For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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-* Changes in Oort Gnus
-
-** `gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group' can be called interactively, using `G M'.
-
-** In draft groups, `e' is now bound to `gnus-draft-edit-message'.
-Use `B w' for `gnus-summary-edit-article' instead.
-
-** The revised Gnus FAQ is included in the manual.
-See the info node "Frequently Asked Questions".
-
-** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used Oort.
-
-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.
-
-** Article Buttons
-
-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".
-
-** Dired integration
-
-`gnus-dired-minor-mode' installs key bindings in dired buffers to send a file
-as an attachment (`C-c C-m C-a'), open a file using the approriate mailcap
-entry (`C-c C-m C-l'), and print a file using the mailcap entry (`C-c C-m
-C-p'). See the info node "Other modes".
-
-
-** Gnus can display RSS newsfeeds as a newsgroup. To get started do `B
-nnrss RET RET' in the Group buffer.
-
-** Single-part yenc encoded attachments can be decoded.
-
-** Picons
-The picons code has been reimplemented to work in Emacs 21 -- some of
-the previous options have been removed or renamed.
-
-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
-
- http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/index.html
-
-and point `gnus-picon-databases' to that location.
-
-** If the new option `gnus-treat-body-boundary' is `head', a boundary
-line is drawn at the end of the headers.
-
-** Retrieval of charters and control messages
-There are new commands for fetching newsgroup charters (`H c') and
-control messages (`H C').
-
-** 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).
-
-** If `auto-compression-mode' is enabled, attachments are automatically
-decompressed when activated.
-
-** If the new option `nnml-use-compressed-files' is non-nil,
-the nnml back end allows compressed message files.
-
-** Signed article headers (X-PGP-Sig) can be verified with `W p'.
-
-** 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.
-
-** 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.
-
-** If the new option `gnus-summary-display-while-building' is non-nil,
-the summary buffer is shown and updated as it's being built.
-
-** The new `recent' mark "." indicates newly arrived messages (as
-opposed to old but unread messages).
-
-** The new option `gnus-gcc-mark-as-read' automatically marks
-Gcc articles as read.
-
-** The nndoc back end now supports mailman digests and exim bounces.
-
-** Gnus supports RFC 2369 mailing list headers, and adds a number of
-related commands in mailing list groups.
-
-** The Date header can be displayed in a format that can be read aloud
-in English, see `gnus-treat-date-english'.
-
-** The envelope sender address can be customized when using Sendmail, see
-`message-sendmail-envelope-from'.
-
-** diffs are automatically highlighted in groups matching
-`mm-uu-diff-groups-regexp'
-
-** TLS wrapper shipped with Gnus
-
-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.
-
-** New make.bat for compiling and installing Gnus under MS Windows
-
-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.
-
-`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.
-
-The new make.bat makes make-x.bat superfluous, so it has been removed.
-
-** Support for non-ASCII domain names
-
-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.
-
-** Better handling of Microsoft citation styles
-
-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.
-
-** gnus-article-skip-boring
-
-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'.
-
-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.
-
-** The format spec %C for positioning point has changed to %*.
-
-** The new variable `gnus-parameters' can be used to set group parameters.
-
-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-parameters
- '(("mail\\..*"
- (gnus-show-threads nil)
- (gnus-use-scoring nil))
- ("^nnimap:\\(foo.bar\\)$"
- (to-group . "\\1"))))
-
-** Smileys (":-)", ";-)" etc) are now iconized for Emacs too.
-
-Customize `gnus-treat-display-smileys' to disable it.
-
-** Gnus no longer generates the Sender: header automatically.
-
-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'.
-
-** Features from third party message-utils.el added to message.el.
-
-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-*').
-
-** References and X-Draft-Headers are no longer generated when you
-start composing messages and `message-generate-headers-first' is nil.
-
-** Improved anti-spam features.
-
-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.
-
-** Easy inclusion of X-Faces headers.
-
-** In the summary buffer, the new command / N inserts new messages and
-/ o inserts old messages.
-
-** Gnus decodes morse encoded messages if you press W m.
-
-** Unread count correct in nnimap groups.
-
-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.
-
-** Group Carbon Copy (GCC) quoting
-
-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.
-
-** ~/News/overview/ not used.
-
-As a result of the following change, the ~/News/overview/ directory is
-not used any more. You can safely delete the entire hierarchy.
-
-** gnus-agent
-
-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 symbol best.
-
-The behaviour for the `best' value is to show MML (i.e., convert MIME
-to MML) when appropriate. MML will not be used when forwarding signed
-or encrypted messages, as the conversion invalidate the digital
-signature.
-
-** Bug fixes.
-
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-* 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.
+* Changes in No Gnus
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* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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