X-Git-Url: http://git.chise.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=GNUS-NEWS;h=2a7a921b985b87e633250c00b59844bc25d61ad6;hb=e00f5f5f6178e441426e6e19520e0ceb9aacfaae;hp=dc49807a9cab0e3ec05c18a4118b11e47f43bfb9;hpb=d8f7efd1ce52b6a692873cc41a208d32aca02a59;p=elisp%2Fgnus.git- diff --git a/GNUS-NEWS b/GNUS-NEWS index dc49807..2a7a921 100644 --- a/GNUS-NEWS +++ b/GNUS-NEWS @@ -8,6 +8,57 @@ For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features". * 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. @@ -217,10 +268,14 @@ 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/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. @@ -246,7 +301,7 @@ function filters out other articles. ** 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.