+* 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.
+
+** 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'.
+
+** New `make.bat' for compiling and installing Gnus under MS Windows
+
+Use `make.bat' if you want to install Gnus under MS Windows, the first
+argument to the batch-program should be the directory where `xemacs.exe'
+respectively `emacs.exe' is located, if you want to install Gnus after
+compiling it, give `make.bat' `/copy' as the second parameter.
+
+`make.bat' has been rewritten from scratch, it now features automatic
+recognition of XEmacs and GNU Emacs, generates `gnus-load.el', checks if
+errors occur while compilation and generation of info files and reports
+them at the end of the build process. It now uses `makeinfo' if it is
+available and falls back to `infohack.el' otherwise. `make.bat' should
+now install all files which are necessary to run Gnus and be generally a
+complete replacement for the `configure; make; make install' cycle used
+under Unix systems.
+
+The new `make.bat' makes `make-x.bat' and `xemacs.mak' superfluous, so
+they have been removed.
+
+** `~/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.
+
+** `(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