The hostname for CVS access has changed from "cvs.sourceforge.net" or "cvs.sf.net" to "xoops.cvs.sourceforge.net". The new CVSROOT to use when accessing XOOPS CVS anonymously is:
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According to SourceForge, the changes will offer greater performance and stability and will eliminate several single points of failure.

Note that access to the XOOPS core is through Subversion, which isn't part of this change. See the XOOPS SourceForge project Subversion page for more information on subversion:
http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=41586

See the XOOPS SourceForge CVS page for more information on using CVS with XOOPS.
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=41586

Developers, see the dev.xoops.org internal discussion thread for additional information:
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=1158&forum=27