GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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* Changes in Oort Gnus
+** The revised Gnus FAQ is included in the manual.
+See the info node "Frequently Asked Questions".
+
+** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used Oort.
+
+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 is now enabled by default. This means that, e.g.,
-headers are not downloaded from agentized servers by default (agentize
-servers by using `J a' in the server buffer). Gnus will not start to
-download articles unless you instruct it to do so, though, by using
-e.g. J u or J s from the group buffer. Revert to the old behaviour
-with `(setq gnus-agent nil)'. Note that putting (gnus-agentize) in
-~/.gnus is not needed any more. Now, by default 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). You can view and change which servers should be
-agentized in the Server Buffer.
+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
+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.
** (require 'gnus-load)
-If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add (require
-'gnus-load) into your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus lisp directory
-into load-path.
+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.
** message-insinuate-rmail
-Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) and (setq mail-user-agent
-'gnus-user-agent) in .emacs convinces RMAIL to compose, reply and
-forward messages in message-mode, where you can enjoy the power of
-MML.
+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 [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
+(define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [?\t] 'bbdb-complete-name)
-** Externalize attachments.
+** Externalizing and deleting of attachments.
-If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
-message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
-external parts.
+If `gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments' (or
+`message-fcc-externalize-attachments') is non-nil, attach local files
+as external parts.
-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. It works only
-on back ends that support editing.
+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 is determined from the current-language-environment
-variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
-gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
+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
((header "to" "larsi.*org")
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