** Gnus changes.
+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.
-*** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. See the manual for details.
+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.
summary buffers and NOV files.
*** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
-of variables starting with `gnus-treat-'.
+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
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
+end: