: Layout of reply by mail form and minor changes in post frame/form.
• Chg: About Box to include link to Leonel’s website.
• Fix: About Box report of physical available memory.
• Fix: The MIME Content-Disposition header was not parsed correctly.
• Imp: Handle ENTER key in the editbox of the “search toolbar”.
• Fix: Removed redundant left-hand side characters of QuoteLineMarker.
• New: Options to change the font settings of elements of the main form.
• Imp: Caption of the subscribed groups when docked.
• Fix: StartEverything caused an exception when used for a second time (for instance after Move MessageBase).
• Fix: Corrected the Z-order of FileOpen (attachments) and Group selection dialogs in PostMessageForm.
• New: Added %newline% macro in Quoting Settings.
• New: Added ISpell language selection in posting window.
• New: Option to mark a complete thread as Ignore/Unignore (Shift+Ctrl+O).
• Imp: When posting a message fails, caused by a server fault, the posting thread will be paused to prevent duplicate posts to end up on the server.
• Chg: Added more logging (some of it is only available when enabling Tools->Test->Logging).
• New: double-clicking on a queued post activates the post edit window on it.
• Fix: Combine and Decode dialog did not show the correct filename when it concerned a post with MIME headers and no multiparts.
• Imp: Allow long lines to prevent the “Max linelength exceeded” exception caused by crappy MSOE.
• Fix: Modified shortcut keys were not saved until the program was closed.
• Fix: Restore tray icon when explorer restarts.
• Fix: Handling of Font enumerations (D2009).
• Fix: When temporary enabling fixed fonts in the message pane and then closing XanaNews, it did store the fixed font in the settings.
• Fix: Processing of Face headers.
• Chg: Newsgroup statistics, switched back to not displaying <not specified>, instead it will fall-back to the next ”most used reader” if there is any, if there isn’t, it will just stay blank/empty.
• Fix: (Only) Default to Vista’s Explorer Theme when on Windows Vista or above.
• New: The alternating background color of the message tree is now a setting.
• New: Newsgroups Statistics recognizes Jive Web Forum and the Posters view will show all newsreaders used in a InfoTip.
• Imp: Added X-HTTP-UserAgent, X-Mailer and X-Newsposter headers to identify newsreader for newsgroups statistics.
• Imp: In newsgroups statistics, the last reader used (per poster) is changed to most used reader.
• Fix: Added more characters to specialChars which are not allowed for a NodeName in an XML-file.
• Fix: In case a from name contained non-ASCII characters, it was incorrectly handled and a CRLF ended up between the name and email address in the from-header. This again resulted that posts were rejected by news servers.

If you’re upgrading from an old XN version you may need to update your
OpenSSL DLLs: http://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/openssl-0.9.8k-i386-win32.zip

Posting:
========
For certain server errors it will no longer continuously attempt
to post the same article over and over.  This is indicated in
the Queued Requests pane by a red stop mark (thread is paused).
If this happens verify if the post already made it to the server.
If it did cancel the post request, in case it didn’t, use the
(un)pause function from the context menu and post it again.

Vista:
======
On Vista it defaults to using the Vista explorer theme to draw the
tree. If you don’t like this, turn it off

See Tools-> Options -> Program Settings -> Use Vista Explore Theme.

Note:
=====
Just for those upgrading from a version older than 1.18.1.5 and

have the feeling that it isn’t very clear if a thread contains

unread messages…

See Tools -> Options -> Message Tree
- Uncheck the option “Hide Folder Icons”.

… to get the folder icons back.

