1 GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5 Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
6 For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
11 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
13 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
14 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
17 ** Message supports the Importance: header.
19 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
21 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
23 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
24 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
25 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
26 `message-insert-canlock'.
28 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
30 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
31 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
32 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
33 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
34 Sieve manual, for more information.
36 ** Extended format specs.
38 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
39 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
40 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
41 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
42 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
45 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
47 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
48 function filters out other articles.
50 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
52 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
53 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
54 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
56 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
58 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
59 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
60 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
61 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
62 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
63 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
64 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
65 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
66 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
67 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
69 ** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
72 ** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
75 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
77 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
78 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
79 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
81 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
83 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP-MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
86 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
88 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
90 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
91 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
94 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
96 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
97 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
98 internationalization and mail-fetching.
100 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
101 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
103 If you used procmail like in
105 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
106 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
107 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
108 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
110 this now has changed to
113 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
116 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
117 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
119 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
120 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
122 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
123 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
125 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
126 called to position point.
128 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
129 summary buffers and NOV files.
131 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
132 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
134 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
135 subtly different manner.
137 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
138 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
139 ever-changing layouts.
141 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
144 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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