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New features in Gnus 5.6:

  • New functionality for using Gnus as an offline newsreader has been added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added. See Gnus Unplugged, for the full story.
  • The nndraft back end has returned, but works differently from before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the nndraft group, which is created automatically.
  • gnus-alter-header-function can now be used to alter header values.
  • gnus-summary-goto-article now accept Message-IDs.
  • A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message outside the region: C-c C-v.
  • You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with C-u C-c C-c.
  • nntp-rlogin-program—new variable to ease customization.
  • C-u C-c C-c in gnus-article-edit-mode will now inhibit re-highlighting of the article buffer.
  • New element in gnus-boring-article-headers—long-to.
  • M-i symbolic prefix command. See Symbolic Prefixes, for details.
  • L and I in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix a to add the score rule to the all.SCORE file.
  • gnus-simplify-subject-functions variable to allow greater control over simplification.
  • A T—new command for fetching the current thread.
  • / T—new command for including the current thread in the limit.
  • M-RET is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
  • ‘\\1’-expressions are now valid in nnmail-split-methods.
  • The custom-face-lookup function has been removed. If you used this function in your initialization files, you must rewrite them to use face-spec-set instead.
  • Canceling now uses the current select method. Symbolic prefix a forces normal posting method.
  • New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper text—W d.
  • For easier debugging of nntp, you can set nntp-record-commands to a non-nil value.
  • nntp now uses ~/.authinfo, a .netrc-like file, for controlling where and how to send AUTHINFO to NNTP servers.
  • A command for editing group parameters from the summary buffer has been added.
  • A history of where mails have been split is available.
  • A new article date command has been added—article-date-iso8601.
  • Subjects can be simplified when threading by setting gnus-score-thread-simplify.
  • A new function for citing in Message has been added—message-cite-original-without-signature.
  • article-strip-all-blank-lines—new article command.
  • A new Message command to kill to the end of the article has been added.
  • A minimum adaptive score can be specified by using the gnus-adaptive-word-minimum variable.
  • The “lapsed date” article header can be kept continually updated by the gnus-start-date-timer command.
  • Web listserv archives can be read with the nnlistserv back end.
  • Old dejanews archives can now be read by nnweb.