-** Gnus changes.
+GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end for copying conditions.
-*** nntp.el has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
+Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
+For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
-*** Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into
-Gnus.
+\f
+* Changes in No Gnus
-*** Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like
-`and', `or', `not', and parent redirection.
+** Gnus includes an Emacs Lisp SASL library.
-*** Article washing status can be displayed in the
-article mode line.
+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.el has been split into many smaller files.
+** ManageSieve connections uses the SASL library by default.
-*** Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID.
+The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM,
+when the server support it.
-(setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
+** Gnus include a password cache mechanism in password.el.
-*** New variables for specifying what score and adapt files
-are to be considered home score and adapt files. See
-`gnus-home-score-file' and `gnus-home-adapt-files'.
+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 backend, the PGP passphrase is managed by this mechanism.
+Passwords for ManageSieve connections are managed by this mechanism,
+after quering the user about whether to do so.
-*** Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics.
+** IMAP identity (RFC 2971) is supported.
-*** Article editing has been revamped and is now usable.
+By default, Gnus do not send any information about itself, but you can
+customize it using `nnimap-id'.
-*** Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions.
-See `gnus-signature-separator' and `gnus-signature-limit'.
+** The "all.SCORE" file can now be edited from the group buffer using `W e'.
-*** Summary pick mode has been made to look more nn-like.
-Line numbers are displayed and the `.' command can be
-used to pick articles.
+\f
+* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
-*** Commands for moving the .newsrc.eld from one server to
-another have been added.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Copyright information:
- `M-x gnus-change-server'
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-*** A way to specify that "uninteresting" fields be suppressed when
-generating lines in buffers.
-
-*** Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with
-`M-C-_'.
-
-*** Scoring can be done on words using the new score type `w'.
-
-*** Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis:
-
- (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
-
-*** Scores can be decayed.
-
- (setq gnus-decay-scores t)
-
-*** Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header. The
-Date is normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first.
-
-*** A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from
-the native server.
-
- `M-x gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups'
-
-*** A new command for reading collections of documents
-(nndoc with nnvirtual on top) has been added -- `M-C-d'.
-
-*** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
-
-*** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
-even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
-
-*** A new backend for reading searches from Web search engines
-(DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added.
-
- Use the `G w' command in the group buffer to create such
- a group.
-
-*** Groups inside topics can now be sorted using the standard
-sorting functions, and each topic can be sorted independently.
-
- See the commands under the `T S' submap.
-
-*** Subsets of the groups can be sorted independently.
-
- See the commands under the `G P' submap.
-
-*** Cached articles can be pulled into the groups.
-
- Use the `Y c' command.
-
-*** Score files are now applied in a more reliable order.
-
-*** Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated.
-
- `M-x nnmail-split-history'
-
-*** More hooks and functions have been added to remove junk
-from incoming mail before saving the mail.
-
- See `nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook'.
-
-*** The nnml mail backend now understands compressed article files.
+ Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
+ of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
+ copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
+ thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
+ Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
+ of this document, or of portions of it,
+ under the above conditions, provided also that they
+ carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
+\f
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
+end:
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