Gnus 5.8 is released

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gnu.emacs.gnus,gnu.emacs.sources,no.it.emacs as well.

More than a year after Gnus 5.6, there's finally a new Gnus beta --
inventively titled "Gnus 5.8".  Pterodactyl Gnus has come to an end.

Bugs are still to be expected, but will hopefully be stamped out
during the next few Gnus 5.8.x releases, so that Gnus 5.9/5.8 can be
included in the next Emacs/XEmacs releases.  (Or the one after the
next, depending on the number of bugs.)

Gnus 5.8 can be gotten from <URL:http://www.gnus.org/>.  

To celebrate the event, Pterodactyl Gnus mugs and temporary tattoos
are being made.  <URL:http://ingebrigtsen.no/> for details; the shop
opens on 1999-12-07.

These are the news:

** Gnus changes.

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.

*** 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.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  [email protected] * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen