-** Gnus changes.
+GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end for copying conditions.
-*** The Gnus alpha 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:
+Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
+For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
- (push "~/lisp/custom" load-path)
+\f
+* Changes in Oort Gnus
-Modify to suit your needs.
+** Message supports the Importance: header.
-*** 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.
+In the message buffer, C-c C-p cycles through the valid values.
-*** 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.
+** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
-*** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header
-values.
+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-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's.
+** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
-*** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
-outside the region: `C-c C-v'.
+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.
-*** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with
-`C-u C-c C-c'.
+** Extended format specs.
-*** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization.
+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.
-*** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit
-re-highlighting of the article buffer.
+** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
-*** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'.
+It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
+function filters out other articles.
-*** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic
-Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details.
+** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
-*** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
-`a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file.
+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.
-*** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater
-control over simplification.
+** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
-*** `A T' -- new command for fetching the current thread.
+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.
-*** `/ T' -- new command for including the current thread in the
-limit.
+** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
+renamed to "Gnus".
-*** `M-RET' is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
+** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
+"Attachments".
+** 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
+SMIME.
+
+** 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.
+
+\f
+* 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.
+
+\f
+* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Copyright information:
+
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 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.
+\f
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
+end:
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