You’ll need to change all the CVS/Root files to point to the new CVS server. I have a fixcvs script to do just that — it is common enough to have servers move on you.

fixcvs /usr/pkgsrc/wip Root 's/@cvs/@pkgsrc-wip.cvs/'

This way you also keep all your local changes without all the work of applying them onto a newly checked out tree.

The original version (or at least idea) for the script is from Christos Zoulas, many many dozens of moons ago…

Notable changes:

• “Fixed” libxml2′s change in UTF8Toisolat1() return value

  Bernhard Weisshuhn supplied a patch to parser.c for checking the return value of UTF8Toisolat1(). Seems that libxml2 now returns the number of characters converted instead of zero for success. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153937

• Added swish-config and pkg-config

  Swish now provides a swish-config script and config file for the pkg-config utility. These tools help when building programs that link with the swish-e library.

• Added SwishFuzzy function

  SwishFuzzy function (SWISH::API::Fuzzy) lets you stem a word without first searching. This might be helpful for playing with queries prior to the search.

• Fixed Buzzwords (and other word lists entered in the config)

  Words entered in config were not converted to lower case before storing in the index.

• Fixed metaname mapping problem in Merge

  Peter Karman found an error when merging indexes where the source indexes had the same metanames, but listed in a different order in their config files. Words would then be indexed under the wrong metaID number in the output index.

• Added -R option to support IDF word weighting in ranking. (karman)

  Added Inverse Document Frequency calculation to the getrank() routine. This will allow the relative frequency of a word in relationship to other words in the query to impact the ranking of documents.

• Swish.cgi now kills swish-e on time out

  The example script swish.cgi uses an alarm (on platforms that support alarm) to abort processing after some number of seconds, but it was not killing the child process, swish-e. Bill Schell submitted a patch to kill the child when the alarm triggers.

• The template search.tt was renamed to swish.tt

  The template was renamed because it’s used by swish.cgi, not by search.cgi, which was confusing.

• Updates to the search.cgi

  The example script search.cgi was updated to work better with mod_perl and to use external template files and style sheets.

• New MS Word Filter

  James Job provided the SWISH::Filter::Doc2html filter that uses the wvWare ([59]http://wvware.sourceforge.net/) program for filtering MS Word documents. If both catdoc and wvWare are installed then wvWare will be used.

• Change in way symbolic links are followed

  John-Marc Chandonia pointed out that if a symlink is skipped by FileRules, then the actual file/directory is marked as “already seen” and cannot be indexed by other links or directly. Now, files and directories are not marked “already seen” until after passing FileRules (i.e after a file is actually indexed or a directory is processed).

• UseStemming didn’t take no for an answer

  UseStemming was coded as an alias for FuzzyIndexingMode when Snowball was compiled in (the default), but “no” doesn’t always mean no when the Norwegian stemmer is available.

• Updated the index_hypermail.pl

  Updated to work with latest version of hypermail (pre-2.1.9).

• Fixed segfault when generating warnings while parsing

  Parser.c was incorrectly calling warning() incorrectly. And -Wall was not catching this!

The complete list of revisions is at http://swish-e.org/docs/changes.html.

Notable changes:

• The most common/important file formats are recognized based on file contents, not just file name and MIME-type. Detects WMF files, to allow reliable blacklisting. Detects when people try to disguise non-JPEG/GIF/PNG content as such files and defangs such attachments.

• Bug fixed, where disinfection wouldn’t result in the modification count of a message being incremented. Some 3rd party systems rely on the modification count to determine whether to use the output or not. This is a critical fix for such systems.

• Improved handling of Yahoo DomainKeys.

• Fixed crash when multiple Content-Transfer-Encoding headers were present in the same message part.

• Added mailblogger.pl, to the distribution. This program has nothing to do with security, but uses the MIMEStream parser to extract images from e-mail and can subsequently generate thumbnails and re-post both text and images to a web-site, to implement email-to-www gateway functionality. (E.g. mobile blogging.)

The IceS MP3 streamer (audio/ices-mp3) wouldn’t even compile anymore with the embedded Perl option enabled. I use a Perl module called mstream to keep my personal radio stream going.

I’ve reverted the offending change and all is good again.

The Little Brother’s Database provides a lookup interface for mail addresses for several data sources. It can retrieve data from its own database, Emacs bbdb, abook, LDAP and even MacOS X addressbooks, and provide the results to external programs such as the Mutt mail reader.

I have been practising release engineering for tcsh by cutting the last 3 developer test versions. I have automated the release procedure a bit more to minimize the chance for errors from having to type in detailed commands repeatedly. Let’s see if I can push out another release a bit closer to my desired goal of every 6 months.

I have also installed an issue tracker to make it easier to produce change logs and make sure that issues are not falling through the cracks. I hope it will also provide a searchable long-term memory on past decisions on what will get included in tcsh and when.

Naturally right after announcing the release I updated the pgksrc package for tcsh, so you can install the package right now by updating your pkgsrc tree.