X-Git-Url: http://cgit.sxemacs.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=GNUS-NEWS;h=377e4a1fc0ffb700d92cfe54095e9d69fa11d6fd;hb=8c9520803d8b0a4edb279997cacaf0abfa9b5856;hp=90f502e1f7096eabdb1a0bc79c90c2402b60ccc7;hpb=063c5b9963c05b4f69ef98c1d10930e03c5127ce;p=gnus diff --git a/GNUS-NEWS b/GNUS-NEWS index 90f502e1f..377e4a1fc 100644 --- a/GNUS-NEWS +++ b/GNUS-NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, - 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org. @@ -21,45 +21,20 @@ this release will store flags for nntp. See a later entry for more information about nntp marks. Note that downgrading isn't safe in general. +** Incompatibility when switching from Emacs 23 to Emacs 22 In Emacs 23, +Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system `utf-8-emacs' for saving +articles drafts and `~/.newsrc.eld'. These files may not be read +correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to use Gnus across +different Emacs versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to +`emacs-mule'. + ** Lisp files are now installed in `.../site-lisp/gnus/' by default. It defaulted to `.../site-lisp/' formerly. In addition to this, the new installer issues a warning if other Gnus installations which will shadow the latest one are detected. You can then remove those shadows manually or remove them using `make remove-installed-shadows'. -** 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, if 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' and `xemacs.mak' superfluous, so -they have been removed. - -** `~/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. - -** `(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. - -File `gnus-load.el' contains autoload commands, functions and variables, -some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen. - +** The installation directory name is allowed to have spaces and/or tabs. * New packages and libraries within Gnus @@ -83,13 +58,38 @@ back end, the PGP passphrase is managed by this mechanism. Passwords for ManageSieve connections are managed by this mechanism, after querying the user about whether to do so. +** Using EasyPG with Gnus When EasyPG, is available, Gnus will use it +instead of PGG. EasyPG is an Emacs user interface to GNU Privacy Guard. + *Note EasyPG Assistant user's manual: (epa)Top. EasyPG is included in +Emacs 23 and available separately as well. + + +* Changes in group mode + +** Old intermediate incoming mail files (`Incoming*') are deleted after a +couple of days, not immediately. *Note Mail Source Customization::. +(New in Gnus 5.10.10 / No Gnus 0.8) + + * Changes in summary and article mode +** Gnus now supports sticky article buffers. Those are article buffers +that are not reused when you select another article. *Note Sticky +Articles::. + +** Gnus can selectively display `text/html' articles with a WWW browser +with `K H'. *Note MIME Commands::. + ** International host names (IDNA) can now be decoded inside article bodies using `W i' (`gnus-summary-idna-message'). This requires that GNU Libidn (`http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/') has been installed. +** The non-ASCII group names handling has been much improved. The back +ends that fully support non-ASCII group names are now `nntp', `nnml', +and `nnrss'. Also the agent, the cache, and the marks features work +with those back ends. *Note Non-ASCII Group Names::. + ** Gnus now displays DNS master files sent as text/dns using dns-mode. ** Gnus supports new limiting commands in the Summary buffer: `/ r' @@ -131,13 +131,24 @@ From Newsgroups::. ** You can replace MIME parts with external bodies. See `gnus-mime-replace-part' and `gnus-article-replace-part'. *Note MIME -Commands::, *Note Using MIME::. +Commands::, *note Using MIME::. ** The option `mm-fill-flowed' can be used to disable treatment of format=flowed messages. Also, flowed text is disabled when sending inline PGP signed messages. *Note Flowed text: (emacs-mime)Flowed text. (New in Gnus 5.10.7) +** Now the new command `S W' (`gnus-article-wide-reply-with-original') for +a wide reply in the article buffer yanks a text that is in the active +region, if it is set, as well as the `R' +(`gnus-article-reply-with-original') command. Note that the `R' command +in the article buffer no longer accepts a prefix argument, which was +used to make it do a wide reply. *Note Article Keymap::. + +** The new command `C-h b' (`gnus-article-describe-bindings') used in the +article buffer now shows not only the article commands but also the real +summary commands that are accessible from the article buffer. + * Changes in Message mode @@ -165,20 +176,26 @@ buffer. See `gnus-message-highlight-citation'. `message-fill-column'. *Note Message Headers: (message)Various Message Variables. +** You can now store signature files in a special directory named +`message-signature-directory'. + +** The option `message-citation-line-format' controls the format of the +"Whomever writes:" line. You need to set +`message-citation-line-function' to +`message-insert-formatted-citation-line' as well. * Changes in back ends ** The nntp back end stores article marks in `~/News/marks'. -Earlier it was generated when 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'. +The directory can be changed using the (customizable) variable +`nntp-marks-directory', and marks can be disabled using the (back end) +variable `nntp-marks-is-evil'. The advantage of this is that you can +copy `~/News/marks' (using rsync, scp or whatever) to another Gnus +installation, and it will realize what articles you have read and +marked. The data in `~/News/marks' has priority over the same data in +`~/.newsrc.eld'. ** You can import and export your RSS subscriptions from OPML files. *Note RSS::. @@ -204,13 +221,13 @@ server buffer) renumbers all articles in a group, starting from 1 and removing gaps. As a consequence, you get a correct total article count (until messages are deleted again). + * Appearance ** The tool bar has been updated to use GNOME icons. You can also -customize the tool bar. There's no documentation in the manual yet, but -`M-x customize-apropos RET -tool-bar$' should get you started. (Only -for Emacs, not in XEmacs.) +customize the tool bars: `M-x customize-apropos RET -tool-bar$' should +get you started. (Only for Emacs, not in XEmacs.) ** The tool bar icons are now (de)activated correctly in the group buffer, see the variable `gnus-group-update-tool-bar'. Its default value @@ -232,6 +249,14 @@ will connect to the news host by way of the intermediate host ** The `all.SCORE' file can be edited from the group buffer using `W e'. +** You can set `gnus-mark-copied-or-moved-articles-as-expirable' to a +non-`nil' value so that articles that have been read may be marked as +expirable automatically when copying or moving them to a group that has +auto-expire turned on. The default is `nil' and copying and moving of +articles behave as before; i.e., the expirable marks will be unchanged +except that the marks will be removed when copying or moving articles to +a group that has not turned auto-expire on. *Note Expiring Mail::. + * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features". @@ -240,10 +265,10 @@ will connect to the news host by way of the intermediate host This file is part of GNU Emacs. -GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) -any later version. +the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of @@ -251,9 +276,7 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the -Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, -Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. +along with GNU Emacs. If not, see . Local variables: