Thursday, March 23, 2006

Proftpd 1.3 out in experimental

After being busy with DebianGis related things and a few other packages recently, finally I found the time (and will :-)) to complete and uploaded an experimental deeply re-packaged version of proftpd.

Now proftpd is quite near to the release of 1.3 and current 1.3.0rc5 is considered the final release candidate before that (due in a couple of weeks). So it is also time to test the new package and give feedbacks to me and upstream team. I removed the ancient multi-binary approach to promote the new dynamic shared objects to prime time. As always, there are quite a few feature and configuration changes in the new version, so people are warned about that.

I happily reduced the number of patches applied to the sources and refined scripts all around, but more work is required to manage better upgrades and also adding more contributed modules, as well. And some silly things surely have been overlooked. So, stay tuned...