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authorPaul Eggert2016-03-23 11:27:22 -0700
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7For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features". 7For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
8 8
9 9
10* New features 10* Supported Emacs versions The following Emacs versions are supported by No
11Gnus:
11 12
12** message-alternative-emails can take a function as a value. 13** Emacs 22 and up
14** XEmacs 21.4
15** XEmacs 21.5
16** SXEmacs
13 17
14** nnimap can request and use the Gmail "X-GM-LABELS". 18
19* Installation changes
20
21** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used No Gnus.
22
23If you have tried No Gnus (the unstable Gnus branch leading to this
24release) but went back to a stable version, be careful when upgrading to
25this version. In particular, you will probably want to remove the
26'~/News/marks' directory (perhaps selectively), so that flags are read
27from your '~/.newsrc.eld' instead of from the stale marks file, where
28this release will store flags for nntp. See a later entry for more
29information about nntp marks. Note that downgrading isn't safe in
30general.
31
32** Incompatibility when switching from Emacs 23 to Emacs 22 In Emacs 23,
33Gnus uses Emacs's new internal coding system 'utf-8-emacs' for saving
34articles drafts and '~/.newsrc.eld'. These files may not be read
35correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to use Gnus across
36different Emacs versions, you may set 'mm-auto-save-coding-system' to
37'emacs-mule'.
38
39** Lisp files are now installed in '.../site-lisp/gnus/' by default. It
40defaulted to '.../site-lisp/' formerly. In addition to this, the new
41installer issues a warning if other Gnus installations which will shadow
42the latest one are detected. You can then remove those shadows manually
43or remove them using 'make remove-installed-shadows'.
44
45** The installation directory name is allowed to have spaces and/or tabs.
46
47
48* New packages and libraries within Gnus
49
50** New version of 'nnimap'
51
52'nnimap' has been reimplemented in a mostly-compatible way. See the Gnus
53manual for a description of the new interface. In particular,
54'nnimap-inbox' and the client side split method has changed.
15 55
16** New package `gnus-notifications.el' can send notifications when you 56** Gnus includes the Emacs Lisp SASL library.
17 receive new messages.
18 57
19** If you have the "tnef" program installed, Gnus will display ms-tnef 58This provides a clean API to SASL mechanisms from within Emacs. The user
20 files, aka "winmail.dat". 59visible aspects of this, compared to the earlier situation, include
60support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM. *Note Emacs SASL: (sasl)Top.
21 61
22** Archives (like tar and zip files) will be automatically unpacked, 62** ManageSieve connections uses the SASL library by default.
23 and the files inside the packages will be displayed as MIME parts.
24 63
25** shr has a new command `z' that cycles through image sizes. 64The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM, when
65the server supports it.
66
67** Gnus includes a password cache mechanism in password.el.
68
69It is enabled by default (see 'password-cache'), with a short timeout of
7016 seconds (see 'password-cache-expiry'). If PGG is used as the PGP back
71end, the PGP passphrase is managed by this mechanism. Passwords for
72ManageSieve connections are managed by this mechanism, after querying the
73user about whether to do so.
74
75** Using EasyPG with Gnus When EasyPG, is available, Gnus will use it
76instead of PGG. EasyPG is an Emacs user interface to GNU Privacy Guard.
77 *Note EasyPG Assistant user's manual: (epa)Top. EasyPG is included in
78Emacs 23 and available separately as well.
79
80
81* Changes in group mode
82
83** Symbols like 'gcc-self' now have the same precedence rules in
84'gnus-parameters' as other "real" variables: The last match wins instead
85of the first match.
86
87** Old intermediate incoming mail files ('Incoming*') are deleted after a
88couple of days, not immediately. *Note Mail Source Customization::.
89(New in Gnus 5.10.10 / No Gnus 0.8)
90
91
92* Changes in summary and article mode
26 93
27** `backtab' in the summary buffer now selects the previous link in 94** There's now only one variable that determines how HTML is rendered:
28 the article buffer. 95'mm-text-html-renderer'.
29 96
30** Using the "X-Message-SMTP-Method" header in Message buffers now 97** Gnus now supports sticky article buffers. Those are article buffers that
31 allows specifying how messages are to be sent. For example: 98are not reused when you select another article. *Note Sticky Articles::.
