Proceeds from the tip jar go to Pan's programmers.)
What is Pan?
Pan is a Usenet newsreader that's good at both text and binaries. It supports offline reading, scoring and killfiles, yEnc, NZB, binary uploading, PGP handling, multiserver, and secure connections. It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations. It runs on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, Mac OS X, and Windows.
The 2006 redesign and rewrite of Pan has made Pan significantly faster, cut its memory footprint by 85% in large newsgroups, and added NZB and multiserver support. See its announcement for details.
June 30, 2012 - Pan 0.139: "Sexual Chocolate"
ChangeLog | Bug Tickets | Source | BinariesThis release is an intermediate release fixing some minor bugs before the debian freeze. Enjoy! Everybody is - as always - encouraged to upgrade.
June 14, 2012 - Pan 0.138: "Der Gerät"
ChangeLog | Bug Tickets | Source | BinariesThis is another bugfix and feature enhancement release that contains certain UI improvements. Everybody using older versions of Pan is encouraged to upgrade. Please see the Bug Tickets or ChangeLog for details.
May 1, 2012 - Pan 0.137: "The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour"
ChangeLog | Bug Tickets | Source | BinariesThis is a bugfix release for certain issues regarding race conditions with thread handling, which resulted in random errors and segmentation faults. Everybody using older versions of Pan is encouraged to upgrade. There have been some minor UI enhancements, too. Please see the Bug Tickets or ChangeLog for details.
April 8, 2012 - Pan 0.136: "Far too busy being delicious..."
ChangeLog | Source | BinariesThis release introduces a plethora of bugfixes and improvements, everybody using older versions of Pan is encouraged to upgrade. This version supports binary uploading, TLS (SSL) connections, PGP handling and other nice features.
June 5, 2011 - Pan 0.135: "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea"
ChangeLog | Bug Tickets | Source | BinariesThis release introduces a support for creating a NZB file from the list of articles, optional support for GTK+ 3, and a number of other feature improvements and bugfixes. The code is based on the Pan bugfix & testing repository maintained by K. Haley; and it is recommended for everyone using older versions of Pan to upgrade.
February 15, 2011 - Pan 0.134: "Wait for Me"
ChangeLog | Bug Tickets | Source | BinariesThis release brings a large number of feature improvements and bugfixes that have accumulated over the last 30 months of release hiatus. The code is based on the Pan bugfix & testing repository maintained by K. Haley and it is recommended for everyone using older versions of Pan to upgrade.
August 1, 2008 - Pan 0.133: "House of Butterflies"
Release notes | Bug Tickets | Source | BinariesThis release is recommended for everyone using the rewrite betas: it contains an important security fix and build failures on modern compilers, as well as a handful of usability issues.
August 1, 2007 - Pan 0.132: "Waxed in Black"
Release notes | Bug Tickets | Source | BinariesThis release is recommended for everyone using the rewrite betas: it fixes some crashes, memory leaks, and attachment corruption and it speeds up loading and saving newsgroup headers on disk.
May 26, 2007 - Pan 0.131: "Ghosts: First Variation"
Release notes | Bug Tickets | Source | BinariesThis release is recommended for everyone using the rewrite betas: it fixes some crashes, memory leaks, and attachment corruption and it speeds up loading and saving newsgroup headers on disk.
May 19, 2007 - Pan 0.130: "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic"
Release notes | Bug Tickets | Source | BinariesThis release uses significantly less memory on 64-bit machines, loads and saves articles faster, and has the usual assortment of tweaks, additions, and bug fixes.
May 6, 2007 - Pan 0.129: "Benson & Hedges Moscow Gold"
Release notes | Bug Tickets | Source | BinariesThis release cheerfully inches a little closer to 1.0. A nasty 0.128 crash was fixed, and a handful of requested features have been added.
April 21, 2007 - Pan 0.128: "SR/CL: Leitmotiv: Toynbee Idea"
Release notes | Bug Tickets | Source | BinariesThis is another incremental release -- a handful of bugfixes, a little more polish, and a couple of new features.
Older News
- April 12, 2007: 0.127: "Eckythump"
- March 28, 2007: 0.126: "Demon Sweat"
- February 21, 2007: 0.125: "Potzrebie"
- February 12, 2007: 0.124: "Goblin Worlds"
- February 6, 2007: 0.123: "El Nuevo Barretto"
- February 3, 2007: 0.122: "Not Even Wrong"
- January 22, 2007: 0.121: "Dortmunder"
- January 2, 2007: 0.120: "Plate of Shrimp"
- November 10, 2006: 0.119: "Karma Hunters"
- November 2, 2006: 0.118: "Gustaf Von Musterhausen"
- October 16, 2006: 0.117: "We'll fly and we'll fall and we'll burn"
- October 10, 2006: 0.116: "Blanton's"
- September 30, 2006: 0.115: "Remember the Tip Jar"
- September 25, 2006: 0.114: "You'll Have to Go Sideways"
- September 18, 2006: 0.113 is one of Nakata's favorites"
- September 10, 2006: 0.112: "Elijah Craig"
- September 3, 2006: 0.111: "Tweedy"
- August 27, 2006: 0.110: "Beable Beable"
- August 18, 2006: 0.109: "Beable"
- August 13, 2006: 0.108: "Mama's Little Joyboy Loves Lobsters, Lobsters"
- August 8, 2006: 0.107: "Umi De No Jiatsu"
- August 2, 2006: 0.106: "Dum Maro Dum"
- July 26, 2006: 0.105: "When Churchill opened the door, it was a new car, a Chevrolet Nova."
- July 23, 2006: 0.104: "YES, OK! I *AM* COMMUNIST SPICE!!! NOW THAT YOU KNOW, I AM VERY TICKLE YOU AND THEN YOU ARE DIE!!!"
- July 9, 2006: 0.103: "Eldarfaroth"
- July 1, 2006: 0.102: "From the Years of Neon Through Iodine"
- June 24, 2006: 0.101: "A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist."
- June 18, 2006: 0.100: "Hey, I like this. Early Nothing!"
- May 28, 2006: 0.99: "Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."
- May 20, 2006: 0.98: "The plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness."
- May 14, 2006: 0.97: "Atoz and Tanda"
- May 7, 2006: 0.96: "Afghanistan Banana Stand."
- April 30, 2006: 0.95: "I feel clean now. My whole body's just a-quivering with cleanness!"
- April 23, 2006: 0.94: "Ready! Fire! Aim!"
- April 16, 2006: 0.93: "It's like living inside a bouncy castle!"
- April 10, 2006: 0.92 "I hope the demons pluck your eyes out and use them for marbles!"
- April 4, 2006: 0.91 "I'm lost. I'm drunk. I'm impure. What a life!"
- April 2, 2006: 0.90 "Sero Sed Serio"
- Jan 24, 2004: 0.14.2.91 "As She Crawled Across the Table"
- Nov 28, 2003: 0.14.2.90 "A Bouquet of Corpses"
- Aug 31, 2003: 0.14.2 "This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity."
- Aug 27, 2003: 0.14.1