-** Gnus changes.
+GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 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 Oort Gnus
-*** Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like
-`and', `or', `not', and parent redirection.
+** (require 'gnus-load)
-*** Article washing status can be displayed in the
-article mode line.
+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.
-*** gnus.el has been split into many smaller files.
+File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
+some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
-*** Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID.
+** gnus-slave-unplugged
-(setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
+A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
-*** 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'.
+** message-insinuate-rmail
-*** Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics.
+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.
-*** Article editing has been revamped and is now usable.
+** message-minibuffer-local-map
-*** Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions.
-See `gnus-signature-separator' and `gnus-signature-limit'.
+The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
-*** Summary pick mode has been made to look more nn-like.
-Line numbers are displayed and the `.' command can be
-used to pick articles.
+(define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
-*** Commands for moving the .newsrc.eld from one server to
-another have been added.
+** Externalize attachments.
- `M-x gnus-change-server'
+If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
+message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
+external parts.
-*** A way to specify that "uninteresting" fields be suppressed when
-generating lines in buffers.
+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.
-*** Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with
-`M-C-_'.
+** gnus-default-charset
-*** Scoring can be done on words using the new score type `w'.
+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.
-*** Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis:
+** gnus-posting-styles
- (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
+Add a new format of match like
-*** Scores can be decayed.
-
- (setq gnus-decay-scores t)
+ ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
+ (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
-*** Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header. The
-Date is normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first.
+The old format like the lines below is obsolete.
-*** A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from
-the native server.
+ (header "to" "larsi.*org"
+ (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
- `M-x gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups'
+** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
-*** A new command for reading collections of documents
-(nndoc with nnvirtual on top) has been added -- `M-C-d'.
+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.
-*** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
+** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
-*** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
-even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
-*** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
+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.
-*** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
-even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
+** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
-*** A new backend for reading searches from DejaNews has
-been added.
+On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
+format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
- Use the `G n' command in the group buffer to create such
- a group.
+** 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.
+
+In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
+
+** 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/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
+`message-insert-canlock'.
+
+** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
+
+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.
+
+** Extended format specs.
+
+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-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
+
+It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
+function filters out other articles.
+
+** 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.
+
+\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
+
+(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.
+
+\f
+* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Copyright information:
+
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ 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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