-If you have tried Oort (the unstable Gnus branch leading to this
-release) but went back to a stable version, be careful when upgrading
-to this version. In particular, you will probably want to remove all
-.marks (nnml) and .mrk (nnfolder) files, so that flags are read from
-your ~/.newsrc.eld instead of from the .marks/.mrk file where this
-release store flags. See a later entry for more information about
-marks. Note that downgrading isn't safe in general.
-
-** Article Buttons
-
-More buttons for URLs, mail addresses, Message-IDs, Info links, man pages and
-Emacs or Gnus related references, see the info node "Article Buttons". The
-variables `gnus-button-*-level' can be used to control the appearance of all
-article buttons, see the info node "Article Button Levels".
-
-** Dired integration
-`gnus-dired-minor-mode' installs key bindings in dired buffers to send
-a file as an attachment (`C-c C-a'), open a file using the approriate
-mailcap entry (`C-c C-l'), and print a file using the mailcap entry
-(`C-c P'). It is enabled with
-
- (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'turn-on-gnus-dired-mode)
-
-** Gnus can display RSS newsfeeds as a newsgroup. To get started do `B
-nnrss RET RET' in the Group buffer.
-
-** Single-part yenc encoded attachments can be decoded.
-
-** Picons
-The picons code has been reimplemented to work in Emacs 21 -- some of
-the previous options have been removed or renamed.
-
-Picons are small "personal icons" representing users, domain and
-newsgroups, which can be displayed in the Article buffer. To enable
-picons, install the picons database from
-
- http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/index.html
-
-and point `gnus-picon-databases' to that location.
-
-** If the new option `gnus-treat-body-boundary' is `head', a boundary
-line is drawn at the end of the headers.
-
-** Retrieval of charters and control messages
-There are new commands for fetching newsgroup charters (`H c') and
-control messages (`H C').
-
-** Delayed articles
-You can delay the sending of a message with `C-c C-j' in the Message
-buffer. The messages are delivered at specified time. This is useful
-for sending yourself reminders. Setup with (gnus-delay-initialize).
-
-** If `auto-compression-mode' is enabled, attachments are automatically
-decompressed when activated.
-
-** If the new option `nnml-use-compressed-files' is non-nil,
-the nnml back end allows compressed message files.
-
-** Signed article headers (X-PGP-Sig) can be verified with `W p'.
-
-** The Summary Buffer uses an arrow in the fringe to indicate the
-current article in Emacs 21 running on a graphical display. Customize
-`gnus-summary-display-arrow' to disable it.
-
-** Warn about email replies to news
-Do you often find yourself replying to news by email by mistake? Then
-the new option `gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news' is just the thing for
-you.
-
-** If the new option `gnus-summary-display-while-building' is non-nil,
-the summary buffer is shown and updated as it's being built.
-
-** The new `recent' mark "." indicates newly arrived messages (as
-opposed to old but unread messages).
-
-** The new option `gnus-gcc-mark-as-read' automatically marks
-Gcc articles as read.
-
-** The nndoc back end now supports mailman digests and exim bounces.
-
-** Gnus supports RFC 2369 mailing list headers, and adds a number of
-related commands in mailing list groups.
-
-** The Date header can be displayed in a format that can be read aloud
-in English, see `gnus-treat-date-english'.
-
-** The envelope sender address can be customized when using Sendmail, see
-`message-sendmail-envelope-from'.
-
-** diffs are automatically highlighted in groups matching
-`mm-uu-diff-groups-regexp'
-
-** TLS wrapper shipped with Gnus
-
-TLS/SSL is now supported in IMAP and NNTP via tls.el and GNUTLS. The
-old TLS/SSL support via (external third party) ssl.el and OpenSSL
-still works.
-
-** New make.bat for compiling and installing Gnus under MS Windows
-
-Use make.bat if you want to install Gnus under MS Windows, the first
-argument to the batch-program should be the directory where xemacs.exe
-respectively emacs.exe is located, iff you want to install Gnus after
-compiling it, give make.bat /copy as the second parameter.
