ANN: Pan 0.11.2 "Ansluter till den svenska konspirationen"

[Charles Kerr <charles rebelbase com>]

Pan 0.11.2, "Ansluter till den svenska konspirationen", 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 0.11.2

        Over thirty bugs have been fixed in the stable branch since 0.11.1. 
        During that time there were also five betas to weed out any new bugs. 
        In addition 0.11.2 is also faster, uses less memory, and adds many 
        small improvements to the user interface.

Changes Since 0.11.1

    NEW FEATURES

        * The thread pane now looks like many GUI mail clients in that it
          boldfaces articles with new replies and greys out read articles
          to show which articles are new, unread, and old.  Also, when a
          thread is collapsed, the subject column will tell how many new
          replies are in the collapsed thread.  Thanks to Jed Baer,
          Douglas Bollinger, and Andreas Ollinger for working these ideas
          through to consensus on the pan-users mailing list.

        * Added support for Microsoft Secure Password Authentication ("SPA")
          so that Pan will work with Microsoft NNTP servers.  Thanks to the
          Samba team for writing the SPA authentication code and to
          Marc Prud'hommeaux for plugging it into Pan!

        * Added the ability to specify, on a per-Profile basis, the
          domain name to be used in the Message-Id header in new posts.
          This can be used to point to your proper domain or just
          for privacy's sake.

        * Added the option to have all threads expanded by default.
          Thanks to Bas Mevissen for submitting a patch for this
          feature.

        * Pan now has a Greek translation!
          Thanks to Simos Xenitellis for contributing this.

    UPDATES

        * The Preferences and Filter Editor dialogs now fit on 800x600 screens.

        * We now support POSIX extended regular expression syntax,
          giving us support for operators like '?'.  Thanks to
          Chris Petersen for suggesting this.

        * Better error reporting on disk I/O errors
          (full disk, permissions errors, etc.)

        * Slightly faster download and display of articles.

        * The "Directory" field in the "Save As" dialog now handles
          ~ correctly as shorthand for the users' home directory.

    BUG FIXES

        * Fixed huge 0.11.1 memory leak.

        * Fixed crash that could sometimes occur when cancelling tasks or
          going offline from the Task Manager.

        * Fixed crash when overriding the system defaults for article
          foreground and background colors. This crash seems to be related
          to specific GTK themes. Thanks to T'Az and Krishna Naik for reporting
          this problem.

        * Fixed crash that occurred when incomplete identities were entered
          in the Profile Editor.  Incomplete profiles can no longer be entered.
          Thanks to nhodge1 for reporting this bug. (67311)

        * Fixed bug that caused Pan to crash when an invalid rules xml file
          was read.  Thanks to Roger Gregory for reporting this bug.  (67657)

        * Fixed crash that seemed to happen for no reason when reading new
          articles.

        * Fixed bug that caused Pan to crash when reading an article.

        * Fixed thread safety bug in the article cache.

        * Fixed thread safety bug in the Task Manager backend.  Thanks
          very much to Christian Suder for reporting this bug.

        * Fixed 0.10.0.93 bug that caused a GUI lockup under arcane
          circumstances when reading articles.

        * Fixed a couple of long-standing GUI thread bugs that could corrupt
          data or lock up Pan..

        * Fixed bug that caused some attachments to be decoded incorrectly.
          Thanks to Dave at dalrun for reporting this bug.

        * Fix the "group->_article == NULL" assertion failure when
          loading a group.

        * Fixed bug that improperly hid new replies that were in
          collapsed threads.  The top-level articles should have been
          showed in boldface to indicate that the thread had new replies.

        * Fixed bug that caused the first group to be loaded during a Pan
          session to not be filtered properly.  Thanks to Douglas Bollinger,
          Dan Hensley, and others for reporting this.

        * Double-clicking a URL would open up to three browsers if the
          browser wasn't already running. Thanks to Mart van de Wege for 
          reporting this.  (68009)

        * Fixed bug that accidentally downloaded a couple of old articles
          in the "Get New Headers" command.

        * If Followup-To is set to 'poster', only send the article as an
          email.  Thanks to Christian Lohmaier for reporting this bug.

        * Fixed mistake in 0.11.1 that used "supercede" instead of "supersede"
          when superseding articles.

        * Fixed bug in importing grouplists from Pan version 0.9.6 and older.
          Thanks to Brandon McCombs for reporting this bug.

        * Fixed bug that made it appear that, when retrying a download
          after the first try failed or the user went offline, all the
          articles in the task needed to be re-downloaded.  Pan no longer
          looks like it's re-downloading articles it already has.

        * Fixed gmime build errors that occurred on platforms that need
          to include alloca.h.  Thanks to Alan Young for reporting this.

        * Fixed 0.10.0.93 bug that caused crossposts to not be marked
          as read when a single article or entire group is marked as
          read.

        * Fixed 0.10.0.93 memory leak that didn't free all article
          information on duplicate or user-deleted articles.

        * Fixed long-standing bug that required two left-clicks,
          rather than the typical one left-click, to pop down the
          context menu in the article pane.  Thanks to Devin Carraway
          for reporting this bug. (#69170)

        * Fixed a long-standing NNTP server connection corruption bug.

        * Now handles '~' in the TMPDIR environmental variable.
          Thanks to Jukka Salmi for suggesting this change.