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Re: [Sks-devel] [Announce] SKS 1.1.3 Released


From: Teun Nijssen
Subject: Re: [Sks-devel] [Announce] SKS 1.1.3 Released
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:50:57 +0200
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Hi John,

on 2012-04-11 05:00 John Clizbe wrote the following:
> Hello,
> 
> We are pleased to announce the availability of a new SKS release:
> Version 1.1.3.

nice; congratulations.

Any idea about the date for a package in de Debian repositories?

cheers,

teun

> SKS is an OpenPGP keyserver whose goal is to provide easy to deploy,
> decentralized, and highly reliable synchronization. That means that a key
> submitted to one SKS server will quickly be distributed to all key servers, 
> and
> even wildly out-of-date servers, or servers that experience spotty 
> connectivity,
> can fully synchronize with rest of the system.
> 
> The design of SKS is deliberately simple. The server consists of two
> single-threaded processes. The first, sks db, fulfills the normal jobs
> associated with a public key server, such as answering web requests. The only
> special functionality of sks db is that it keeps a log summarizing the changes
> to the key database. sks recon does all the work with respect to reconciling
> hosts databases. sks recon keeps track of specialized summary information 
> about
> the database, and can use that information to efficiently determine the
> differences between its database and that of another host.
> 
> 
> What's New in 1.1.3
> ===================
> 
>   - Makefile fix for 'make dep' if .depend does not exist. Issue #4
> 
>   - Makefile fix: sks and sks_add_mail fail to link w/o '-ccopt -pg'
>     Issue #23
> 
>   - Added -disable_mailsync and -disable_log_diffs to sks.pod
> 
>   * Added file extensions: .css, .jpeg, .htm, .es, .js, .xml, .shtml, .xhtm,
>     .xhtml, .xml and associated MIME types to server code. Part of Issue #6
> 
>   - Added sample configuration files in sampleConfig directory
> 
>   - Added sample web page files in sampleWeb directory. Issues #7, 9, 19
> 
>   - Allow requests for non-official options hget, hash, status, & clean to
>     be preceded by '-x'. Closes issues #10, 11, 13, & 14.
> 
>   * Allow &search with long subkey ID (16 digit) and subkey fingerprint
> 
>   * Patch recon script so that POST includes HTTP version number.
> 
> 
> Getting the Software
> ====================
> 
> SKS 1.1.3 may be downloaded from the project's Google Code download page:
> 
>     https://code.google.com/p/sks-keyserver/downloads/list
> 
> Checksums for sks-1.1.3.tgz
>    MD5 = D1 82 0C 7C 1A 1E 0D 0E  B7 82 5D B4 E8 00 3F 03
>   SHA1 = 8A96 C3F1 C7B2 C71C E05B  298C C9D0 6BDF 173D CF0B
> SHA256 = 1E5493C6 86101DAE FB5FF4E6 376AA147 CEE19FB1 851F7A7A 38B17266 
> D462BF40
> 
> Individuals who desire to work on the source should either create their own
> clone of the repository by visiting
> 
>     https://code.google.com/p/sks-keyserver/source/clones
> 
> or use Mercurial to create a local copy of the SKS repository
> 
>     hg clone https://code.google.com/p/sks-keyserver/
> 
> 
> Thanks
> ======
> 
> We have to thank all the people who helped with this release, by discussions 
> on
> the mailing list, submitting patches, or opening issues for items that needed
> our attention.
> 
> Happy Hacking,
> 
>   The SKS Team (Yaron, John, Phil, and the other contributors)
> 
> 
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