Revision log:
=============

Changes in v1.19.1.269

Chg: Different way of handling text/plain attachments. This also enables
saving them.
Fix: Display of the registered user and organization in the about box.
Imp: Made TrimReferences compliant to RFC5537.
Fix: Displaying of “highlighted” characters in signatures.
Fix: Check on existing “new” newsgroups.
Imp: Header, Q-encoded words.
Fix: The previous (screwed up) implementation of the new GetLineCount
could/will cause AVs!
Upd: Indy 10.5.7 rev 3940
Fix: When a header contained multi-byte-characters the Q-encoding could
split such a character in multiple encoded words. This is not
allowed according to RFC2047 (and some newsreaders were not able to
handle it).  Note: only fixed for UTF8.
Fix: Character formatting (highlighting) of text in the message pane.
Imp: Replaced GMTToLocalDateTime with RawGMTToLocalDateTime
which uses a global gOffsetFromUTC instead of the Indy
library function OffsetFromUTC. This is done because
GetTimeZoneInformation used by OffsetFromUTC is very
slow on D2010.
New: NNTPX.GetServerDateTime; (not used yet).
Upd: VirtualTreeview 5.0.0 revision 240
Fix: When asking for NEWGROUPS, the command did not take the
local UTC time-offset in to account.
Fix: Multiple MIME related fixes
Fix: When the log file was in use it would interrupt the “Move
Messagebase” function. The log file is now closed before
moving all files from the Messagebase to the new location.
Imp: Added defines to the dpr file to reduce the size of the
executable (thanks to Fikret Hasovic).
New: Added displaying of icons attached to posts.
Imp: Determine the amounts of Lines and Bytes in case the news
server does not provide this information.
Imp: Handling of a corrupted articles.dat file!
Fix: Generating References header (before there was a space
too much at the first reply)
New: Logging of TCP/IP traffic (only when Tools->Test->Logging is on).
Fix: Handling off extra headers as received as a result of the
XOVER command.
Imp: When marking a message as unread the “auto mark as read
after x seconds” mechanism is temporary switched off for
that specific article.
Fix: Prevent the post message form from being closed when there
are still (owned) dialogs open.
Fix: Added exception handling when disconnecting while handling
an exception. This should also stop the “Socket Error # 10053
Software caused connection abort.” exception when TCP/IP
connection is wonky.
Fix: Thread-safety of email request list.
Fix: When an unsent email was saved at shutdown and then restored
at program startup the attachments property was set to nil
(when there actually were no attachments), email sending
thread did not take this in to account and it lead to an AV.
Fix: SSL/TLS usage when sending email by using an gmail account.
Fix: Layout of reply by mail form and minor changes in post frame/form.
Chg: About Box to include link to Leonel’s website.
Fix: About Box report of physical available memory.
Fix: The MIME Content-Disposition header was not parsed correctly.
Imp: Handle ENTER key in the editbox of the “search toolbar”.
Fix: Removed redundant left-hand side characters of QuoteLineMarker.
New: Options to change the font settings of elements of the main form.
Imp: Caption of the subscribed groups when docked.
Fix: StartEverything caused an exception when used for a second
time (for instance after Move MessageBase).
Fix: Corrected the Z-order of FileOpen (attachments) and Group
selection dialogs in PostMessageForm.
New: Added %newline% macro in Quoting Settings.
New: Added ISpell language selection in posting window.
New: Option to mark a complete thread as Ignore/Unignore (Shift+Ctrl+O).

Imp: When posting a message fails, caused by a server fault, the
posting thread will be paused to prevent duplicate posts to
end up on the server.
Chg: Added more logging (some of it is only available when
enabling Tools->Test->Logging).
New: double-clicking on a queued post activates the post edit
window on it.
Fix: Combine and Decode dialog did not show the correct filename
when it concerned a post with MIME headers and no multiparts.
Imp: Allow long lines to prevent the “Max linelength exceeded”
exception caused by crappy MSOE.
Fix: Modified shortcut keys were not saved until the program
was closed.
Fix: Restore tray icon when explorer restarts.
Fix: Handling of Font enumerations (D2009).
Fix: When temporary enabling fixed fonts in the message pane
and then closing XanaNews, it did store the fixed font
in the settings.

Fix: Processing of Face headers.
Chg: Newsgroup statistics, switched back to not displaying
<not specified>, instead it will fall-back to the next
“most used reader” if there is any, if there isn’t, it
will just stay blank/empty.
Fix: (Only) Default to Vista’s Explorer Theme when on Windows
Vista or above.
New: The alternating background color of the message tree is
now a setting.
New: Newsgroups Statistics recognizes Jive Web Forum and the
Posters view will show all newsreaders used in a InfoTip.
Imp: Added X-HTTP-UserAgent, X-Mailer and X-Newsposter headers
to identify newsreader for newsgroups statistics.
Imp: In newsgroups statistics, the last reader used (per poster)
is changed to most used reader.
Fix: Added more characters to specialChars which are not allowed
for a NodeName in an XML-file.
Fix: In case a from name contained non-ASCII characters, it was
incorrectly handled and a CRLF ended up between the name and
email address in the from-header. This again resulted that
posts were rejected by news servers.

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In general XanaNews is now built using D2009 Upd. 4 which mainly means better Unicode (International) support, it also means that Win9x is no longer supported!

