3 *** `gnus-select-method' now defaults to `(nntp "news")' instead
4 of `(nntp "localhost")'.
6 *** `gnus-read-active-file' now defaults to `some' instead of t.
8 *** nntp.el has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
10 *** Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into
13 *** Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like
14 `and', `or', `not', and parent redirection.
16 *** Article washing status can be displayed in the
19 *** gnus.el has been split into many smaller files.
21 *** Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID.
23 (setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
25 *** New variables for specifying what score and adapt files
26 are to be considered home score and adapt files. See
27 `gnus-home-score-file' and `gnus-home-adapt-files'.
29 *** Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics.
31 *** Article editing has been revamped and is now usable.
33 *** Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions.
34 See `gnus-signature-separator' and `gnus-signature-limit'.
36 *** Summary pick mode has been made to look more nn-like.
37 Line numbers are displayed and the `.' command can be
38 used to pick articles.
40 *** Commands for moving the .newsrc.eld from one server to
41 another have been added.
43 `M-x gnus-change-server'
45 *** A way to specify that "uninteresting" fields be suppressed when
46 generating lines in buffers.
48 *** Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with
51 *** Scoring can be done on words using the new score type `w'.
53 *** Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis:
55 (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
57 *** Scores can be decayed.
59 (setq gnus-decay-scores t)
61 *** Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header. The
62 Date is normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first.
64 *** A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from
67 `M-x gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups'
69 *** A new command for reading collections of documents
70 (nndoc with nnvirtual on top) has been added -- `M-C-d'.
72 *** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
74 *** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
75 even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
77 *** A new backend for reading searches from Web search engines
78 (DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added.
80 Use the `G w' command in the group buffer to create such
83 *** Groups inside topics can now be sorted using the standard
84 sorting functions, and each topic can be sorted independently.
86 See the commands under the `T S' submap.
88 *** Subsets of the groups can be sorted independently.
90 See the commands under the `G P' submap.
92 *** Cached articles can be pulled into the groups.
94 Use the `Y c' command.
96 *** Score files are now applied in a more reliable order.
98 *** Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated.
100 `M-x nnmail-split-history'
102 *** More hooks and functions have been added to remove junk
103 from incoming mail before saving the mail.
105 See `nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook'.
107 *** The nnml mail backend now understands compressed article files.