-** Gnus changes.
+GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end for copying conditions.
-Gnus, the Emacs newsreader, has undergone further rewriting. Many new
-commands and variables have been added. There should be no
-significant incompatibilities between this Gnus version and the
-previously released version, except in the message composition area.
+Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
+For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
-Below is a list of the more user-visible changes. Coding changes
-between Gnus 5.1 and 5.2 are more extensive.
+\f
+* Changes in Oort Gnus
-*** A new message composition mode is used. All old customization
-variables for mail-mode, rnews-reply-mode and gnus-msg are now
-obsolete.
+** The revised Gnus FAQ is included in the manual.
+See the info node "Frequently Asked Questions".
-*** Gnus is now able to generate "sparse" threads -- threads where
-missing articles are represented by empty nodes.
+** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used Oort.
- (setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'some)
+If you have tried Oort (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 all
+.marks (nnml) and .mrk (nnfolder) files, so that flags are read from
+your ~/.newsrc.eld instead of from the .marks/.mrk file where this
+release store flags. See a later entry for more information about
+marks. Note that downgrading isn't safe in general.
-*** Outgoing articles are stored on a special archive server.
+** Article Buttons
- To disable this: (setq gnus-message-archive-group nil)
+More buttons for URLs, mail addresses, Message-IDs, Info links, man pages and
+Emacs or Gnus related references, see the info node "Article Buttons". The
+variables `gnus-button-*-level' can be used to control the appearance of all
+article buttons, see the info node "Article Button Levels".
-*** Partial thread regeneration now happens when articles are
-referred.
+** Dired integration
+`gnus-dired-minor-mode' installs key bindings in dired buffers to send
+a file as an attachment (`C-c C-a'), open a file using the approriate
+mailcap entry (`C-c C-l'), and print a file using the mailcap entry
+(`C-c P'). It is enabled with
-*** Gnus can make use of GroupLens predictions:
+ (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'turn-on-gnus-dired-mode)
- (setq gnus-use-grouplens t)
+** Gnus can display RSS newsfeeds as a newsgroup. To get started do `B
+nnrss RET RET' in the Group buffer.
-*** Picons (personal icons) can be displayed under XEmacs.
+** Single-part yenc encoded attachments can be decoded.
- (setq gnus-use-picons t)
+** Picons
+The picons code has been reimplemented to work in Emacs 21 -- some of
+the previous options have been removed or renamed.
-*** A trn-line tree buffer can be displayed.
+Picons are small "personal icons" representing users, domain and
+newsgroups, which can be displayed in the Article buffer. To enable
+picons, install the picons database from
- (setq gnus-use-trees t)
+ http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/index.html
-*** An nn-like pick-and-read minor mode is available for the summary
-buffers.
+and point `gnus-picon-databases' to that location.
- (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'gnus-pick-mode)
+** If the new option `gnus-treat-body-boundary' is `head', a boundary
+line is drawn at the end of the headers.
-*** In binary groups you can use a special binary minor mode:
+** Retrieval of charters and control messages
+There are new commands for fetching newsgroup charters (`H c') and
+control messages (`H C').
- `M-x gnus-binary-mode'
+** Delayed articles
+You can delay the sending of a message with `C-c C-j' in the Message
+buffer. The messages are delivered at specified time. This is useful
+for sending yourself reminders. Setup with (gnus-delay-initialize).
-*** Groups can be grouped in a folding topic hierarchy.
+** If `auto-compression-mode' is enabled, attachments are automatically
+decompressed when activated.
- (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
+** If the new option `nnml-use-compressed-files' is non-nil,
+the nnml back end allows compressed message files.
-*** Gnus can re-send and bounce mail.
+** Signed article headers (X-PGP-Sig) can be verified with `W p'.
- Use the `S D r' and `S D b'.
+** The Summary Buffer uses an arrow in the fringe to indicate the
+current article in Emacs 21 running on a graphical display. Customize
+`gnus-summary-display-arrow' to disable it.