New Features

• "Posted Messages" can now also display Unicode. Codepage is added to the "Posted Messages" file.  This will not work for existing posted messages since these lack the Codepage used when posted.
• Show number of available posts in the newsgroup list (only when the group was refreshed in the current session).
• Option enabling the use of Vista Explorer theme in VirtualTrees, it is on by default.
• CRC32 checks for YEncoded posts.

Improvements

• Decoding all headers for displaying. Some news-clients, using 8 bit transfer, also have other header items which needed to be decoded, like "Organization".
• Added more logging for TCP/IP traffic.
• Parsing speed of headers when loading articles (from disk).
• Sorting speed when using View -> Group Multipart Messages
• Save and restore of bookmark setting (columns and such)
• More checks on YEncoded posts (results are just logged for the moment).
• Messages.dat are now opened with ShareDenyWrite flag so that other applications can read them.
• Retry handling images in case the original poster used the wrong file extension for the image.
• Optimized saving/decoding of yEnc (saving 38 articles creating a 9MB file now takes less than one second, before it took 3.5 minutes).
• Sorting of articles in the Combine & Decode dialog
• Increased the DropDownCount of the batches and charset comboboxes (max 1/3 of screen height).
• Exception handling when checking for and receiving new newsgroups.
• Made Unsubscribe and Subscribe large amounts of newsgroups a lot faster. (before this took about 3 minutes for all 142 groups of Embarcadero, now just a couple of seconds).
• Report of Newsgroups Statistics (reported by badgolferman).
• Using nicer headers for dock windows
• The NEWGROUPS command, to retrieve a list with newly added groups since the last time the groups list was refreshed, is (only) performed once per 6 hours

Fixes

• Memory leaks and data loss when using the option "Group orphaned replies by Subject".
• Headers were not displayed in the message pane when the body of the post was empty.
• Posting (long) messages no longer blocks the main thread.
• "Tidy old messages" was ignored when "Get Messages" wasn’t also ticked in the batch action dialog (reported by badgolferman)
• Encoding of posted messages using "Quoted Printable".
• Face headers as output by PlethoraNews news server.
• Fixed unfolding of headers in general and more specific handling of unfolding of face headers.
• GenerateMessageID generated a range error after ca 25 days of computer up-time (reported by Rudy Velthuis).
• Search function "Find in Message" Ctrl+F was using wrong find message (EM_FINDTEXT instead of EM_FINDTEXTW) for text searches in a TRichEdit (reported by Andreas Hausladen.
• Saving of articles.dat when just bodies were downloaded after using download "headers only" in binary groups and all bodies are received.
• AVs when (re-)downloading long posts.
• Combine and decode of multi part messages.
• Date handling in the SearchDialog
• Setup comboboxes with the last used "operators" in the SearchDialog.
• Prevent errors when starting up with an undocked subscribed groups pane (reported by badgolferman)
• Handling of large (> 2GB) message.dat files.
• Handling of the case when there is currently no Internet connection at all.
• Log files are now stored in the root of the message base (for Vista).
• Handling of Ignored messages (reported by Rudy Velthuis)
• When doing a "Get All Message" and "Delete old message first" it would run forever when something went wrong during downloading. When the batch was re-triggered it would start by deleting the messages again and then downloading all messages again, etc, etc.
• Re-indexing of Archived Posts.
• When using XMLSettings: If an encoded character is at the end of the string, DecodeName does not respect it (fixed by Joachim Duerr).
• When deleting/unsubscribing more than one group, from the subscribed group listview pane, it could cause AVs
• Better handling of corrupted newsgroup lists (newsgroups.dat files).
• AVs under some circumstances (for instance when the move message base dialog is activated).
• cmpFileCopier did attempt to write a testfile to system locations on the destination drive (Vista)
• When using "Export Compressed Messages" in combination with settings stored in a XML file the MessageBaseRoot was not stored correctly in the .xns file.

Get it here.

• Fix for articles in message panel scrolling to the top when new messages arrive.
• Fix size calculation when moving message base.
• Move Messagebase is now using the newer form of SelectDirectory.
• Batches did not run at the specified interval, it took one minute extra before they started.
• Fix to persistent position so it works on multiple monitors.
• Fix Importing, exporting, renaming and removing accounts.
• Fix EConvert error when getting headers from some servers.
• Fix phantom getter threads after machine is suspended and returns.
• Update bug report email address.
• Newsgroups sorting and a new option in account context menu to sort newsgroups based on (nick) names.
• Limit maximum results reported  for newsgroup statistics.
• Added feature to post newsgroup statistics to group.
• From article… to article.. in newsgroup statistics report corrected.
• Fixed bug when saving of Account settings to XML.
• "Users" column missing from statistics when using "Copy to Clipboard".
• Fix begin date selection for statistics.
• Fix subject decoding in newsgroup statistics.
• Work-around for buggy servers answering with 503 when  requesting a non existing Article.
• The files in the "Combine and Decode" dialog are now sorted when the dialog opens.
• Added support for the ‘X-Posting-Host’ header as output by the CodeGear server.
• Added support for the X-Post-url: header from the CodeGear server to provide links to posts in the web.
• Added Connect Timeout and Read Timeout settings for Mail/NNTP accounts.
• Fixed content-type for png images.
• Fixed extra message put in the previous article stack when changing groups.
• Now using Indy 10. Requires new SSL libraries from here.
• Dropped “unofficial” label.

