Petr Kovar | 1 May 20:34
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ANN: Pan 0.137 "The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour"

May 1, 2012 - New Release:
Pan 0.137 "The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour"
http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/

What is Pan?

Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and
experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan
also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple
connections, and more.

It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the Good
Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations.

About 0.137

This is a bugfix release for certain issues regarding race conditions with
thread handling, which resulted in random errors and segmentation faults.
Everybody using older versions of Pan is encouraged to upgrade. There have
been some minor UI enhancements, too.

Changes since 0.136

* Fixed errors regarding the segmentation faults etc. with thread handling.
  (Heinrich Müller)
* Colorize group names. (Heinrich Müller)
* Fix three-horizontal-pane layout between sessions. (Heinrich Müller)
* Stop tasks when there is no space left on device. (Heinrich Müller)
* Honor default attachments folder setting if group folder is not set.
  (Heinrich Müller)
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Petr Kovar | 8 Apr 19:33
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ANN: Pan 0.136 "Far too busy being delicious..."

April 8, 2012 - New Release:
Pan 0.136 "Far too busy being delicious..."
http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/

What is Pan?

Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and
experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan
also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple
connections, and more.

It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the Good
Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations.

About 0.136

This release introduces a plethora of bugfixes and improvements, everybody
using older versions of Pan is encouraged to upgrade. This version supports
binary uploading, TLS (SSL) connections, PGP handling and other nice
features.

Changes since 0.135

* Support for uploading attachments (with NZB creation) to Usenet.
  (Heinrich Müller)
* Selectable Content-Transfer-Encoding. (Heinrich Müller)
* Selectable GtkSpell default language. (Heinrich Müller)
* Support for encrypting and signing articles with a public/private PGP key.
  (Heinrich Müller)
* Connections can now be encrypted with TLS 1.0. (Heinrich Müller)
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Petr Kovar | 14 Jun 12:01
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ANN: Pan 0.135 "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea"

June 5, 2011 - New Release:
Pan 0.135 "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea"
http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/

What is Pan?

Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and
experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan
also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple
connections, and more.

It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the Good
Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations.

About 0.135

This release introduces a support for creating a NZB file from the list 
of articles, optional support for GTK+ 3, and a number of other feature 
improvements and bugfixes. The code is based on the Pan bugfix & testing 
repository maintained by K. Haley; and it is recommended for everyone 
using older versions of Pan to upgrade. 

Changes since 0.134

* Improve URI detection in the body pane. (K. Haley)
* Make highlighting of URIs in the body pane optional. (K. Haley)
* Add a newsrc autosave timer. (K. Haley)
* Fix mailto URI encoding. (K. Haley, #648375)
* Create a NZB file from the list of articles. (Heinrich Mueller)
* Optional compatibility with GTK+ 3. (K. Haley)
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Petr Kovar | 19 Feb 19:17
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ANN: Pan 0.134 "Wait for Me"

February 15, 2011 - New Release:
0.134 "Wait for Me"
http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/

What is Pan?

Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and
experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan
also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple
connections, and more.

It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the Good
Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations.

About 0.134

This release brings a large number of feature improvements and bugfixes
that have accumulated over the last 30 months of release hiatus. The code
is based on the Pan bugfix & testing repository maintained by K. Haley and
it is recommended for everyone using older versions of Pan to upgrade.

Changes since 0.133

* Fix compilation with GCC 4.4. (Charles Kerr, #573722)
* WARNING: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated.
  (Charles Kerr, #579753)
* No window icon when running in NZB-mode. (Charles Kerr, #574419)
* Remove deprecated glib/gdk/gtk calls to prepare for GNOME 3.
  (Charles Kerr, #596648)
* Use GRegex instead of PCRE. (Charles Kerr, #596653)
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Charles Kerr | 1 Aug 19:49

ANN: Pan 0.132 "Waxed in Black"

Aug 1, 2007 - Pan 0.132 "Waxed in Black"

This release clears out an assortment of bugfixes that have
accumulated over the last two months during a temporary lull
in development.

Bug Tickets addressed in this release:
  441859 in 0.131, 'read next unread' didn't always work (Artur Jachacy)
  456730 Text before signature delimiter is doubled (Alexander Skwar)
  444184 0.131 fails to build on RH4/CentOS4 (Steven Ellis)
  438021 can't post one message to multiple groups at one time (Keith)
  355041 Two-segment group name abbreviations (Benjamin Esham)
  447680 handle nzb files whose parts are unordered (Benjamin Charron)
  349490 better info for the Tasks button tooltip (Douglas Bollinger)
  456519 gmime dependency should be 2.1.9, not 2.1.0 (Gregory Lee)

cheers,
Charles
Charles Kerr | 26 May 19:52

ANN: Pan 0.131 "Ghosts: First Variation"

May 16, 2007 - Pan 0.131 "Ghosts: First Variation"

This release is recommended for everyone using the rewrite betas:
it fixes some crashes, memory leaks, and attachment corruption
and it speeds up loading and saving newsgroup headers on disk.