-
-`make.bat' has been rewritten from scratch, it now features automatic
-recognition of XEmacs and GNU Emacs, generates gnus-load.el, checks if
-errors occur while compilation and generation of info files and reports
-them at the end of the build process. It now uses makeinfo if it is
-available and falls back to infohack.el otherwise. `make.bat' should now
-install all files which are necessary to run Gnus and be generally a
-complete replacement for the "configure; make; make install" cycle used
-under Unix systems.
-
-The new make.bat makes make-x.bat superfluous, so it has been removed.
-
-** Support for non-ASCII domain names
-
-Message supports non-ASCII domain names in From:, To: and Cc: and will
-query you whether to perform encoding when you try to send a message.
-The variable `message-use-idna' controls this. Gnus will also decode
-non-ASCII domain names in From:, To: and Cc: when you view a message.
-The variable `gnus-use-idna' controls this.
-
-** Better handling of Microsoft citation styles
-
-Gnus now tries to recognize the mangled header block that some Microsoft
-mailers use to indicate that the rest of the message is a citation, even
-though it is not quoted in any way. The variable
-`gnus-cite-unsightly-citation-regexp' matches the start of these
-citations.
-
-** gnus-article-skip-boring
-
-If you set `gnus-article-skip-boring' to t, then Gnus will not scroll
-down to show you a page that contains only boring text, which by
-default means cited text and signature. You can customize what is
-skippable using `gnus-article-boring-faces'.
-
-This feature is especially useful if you read many articles that
-consist of a little new content at the top with a long, untrimmed
-message cited below.
-
-** The format spec %C for positioning point has changed to %*.
-
-** The new variable `gnus-parameters' can be used to set group parameters.
-
-Earlier this was done only via `G p' (or `G c'), which stored the
-parameters in ~/.newsrc.eld, but via this variable you can enjoy the
-powers of customize, and simplified backups since you set the variable
-in ~/.emacs instead of ~/.newsrc.eld. The variable maps regular
-expressions matching group names to group parameters, a'la:
-
- (setq gnus-parameters
- '(("mail\\..*"
- (gnus-show-threads nil)
- (gnus-use-scoring nil))
- ("^nnimap:\\(foo.bar\\)$"
- (to-group . "\\1"))))
-
-** Smileys (":-)", ";-)" etc) are now iconized for Emacs too.
-
-Customize `gnus-treat-display-smileys' to disable it.
-
-** Gnus no longer generates the Sender: header automatically.
-
-Earlier it was generated iff the user configurable email address was
-different from the Gnus guessed default user address. As the guessing
-algorithm is rarely correct these days, and (more controversially) the
-only use of the Sender: header was to check if you are entitled to
-cancel/supersede news (which is now solved by Cancel Locks instead,
-see another entry), generation of the header has been disabled by
-default. See the variables `message-required-headers',
-`message-required-news-headers', and `message-required-mail-headers'.
-
-** Features from third party message-utils.el added to message.el.
-
-Message now asks if you wish to remove "(was: <old subject>)" from
-subject lines (see `message-subject-trailing-was-query'). C-c M-m and
-C-c M-f inserts markers indicating included text. C-c C-f a adds a
-X-No-Archive: header. C-c C-f x inserts appropriate headers and a
-note in the body for cross-postings and followups (see the variables
-`message-cross-post-*').
-
-** References and X-Draft-Headers are no longer generated when you
-start composing messages and `message-generate-headers-first' is nil.
-
-** Improved anti-spam features.
-
-Gnus is now able to take out spam from your mail and news streams
-using a wide variety of programs and filter rules. Among the supported
-methods are RBL blocklists, bogofilter and white/blacklists. Hooks
-for easy use of external packages such as SpamAssassin and Hashcash
-are also new.
-
-** Easy inclusion of X-Faces headers.
-
-** In the summary buffer, the new command / N inserts new messages and
-/ o inserts old messages.
-
-** Gnus decodes morse encoded messages if you press W m.
-
-** Unread count correct in nnimap groups.
