tin 2.6.3

Tin is a powerful text mode news reader. It features threaded news reading, regex driven killfiles/message selections, pgp encryption, ispell support, and can read from both a local spool or from a remote NNTP server.

Tags communications usenet
License BSDL
State stable

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Recent Releases

2.6.324 Dec 2023 00:04 minor feature: Add "COMPRESS DEFLATE" support (RFC 8054) was added besides a couple of bug-fixes.
2.6.224 Dec 2022 23:16 major feature: Switch from stdio to own buffer implementation to add NNTPS support based on libressl/GNUttls/OpenSSL. Also pcre2 support was added besides a couple of bugfixes.
2.6.126 Dec 2021 14:55 minor bugfix: This release fixes a couple of minor bugs like mixed declarations and code.
2.6.023 Aug 2021 08:43 minor feature: This release fixes a couple of minor bugs and adds few new features like filtering on the Path-header, using multi-byte chars (e.g. emojis) as article status indicator or jump the posted message from the article posting history screen.
2.4.524 Dec 2020 12:04 minor bugfix: This release fixes a couple of minor bugs and speeds up some rarely used features (Path:-filter, multipart-tagging).
2.4.424 Dec 2019 10:39 minor bugfix: This release just fixes a couple of minor bugs.
2.4.324 Dec 2018 09:48 minor bugfix: This release mainly fixes bugs. Besides it adds filtering on the Path:-header.
2.4.224 Dec 2017 13:37 minor bugfix: This release mainly fixes bugs. Besides it adds sha256 and sha512 support to cancel locks and updates the turkish and danish translations.
2.4.124 Dec 2016 14:30 minor bugfix: This release fixes a reconnection problem when -n was used and an authentication problem with transit servers.
2.4.023 Aug 2016 17:57 minor bugfix: This release fixes a memleak on abnormal exit. It now shows server error messages after curses has ended and the estonian, german and french translations are up to date.
2.3.428 Jun 2016 18:13 minor bugfix: This release fixes several display issues when not using the curses interface and adds article lookup by Message-ID in the top-level when reading via NNTP.
2.3.327 Mar 2016 09:10 minor bugfix: This release fixes several memory and resource leaks. It adds RFC 2231 decoding of non us-ascii MIME-parameter values and the Danish, Estonian and French translations have been updated.
2.3.224 Dec 2015 09:14 minor bugfix: This release fixes as format string vulnerability in batch mode, plugs sveral memleaks and updates variuos translations.
2.3.124 Dec 2014 09:56 minor feature: This release validates (possible) illegal multibyte encoding whit "utf8" charset (no '-' in the name) and the Danish translation has been updated.
2.3.003 Oct 2014 15:15 minor feature: This release fixes a crash with illegal multibyte sequences. URL detection has been improved, and the Estonian and French translations have been updated.
2.2.114 Aug 2014 15:52 minor feature: This release fixes a crash with illegal multibyte sequences. URL detection has been improved, and the Estonian and French translations have been updated.