-** Gnus changes.
+GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
+ 2006 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
+* Installation changes
-Modify to suit your needs.
+** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used No Gnus.
-*** 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.
+If you have tried No Gnus (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 the
+`~/News/marks' directory (perhaps selectively), so that flags are read
+from your `~/.newsrc.eld' instead of from the stale marks file, where
+this release will store flags for nntp. See a later entry for more
+information about nntp marks. Note that downgrading isn't safe in
+general.
-*** 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.
+** Lisp files are now installed in `.../site-lisp/gnus/' by default. It
+defaulted to `.../site-lisp/' formerly. In addition to this, the new
+installer issues a warning if other Gnus installations which will shadow
+the latest one are detected. You can then remove those shadows manually
+or remove them using `make remove-installed-shadows'.
-*** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header
-values.
+\f
+* New packages and libraries within Gnus
-*** `gnus-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's.
+** Gnus includes the Emacs Lisp SASL library.
-*** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
-outside the region: `C-c C-v'.
+This provides a clean API to SASL mechanisms from within Emacs. The
+user visible aspects of this, compared to the earlier situation, include
+support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM. *Note Emacs SASL: (sasl)Top.
-*** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with
-`C-u C-c C-c'.
+** ManageSieve connections uses the SASL library by default.
-*** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization.
+The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM, when
+the server supports it.
-*** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit
-re-highlighting of the article buffer.
+** Gnus includes a password cache mechanism in password.el.
-*** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'.
+It is enabled by default (see `password-cache'), with a short timeout of
+16 seconds (see `password-cache-expiry'). If PGG is used as the PGP
+back end, the PGP passphrase is managed by this mechanism. Passwords
+for ManageSieve connections are managed by this mechanism, after
+querying the user about whether to do so.
-*** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic
-Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details.
+\f
+* Changes in summary and article mode
-*** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
-`a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file.
+** International host names (IDNA) can now be decoded inside article bodies
+using `W i' (`gnus-summary-idna-message'). This requires that GNU Libidn
+(`http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/') has been installed.
-*** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater
-control over simplification.
+** Gnus now displays DNS master files sent as text/dns using dns-mode.
-*** `A T' -- new command for fetching the current thread.
+** Gnus supports new limiting commands in the Summary buffer: `/ r'
+(`gnus-summary-limit-to-replied') and `/ R'
+(`gnus-summary-limit-to-recipient'). *Note Limiting::.
-*** `/ T' -- new command for including the current thread in the
-limit.
+** Gnus supports a new sort command in the Summary buffer: `C-c C-s C-t'
+(`gnus-summary-sort-by-recipient'). *Note Summary Sorting::.
-*** `M-RET' is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
+** S/MIME now features LDAP user certificate searches. You need to
+configure the server in `smime-ldap-host-list'.
-*** \\1-expressions are now valid in `nnmail-split-methods'.
+** URLs inside OpenPGP headers are retrieved and imported to your PGP key
+ring when you click on them.
-*** 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.
+** Picons can be displayed right from the textual address, see
+`gnus-picon-style'. *Note Picons::.
-*** Cancelling now uses the current select method. Symbolic prefix
-`a' forces normal posting method.
+** ANSI SGR control sequences can be transformed using `W A'.
-*** New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper text
--- `W d'.
+ANSI sequences are used in some Chinese hierarchies for highlighting
+articles (`gnus-article-treat-ansi-sequences').
+** Gnus now MIME decodes articles even when they lack "MIME-Version" header.
+This changes the default of `gnus-article-loose-mime'.
+
+** `gnus-decay-scores' can be a regexp matching score files. For example,
+set it to `\\.ADAPT\\'' and only adaptive score files will be decayed.
+ *Note Score Decays::.
+
+** Strings prefixing to the `To' and `Newsgroup' headers in summary lines
+when using `gnus-ignored-from-addresses' can be customized with
+`gnus-summary-to-prefix' and `gnus-summary-newsgroup-prefix'. *Note To
+From Newsgroups::.
+
+** You can replace MIME parts with external bodies. See
+`gnus-mime-replace-part' and `gnus-article-replace-part'. *Note MIME
+Commands::, *Note Using MIME::.
+
+** The option `mm-fill-flowed' can be used to disable treatment of
+format=flowed messages. Also, flowed text is disabled when sending
+inline PGP signed messages. *Note Flowed text: (emacs-mime)Flowed text.
+
+
+\f
+* Changes in Message mode
+
+** Gnus now supports the "hashcash" client puzzle anti-spam mechanism. Use
+`(setq message-generate-hashcash t)' to enable. *Note Hashcash::.
+
+** You can now drag and drop attachments to the Message buffer. See
+`mml-dnd-protocol-alist' and `mml-dnd-attach-options'. *Note MIME:
+(message)MIME.
+
+** The option `message-yank-empty-prefix' now controls how empty lines are
+prefixed in cited text. *Note Insertion Variables: (message)Insertion
+Variables.
+
+** Gnus uses narrowing to hide headers in Message buffers. The
+`References' header is hidden by default. To make all headers visible,
+use `(setq message-hidden-headers nil)'. *Note Message Headers:
+(message)Message Headers.
+
+\f
+* Changes in back ends
+
+** The nntp back end stores article marks in `~/News/marks'.
+
+The directory can be changed using the (customizable) variable
+`nntp-marks-directory', and marks can be disabled using the (back end)
+variable `nntp-marks-is-evil'. The advantage of this is that you can
+copy `~/News/marks' (using rsync, scp or whatever) to another Gnus
+installation, and it will realize what articles you have read and
+marked. The data in `~/News/marks' has priority over the same data in
+`~/.newsrc.eld'.
+
+** You can import and export your RSS subscriptions from OPML files. *Note
+RSS::.
+
+** IMAP identity (RFC 2971) is supported.
+
+By default, Gnus does not send any information about itself, but you can
+customize it using the variable `nnimap-id'.
+
+** The `nnrss' back end now supports multilingual text. Non-ASCII group
+names for the `nnrss' groups are also supported. *Note RSS::.
+
+** Retrieving mail with POP3 is supported over SSL/TLS and with StartTLS.
+
+** The nnml back end allows other compression programs beside `gzip' for
+compressed message files. *Note Mail Spool::.
+
+\f
+* Appearance
+
+** The tool bar has been updated to use GNOME icons. You can also
+customize the tool bar. There's no documentation in the manual yet, but
+`M-x customize-apropos RET -tool-bar$' should get you started. (Only
+for Emacs, not in XEmacs.)
+
+** The tool bar icons are now (de)activated correctly in the group buffer,
+see the variable `gnus-group-update-tool-bar'. Its default value
+depends on your Emacs version.
+
+** You can change the location of XEmacs' toolbars in Gnus buffers. See
+`gnus-use-toolbar' and `message-use-toolbar'.
+
+
+\f
+* Miscellaneous changes
+
+** Having edited the select-method for the foreign server in the server
+buffer is immediately reflected to the subscription of the groups which
+use the server in question. For instance, if you change
+`nntp-via-address' into `bar.example.com' from `foo.example.com', Gnus
+will connect to the news host by way of the intermediate host
+`bar.example.com' from next time.
+
+** The `all.SCORE' file can be edited from the group buffer using `W e'.
+
+
+\f
+* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Copyright information:
+
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
+ 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
+ of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
+ copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
+ thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
+
+ Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
+ of this document, or of portions of it,
+ under the above conditions, provided also that they
+ carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
+\f
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
+end:
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