Gopher Turns 10 / Gopher 3.0 (Furry Terror) Released

January 8, 2002

The Internet Gopher Server and Curses Client is 10 years old!* Since its announcement in late 1991, Gopher quickly sprang up to be one of the most innovative technologies of its time. Gopher today still provides features not found on Web servers -- namely, its idea that the entire planet is just one big filesystem. Modern browsers such as Konqueror and Mozilla show it to us that way, even with drag-and-drop integration with the desktop.

Today we release the Internet Gopher Server and Client version 3.0.

After having been totally unmodified for five years, the Internet Gopher has kicked back to life. The University of Minnesota placed the code under the GNU General Public License and an interested group of hackers set to work on it. A year later, we have this release.

About Gopher

To learn about Gopher, please visit The Gopher Project [gopher/web], A Brief Introduction to Gopherspace [gopher/web], or The Gopher Manifesto [gopher/web].

Obtaining Gopher/Gopherd 3.0

Debian sid users may run "apt-get install gopher gopherd" beginning on approximately January 11.

The source distribution may be downloaded from:

gopher://gopher.quux.org/1/devel/gopher
Quux.Org's Web-To-Gopher Interface to the Above
http://www.quux.org/give-me-gopher/ for people that want a more conventional HTTP presentation.

Release Notes

You are encouraged to use ./configure --disable-auth to build.
BSD users should use "gmake" to build.

Changes since UMN Gopher release 2.3.1

In Brief:

Many security and buffer overrun fixes
New security features in gopherd
Improved handling of MIME types
Modified to work on modern operating systems. Verified to work in Linux for multiple platforms and NetBSD/i386. Should also work for HURD.
Many other modifications, see below.

A more detailed listing is below -- but it is still abbreviated. The most current is available from CVS.

gopher (3.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patched to work with Hurd.  Closes: #115511.  Uses
    suggestions from James Morrison 
    but not his patch.
    * gopher.c, gopherd/error.c, gopher/download.c:
      Modified to use HAVE_STRERROR
    * configure.in: Modified with checks for sys/param.h, HURD header files,
      get_current_dir_name, etc.
    * configure.h.in, configure: rebuilt.
  * Moved the current UMN Copyright notice in "COPYING" into "copyright"
  * Updated copyright files, etc. with current info.
  * Updated the locales with semi-current copyright stuff.
  * Updated greeting in gopher and gopherd.
  * This is Gopher 3.0.0, the Furry Terror release.  

 -- John Goerzen   Tue,  8 Jan 2002 15:31:00 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-15) unstable; urgency=low

  * NetBSD port effort began.
  * Added crypt.h to configure.in's list of headers to look for.
    Reran autoconf/autoheader.
  * Modified gopherd/AUTH.h to include crypt.h only if it's available
    and to include unistd.h if it's available.  (NetBSD)
  * Integrated patches from David Allen 
    (may have been done earlier anyway)
  * config.h.in: rebuilt by autoheader
  * configure: rebuilt by autoconf
  * configure.in:
    * Added REGEXLIBS test for NetBSD -- look for re_comp in -lcompat
    * Added checkes for term.h, re_comp.h, regex.h
  * gopher/ourutils.c, gopher/CURcurses.c: Use term.h check
  * gopher/Makefile.in, gopherd/Makefile.in, gophfilt/Makefile.in:
    * Use REGEXLIBS
  * gopher/globals.h, gopher/gopher.c: Remove sys_errlist
  * object/GSgopherobj.c: Removed  #include, now use
    "Regex.h" that has proper regex determining logic
  * object/Regex.h: Moved regex.h include to here.  Make it conditional
    based on configure test.  Add conditional re_comp.h include.
  * gopherd/gopherd.c: Add init of view and filter after setjmp
    to eliminate clobbering due to longjmp and a warning.  Cast
    parameters to *printf to long as appropriate.
  * AUTH.h: Add missing AUTHITEMSprocessLine prototype
  * AUTH.h: Add a check to prevent including twice.
  * gopherdconf.c: Add a missing prototype.
  * AUTH.c: add missing include of GGroup.h
  * download.c: Added cast to long for some *printf's
  * Now compiles with only one warning on NetBSD.
  * This is Gopher 20020108-01.cvs
  * object/Regex.h: now conditionally includes sys/types.h for regex.h
  * This is Gopher 20020108-02.cvs

 -- John Goerzen   Tue,  8 Jan 2002 13:11:00 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added build-depends on autoconf.  Closes: #113255.

 -- John Goerzen   Thu,  1 Nov 2001 12:49:00 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added Build-Depends.  Closes: #94237.

 -- John Goerzen   Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:00:04 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-12) unstable; urgency=low

  * Only chown /var/gopher if it's just created.  Closes: #89557.

 -- John Goerzen   Fri,  6 Apr 2001 15:35:16 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Many sprintf -> snprintf changes.

 -- John Goerzen   Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:22:09 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added mp3 MIME type.  Closes: #81529.
  * Now logs about chroot status on server startup.

 -- John Goerzen   Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:11:25 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed potential buffer overflows.  Closes: #82602.

 -- John Goerzen   Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:12:51 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update to latest code in CVS, much from
    David Allen 
  * Fixed dh_testversion to 2.0.103.  Closes: #79883.

 -- John Goerzen   Sat,  6 Jan 2001 20:06:01 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * A new debian rev to fix the access: problem in the gopherdlocal.conf.

 -- John Goerzen   Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:40:09 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added many excellent code patches and cleanups from
    David Allen .

 -- John Goerzen   Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:18:09 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Additional code modifications and fixes.

 -- John Goerzen   Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:03:56 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Disable authentication for the moment due to security concerns.

 -- John Goerzen   Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:49:20 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added startopts as a gopherd conffile.

 -- John Goerzen   Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:25:25 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Modify postinst to be easier for people to use if they already have
    a gopher user.
  * Fixed a bug in the restart option for the init script.
  * Made debian/copyright more verbose.

 -- John Goerzen   Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:57:26 -0500

gopher (2.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial re-release.  Package had been yanked after 1995 due to licensing.
  * UMN has just GPL'd gopher.
  * This package contains the security fix from bugtraq.
  * I have patched it to chroot() and setuid() earlier for better
    security.
    SIDE EFFECT: logging will not work if chroot() is used.
  * The extension chopping code was buggy, so I have removed it.
  * Made many fixes to eliminate compiler warnings and errors.
  * Removed redefinitions of sys_errlist
  * Included more header files to bring in relevant prototypes
  * Modified to use Debian paths
  * Modified configure.in to look for -lcrypt
  * Modified Makefile.config.in to use -Wall
  * Removed -DSETPROCTITLE from configure.in to make start-stop-daemon
    work better.
  * Added logrotate
  * Wrote Debian support from scratch.
  * AUTH.h includes crypt.h
  * gopherd/Makefile.in uses separate conffile dir (Debian path)
  * STRstring.h had a paren problem; gcc on alpha brought it out.  Fixed.
  * String.h was missing some header files.
  * Other fixes.

 -- John Goerzen   Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:16:07 -0500

* The exact date of version 1.0 of UMN gopher's release is not logged, but this is about the right time.

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