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GNU Finger 1.36 is now available for anonymous FTP from
prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38], in the file pub/gnu/finger-1.36.tar.Z.

What's new in GNU Finger 1.36:

  o  Various minor bugs fixed

  o  Should now properly handle `./configure --srcdir ...'

  o  Fixed bug that caused fingerd to hang on Suns after SIGHUP

  o  Finger now gives correct information when a user has no logins
     recorded in the Finger database.

  o  New option ``--brief'': opposite to ``--info''. Finger client can
     be built to make either be the default (see config.h). ``--brief''
     is the default as delivered.

  o  Finger should now correctly list info about what a user is doing
     when the option ``--info'' is used.

  o  Finger now correctly tells you what processes a user is running
     on SVR4 by merging what it finds in /proc with utmpx.

  o  Finger can be installed on systems where there is no host data
     in utmp; the ``Console Location'' column will just be left blank.

  o  Security issues are addressed in the manual.

  o  The shell used to run a user's .fingerrc can be hard-coded by
     editing config.h.

  o  Should now install properly on Suns where only standard SunOS
     utilities (make, sed, etc) are used.

  o  The finger client now reduces all trailing CR/LFs to LFs in all
     output.

  o  Completely new protocol for gathering host data. It's not
     backwards compatible, so all clients should have version 1.36
     installed. The new protocol is designed to be both upwards and
     downwards compatible in the future so different versions can
     coexist. There is no longer any exchange of raw binary data. See
     `INSTALL.'

  o  The finger daemon can now be instructed to make connections to the
     client hosts on a specific port (or use a particular service).
     This avoids problems on systems where port 2003 is already in
     use.

  o  New fingerd option ``--interval'' sets the wait between polls. The
     default value is found in config.h.

  o  If finger doesn't recognize a user and a file
     `/usr/local/etc/fingerdir/forwardhost' exists, then the request
     if forwarded to finger on the host specified in this file.

  o  Improved user real name matching.