-*** Groups can now have a score, and bubbling based on entry frequency
-is possible.
+** Warn about email replies to news
+Do you often find yourself replying to news by email by mistake? Then
+the new option `gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news' is just the thing for
+you.
- (add-hook 'gnus-summary-exit-hook 'gnus-summary-bubble-group)
+** If the new option `gnus-summary-display-while-building' is non-nil,
+the summary buffer is shown and updated as it's being built.
-*** Groups can be process-marked, and commands can be performed on
-groups of groups.
+** The new `recent' mark "." indicates newly arrived messages (as
+opposed to old but unread messages).
-*** Caching is possible in virtual groups.
+** The new option `gnus-gcc-mark-as-read' automatically marks
+Gcc articles as read.
-*** nndoc now understands all kinds of digests, mail boxes, rnews news
-batches, ClariNet briefs collections, and just about everything else.
+** The nndoc back end now supports mailman digests and exim bounces.
-*** Gnus has a new backend (nnsoup) to create/read SOUP packets.
+** Gnus supports RFC 2369 mailing list headers, and adds a number of
+related commands in mailing list groups.
-*** The Gnus cache is much faster.
+** The Date header can be displayed in a format that can be read aloud
+in English, see `gnus-treat-date-english'.
-*** Groups can be sorted according to many criteria.
+** The envelope sender address can be customized when using Sendmail, see
+`message-sendmail-envelope-from'.
- For instance: (setq gnus-group-sort-function 'gnus-group-sort-by-rank)
+** diffs are automatically highlighted in groups matching
+`mm-uu-diff-groups-regexp'
-*** New group parameters have been introduced to set list-address and
-expiry times.
+** TLS wrapper shipped with Gnus
-*** All formatting specs allow specifying faces to be used.
+TLS/SSL is now supported in IMAP and NNTP via tls.el and GNUTLS. The
+old TLS/SSL support via (external third party) ssl.el and OpenSSL
+still works.
-*** There are several more commands for setting/removing/acting on
-process marked articles on the `M P' submap.
+** New make.bat for compiling and installing Gnus under MS Windows
-*** The summary buffer can be limited to show parts of the available
-articles based on a wide range of criteria. These commands have been
-bound to keys on the `/' submap.
+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, iff you want to install Gnus after
+compiling it, give make.bat /copy as the second parameter.
-*** Articles can be made persistent -- as an alternative to saving
-articles with the `*' command.
+`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.
-*** All functions for hiding article elements are now toggles.
+The new make.bat makes make-x.bat superfluous, so it has been removed.
-*** Article headers can be buttonized.
+** Support for non-ASCII domain names
- (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-add-buttons-to-head)
+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.
-*** All mail backends support fetching articles by Message-ID.
+** Better handling of Microsoft citation styles
-*** Duplicate mail can now be treated properly. See the
-`nnmail-treat-duplicates' variable.
+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.
-*** All summary mode commands are available directly from the article
-buffer.
+** gnus-article-skip-boring
-*** Frames can be part of `gnus-buffer-configuration'.
+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'.
-*** Mail can be re-scanned by a daemonic process.
+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.
-*** Gnus can make use of NoCeM files to filter spam.
+** The format spec %C for positioning point has changed to %*.
- (setq gnus-use-nocem t)
+** The new variable `gnus-parameters' can be used to set group parameters.
-*** Groups can be made permanently visible.
+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-permanently-visible-groups "^nnml:")
+ (setq gnus-parameters
+ '(("mail\\..*"
+ (gnus-show-threads nil)
+ (gnus-use-scoring nil))
+ ("^nnimap:\\(foo.bar\\)$"
+ (to-group . "\\1"))))
-*** Many new hooks have been introduced to make customizing easier.
+** Smileys (":-)", ";-)" etc) are now iconized for Emacs too.
-*** Gnus respects the Mail-Copies-To header.
+Customize `gnus-treat-display-smileys' to disable it.
