** Gnus changes.
-*** 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:
+The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
+four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
+internationalization and mail-fetching.
- (push "~/lisp/custom" load-path)
+*** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
+many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
-Modify to suit your needs.
+*** 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.
-*** 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 has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
+many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
-*** 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-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
+called to position point.
-*** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header
-values.
+*** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
+summary buffers and NOV files.
-*** `gnus-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's.
+*** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
+of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
-*** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
-outside the region: `C-c C-v'.
+*** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
+subtly different manner.
-*** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with
-`C-u C-c C-c'.
+*** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
+and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
+ever-changing layouts.
-*** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization.
+*** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
-*** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit
-re-highlighting of the article buffer.
-
-*** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'.
-
-*** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic
-Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details.
-
-*** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
-`a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file.
-
-*** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater
-control over simplification.
-
-*** `A T' -- new command for fetching the current thread.
-
-*** `/ T' -- new command for including the current thread in the
-limit.
-
-*** `M-RET' is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
-
-*** \\1-expressions are now valid in `nnmail-split-methods'.
-
-*** 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.
-
-*** Cancelling now uses the current select method. Symbolic prefix
-`a' forces normal posting method.
-
-*** New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper text
--- `W d'.
-
-*** For easier debugging of nntp, you can set `nntp-record-commands'
-to a non-nil value.
-
-*** nntp now uses ~/.authinfo, a .netrc-like file, for controlling
-where and how to send AUTHINFO to NNTP servers.
-
-*** A command for editing group parameters from the summary buffer
-has been added.
-
-*** A history of where mails have been split is available.
-
-*** A new article date command has been added -- `article-date-iso8601'.
-
-*** Subjects can be simplified when threading by setting
-`gnus-score-thread-simplify'.
-
-*** A new function for citing in Message has been added --
-`message-cite-original-without-signature'.
-
-*** `article-strip-all-blank-lines' -- new article command.
-
-*** A new Message command to kill to the end of the article has
-been added.
-
-*** A minimum adaptive score can be specified by using the
-`gnus-adaptive-word-minimum' variable.
-
-*** The "lapsed date" article header can be kept continually
-updated by the `gnus-start-date-timer' command.
-
-*** Web listserv archives can be read with the nnlistserv backend.
-
-*** Old dejanews archives can now be read by nnweb.
-
-*** Byte-compilation of user-specs now works under XEmacs.
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