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Accept Golang-style senantic-version numbers with a v prefix. Do early check for version matching an existing tag. Whwn a NEWS version is available, check what’s passed in.

Ignore // comments in .adoc files.

Sync with gitlab-igor 0.1.0

Second Igor integration test.

Test release for Igor integration.

Update the default template to emit HTML5 with a stylesheet.

Shipper can now do broadcast notifications on Twitter. Added Debian package name as a metadata field. Add size attributes for logo inclusions.

Do the right thing if README etc. are actually *.adoc files.

Add capability to set the background image of the templated web page. Add sanity checking of NEWS release dates

Forward-port to Python 3.

Fix a bug that caused shipper -w of a SourceForge project to screw up.

Switch to Patreon from Gratipay, which no longer supports individuals.

Per-project shipper variables can now be set from git config section. Removal of Berlios support, since I’ve learned that it shut down in 2012. The -w option now updates both web pages and gitweb metadata.

Adapted for Gitorious shutdown; Gitorious-URL and Github-URL replaced by Repository-URL, Developer-Clone, and Anonymous-Clone. Now makes a gitweb-style description and README.html file.

Fix a brown-paper-bag bug in SourceForge directory syncing.

Add the ability to ship notifications to freshcode. Gittip has changed its name to Gratipay. Ohloh has changed its name to OpenHub.

More permissive NEWS parsing. Interpret leading version on a news stanza. Recent changes is now part of the default web-page template.

Removing freecode.com support, as it stopped accepting new updates yesterday.

Fix a bug in the SourceForge delivery code.

Added the Validate field for smoke-testing before deliverables are shipped.

First public production release.

Correct a bug in Freecode name processing.

Minor bug fixes in web page templating.

Manual page overhauled in reponse to user feedback.

Project-Tag-List → Freecode-Tags There is now the beginnings of a regression-test suite.

Use irkerd’s new (release 2.3) immediate mode for IRC notifications.

Major change in interface; this is now a shellscript generator New variable-override syntax on the command line. Your profile can now be ~/.config/shipper a la XDG.

Added support for announcing to project IRC channels via irk. Helpers required by the package are now documented.

Added support for embedding a gittip link.

The Fernando Poo Day double release! First spin of 0.15 had a wrong checksum. SourceForge upload locations for FRS and project web have changed. Add and document the the sourceforge-folder variable. Ship project description with updates. Added IRC chat channel and Ohloh/github/gitorious URLs to optional metadata. Extract HTML page descriptions from <title> elements. Push changes and tags if -t and -u are both enabled. md5 and sha* checksum files added to automatic website uploads. Release-Focus is gone; calling shipper is now a fire-and-forget operation. Add untested support for savannah-nongnu.

Cope with the Freshmeat to Freecode name change.

Set the Berlios download location correctly for SourceForge announcements.

Can now tag releases under hg and bzr, Added the logo variable and logo embedding in the web-page template.

Support for SourceForge as a destination.

Generate correct download directories in a Freshmeat announcement for a Berlios project. Check version in makefile as well as Makefile.

The Channels variable is gone. There are no longer default public channels; you put the ones you want in your Destinations variable. For safety’s sake the force (-f) option is also gone; generated deliverables are now built unconditionally, and you must explicitly make sure no index.html exists in order to get one generated. There is now a "berlios" channel.

Strip trailing edit-mode lines out of RPM spec files.

Now handles packages that generate multiple binary RPMs correctly.

Fixed a minor bug in the generation of lftp commands. Also, generate a To line into email announcement. Mailman doesn’t like implicit addressing.

Added security check so the ~/.shipper and .shipper files can’t be used for privilege elevation. Fixed upload omission bug in case where neither -n nor -f was on and the webpage wasn’t being built. Deliverables created for upload are deleted at end of run.

Correct extraction of freshmeat name. Build generated deliverables only if we know they will be needed. Help is now available at the freshmeat-focus prompt.

First alpha release of unified shipper package. It can ship itself.

rpm2lsm now grabs an RPM from the current directory if no argument, and parses an AUTHORS file if present (GNU convention). Also, this release fixes a bug in USERNAME handling.

Initial release of rpm2lsm, since folded into shipper package.