X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/59c414b1d0a01acff2bdc5e8ee6b76b0ee5aac3d..1048151cc4bec79f7310f4f2ede309889822a6bb:/etc/GNUS-NEWS diff --git a/etc/GNUS-NEWS b/etc/GNUS-NEWS index ee3584fdb8..06badc1837 100644 --- a/etc/GNUS-NEWS +++ b/etc/GNUS-NEWS @@ -1,46 +1,292 @@ GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1999-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1999-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org. For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features". -* New features +* Supported Emacs versions The following Emacs versions are supported by No +Gnus: -** nnimap can request and use the Gmail "X-GM-LABELS". +** Emacs 22 and up +** XEmacs 21.4 +** XEmacs 21.5 +** SXEmacs -** New package `gnus-notifications.el' can send notifications when you - receive new messages. + +* Installation changes + +** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used No Gnus. + +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. + +** Incompatibility when switching from Emacs 23 to Emacs 22 In Emacs 23, +Gnus uses Emacs's new internal coding system 'utf-8-emacs' for saving +articles drafts and '~/.newsrc.eld'. These files may not be read +correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to use Gnus across +different Emacs versions, you may set 'mm-auto-save-coding-system' to +'emacs-mule'. + +** 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'. + +** The installation directory name is allowed to have spaces and/or tabs. + + +* New packages and libraries within Gnus + +** New version of 'nnimap' + +'nnimap' has been reimplemented in a mostly-compatible way. See the Gnus +manual for a description of the new interface. In particular, +'nnimap-inbox' and the client side split method has changed. + +** Gnus includes the Emacs Lisp SASL library. + +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. + +** ManageSieve connections uses the SASL library by default. + +The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM, when +the server supports it. + +** Gnus includes a password cache mechanism in password.el. + +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. + +** Using EasyPG with Gnus When EasyPG, is available, Gnus will use it +instead of PGG. EasyPG is an Emacs user interface to GNU Privacy Guard. + *Note EasyPG Assistant user's manual: (epa)Top. EasyPG is included in +Emacs 23 and available separately as well. + + +* Changes in group mode + +** Symbols like 'gcc-self' now have the same precedence rules in +'gnus-parameters' as other "real" variables: The last match wins instead +of the first match. + +** Old intermediate incoming mail files ('Incoming*') are deleted after a +couple of days, not immediately. *Note Mail Source Customization::. +(New in Gnus 5.10.10 / No Gnus 0.8) + + +* Changes in summary and article mode + +** There's now only one variable that determines how HTML is rendered: +'mm-text-html-renderer'. + +** Gnus now supports sticky article buffers. Those are article buffers that +are not reused when you select another article. *Note Sticky Articles::. + +** Gnus can selectively display 'text/html' articles with a WWW browser with +'K H'. *Note MIME Commands::. + +** International host names (IDNA) can now be decoded inside article bodies +using 'W i' ('gnus-summary-idna-message'). This requires that GNU Libidn +() has been installed. + +** The non-ASCII group names handling has been much improved. The back ends +that fully support non-ASCII group names are now 'nntp', 'nnml', and +'nnrss'. Also the agent, the cache, and the marks features work with +those back ends. *Note Non-ASCII Group Names::. + +** Gnus now displays DNS master files sent as text/dns using dns-mode. + +** Gnus supports new limiting commands in the Summary buffer: '/ r' +('gnus-summary-limit-to-replied') and '/ R' +('gnus-summary-limit-to-recipient'). *Note Limiting::. + +** You can now fetch all ticked articles from the server using 'Y t' +('gnus-summary-insert-ticked-articles'). *Note Summary Generation +Commands::. + +** Gnus supports a new sort command in the Summary buffer: 'C-c C-s C-t' +('gnus-summary-sort-by-recipient'). *Note Summary Sorting::. + +** S/MIME now features LDAP user certificate searches. You need to +configure the server in 'smime-ldap-host-list'. + +** URLs inside OpenPGP headers are retrieved and imported to your PGP key +ring when you click on them. + +** Picons can be displayed right from the textual address, see +'gnus-picon-style'. *Note Picons::. + +** ANSI SGR control sequences can be transformed using 'W A'. + +ANSI sequences are used in some Chinese hierarchies for highlighting +articles ('gnus-article-treat-ansi-sequences'). -** If you have the "tnef" program installed, Gnus will display ms-tnef - files, aka "winmail.dat". +** Gnus now MIME decodes articles even when they lack "MIME-Version" header. +This changes the default of 'gnus-article-loose-mime'. -** Archives (like tar and zip files) will be automatically unpacked, - and the files inside the packages will be displayed as MIME parts. +** '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::. -** shr has a new command `z' that cycles through image sizes. +** 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::. -** `backtab' in the summary buffer now selects the previous link in - the article buffer. +** You can replace MIME parts with external bodies. See +'gnus-mime-replace-part' and 'gnus-article-replace-part'. *Note MIME +Commands::, *note Using MIME::. -** Using the "X-Message-SMTP-Method" header in Message buffers now - allows specifying how messages are to be sent. For example: +** 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. +(New in Gnus 5.10.7) - X-Message-SMTP-Method: smtp smtp.fsf.org 587 +** Now the new command 'S W' ('gnus-article-wide-reply-with-original') for a +wide reply in the article buffer yanks a text that is in the active +region, if it is set, as well as the 'R' +('gnus-article-reply-with-original') command. Note that the 'R' command +in the article buffer no longer accepts a prefix argument, which was used +to make it do a wide reply. *Note Article Keymap::. -** Gnus keeps track of non-existent articles for nnimap groups, so - that sparse IMAP folders now list a correct number of messages in - them. +** The new command 'C-h b' ('gnus-article-describe-bindings') used in the +article buffer now shows not only the article commands but also the real +summary commands that are accessible from the article buffer. -** Gnus will guess the real type of MIME parts of type - application/octet-stream based on the file suffix. So an - application/octet-stream with a name of "rms.jpg" will be displayed - as an image/jpeg type by default, for instance. + +* Changes in Message mode + +** Gnus now defaults to saving all outgoing messages in per-month nnfolder +archives. + +** 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. + +** You can highlight different levels of citations like in the article +buffer. See 'gnus-message-highlight-citation'. + +** 'auto-fill-mode' is enabled by default in Message mode. See +'message-fill-column'. *Note Message Headers: (message)Various Message +Variables. + +** You can now store signature files in a special directory named +'message-signature-directory'. + +** The option 'message-citation-line-format' controls the format of the +"Whomever writes:" line. You need to set +'message-citation-line-function' to +'message-insert-formatted-citation-line' as well. + + +* Changes in Browse Server mode + +** Gnus' sophisticated subscription methods are now available in Browse +Server buffers as well using the variable +'gnus-browse-subscribe-newsgroup-method'. + + +* 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. -** `nnimap-inbox' can now be a list of mail box names. - +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::. + +** The nnml back end supports group compaction. + +This feature, accessible via the functions 'gnus-group-compact-group' ('G +z' in the group buffer) and 'gnus-server-compact-server' ('z' in the +server buffer) renumbers all articles in a group, starting from 1 and +removing gaps. As a consequence, you get a correct total article count +(until messages are deleted again). + + +* Appearance + +** The tool bar has been updated to use GNOME icons. You can also customize +the tool bars: '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's toolbars in Gnus buffers. See +'gnus-use-toolbar' and 'message-use-toolbar'. + + +* 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'. + +** You can set 'gnus-mark-copied-or-moved-articles-as-expirable' to a +non-'nil' value so that articles that have been read may be marked as +expirable automatically when copying or moving them to a group that has +auto-expire turned on. The default is 'nil' and copying and moving of +articles behave as before; i.e., the expirable marks will be unchanged +except that the marks will be removed when copying or moving articles to +a group that has not turned auto-expire on. *Note Expiring Mail::. + +** NoCeM support has been removed. + +** Carpal mode has been removed. + * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features". ----------------------------------------------------------------------