Pan 0.7.6 is released

[Jason Leach <leach wam umd edu>]

Hello,

Version 0.7.6 of Pan, a USENET newsreader for GNOME, has been released.

* Availability

<a href="ftp://source.rebelbase.com/pub/pan/pan-0.7.6.tar.gz">ftp://source.rebelbase.com/pub/pan/pan-0.7.6.tar.gz</a>

* Changes in Pan 0.7.6

    Note: the killfile format has changed since 0.7.5.  You must delete
    ~/.pan/killfile.db if upgrading from an earlier version of Pan.  All
    the other data files are fine.

    NEW FEATURES

        * Better thread tracking/killing in killfile utility

        * New "Find Backwards" button in Find dialog

        * New "Space Reading": hitting the space key will page down in the
          current article; at the end of the article, the next article is
          loaded.

        * Added "Save Attachment As..." feature

        * New ability to show all article headers

        * New color for watched article threads.

        * New feature: download entire article thread.

        * New feature: User can now plug in an external mailer to use when
          replying by mail

    UPDATED

        * Updated Danish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish,
          and Spanish translations.

        * Improved Preferences Dialog layout.

    BUG FIXES

        * Pan-freezes-on-startup bug fixed.

        * Memory leaks fixed.

        * Double-click no longer expands the article tree; it now just
          reads the articles like it did up through 0.7.3.  (Click on the +/-
          box to expand the tree.)

        * Cached articles can now be read while offline, as you would expect.

        * Mark article/all read/unread works properly.

        * Fixed infinite loop when hitting "next" in article Find dialog if
          all the articles had been filtered out.

        * We now collaps double periods at the start of a line as per RFC977
          section 2.4.1.  This will stop a "corrupt decode" bug.

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.

Enjoy,

Jason Leach
elerium@source.rebelbase.com