1 GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 See the end for copying conditions.
5 Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
6 For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
11 ** TLS wrapper shipped with Gnus
13 TLS/SSL is now supported in IMAP and NNTP via tls.el and GNUTLS. The
14 old TLS/SSL support via (external third party) ssl.el and OpenSSL
17 ** New make.bat for compiling and installing Gnus under MS Windows
19 Use make.bat if you want to install Gnus under MS Windows, the first
20 argument to the batch-program should be the directory where xemacs.exe
21 respectively emacs.exe is located, iff you want to install Gnus after
22 compiling it, give make.bat /copy as the second parameter.
24 Make.bat has been rewritten from scratch, it now features automatic
25 recognition of XEmacs and GNU Emacs, generates gnus-load.el, checks if
26 errors occur while compilation and generation of info files and reports
27 them at the end of the build process. It now uses makeinfo if it is
28 available and falls back to infohack.el otherwise. Make.bat should now
29 install all files which are necessary to run Gnus and be generally a
30 complete replacement for the "configure; make; make install" cycle used
33 The new make.bat makes make-x.bat superfluous, so it has been removed.
35 ** Support for non-ASCII domain names
37 Message supports non-ASCII domain names in From:, To: and Cc: and will
38 query you whether to perform encoding when you try to send a message.
39 The variable `message-use-idna' controls this. Gnus will also decode
40 non-ASCII domain names in From:, To: and Cc: when you view a message.
41 The variable `gnus-use-idna' controls this.
43 ** Better handling of Microsoft citation styles
45 Gnus now tries to recognize the mangled header block that some Microsoft
46 mailers use to indicate that the rest of the message is a citation, even
47 though it is not quoted in any way. The variable
48 `gnus-cite-unsightly-citation-regexp' matches the start of these
51 ** gnus-article-skip-boring
53 If you set `gnus-article-skip-boring' to t, then Gnus will not scroll
54 down to show you a page that contains only boring text, which by
55 default means cited text and signature. You can customize what is
56 skippable using `gnus-article-boring-faces'.
58 This feature is especially useful if you read many articles that
59 consist of a little new content at the top with a long, untrimmed
62 ** The format spec %C for positioning point has changed to %*.
64 ** The new variable `gnus-parameters' can be used to set group parameters.
66 Earlier this was done only via `G p' (or `G c'), which stored the
67 parameters in ~/.newsrc.eld, but via this variable you can enjoy the
68 powers of customize, and simplified backups since you set the variable
69 in ~/.emacs instead of ~/.newsrc.eld. The variable maps regular
70 expressions matching group names to group parameters, a'la:
74 (gnus-show-threads nil)
75 (gnus-use-scoring nil))
76 ("^nnimap:\\(foo.bar\\)$"
79 ** Smileys (":-)", ";-)" etc) are now iconized for Emacs too.
81 Put (setq gnus-treat-display-smileys nil) in ~/.emacs to disable it.
83 ** Gnus no longer generate the Sender: header automatically.
85 Earlier it was generated iff the user configurable email address was
86 different from the Gnus guessed default user address. As the guessing
87 algorithm is rarely correct these days, and (more controversally) the
88 only use of the Sender: header was to check if you are entitled to
89 cancel/supersede news (which is now solved by Cancel Locks instead,
90 see another entry), generation of the header has been disabled by
91 default. See the variables `message-required-headers',
92 `message-required-news-headers', and `message-required-mail-headers'.
94 ** Features from third party message-utils.el added to message.el.
96 Message now asks if you wish to remove "(was: <old subject>)" from
97 subject lines (see `message-subject-trailing-was-query'). C-c M-m and
98 C-c M-f inserts markers indicating included text. C-c C-f a adds a
99 X-No-Archive: header. C-c C-f x inserts appropriate headers and a
100 note in the body for cross-postings and followups (see the variables
101 `message-cross-post-*').
103 ** References and X-Draft-Headers are no longer generated when you
104 start composing messages and `message-generate-headers-first' is nil.
106 ** Improved anti-spam features.
108 Gnus is now able to take out spam from your mail and news streams
109 using a wide variety of programs and filter rules. Among the supported
110 methods are RBL blocklists, bogofilter and white/blacklists. Hooks
111 for easy use of external packages such as SpamAssassin and Hashcash
114 ** Easy inclusion of X-Faces headers.
116 ** In the summary buffer, the new command / N inserts new messages and
117 / o inserts old messages.
119 ** Gnus decodes morse encoded messages if you press W m.
121 ** Unread count correct in nnimap groups.
123 The estimated number of unread articles in the group buffer should now
124 be correct for nnimap groups. This is achieved by calling
125 `nnimap-fixup-unread-after-getting-new-news' from the
126 `gnus-setup-news-hook' (called on startup) and
127 gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook. (called after getting new mail). If
128 you have modified those variables from the default, you may want to
129 add n-f-u-a-g-n-n again. If you were happy with the estimate and want
130 to save some (minimal) time when getting new mail, remove the
133 ** gnus-inews-mark-gcc-as-read has been renamed to gnus-gcc-mark-as-read.
