Banana, a full web-based NNTP client library

Banana is a fast (really fast) web-based NNTP library with server side caching

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You can read the complete ChangeLog of Banana on our Gitweb.

8 October 2007: Version 1.7 of banana is out !: Get it here
This version contains many speedups, mainly in mbox processing. It also introduces an experimental PGP signature support.
27 April 2007: Version 1.6 of banana is out !: Get it here
This version introduces RSS feeds and an improved mbox handling.
30 January 2007: Version 1.5 of banana is out !: Get it here
This version introduces a new message renderer and a protocole abstraction level which allows the use of banana with other protocoles that NNTP. This version is also the first PHP5-only version of banana with a reworked API. Page rendering is delegated to the Smarty templates engine.
18 September 2006: Version 1.4 of banana is out !: Get it here
The version of banana is more customisable and introduce a new user interface.
18 June 2006: Version 1.3 of banana is out !: Get it here
This version introduces attachments and html support.
It is the first PHP5 compatible version of banana.
24 Mai 2005: Version 1.1 of banana is out !: Get it here
This is a bugfix release (mostly encoding issues)
15 January 2005 : Version 1.0 of banana is out !: Get it here
January 2005: Banana is reworked on the previous marvelous work of David Bachelart

Banana is free software, and is released under the GPL v2.0

You can get the latest version of banana with Git :

We have an Read-Only Git repository at git://git.polytechnique.org/banana.git.
Browse the Git repository.

Banana requires a system with:

PHP5.1 or later
The Smarty templates engine, 2.6 or later
GCC 3 or higher in order to compile the mbox-helper (not needed if you use Banana for NNTP-only). Other compilers may need Makefile hacking.

The following aditionnal tools are recommended