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-* Changes in Oort Gnus
-
-** Support for non-ASCII domain names
-
-Message supports non-ASCII domain names in From:, To: and Cc: and will
-query you whether to perform encoding when you try to send a message.
-The variable `message-use-idna' controls this. Gnus will also decode
-non-ASCII domain names in From:, To: and Cc: when you view a message.
-The variable `gnus-use-idna' controls this.
-
-** Better handling of Microsoft citation styles
-
-Gnus now tries to recognize the mangled header block that some Microsoft
-mailers use to indicate that the rest of the message is a citation, even
-though it is not quoted in any way. The variable
-`gnus-cite-unsightly-citation-regexp' matches the start of these
-citations.
-
-** gnus-article-skip-boring
-
-If you set `gnus-article-skip-boring' to t, then Gnus will not scroll
-down to show you a page that contains only boring text, which by
-default means cited text and signature. You can customize what is
-skippable using `gnus-article-boring-faces'.
-
-This feature is especially useful if you read many articles that
-consist of a little new content at the top with a long, untrimmed
-message cited below.
-
-** The format spec %C for positioning point has changed to %*.
-
-** 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.
+* Installation changes
+
+** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used No Gnus.
+
+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.
+
+** Incompatibility when switching from Emacs 23 to Emacs 22 In Emacs 23,
+Gnus uses Emacs' new internal coding system `utf-8-emacs' for saving
+articles drafts and `~/.newsrc.eld'. These files may not be read
+correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to use Gnus across
+different Emacs versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to
+`emacs-mule'.
+
+** 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 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'.
+
+** The installation directory name is allowed to have spaces and/or tabs.
-** ~/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.
+\f
+* New packages and libraries within Gnus
-** gnus-slave-unplugged
+** Gnus includes the Emacs Lisp SASL library.
-A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
+This provides 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. *Note Emacs SASL: (sasl)Top.
-** message-insinuate-rmail
+** ManageSieve connections uses the SASL library by default.
-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.
+The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM, when
+the server supports it.
-** message-minibuffer-local-map
+** Gnus includes a password cache mechanism in password-cache.el.
-The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
+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.
-(define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
+** Using EasyPG with Gnus When EasyPG, is available, Gnus will use it
+instead of PGG. EasyPG is an Emacs user interface to GNU Privacy Guard.
+ *Note EasyPG Assistant user's manual: (epa)Top. EasyPG is included in
+Emacs 23 and available separately as well.
-** Externalize attachments.
+\f
+* Changes in group mode
-If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
-message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
-external parts.
+** Old intermediate incoming mail files (`Incoming*') are deleted after a
+couple of days, not immediately. *Note Mail Source Customization::.
+(New in Gnus 5.10.10 / No Gnus 0.8)
-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
+\f
+* Changes in summary and article mode
-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 now supports sticky article buffers. Those are article buffers
+that are not reused when you select another article. *Note Sticky
+Articles::.
-** gnus-posting-styles
+** Gnus can selectively display `text/html' articles with a WWW browser
+with `K H'. *Note MIME Commands::.
-Add a new format of match like
+** International host names (IDNA) can now be decoded inside article bodies
+using `W i' (`gnus-summary-idna-message'). This requires that GNU Libidn
+(`http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/') has been installed.
- ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
- (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
+** The non-ASCII group names handling has been much improved. The back
+ends that fully support non-ASCII group names are now `nntp', `nnml',
+and `nnrss'. Also the agent, the cache, and the marks features work
+with those back ends. *Note Non-ASCII Group Names::.
-The old format like the lines below is obsolete, but still accepted.
+** Gnus now displays DNS master files sent as text/dns using dns-mode.
- (header "to" "larsi.*org"
- (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
+** Gnus supports new limiting commands in the Summary buffer: `/ r'
+(`gnus-summary-limit-to-replied') and `/ R'
+(`gnus-summary-limit-to-recipient'). *Note Limiting::.
-** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
+** You can now fetch all ticked articles from the server using `Y t'
+(`gnus-summary-insert-ticked-articles'). *Note Summary Generation
+Commands::.
-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 supports a new sort command in the Summary buffer: `C-c C-s C-t'
+(`gnus-summary-sort-by-recipient'). *Note Summary Sorting::.
-** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
+** S/MIME now features LDAP user certificate searches. You need to
+configure the server in `smime-ldap-host-list'.
-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.
+** URLs inside OpenPGP headers are retrieved and imported to your PGP key
+ring when you click on them.
-** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
+** Picons can be displayed right from the textual address, see
+`gnus-picon-style'. *Note Picons::.
-On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
-format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
+** ANSI SGR control sequences can be transformed using `W A'.
-** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
+ANSI sequences are used in some Chinese hierarchies for highlighting
+articles (`gnus-article-treat-ansi-sequences').
-This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
+** Gnus now MIME decodes articles even when they lack "MIME-Version" header.
+This changes the default of `gnus-article-loose-mime'.
-** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
+** `gnus-decay-scores' can be a regexp matching score files. For example,
+set it to `\\.ADAPT\\'' and only adaptive score files will be decayed.
+ *Note Score Decays::.
-Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
+** Strings prefixing 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::.
-** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
+** 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 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.
+** 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. *Note Flowed text: (emacs-mime)Flowed text.
+(New in Gnus 5.10.7)
-** Message supports the Importance: (RFC 2156) header.
+** Now the new command `S W' (`gnus-article-wide-reply-with-original') for
+a wide reply in the article buffer yanks a text that is in the active
+region, if it is set, as well as the `R'
+(`gnus-article-reply-with-original') command. Note that the `R' command
+in the article buffer no longer accepts a prefix argument, which was
+used to make it do a wide reply. *Note Article Keymap::.
-In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
+** The new command `C-h b' (`gnus-article-describe-bindings') used in the
+article buffer now shows not only the article commands but also the real
+summary commands that are accessible from the article buffer.
-** 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 and
-superseding). Gnus generates a random password string the first time
-you post a message, and saves it in your ~/.emacs using the Custom
-system. While the variable is called `canlock-password', it is not
-security sensitive data. Publishing your canlock string on the web
-will not allow anyone to be able to anything she could not already do.
-The behaviour can be changed by customizing `message-insert-canlock'.
+\f
+* Changes in Message mode
-** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
+** Gnus now supports the "hashcash" client puzzle anti-spam mechanism. Use
+`(setq message-generate-hashcash t)' to enable. *Note Hashcash::.
-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.
+** 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.
-** Extended format specs.
+** The option `message-yank-empty-prefix' now controls how empty lines are
+prefixed in cited text. *Note Insertion Variables: (message)Insertion
+Variables.
-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.
+** 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)'. *Note Message Headers:
+(message)Message Headers.
-** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
+** You can highlight different levels of citations like in the article
+buffer. See `gnus-message-highlight-citation'.
-It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
-function filters out other articles.
+** `auto-fill-mode' is enabled by default in Message mode. See
+`message-fill-column'. *Note Message Headers: (message)Various Message
+Variables.
-** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
+** You can now store signature files in a special directory named
+`message-signature-directory'.
-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 option `message-citation-line-format' controls the format of the
+"Whomever writes:" line. You need to set
+`message-citation-line-function' to
+`message-insert-formatted-citation-line' as well.
-** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
+\f
+* Changes in back ends
-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 nntp back end stores article marks in `~/News/marks'.
-** The menu bar item (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has
-been renamed to "Gnus".
+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'.
-** The menu bar item (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
-"Attachments".
+** You can import and export your RSS subscriptions from OPML files. *Note
+RSS::.
-** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
+** IMAP identity (RFC 2971) is supported.
-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:
+By default, Gnus does not send any information about itself, but you can
+customize it using the variable `nnimap-id'.
- ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
+** The `nnrss' back end now supports multilingual text. Non-ASCII group
+names for the `nnrss' groups are also supported. *Note RSS::.
-** 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.
+** Retrieving mail with POP3 is supported over SSL/TLS and with StartTLS.
-** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
+** The nnml back end allows other compression programs beside `gzip' for
+compressed message files. *Note Mail Spool::.
-** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
+** The nnml back end supports group compaction.
-This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
-`back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
+This feature, accessible via the functions `gnus-group-compact-group'
+(`G z' in the group buffer) and `gnus-server-compact-server' (`z' in the
+server buffer) renumbers all articles in a group, starting from 1 and
+removing gaps. As a consequence, you get a correct total article count
+(until messages are deleted again).
-** Bug fixes.
\f
-* 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
+* Appearance
-(setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
-(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
-(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
-(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
+** The tool bar has been updated to use GNOME icons. You can also
+customize the tool bars: `M-x customize-apropos RET -tool-bar$' should
+get you started. (Only for Emacs, not in XEmacs.)
-this now has changed to
+** The tool bar icons are now (de)activated correctly in the group buffer,
+see the variable `gnus-group-update-tool-bar'. Its default value
+depends on your Emacs version.
-(setq mail-sources
- '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
- :suffix ".in")))
+** You can change the location of XEmacs' toolbars in Gnus buffers. See
+`gnus-use-toolbar' and `message-use-toolbar'.
-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.
+\f
+* Miscellaneous changes
-** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
-of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
+** Having edited the select-method for the foreign server in the server
+buffer is immediately reflected to the subscription of the groups which
+use the server in question. For instance, if you change
+`nntp-via-address' into `bar.example.com' from `foo.example.com', Gnus
+will connect to the news host by way of the intermediate host
+`bar.example.com' from next time.
-** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
-subtly different manner.
+** The `all.SCORE' file can be edited from the group buffer using `W e'.
-** 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 set `gnus-mark-copied-or-moved-articles-as-expirable' to a
+non-`nil' value so that articles that have been read may be marked as
+expirable automatically when copying or moving them to a group that has
+auto-expire turned on. The default is `nil' and copying and moving of
+articles behave as before; i.e., the expirable marks will be unchanged
+except that the marks will be removed when copying or moving articles to
+a group that has not turned auto-expire on. *Note Expiring Mail::.
-** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
\f
* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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-Copyright information:
+\f
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+
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+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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- of this document, or of portions of it,
- under the above conditions, provided also that they
- carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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