-*** Threads can be gathered by looking at the References header.
+** Gnus no longer generates the Sender: header automatically.
- (setq gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function
- 'gnus-gather-threads-by-references)
+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 controversially) 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'.
-*** Read articles can be stored in a special backlog buffer to avoid
-refetching.
+** Features from third party message-utils.el added to message.el.
- (setq gnus-keep-backlog 50)
+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-*').
-*** A clean copy of the current article is always stored in a separate
-buffer to allow easier treatment.
+** References and X-Draft-Headers are no longer generated when you
+start composing messages and `message-generate-headers-first' is nil.
-*** Gnus can suggest where to save articles. See `gnus-split-methods'.
+** Improved anti-spam features.
-*** Gnus doesn't have to do as much prompting when saving.
+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.
- (setq gnus-prompt-before-saving t)
+** Easy inclusion of X-Faces headers.
-*** gnus-uu can view decoded files asynchronously while fetching
-articles.
+** In the summary buffer, the new command / N inserts new messages and
+/ o inserts old messages.
- (setq gnus-uu-grabbed-file-functions 'gnus-uu-grab-view)
+** Gnus decodes morse encoded messages if you press W m.
-*** Filling in the article buffer now works properly on cited text.
+** Unread count correct in nnimap groups.
-*** Hiding cited text adds buttons to toggle hiding, and how much
-cited text to hide is now customizable.
+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.
- (setq gnus-cited-lines-visible 2)
+** Group Carbon Copy (GCC) quoting
-*** Boring headers can be hidden.
+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.
- (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-hide-boring-headers)
+** ~/News/overview/ not used.
-*** Default scoring values can now be set from the menu bar.
+As a result of the following change, the ~/News/overview/ directory is
+not used any more. You can safely delete the entire hierarchy.
-*** Further syntax checking of outgoing articles have been added.
+** gnus-agent
-The Gnus manual has been expanded. It explains all these new features
-in greater detail.
+The Gnus Agent has seen a major update. It 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
+by customizing `gnus-agent'. 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)" to 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) in .emacs and customizing
+`mail-user-agent' to `gnus-user-agent' 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 [?\t] 'bbdb-complete-name)
+
+** Externalizing and deleting of attachments.
+
+If `gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments' (or
+`message-fcc-externalize-attachments') is non-nil, attach local files
+as external parts.
+
+The 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.
+`gnus-mime-delete-part' (bound to `d' on MIME buttons) removes a part.
+It works only on back ends that support editing.
+
+** gnus-default-charset
+
+The default value now guesses on the basis of your environment instead
+of using Latin-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. Customize
+`gnus-agent-cache' to revert 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: (RFC 2156) header.
+
+In the message buffer, `C-c C-f C-i' or `C-c 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 and
+superseding). Gnus generates a random password string the first time
+you post a message, and saves it 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'.
+
+** 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.
+
+** Some limiting commands accept a C-u prefix to negate the match.
+
+If C-u is used on subject, author or extra headers, i.e., `/ s', `/
+a', and `/ x' (gnus-summary-limit-to-{subject,author,extra})
+respectively, the result will be to display all articles that do not
+match the expression.
+
+** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
+
+This is supposedly what USEFOR wanted 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 group.
+
+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 item (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has
+been renamed to "Gnus".
+
+** The menu bar item (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
+"Attachments". Note that this menu also contains security related
+stuff, like signing and encryption.
+
+** 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
+S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
+
+It needs an external S/MIME and OpenPGP implementation, but no
+additional lisp libraries. This add several menu items to the
+Attachments menu, and C-c RET key bindings, when composing messages.
+This also obsoletes `gnus-article-hide-pgp-hook'.
+
+** 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.
+
+** The default for message-forward-show-mml changed to nil.
+
+The reason is that decoding MIME, showing MML, and later re-encode the
+MIME does not work properly for, e.g., PGP/MIME signed messages.
+
+** 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
+
+(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, 2003 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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