32 99
33 X-Message-SMTP-Method: smtp smtp.fsf.org 587 100** Gnus can selectively display 'text/html' articles with a WWW browser with
101'K H'. *Note MIME Commands::.
34 102
35** Gnus keeps track of non-existent articles for nnimap groups, so 103** International host names (IDNA) can now be decoded inside article bodies
36 that sparse IMAP folders now list a correct number of messages in 104using 'W i' ('gnus-summary-idna-message'). This requires that GNU Libidn
37 them. 105(<http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/>) has been installed.
38 106
39** Gnus will guess the real type of MIME parts of type 107** The non-ASCII group names handling has been much improved. The back ends
40 application/octet-stream based on the file suffix. So an 108that fully support non-ASCII group names are now 'nntp', 'nnml', and
41 application/octet-stream with a name of "rms.jpg" will be displayed 109'nnrss'. Also the agent, the cache, and the marks features work with
42 as an image/jpeg type by default, for instance. 110those back ends. *Note Non-ASCII Group Names::.
111
112** Gnus now displays DNS master files sent as text/dns using dns-mode.
113
114** Gnus supports new limiting commands in the Summary buffer: '/ r'
115('gnus-summary-limit-to-replied') and '/ R'
116('gnus-summary-limit-to-recipient'). *Note Limiting::.
117
118** You can now fetch all ticked articles from the server using 'Y t'
119('gnus-summary-insert-ticked-articles'). *Note Summary Generation
120Commands::.
121
122** Gnus supports a new sort command in the Summary buffer: 'C-c C-s C-t'
123('gnus-summary-sort-by-recipient'). *Note Summary Sorting::.
124
125** S/MIME now features LDAP user certificate searches. You need to
126configure the server in 'smime-ldap-host-list'.
127
128** URLs inside OpenPGP headers are retrieved and imported to your PGP key
129ring when you click on them.
130
131** Picons can be displayed right from the textual address, see
132'gnus-picon-style'. *Note Picons::.
133
134** ANSI SGR control sequences can be transformed using 'W A'.
135
136ANSI sequences are used in some Chinese hierarchies for highlighting
137articles ('gnus-article-treat-ansi-sequences').
138
139** Gnus now MIME decodes articles even when they lack "MIME-Version" header.
140This changes the default of 'gnus-article-loose-mime'.
141
142** 'gnus-decay-scores' can be a regexp matching score files. For example,
143set it to '\\.ADAPT\\'' and only adaptive score files will be decayed.
144 *Note Score Decays::.
145
146** Strings prefixing to the 'To' and 'Newsgroup' headers in summary lines
147when using 'gnus-ignored-from-addresses' can be customized with
148'gnus-summary-to-prefix' and 'gnus-summary-newsgroup-prefix'. *Note To
149From Newsgroups::.
150
151** You can replace MIME parts with external bodies. See
152'gnus-mime-replace-part' and 'gnus-article-replace-part'. *Note MIME
153Commands::, *note Using MIME::.
154
155** The option 'mm-fill-flowed' can be used to disable treatment of
156format=flowed messages. Also, flowed text is disabled when sending
157inline PGP signed messages. *Note Flowed text: (emacs-mime)Flowed text.
158(New in Gnus 5.10.7)
159
160** Now the new command 'S W' ('gnus-article-wide-reply-with-original') for a
161wide reply in the article buffer yanks a text that is in the active
162region, if it is set, as well as the 'R'
163('gnus-article-reply-with-original') command. Note that the 'R' command
164in the article buffer no longer accepts a prefix argument, which was used
165to make it do a wide reply. *Note Article Keymap::.
166
167** The new command 'C-h b' ('gnus-article-describe-bindings') used in the
168article buffer now shows not only the article commands but also the real
169summary commands that are accessible from the article buffer.
170
171
172* Changes in Message mode
43 173
44** `nnimap-inbox' can now be a list of mail box names. 174** Gnus now defaults to saving all outgoing messages in per-month nnfolder
45 175archives.
176
177** Gnus now supports the "hashcash" client puzzle anti-spam mechanism. Use
178'(setq message-generate-hashcash t)' to enable. *Note Hashcash::.