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Changes:

• Fix coloring of messages to me [regression in .10] (Leonel Togniolli)
• Fix yenc multipart decoding (Pieter Zijlstra)
• Fixes to allow relative message base paths (Joachim Duerr, Leonel Togniolli)
• Fix encoding when reloading message from outbasket (Pieter Zijlstra)
• Move salutation to the top of the reply (Q Correll)
• Update gif support to latest GifImage (Pieter Zijlstra)
• Implement support for animated gifs (Pieter Zijlstra)
• Fix z-order and focus issues when activating following dialogs: Spell Checker, Post Message, Advanced Headers, Reply by Mail, Search (Pieter Zijlstra)
• Fixed decoding of some UTF8-encoded Subject lines (Pieter Zijlstra)
• Fix potential invalid pointer operation when connecting to SSL groups on Vista (Leonel Togniolli)
• Add support for wildcard matching in SSL certificates URIs (Leonel Togniolli)
• Add support to show decoded headers when not showing raw text (Pieter Zijlstra)
• Fix application minimize/restore handling, which could disappearing post message forms (Pieter Zijlstra)
• Fix some memory leaks on SSL support (Pieter Zijlstra)
• Fix thread safety issues when checking internet connection status (Leonel Togniolli)

Version is .52 to match SVN revision.

Get the binary here, get the source here.

Changes:

• Performance enhancements from Andreas Hausladen:
  • Latest RtlVclOptimize.pas
  • Improved OpenStrSecII initialization performance
  • Reading articles is a little bit faster
  • The 100 ms delay when switching groups is only required if renaming a file fails.
• Cache file version so it’s not extracting it from the executable several times a second.
• Tweak hash table size and hash function so it has less collisions and faster threading.
• Reduce unnecessary disk i/o by preventing some unchanged messages to be saved when exiting groups.
• Prevent endless attempts to get message counts on some empty groups.

This is mostly a performance improvement release, no new fixes or features.

Get the binary here, get the source here.

Changes:

• Added Andreas Hausladen RtlVclOptimize.pas, which should provide better performance.
• Added workaround for possible Access Violations when showing hints on multi-monitor setups, remote desktops or vnc sessions.
• Added workaround for main form not appearing at all when it was closed minimized.
• Fix bold/italic/underline highlights not working for first word on a line.
• Replaced SSL support from OpenSSL to OpenStrSecII. Increases about 1mb executable size, but does not require external DLLs.

I’m particularly interested for feedback on the SSL changes. Unreleased changes, available on subversion history, are the OpenSSL update to the latest version and the fix for potential deadlocks on Indy9 when loading SSL libraries, which have been obsoleted by the OpenStrSecII replacement.

Get the binary here, get the source here.

Changes:

• More subject decoding fixes from Wolfgang.
• Fix restore of main window when minimized and double clicking on tray icon.
• Implemented View/Hide Messages Not To Me.
• Fix alignment of some controls in the post message form.
• When replying to a message on a branch ignored by the bozo bin, don’t ignore your own message (and the branch you started).
• Persist expanded/collapsed state on the groups tree between sessions if neither AutoExpand or AutoCollapse is set.
• Fix Paste Quote and Paste Selected Text as Quote to put the cursor after the quote when quote style is set to bottom.

Get the binary here, get the source here.

Changes:

• Built with Delphi 2007 update 3, MainFormOnTaskBar=True, which should mean better Vista support (didn’t test it on Vista though).
• Fixed URL wrapping when posting, inspired by Wolfgang’s change (did it slightly different – don’t break if line contains :// and no spaces)
• Added Wolfgang’s patch for subject decoding.
• Changed to use system’s codepage as default display codepage on first setup, as happed with posting codepage.
• Added some question marks all around on dialogs where they were missing (oh, how this bugged me).