-
-The estimated number of unread articles in the group buffer should now
-be correct for nnimap groups. This is achieved by calling
-`nnimap-fixup-unread-after-getting-new-news' from the
-`gnus-setup-news-hook' (called on startup) and
-`gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook' (called after getting new mail).
-If you have modified those variables from the default, you may want to
-add n-f-u-a-g-n-n again. If you were happy with the estimate and want
-to save some (minimal) time when getting new mail, remove the
-function.
-
-** Group Carbon Copy (GCC) quoting
-
-To support groups that contains SPC and other weird characters, groups
-are quoted before they are placed in the Gcc: header. This means
-variables such as `gnus-message-archive-group' should no longer
-contain quote characters to make groups containing SPC work. Also, if
-you are using the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" (indicating Gcc into two
-groups) you must change it to return the list ("nnml:foo" "nnml:bar"),
-otherwise the Gcc: line will be quoted incorrectly. Note that
-returning the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" was incorrect earlier, it
-just didn't generate any problems since it was inserted directly.
-
-** ~/News/overview/ not used.
-
-As a result of the following change, the ~/News/overview/ directory is
-not used any more. You can safely delete the entire hierarchy.
-
-** gnus-agent
-
-The Gnus Agent has seen a major update. It is now enabled by default,
-and all nntp and nnimap servers from `gnus-select-method' and
-`gnus-secondary-select-method' are agentized by default. Earlier only
-the server in `gnus-select-method' was agentized by the default, and the
-agent was disabled by default. When the agent is enabled, headers are
-now also retrieved from the Agent cache instead of the backends when
-possible. Earlier this only happened in the unplugged state. You can
-enroll or remove servers with `J a' and `J r' in the server buffer.
-Gnus will not download articles into the Agent cache, unless you
-instruct it to do so, though, by using `J u' or `J s' from the Group
-buffer. You revert to the old behaviour of having the Agent disabled
-by customizing `gnus-agent'. Note that putting `(gnus-agentize)' in
-~/.gnus is not needed any more.
-
-** gnus-summary-line-format
-
-The default value changed to "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n".
-Moreover `gnus-extra-headers', `nnmail-extra-headers' and
-`gnus-ignored-from-addresses' changed their default so that the users
-name will be replaced by the recipient's name or the group name
-posting to for NNTP groups.
-
-** deuglify.el (gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article)
-
-A new file from Raymond Scholz <rscholz@zonix.de> for deuglifying
-broken Outlook (Express) articles.
-
-** (require 'gnus-load)
-
-If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add
-"(require 'gnus-load)" to your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus
-lisp directory into load-path.
-
-File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
-some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
-
-** gnus-slave-unplugged
-
-A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
-
-** message-insinuate-rmail
-
-Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) in .emacs and customizing
-`mail-user-agent' to `gnus-user-agent' convinces Rmail to compose,
-reply and forward messages in Message mode, where you can enjoy the
-power of MML.
-
-** message-minibuffer-local-map
-
-The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
-
-(define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [?\t] 'bbdb-complete-name)
-
-** Externalizing and deleting of attachments.
-
-If `gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments' (or
-`message-fcc-externalize-attachments') is non-nil, attach local files
-as external parts.
-
-The command `gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip' (bound to `C-o' on MIME
-buttons) saves a part and replaces the part with an external one.
-`gnus-mime-delete-part' (bound to `d' on MIME buttons) removes a part.
-It works only on back ends that support editing.
-
-** gnus-default-charset
-
-The default value now guesses on the basis of your environment instead
-of using Latin-1. Also the ".*" item in gnus-group-charset-alist is
-removed.
-
-** gnus-posting-styles
-
-Add a new format of match like
-
- ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
- (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
-
-The old format like the lines below is obsolete, but still accepted.
-
- (header "to" "larsi.*org"
- (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
-
-** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
-
-X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
-these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
-those two headers too.
-
-** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
-
-If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
-in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. Customize
-`gnus-agent-cache' to revert to the old behavior.
-
-** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.