X-Git-Url: https://cgit.sxemacs.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=GNUS-NEWS;h=6c5238bc1ff6b0932598b657594e904a9eef2b26;hb=125d88b46ad2efa065f06d5dac37a245b488985a;hp=a2ca24f14529f8508a1468e4529edfc7fa6294df;hpb=2eb41e16e469e2bbe61d50e219749e35452336bd;p=gnus diff --git a/GNUS-NEWS b/GNUS-NEWS index a2ca24f14..6c5238bc1 100644 --- a/GNUS-NEWS +++ b/GNUS-NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,58 @@ -** Gnus changes. +GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. +Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end for copying conditions. -*** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be -called to position point. +Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org. +For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features". + +* Changes in No Gnus + +** Gnus includes an Emacs Lisp SASL library. + +This provide a clean API to SASL mechanisms from within Emacs. The +user visible aspects of this, compared to the earlier situation, +include support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM. + +** ManageSieve connections uses the SASL library by default. + +The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM, +when the server support it. + +** Gnus include a password cache mechanism in password.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 backend, the PGP passphrase is managed by this mechanism. +Passwords for ManageSieve connections are managed by this mechanism, +after quering the user about whether to do so. + +** IMAP identity (RFC 2971) is supported. + +By default, Gnus do not send any information about itself, but you can +customize it using `nnimap-id'. + +** The "all.SCORE" file can now be edited from the group buffer using `W e'. + + +* 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. + +Local variables: +mode: outline +paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" +end: