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