ANN: Pan 0.10.0 "You hear in the distance the chirping of a song bird" Released

[Charles Kerr <charles rebelbase com>]

Pan 0.10.0 "You hear in the distance the chirping of a song bird." 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, 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.

Changes between 0.9.7 and 0.10.0

    NEW FEATURES

        * A new Filter tool, which can be used as triggers for the Rule
          tool or to filters articles in the article thread view.

        * A complete rewrite of the Rules tool, including integration of
          the bozo tool and a new spam filter.
 
        * A prettier and easier to use look-and-feel when navigating
          and reading articles.

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

        * 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 charset support when posting messages.  Thanks to
          Volodymyr M. Lisivka for this patch.

        * 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.

        * Show attached images even if the mime header "content-disposition"
          isn't set to "inline" because it's good odds the user meant to
          inline it anyway. :)

    BUG FIXES

        * Fixes crash that occurred when parsing improperly-constructed
          mime messages.  Thanks to Frank van Damme for reporting this bug.

        * 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.

        * Follow-Ups to messages with attachments weren't being shown
          in the thread pane.  Thanks to Jed Baer for reporting this bug.

        * Smaller bugfixes and sanity checks.