GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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-* Changes in Oort Gnus
-
-** Smileys (":-)", ";-)" etc) are now iconized for Emacs too.
-
-Put (setq gnus-treat-display-smileys nil) in ~/.emacs to disable it.
-
-** Gnus no longer generate 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 controversally) 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. Improved crosspost follow behaviour with
-`message-cross-post-*'.
-
-** References and X-Draft-Headers are no longer generated when you
- start composing messages.
-
-** Improved anti-speam features.
-
-** 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 updated and 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
-with `(setq gnus-agent nil)'. 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) 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.
-
-** gnus-slave-unplugged
-
-A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
-
-** 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.
-
-** message-minibuffer-local-map
-The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
-
-(define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
-
-** Externalize attachments.
-
-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.
-
-** 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.
-
-** 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.
-
- (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. (setq
-gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
-
-** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
-
-On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
-format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
-
-** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
-
-This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
-
-** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
-
-Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
-
-** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
-
-Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
-buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
-the MIME button.
-
-** Message supports the Importance: (RFC 2156) header.
-
-In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
-
-** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
-
-This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
-used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
-cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
-`message-insert-canlock'.
-
-** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
-
-Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
-complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
-and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
-buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
-Sieve manual, for more information.
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+* Changes in No Gnus
-** Extended format specs.
+** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used No Gnus.
-Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
-gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
-specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
-which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
-used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
-longer supported.
+If you have tried No Gnus (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 the
+`~/News/marks' directory (perhaps selectively), so that flags are
+read from your `~/.newsrc.eld' instead of from the stale marks file,
+where 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.
-** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
+** The nntp back end store article marks in `~/News/marks'.
-It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
-function filters out other articles.
+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'.
-** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
+** Picons can be displayed right from the textual address, see
+`gnus-picon-style'. *Note Picons::.
-This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
-`gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
-`gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
+** You can import and export your RSS subscriptions from OPML files.
+*Note RSS::.
-** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
+** 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.
-This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
-separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
-possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
-the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
-the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
-nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
-nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
-the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
-The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
-`nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
+** You can now drag and drop attachments to the Message buffer. See
+`mml-dnd-protocol-alist' and `mml-dnd-attach-options'. *Note MIME:
+(message)MIME.
-** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
-renamed to "Gnus".
+** The option `message-yank-empty-prefix' now controls how empty lines
+are prefixed in cited text. *Note (message)Insertion Variables::.
-** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
-"Attachments".
+** ANSI SGR control sequences can be transformed using `W A'.
-** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
+ANSI sequences are used in some Chinese hierarchies for highlighting
+articles (`gnus-article-treat-ansi-sequences').
-The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
-instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
-variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
+** International host names (IDNA) can now be decoded inside article
+bodies using `W i' (`gnus-summary-idna-message'). This require that
+GNU Libidn (`http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/') has been installed.
- ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
+** Gnus includes an Emacs Lisp SASL library.
-** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
-** S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
-It needs an external S/MIME and OpenPGP implementation, but no additional
-lisp libraries.
+This provide a clean API to SASL mechanisms from within Emacs. The
+user visible aspects of this, compared to the earlier situation,
+include support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM.
-** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
+** ManageSieve connections uses the SASL library by default.
-** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
+The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM,
+when the server support it.
-This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
-`back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
+** Gnus include a password cache mechanism in password.el.
-** Bug fixes.
+It is enabled by default (see `password-cache'), with a short timeout
+of 16 seconds (see `password-cache-expiry'). If PGG is used as the
+PGP 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.
-\f
-* Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
+** IMAP identity (RFC 2971) is supported.
-The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
-four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
-internationalization and mail-fetching.
+By default, Gnus do not send any information about itself, but you can
+customize it using the variable `nnimap-id'.
-** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
-many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
+** The `all.SCORE' file can be edited from the group buffer using `W e'.
-If you used procmail like in
+** Gnus now MIME decode articles even when they lack "MIME-Version"
+header. This changes the default of `gnus-article-loose-mime'.
-(setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
-(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
-(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
-(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
+** Gnus now view DNS master files sent as text/dns using dns-mode.
-this now has changed to
+** Gnus now support the "hashcash" client puzzle anti-spam idea. See
+the Gnus manual, section Hashcash, for more information. Use `(setq
+message-generate-hashcash t)' to enable.
-(setq mail-sources
- '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
- :suffix ".in")))
+** Gnus supports new limiting commands in the Summary buffer: `/ r'
+(`gnus-summary-limit-to-replied') and `/ R'
+(`gnus-summary-limit-to-recipient'). *Note Limiting::.
-More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
-Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
+** Gnus supports a new sort command in the Summary buffer: `C-c C-s C-t'
+(`gnus-summary-sort-by-recipient'). *Note Summary Sorting::.
-** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
-Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
+** The `nnrss' back end now supports multilingual text. Non-ASCII group
+names for the `nnrss' groups are also supported. *Note RSS::.
-** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
-many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
+** URLs inside OpenPGP: headers are retrieved and imported to your PGP
+key ring when you click on them.
-** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
-called to position point.
+** Gnus uses narrowing to hide headers in Message buffers. The
+`References' header is hidden by default. To make all headers
+visible, use `(setq message-hidden-headers nil)'.
-** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
-summary buffers and NOV files.
+** `gnus-decay-scores' can be a regexp matching score files. This
+allows to decay only adaptive score files. *Note Score Decays::.
-** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
-of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
+** S/MIME now feature LDAP user certificate searches. You need to
+configure the server in `smime-ldap-host-list'.
-** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
-subtly different manner.
+** Strings prefixed to the `To' and `Newsgroup' headers in summary lines
+when using `gnus-ignored-from-addresses' can be customized with
+`gnus-summary-to-prefix' and `gnus-summary-newsgroup-prefix'. *Note
+To From Newsgroups::.
-** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
-and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
-ever-changing layouts.
+** You can replace MIME parts with external bodies. See
+`gnus-mime-replace-part' and `gnus-article-replace-part'. *Note MIME
+Commands::, *Note Using MIME::.
-** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
+** 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 the 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'.
\f
* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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-Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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