GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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-* Changes in Oort Gnus
+* Changes in No Gnus
-** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
+** Gnus includes an Emacs Lisp SASL library.
-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'.
+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 supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
+** ManageSieve connections uses the SASL library by default.
-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.
+The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM,
+when the server support it.
-** Extended format specs.
+** Gnus include a password cache mechanism in password.el.
-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.
+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.
-** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
+** IMAP identity (RFC 2971) is supported.
-It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
-function filters out other articles.
+By default, Gnus do not send any information about itself, but you can
+customize it using `nnimap-id'.
-** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
-
-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.
-
-** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
-
-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.
-
-** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
-renamed to "Gnus".
-
-** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
-"Attachments".
-
-** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
-
-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:
-
- ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
-
-** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP-MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
-SMIME.
-
-** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
-
-** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
-
-This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
-`back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
-
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-* Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
-
-The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
-four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
-internationalization and mail-fetching.
-
-** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
-many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
-
-If you used procmail like in
-
-(setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
-(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
-(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
-(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
-
-this now has changed to
-
-(setq mail-sources
- '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
- :suffix ".in")))
-
-More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
-Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
-
-** 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.
-
-** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
-many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
-
-** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
-called to position point.
-
-** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
-summary buffers and NOV files.
-
-** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
-of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
-
-** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
-subtly different manner.
-
-** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
-and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
-ever-changing layouts.
-
-** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
+** The "all.SCORE" file can now be edited from the group buffer using `W e'.
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* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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