-GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-See the end for copying conditions.
+** Gnus changes.
-Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
-For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
+*** The Gnus distribution no longer bundles Custom and Widget.
+If your Emacs doesn't come with these libraries, fetch them from
+<URL:http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~abraham/custom/>. You also then need to
+add the following to the lisp/dgnushack.el file:
-\f
-* Changes in Oort Gnus
+ (push "~/lisp/custom" load-path)
-** Message supports the Importance: header.
+Modify to suit your needs.
-In the message buffer, C-c C-p cycles through the valid values.
+*** New functionality for using Gnus as an offline newsreader has been
+added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added. See the
+Gnus manual for the full story.
-** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
+*** The nndraft backend has returned, but works differently than
+before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the nndraft
+group, which is created automatically.
-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'.
+*** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header
+values.
-** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
+*** `gnus-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's.
-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.
+*** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
+outside the region: `C-c C-v'.
-** Extended format specs.
+*** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with
+`C-u C-c C-c'.
-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.
+*** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization.
-** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
+*** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit
+re-highlighting of the article buffer.
-It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
-function filters out other articles.
+*** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'.
-** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
+*** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic
+Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details.
-This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
-`gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
-`gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
+*** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
+`a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file.
-** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
+*** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater
+control over simplification.
-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.
+*** `A T' -- new command for fetching the current thread.
-** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
-renamed to "Gnus".
+*** `/ T' -- new command for including the current thread in the
+limit.
-** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
-"Attachments".
+*** `M-RET' is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
-** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
+*** \\1-expressions are now valid in `nnmail-split-methods'.
-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:
+*** The `custom-face-lookup' function has been removed.
+If you used this function in your initialization files, you must
+rewrite them to use `face-spec-set' instead.
- ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
+*** Cancelling now uses the current select method. Symbolic prefix
+`a' forces normal posting method.
-** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP-MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
-SMIME.
+*** New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper text
+-- `W d'.
-** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
+*** For easier debugging of nntp, you can set `nntp-record-commands'
+to a non-nil value.
-** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
+*** nntp now uses ~/.authinfo, a .netrc-like file, for controlling
+where and how to send AUTHINFO to NNTP servers.
-This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
-`back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
+*** A command for editing group parameters from the summary buffer
+has been added.
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-* Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
+*** A history of where mails have been split is available.
-The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
-four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
-internationalization and mail-fetching.
+*** A new article date command has been added -- `article-date-iso8601'.
-** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
-many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
+*** Subjects can be simplified when threading by setting
+`gnus-score-thread-simplify'.
-If you used procmail like in
+*** A new function for citing in Message has been added --
+`message-cite-original-without-signature'.
-(setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
-(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
-(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
-(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
+*** `article-strip-all-blank-lines' -- new article command.
-this now has changed to
+*** A new Message command to kill to the end of the article has
+been added.
-(setq mail-sources
- '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
- :suffix ".in")))
+*** A minimum adaptive score can be specified by using the
+`gnus-adaptive-word-minimum' variable.
-More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
-Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
+*** The "lapsed date" article header can be kept continually
+updated by the `gnus-start-date-timer' command.
-** 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.
+*** Web listserv archives can be read with the nnlistserv backend.
-** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
-many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
+*** Old dejanews archives can now be read by nnweb.
-** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
-called to position point.
+*** Byte-compilation of user-specs now works under XEmacs.
-** 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.
-
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-* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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-paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
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+*** `gnus-posting-styles' has been re-activated.
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