Gopher FurryTerror Released

March 20, 2002

Today we release the Internet Gopher Server and Client version 3.0.4, two months after the release of our 10th anniversary 3.0 edition.

Since version 3.0, the following major changes have occured:

[portability] Builds on MacOS X natively
[portability] Builds on Solaris natively
[portability] Fixes to make install target
[portability] Many autoconf fixes
[bugfix] Proper gopher URL handling
[features] Out-of-box support for .ogg and .mp2 files
[features] Generate useful gopherd.conf as part of build
[portability] Major rewrite of regex system resulting in more portable code
[bugfix] Don't prematurely stop reading some documents
[portability] Builds on FreeBSD natively
[features] New FAQ

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 3.0.4

Debian sid users may run "apt-get install gopher gopherd" beginning on approximately March 22.

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.
MacOS X (and in fact, all) users should read doc/PLATFORMS.

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