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diff --git a/GNUS-NEWS b/GNUS-NEWS
index f34c5e4e3..718d186ed 100644
--- a/GNUS-NEWS
+++ b/GNUS-NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
- 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1999-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
@@ -21,12 +20,21 @@ 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.
+
* New packages and libraries within Gnus
@@ -41,7 +49,7 @@ support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM. *Note Emacs SASL: (sasl)Top.
The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM, when
the server supports it.
-** Gnus includes a password cache mechanism in password.el.
+** Gnus includes a password cache mechanism in password-cache.el.
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
@@ -49,12 +57,37 @@ 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.
+** 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.
+
+
+* Changes in group mode
+
+** 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)
+
+
* Changes in summary and article mode
+** Gnus now supports sticky article buffers. Those are article buffers
+that are not reused when you select another article. *Note Sticky
+Articles::.
+
+** Gnus can selectively display `text/html' articles with a WWW browser
+with `K H'. *Note MIME Commands::.
+
** International host names (IDNA) can now be decoded inside article bodies
using `W i' (`gnus-summary-idna-message'). This requires that GNU Libidn
-() has been installed.
+(`http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/') has been installed.
+
+** 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::.
** Gnus now displays DNS master files sent as text/dns using dns-mode.
@@ -97,13 +130,24 @@ From Newsgroups::.
** You can replace MIME parts with external bodies. See
`gnus-mime-replace-part' and `gnus-article-replace-part'. *Note MIME
-Commands::, *Note Using MIME::.
+Commands::, *note Using MIME::.
** 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)
+** 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::.
+
+** 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.
+
* Changes in Message mode
@@ -131,6 +175,13 @@ buffer. See `gnus-message-highlight-citation'.
`message-fill-column'. *Note Message Headers: (message)Various Message
Variables.
+** You can now store signature files in a special directory named
+`message-signature-directory'.
+
+** 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.
* Changes in back ends
@@ -161,13 +212,21 @@ names for the `nnrss' groups are also supported. *Note RSS::.
** The nnml back end allows other compression programs beside `gzip' for
compressed message files. *Note Mail Spool::.
+** The nnml back end supports group compaction.
+
+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).
+
+
* Appearance
** The tool bar has been updated to use GNOME icons. You can also
-customize the tool bar. There's no documentation in the manual yet, but
-`M-x customize-apropos RET -tool-bar$' should get you started. (Only
-for Emacs, not in XEmacs.)
+customize the tool bars: `M-x customize-apropos RET -tool-bar$' should
+get you started. (Only for Emacs, not in XEmacs.)
** The tool bar icons are now (de)activated correctly in the group buffer,
see the variable `gnus-group-update-tool-bar'. Its default value
@@ -189,6 +248,14 @@ will connect to the news host by way of the intermediate host
** The `all.SCORE' file can be edited from the group buffer using `W e'.
+** 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::.
+
* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
@@ -197,10 +264,10 @@ will connect to the news host by way of the intermediate host
This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-any later version.
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
@@ -208,9 +275,7 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
-Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
-Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+along with GNU Emacs. If not, see .
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