GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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* Changes in Oort Gnus
+** The new variable `gnus-parameters' can be used to set group parameters.
+
+Earlier this was done only via `G p' (or `G c'), which stored the
+parameters in ~/.newsrc.eld, but via this variable you can enjoy the
+powers of customize, and simplified backups since you set the variable
+in ~/.emacs instead of ~/.newsrc.eld. The variable maps regular
+expressions matching group names to group parameters, a'la:
+
+ (setq gnus-parameters
+ '(("mail\\..*"
+ (gnus-show-threads nil)
+ (gnus-use-scoring nil))
+ ("^nnimap:\\(foo.bar\\)$"
+ (to-group . "\\1"))))
+
+** 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. C-c C-f x inserts appropriate headers and a
+note in the body for cross-postings and followups (see the variables
+`message-cross-post-*').
+
+** References and X-Draft-Headers are no longer generated when you
+ start composing messages.
+
+** Improved anti-spam features.
+
+Gnus is now able to take out spam from your mail and news streams
+using a wide variety of programs and filter rules. Among the supported
+methods are RBL blocklists, bogofilter and white/blacklists. Hooks
+for easy use of external packages such as SpamAssassin and Hashcash
+are also new.
+
+** 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, but still accepted.
+
+ (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: header.
+** 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.
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 item (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has
+been renamed to "Gnus".
-** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
+** The menu bar item (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
"Attachments".
** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
-** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP-MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
-SMIME.
+** 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.
** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
`back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
+** Bug fixes.
+
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* Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
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