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Hi all,

I have just released a new version of signcontrol.py (v. 1.5.0, 2023/10/29).

The main point of this release is to support Python 3.

This Python script is aimed at helping Usenet hierarchy administrators
in maintaining the canonical lists of newsgroups in the hierarchies they administer. It enforces best practices regarding the syntax of Usenet
control articles.
It is also useful to manage PGP keys: generation, import, export,
removal, and revokal.


You can download the release via Github. Technically, there are only
two files to download (signcontrol.py and signcontrol.conf).
The release tag is here:
https://github.com/Julien-Elie/usenet-signcontrol/releases/tag/1.5.0

The contents and documentation of the latest version of signcontrol.py
can be browsed here:
https://github.com/Julien-Elie/usenet-signcontrol



The changes since the previous version are:

- Add compatibility with both Python 2 and Python 3.

- Default encoding for generated control articles is now UTF-8 in the configuration file (this charset SHOULD be used for non-ASCII
characters, per Section 4.2 of RFC 5537). If you are upgrading from a
previous version of signcontrol.py, and your checkgroups file contains descriptions with non-ASCII characters, you are encouraged to also
switch to "UTF-8" as the value of the ENCODING parameter, use UTF-8
input in your terminal, and convert your checkgroups file to this charset.

- Use --full-generate-key instead of --gen-key when generating a new
pair of keys as GnuPG versions greater than 2.1.17 otherwise
unconditionally set an expiration date.

- Recommend at least a 3072-bit RSA key (and not a 2048-bit one).

- Fix the feature of key revocation.

- Colourize errors and recommendations in the terminal output to better
view them.

- Add the URL to the ftp.isc.org's README.html file in the X-Info header
field only if not already present (it was previously unconditionally added).

- Switch ftp.isc.org's URLs from ftp to https in the X-Info header field.

- Improve documentation, with more details and return of experience
accumulated since the last release.




Feel free to use this new version, and please let me know of any
problems you may encounter.

--
Julien ÉLIE

« Dans toute statistique, l'inexactitude du nombre est compensée par la
précision des décimales. » (Alfred Sauvy)

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