ANN: Pan 0.9.90 "I Palindrome I" Released

[Charles Kerr <charles rebelbase com>]

Pan 0.9.90 "I Palindrome I" has been released.
It can be found at http://pan.rebelbase.com/.
 
What is Pan?

        Pan is a newsreader, loosely based on Agent and Gravity, which
        attempts to be pleasant to use for new and advanced users alike.
        It has all the typical features found in newsreaders and also
        supports offline newsreading, article filtering, sophisticated
        filtering, multiple connections, and a number of extra features
        for power users and alt.binaries fans.

        It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the
        Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations.  See
        http://pan.rebelbase.com/features.html for the rest of the
        sales pitch.

About 0.9.90

        This beta of Pan 0.10.0 is for users wanting to test new
        features and provide feedback, bug reports, and suggestions.
        Users wanting only to read news should use Pan 0.9.7 for now.

        A revision number of >= 90 is used to flag this release as a beta
        without confusing RPM with a name like "0.10.0-pre1".

        Although this version has some snappy new features and a prettier
        look and feel, the best news by far is that we have two new members
        on the Pan team, Adam Huffman and Christophe Lambin!  Adam has been
        tracking down sneaky bugs and working on documentation, and Christophe
        has been coding up a storm!

What's New in 0.9.90

    NEW FEATURES

        * A complete rewrite of the Rules tool, including integration of
          the bozo tool, better i18n, and replacing the old "rule criteria"
          with user-defined filters that can also be used to filter articles
          in the thread view.

        * "Space Reading" has finally been added to gtkhtml builds of Pan,
          as has Sylpheed's "smooth scrolling" feature.

        * New navigation shortcuts to jump to the next/previous thread.

        * Users can now tell Pan which browser to open web links with.

        * Users can now disable wrapping the body of a message that they're
          replying to.  Thanks to Mystic Zen Biker Twigboy for suggesting
          this feature.

    UPDATES

        * Better use of colors, fonts, and icons to give visual cues on which
          articles are new or unread, or have new or unread replies, etc.

        * Better threading of articles where the parent of a followup's
          message isn't available but one of its ancestors is.
 
        * Slightly better memory management of strings that tend to occur
          multiple times (article subjects, author names, and so forth)

        * Turned the "flush cached articles" option off by default for new
          users.  I think now that this is a better default because too many
          people seem to be confused on why Pan can't work offline. :)

        * If for some reason the user-defined temp directory can't be
          used, we fall back to $TMPDIR, and then just /tmp.

        * The attribution string for replying to articles can now use "%n"
          to give the name of the original article's author without its
          email address.

    BUG FIXES

        * Fixed a 0.9.7 error that incorrectly counted the number of unread
          articles in a group.

        * Fixed the frequently-reported '1z' bug that caused Pan 0.9.7 to crash
          when switching back and forth between zoomed and unzoomed view.

        * Fixed problem that caused the slider to disappear under the panes.
          Thanks to Owen Taylor for reporting this bug & submitting a patch.

        * Under certain conditions, Pan could erroneously decide that there's
          no new content in a message and refuse to let the user post it.
          Thanks to  Adrian von Bidder for reporting this problem.

        * Pan would crash when trying to import an empty .newsrc file.  Thanks
          to Shawn Lindsay for reporting this bug.

        * Fixed a bug that caused Pan to crash sometimes when rewrapping text.

        * If the cached articles directory didn't exist and couldn't be created
          at runtime, Pan would crash.

        * Small bugfixes in the preferences dialog.

        * Small memory leaks fixed.