ANN: Pan 0.10.0.90 "More Sugar"

[Charles Kerr <charles rebelbase com>]

Pan 0.10.0.90, "More Sugar", 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.

About 0.10.0.90

        The improbable version number is to indicate that this is a beta
        between 0.10.0 and 0.10.1, without confusing RPM with sane,
        human-readable phrases like "beta".  Better solutions are welcomed. :)

Changes between 0.10.0 and 0.10.0.90

    NEW FEATURES

        * Added Profiles manager for managing posting/mailing 
          email, signature, etc. for different groups.

        * The search field above the group and article lists are now
          comboboxes that remember earlier search fields.
          Thanks to Adam Nevins for suggesting this.

        * Finally added support for writing posts with an external editor.
          Thanks to Sylpheed for this.

        * Added the ability to sort by read state (new, unread,
          number of new replies, etc) and by action state (flagged,
          queued, etc).  Thanks to David Watson and Sapient Fridge
          for suggesting this.

        * Can now toggle between a normal font and a monospace font
          in the article body pane.  Thanks to KNode for this.

        * Added the ability to toggle the visibility of any
          of the three main panes.

        * Added an option to shorten names in the group pane; ie,
          "comp.graphics.apps.gimp" can be shortened to "c.g.a.gimp".

    UPDATES

        * The "Save Article" and "Save Attachments" dialogs have been
          merged into a single dialog.

        * The menu has been rearranged to have more sensible feature
          groupings.

        * Nicer article navigation.

        * Small improvements in Pan's configure script.

        * When Following up an article, the focus in the composer window
          is set to the message box, rather than being hidden wherever the
          default was.  Thanks to Cameron Kerr for suggesting this.

        * "Stable" sorting in the thread pane added back into Pan,
          so sorting in one column, then another, effectively gives
          a two-key sort.

    BUG FIXES

        * Fixed three different crashing bugs that occurred when torturing
          the article threads.

        * Some headers were not being saved for pending articles in
          the pan.sendlater folder.  This caused problems when trying
          to post offline.  Thanks to T'aZ, Frank Van Damme, and lots
          of other people for reporting this bug.

        * Fixes an i18n charset problem in 0.10.0.  Thanks to Jeffrey
          Stedfast for reporting this big.

        * Fixes xml decoding bug.  Thanks to Tõivo Leedjärv for reporting
          this bug and providing a patch.

        * Fixed annoying space reading bug that caused short articles
          to be scrolled offscreen, then back on again, before going
          to the next article.

        * Fix small bug that didn't let the text pane's font size to
          be changed correctly if gtkhtml was being used.  Thanks to
          David Watson for reporting this bug.

        * Header encoding Pan/GMime bug fixed.  Thanks to Christian
          Lohmaier for reporting this bug and Jeffrey Stedfast for
          fixing it in GMime.

        * pan/text.c (text_create): fix problem with changing the background
          color of the gtkhtml pane.  Thanks to Tõivo Leedjärv for providing
          this fix.

        * Hitting "show all headers" didn't actually show *all* headers,
          just more headers.  Thanks to Christian Lohmaier for reporting
          this bug.

        * In the article toolbar filter, switching between Subject and
          Author didn't cause the articles to be re-filtered.

        * Tab Damage errors in 0.10.0 fixed.

        * Small memory leaks fixed.