1 GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 See the end for copying conditions.
5 Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
6 For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
11 ** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
13 If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
14 in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
15 gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
17 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
19 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
20 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
22 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
24 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
26 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
28 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
30 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
32 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
33 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
36 ** Message supports the Importance: header.
38 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
40 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
42 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
43 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
44 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
45 `message-insert-canlock'.
47 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
49 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
50 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
51 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
52 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
53 Sieve manual, for more information.
55 ** Extended format specs.
57 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
58 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
59 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
60 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
61 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
64 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
66 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
67 function filters out other articles.
69 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
71 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
72 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
73 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
75 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
77 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
78 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
79 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
80 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
81 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
82 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
83 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
84 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
85 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
86 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
88 ** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
91 ** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
94 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
96 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
97 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
98 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
100 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
102 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP-MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
105 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
107 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
109 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
110 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
113 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
115 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
116 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
117 internationalization and mail-fetching.
119 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
120 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
122 If you used procmail like in
124 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
125 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
126 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
127 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
129 this now has changed to
132 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
135 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
136 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
138 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
139 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
141 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
142 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
144 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
145 called to position point.
147 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
148 summary buffers and NOV files.
150 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
151 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
153 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
154 subtly different manner.
156 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
157 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
158 ever-changing layouts.
160 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
163 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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