179
180** You can now drag and drop attachments to the Message buffer. See
181'mml-dnd-protocol-alist' and 'mml-dnd-attach-options'. *Note MIME:
182(message)MIME.
183
184** The option 'message-yank-empty-prefix' now controls how empty lines are
185prefixed in cited text. *Note Insertion Variables: (message)Insertion
186Variables.
187
188** Gnus uses narrowing to hide headers in Message buffers. The 'References'
189header is hidden by default. To make all headers visible, use '(setq
190message-hidden-headers nil)'. *Note Message Headers: (message)Message
191Headers.
192
193** You can highlight different levels of citations like in the article
194buffer. See 'gnus-message-highlight-citation'.
195
196** 'auto-fill-mode' is enabled by default in Message mode. See
197'message-fill-column'. *Note Message Headers: (message)Various Message
198Variables.
199
200** You can now store signature files in a special directory named
201'message-signature-directory'.
202
203** The option 'message-citation-line-format' controls the format of the
204"Whomever writes:" line. You need to set
205'message-citation-line-function' to
206'message-insert-formatted-citation-line' as well.
207
208
209* Changes in Browse Server mode
210
211** Gnus' sophisticated subscription methods are now available in Browse
212Server buffers as well using the variable
213'gnus-browse-subscribe-newsgroup-method'.
214
215
216* Changes in back ends
217
218** The nntp back end stores article marks in '~/News/marks'.
219
220The directory can be changed using the (customizable) variable
221'nntp-marks-directory', and marks can be disabled using the (back end)
222variable 'nntp-marks-is-evil'. The advantage of this is that you can
223copy '~/News/marks' (using rsync, scp or whatever) to another Gnus
224installation, and it will realize what articles you have read and marked.
225The data in '~/News/marks' has priority over the same data in
226'~/.newsrc.eld'.
227
228** You can import and export your RSS subscriptions from OPML files. *Note
229RSS::.
230
231** IMAP identity (RFC 2971) is supported.
232
233By default, Gnus does not send any information about itself, but you can
234customize it using the variable 'nnimap-id'.
235
236** The 'nnrss' back end now supports multilingual text. Non-ASCII group
237names for the 'nnrss' groups are also supported. *Note RSS::.
238
239** Retrieving mail with POP3 is supported over SSL/TLS and with StartTLS.
240
241** The nnml back end allows other compression programs beside 'gzip' for
242compressed message files. *Note Mail Spool::.
243
244** The nnml back end supports group compaction.
245
246This feature, accessible via the functions 'gnus-group-compact-group' ('G
247z' in the group buffer) and 'gnus-server-compact-server' ('z' in the
248server buffer) renumbers all articles in a group, starting from 1 and
249removing gaps. As a consequence, you get a correct total article count
250(until messages are deleted again).
251
252
253* Appearance
254
255** The tool bar has been updated to use GNOME icons. You can also customize
256the tool bars: 'M-x customize-apropos RET -tool-bar$' should get you
257started. (Only for Emacs, not in XEmacs.)
258
259** The tool bar icons are now (de)activated correctly in the group buffer,
260see the variable 'gnus-group-update-tool-bar'. Its default value depends
261on your Emacs version.
262
263** You can change the location of XEmacs's toolbars in Gnus buffers. See
264'gnus-use-toolbar' and 'message-use-toolbar'.
265
266
267* Miscellaneous changes
268
269** Having edited the select-method for the foreign server in the server
270buffer is immediately reflected to the subscription of the groups which
271use the server in question. For instance, if you change
272'nntp-via-address' into 'bar.example.com' from 'foo.example.com', Gnus
273will connect to the news host by way of the intermediate host
274'bar.example.com' from next time.
275
276** The 'all.SCORE' file can be edited from the group buffer using 'W e'.
277
278** You can set 'gnus-mark-copied-or-moved-articles-as-expirable' to a
279non-'nil' value so that articles that have been read may be marked as
280expirable automatically when copying or moving them to a group that has
281auto-expire turned on. The default is 'nil' and copying and moving of
282articles behave as before; i.e., the expirable marks will be unchanged
283except that the marks will be removed when copying or moving articles to
284a group that has not turned auto-expire on. *Note Expiring Mail::.
285
286** NoCeM support has been removed.
287
288** Carpal mode has been removed.
289
46* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features". 290* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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