135 ** Group Carbon Copy (GCC) quoting
137 To support groups that contains SPC and other weird characters, groups
138 are quoted before they are placed in the Gcc: header. This means
139 variables such as `gnus-message-archive-group' should no longer
140 contain quote characters to make groups containing SPC work. Also, if
141 you are using the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" (indicating Gcc into two
142 groups) you must change it to return the list ("nnml:foo" "nnml:bar"),
143 otherwise the Gcc: line will be quoted incorrectly. Note that
144 returning the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" was incorrect earlier, it
145 just didn't generate any problems since it was inserted directly.
147 ** ~/News/overview/ not used.
149 As a result of the following change, the ~/News/overview/ directory is
150 not used any more. You can safely delete the entire hierarchy.
154 The Gnus Agent has seen a major updated and is now enabled by default,
155 and all nntp and nnimap servers from gnus-select-method and
156 gnus-secondary-select-method are agentized by default. Earlier only
157 the server in gnus-select-method was agentized by the default, and the
158 agent was disabled by default. When the agent is enabled, headers are
159 now also retrieved from the Agent cache instead of the backends when
160 possible. Earlier this only happened in the unplugged state. You can
161 enroll or remove servers with `J a' and `J r' in the server buffer.
162 Gnus will not download articles into the Agent cache, unless you
163 instruct it to do so, though, by using `J u' or `J s' from the Group
164 buffer. You revert to the old behaviour of having the Agent disabled
165 with `(setq gnus-agent nil)'. Note that putting (gnus-agentize) in
166 ~/.gnus is not needed any more.
168 ** gnus-summary-line-format
170 The default value changed to "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n".
171 Moreover gnus-extra-headers, nnmail-extra-headers and
172 gnus-ignored-from-addresses changed their default so that the users
173 name will be replaced by the recipient's name or the group name
174 posting to for NNTP groups.
176 ** deuglify.el (gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article)
178 A new file from Raymond Scholz <rscholz@zonix.de> for deuglifying
179 broken Outlook (Express) articles.
181 ** (require 'gnus-load)
183 If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add (require
184 'gnus-load) into your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus lisp directory
187 File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
188 some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
190 ** gnus-slave-unplugged
192 A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
194 ** message-insinuate-rmail
196 Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) and (setq mail-user-agent
197 'gnus-user-agent) in .emacs convinces RMAIL to compose, reply and
198 forward messages in message-mode, where you can enjoy the power of
201 ** message-minibuffer-local-map
203 The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
205 (define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
207 ** Externalize attachments.
209 If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
210 message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
213 Command gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip (bound to \C-o on MIME buttons)
214 saves a part and replaces the part with an external one. It works only
215 on back ends that support editing.
217 ** gnus-default-charset
219 The default value is determined from the current-language-environment
220 variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
221 gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
223 ** gnus-posting-styles
225 Add a new format of match like
227 ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
228 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
230 The old format like the lines below is obsolete, but still accepted.
232 (header "to" "larsi.*org"
233 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
235 ** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
237 X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
238 these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
239 those two headers too.
241 ** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
243 If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
244 in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
245 gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
247 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
249 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
250 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
252 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
254 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
256 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
258 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
260 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
262 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
263 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
266 ** Message supports the Importance: (RFC 2156) header.
268 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
270 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
272 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
273 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for cancelling and
274 superseding). Gnus generates a random password string the first time
275 you post a message, and saves it in your ~/.emacs using the Custom
276 system. While the variable is called `canlock-password', it is not
277 security sensitive data. Publishing your canlock string on the web
278 will not allow anyone to be able to anything she could not already do.
279 The behaviour can be changed by customizing `message-insert-canlock'.
281 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
283 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
284 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
285 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
286 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
287 Sieve manual, for more information.
289 ** Extended format specs.
291 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
292 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
293 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
294 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
295 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
298 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
300 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
301 function filters out other articles.
303 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
305 This is supposedly what USEFOR wanted to migrate to. See
306 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
307 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
309 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
311 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
312 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
313 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
314 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
315 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
316 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
317 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
318 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
319 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
320 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
322 ** The menu bar item (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has
323 been renamed to "Gnus".
325 ** The menu bar item (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
328 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
330 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
331 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
332 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
334 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
336 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
337 ** S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
338 It needs an external S/MIME and OpenPGP implementation, but no
339 additional lisp libraries. This add several menu items to the
340 Attachments menu, and C-c RET key bindings, when composing messages.
341 This also obsoletes `gnus-article-hide-pgp-hook'.
343 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
345 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
347 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
348 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
353 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
355 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
356 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
357 internationalization and mail-fetching.
359 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
360 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
362 If you used procmail like in
364 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
365 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
366 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
367 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
369 this now has changed to
372 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
375 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
376 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
378 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
379 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
381 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
382 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
384 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
385 called to position point.
387 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
388 summary buffers and NOV files.
390 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
391 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
393 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
394 subtly different manner.
396 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
397 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
398 ever-changing layouts.
400 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
403 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
405 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
406 Copyright information:
408 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
410 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
411 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
412 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
413 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
415 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
416 of this document, or of portions of it,
417 under the above conditions, provided also that they
418 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
422 paragraph-separate: "[
\f]*$"