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* Changes in Oort Gnus
+** 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.
Put (setq gnus-treat-display-smileys nil) in ~/.emacs to disable it.
** 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/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
-`message-insert-canlock'.
+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 in your ~/.emacs 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.
** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
-This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
+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.