Bug Tickets addressed in this release:
  440853 fix 0.130 crash while fetching some headers (Sci Fi)
  440470 fix 0.130 bug that made deleting articles very slow (Walt)
  440194 fix 0.127 memory leak
  441442 fix uulib bug that caused crashes and yEnc decoding
  426377 workaround GMime bug that won't show multipart images (Mike)
  440545 saving a group's headers could be faster
  440990 more speedups in saving headers
  441034 StringView::ltrim() speedups

cheers,
Charles
Charles Kerr | 19 May 18:53

ANN: Pan 0.130 "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic"

This release uses significantly less memory on 64-bit machines,
loads and saves articles faster, and has the usual assortment
of tweaks, additions, and bug fixes.

Bug Tickets addressed in this release:
  361388 add ability to queue nzb's when viewing them (Adrian Yee)
  417627 crash after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error' (Serge)
  419199 fix 0.128 regression. (Frank Tabor)
  437686 0.129 didn't build on irix' with MIPSpro C++. (Avi Bercovich)
  433316 task window coordinates set to -32000 on Windows (Argoyne)
  436101 make nzb suffix filter case-insensitive (Darren Albers)
  348445 tweak menu for multiple group selections (Darren Albers)
  438604 froze replying to posts whose subject was "Re:" (Artur Jachacy)

cheers,
Charles
Charles Kerr | 6 May 18:59

ANN: Pan 0.129 "Benson & Hedges Moscow Gold

May 6, 2007 - Pan 0.129 "Benson & Hedges Moscow Gold"

This release cheerfully inches a little closer to 1.0.
A nasty 0.128 crash was fixed, and a handful of requested
features have been added.

Bug Tickets addressed in this release:
  432387 0.128 memory corruption and crash (Jeremy, Pav Lucistnik)
  428578 crash when trying to post a supersede (Stephane Gregoire)
  419199 wrap shouldn't be mandatory (Bill baker)
  432289 sometimes 'queued for decode' tasks never decode (Calin)
  348445 can't select multiple groups (Artur Jachacy)
  90594  implicit user editor spawn on composing (Gauze)
  434502 jump to body tab when article's fetched, not when queued (Lanif)
  436064 add "copy url" to context menu (Frederic Crozat)
  436101 add nzb filter to import nzb file selector (Frederic Crozat)

cheers,
Charles
Charles Kerr | 21 Apr 19:00

ANN: Pan 0.128 "SR/CL: Leitmotiv: Toynbee Idea"

This is another incremental release -- bugfixes, some speedups,
a little more polish, and one of the better release titles in awhile. ;)

Bug Tickets addressed in this release:
  431247 "Add Scoring Rule" crashes if no article  selected (Christophe)
  432023 0.127 crashes when loading corrupted groups (Charles)
  432024 Speed improvements when saving and loading groups (Charles)
  431552 0.127 no longer stops downloading when disk is full (Alan Olsen)
  430958 Get N Headers fails if group has small # of headers (Anon)
  429449 Pan 0.126, 0.127 won't compile w/gtk 2.6.x (Jeff Berman)
  429485 Articles marked read showing back up (Frank Tabor)
  407301 All new articles are shown, regardless of score (Per Hedeland)

cheers,
Charles
Charles Kerr | 13 Apr 04:31

ANN: Pan 0.127 "Eckythump"

I notice that this week a stable version of Debian made it
out the door before a stable version of Pan did. =)

This is another incremental release -- a handful of bugfixes,
a little more polish, and a couple of new features.  Enjoy.

Bug Tickets addressed in this release:
  425993 Crash when downloading new headers in 0.126 (Drew Yavor)
  427212 Crash when hitting 'read more' when no group loaded (Duncan)
  428151 Compilation error in e-util.cc on OS X (SciFi)
  424381 Pango warnings from attachments with accented chars (SciFi)
  427230 Sigfiles with CR/LFs not handled properly (Artur Jachacy)
  393589 X-Face not shown properly (Ivan Rajkovic)
  424240 Downloading headers from the command line (Eric Lauriault)
  424248 In --nogui mode, exit when last task finishes. (Eric Lauriault)
  427165 Task pane's ETA wrong on new xover tasks (Charles)
  426375 Task pane's ETA wrong when selecting > 4GB of files (Mike)

cheers,
Charles

Gmane