Pan 0.9.3  (Feb 1, 2001)

    NEW FEATURES

        * Pan 0.9.3 now has a 100% Good Newskeeping Seal of Approval rating!

        * Optional inline rendering of images.  (requires gtkhtml library)

        * Customizable pane layout.

        * Added the option to automatically download new headers whenever
          a group is activated.

        * Now handles read-only and moderated newsgroups.

        * Added two built-in rules: "Delete bozos" and "Delete Old Articles"

        * Added number of connections / total throughput status in the main
          window's toolbar.

    UPDATES

        * User Folders are now saved in mbox format for better portability.

        * Better reading and decoding of mime attachments.

        * The local header cache is now saved in smaller files.

        * Faster network code for downloading articles/groups.

        * Slightly faster threading, saving, and loading of articles.

        * Better stability of locally-cached article bodies.

        * GMime snapshot updated, including some gmime bug fixes.

        * Better NNTP compliance with respect to user authentication.

        * Less UI flicker.

    BUG FIXES

        * Crashing bug in applying rules to incoming articles fixed.

        * Crash during shutdown bug fixed.  Thanks to Christophe Lambin for
          reporting this bug.

        * Random xlib async reply bugs fixed.

        * A handful of severe memory corruption bugs fixed.

        * Bug in specifying email addresses when sending email fixed.
          Thanks to Jan Schaumann for reporting this bug.

        * Small memory leaks fixed.

        * The article body fonts weren't editable in the 0.9.2 preferences
          dialog.  Thanks to Dave Hill for a patch that fixes this.

        * The Group menu often had greyed-out items when a group was selected
          in the group list but hadn't yet been loaded.  Thanks to Steven
          Lusk for reporting this bug.

        * Pan 0.9.2 gave a warning "message is all quoted text" when
          forwarding a message via email.  Thanks to John LeMay and Ben
          Elliston for reporting this.

        * Fixed bug that prevented Pan from dowdnloading headers from groups
          that had exactly one article in them.

        * Bug fix in the attribution string: the message-id was being pasted
          in the date's place.  Thanks to Leo Papandreou for reporting this.

        * Bug fix on queued articles: dequeueing them from the task manager
          didn't remove the 'queued' icon in the threads view.

        * Pan didn't work on file systems that didn't accept '<' in in a
          filename.  Thanks to Arjan Drieman for reporting this bug.

        * The 'external mailer' user preferences option was being misread
          in 0.9.2.  Thanks to Garry Knight for reporting this bug.

        * Other assorted and sordid bug fixes.


Pan 0.9.2  (Nov 21, 2000)

    NEW FEATURES

        * Added the option to load groups and articles by a single click
          instead of the previous double-click.  Mouse button 2 can also
          be used for selection.

        * Articles posted by the user can now be cancelled and superseded.

        * Added "Apply rule to subscribed groups" button in the rule tool.

        * Better viewing and posting of mime-encoded headers.

        * Highlighted text in the message composer can now be Rot13 encoded.
          Thanks to Xander D Harkness <xander@wildthorn.com> for suggesting
          this feature.

        * Added preferences option to display article dates in local time,
          rather than UTC.  Thanks to Steve Cox for suggesting this feature.

        * New feature: "Mark entire thread read".  Thanks to Jan Schaumann
          for suggesting this.

    UPDATES

        * Simpler keyboard shortcuts for frequently-used commands.  Thanks to
          Bas Mevissen for suggesting these.

        * "Space reading" is working better now.  Thanks to Philippe Duperron
          for suggesting improvements.

        * A UI gotcha in the Rule Editor was fixed.

        * The preferences dialog has been reorganized.

        * The article list loads a little faster.

    BUG FIXES

        * 0.9.1's date parser was displaying everything in 1978.  Thanks to
          many people, including Christophe Lambin, Steve Cox, Wendell, Lisa,
          V Pascal Nelson, Geordie, and many others for reporting this bug. :)

        * The timezone offset in posted articles was always positive, even
          when it should have been negative (such as in North America).

        * Pan was incorrectly marking complete multipart messages as incomplete.
          Thanks to gpb@gpb.seanet.com for reporting this bug.

        * "Catch Up" still wasn't always working properly.  Thanks to
          Aaron Digulla for reporting this bug.

        * The user preferences of sort order were not being saved in 0.9.1.
          Thanks to Jonathan Itzhaky for reporting this bug.

        * "Go to Next Thread" (ctrl-d) now works properly.  Thanks to
          Ilja Booij <ibooij@daimi.au.dk> for reporting this bug.

        * Sorting in 0.9.1 worked most of the time, but not all of the time.
          Thanks to Ken Geis (among others) for reporting this bug.

        * "Read message in new window" works again.  Thanks to Steven Ellis
          for reporting this bug.

        * Fixed small memory leak in the rule manager module.

        * The line count column in the article list wasn't resizable, which
          was a problem for binary groups where the # of lines could be in
          the 7 digit range.  Thanks to Rick Cosby for suggesting this.

        * The "Path:" date in posted messages was being built incorrectly.
          Thanks to Rune Kristian Viken for reporting this bug.

        * GUI freeze when applying changes to the articlelist from the
          preferences fixed.

        * GUI freeze on startup bug fixed.  Thanks to Christopher
          Lambin and Robert at freeserve for helping track down these
          problems.

        * .newsrc export bug fixed.

        * Fixed bug in the From: header parsing that didn't always parse
          old-style email addresses as well as it could.  Thanks to robert
          at freeserve for reporting this bug.


Pan 0.9.1  (Oct 20, 2000)

    NEW FEATURES

        * Added "Expand All Threads" and "Collapse All Threads" buttons

    UPDATES

        * Updated British, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German,
          Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Slovenian, Swedish, Spanish,
          Turkish, and Ukranian translations.

        * Complete rewrite of the Bozo filter.

        * More efficient downloading of article bodies.

        * Better memory management in the newsrc module.

        * Rule matching improved.

        * Slightly faster startup and loading of groups.

    BUG FIXES

        * Many i18n display problems fixed.  Thanks to Robert Brady,
          Kjartan Maraas, and Tov Are Jacobsen for this.

        * Crash when saving new rules fixed.

        * Crash from Post window when selecting Message->New fixed.

        * Crash when following-up an article in certain circumstances
          fixed.  Thanks to Jeroen Bron for reporting this bug.

        * Crash when adding articles to a group under a strange set of
          circumstances fixed.

        * Small problem with "Catch Up" fixed.

        * "Requeue" in the Task Manager no longer lets you requeue tasks
          that are already running.  Thanks to Mark Hinkle for reporting
          this bug.

        * Small quoted-printable decoding bug fixed.  Thanks to Jan
          Schaumann for reporting this bug.

        * The ``apply rule to incoming articles'' setting was being ignored
          in Pan 0.9.0, causing all rules to be applied to incoming articles.
          Thanks to cav and Jim Henderson for reporting this bug.

Pan 0.9  (Oct 11, 2000)

    NEW FEATURES

        * Added "mute quoted text" option.

    UPDATES

        * Handles servers with lots of groups better, both in startup time
          and in memory footprint.

    BUG FIXES

        * Crash when downloading flagged headers fixed.

        * Fixed pthread contention problem in the article list.

