ANNOUNCE: Pan 0.7.5 Released

["Charles S. Kerr" <charles skywalker ecn ou edu>]

Version 0.7.5 of Pan, a Newsreader for GNOME, has been released and is
available at <http://www.superpimp.org/>.  This is a bugfix release -- we're
trying to get the 0.7.x series as stable as we can before moving on to 0.8.0.

    New Features 
    * Added rot13 support. 
    * Better author and subject message sorting. 

    Updated 
    * Updated French, Italian, Korean, and Norwegian
      translations. 

    Bug Fixes 
    * The statusbar didn't update when the grouplists were loading
      in 0.7.4. 
    * mark-all-read-crash bug fixed. 
    * crash-while-loading-grouplist bug fixed. 
    * sincle-click article reading works again. 
    * fixes to the article filter 
    * I18N Fixes. 
    * A few others. 


ABOUT PAN

Why Use Pan?

It's Actively Developed. 

    * There are typically two new versions of Pan each month. 
    * Bug reports are investigated and answered. 
    * Wishlists are answered, and new features are discussed on
      the mailing list for user feedback. 
    * There are currently translations for Danish, French, German,
      Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Spanish, and
      Swedish. 

It's Good for Reading News. 

    * Article reading, writing, and replying via usenet or e-mail
      are supported. 
    * Articles can be organized by thread 
    * Articles can be sorted by author, date, subject, or the
      number of unread children in the thread 
    * Articles can be filtered by regular expression matching,
      read/unread state, binary/text, etc. 
    * Killfiles let you specify authors and threads that you never
      want to see. 
    * Groups can be filtered by regular expression matching,
      subscribed/new/all, etc. 
    * Article headers are cached locally for fast group loading. 
    * Multiple connections are supported, so articles can be read
      while binaries are downloading. 

It's Good for Downloading Binaries. 

    * Pan supports single-click decoding, opening, or saving of
      binary messages. 
    * Multipart articles are automatically grouped together. 
    * Nonbinary, incomplete multipart, and previously-saved
      messges can be filtered out of the article list. 
    * Multiple connections are supported, so many binaries can
      be downloaded simultaneously. 
    * Works with servers on standard and non-standard NNTP
      ports. 

It's Configurable. 

    * Pan can support multiple servers, even concurrent
      connections to multiple servers. 
    * Pan supports NNTP authorization, for Usenet accounts that
      require passwords. 
    * Users can specify their own colors, fonts, signature files,
      what article headers to show, etc.
    * Pan is written and distributed under the GPL license.