News Archives

Older news archives are collected by release period.

• News from the 0.7.x releases
  Biggest change: Concurrent downloads.
  Anything Amusing?: you can find the release date of Pan 0.7.6 to calculate how far out-of-date the Debian "stable" version is. (Two years, two months, and counting.)
• News from the 0.8.x releases
  Biggest change: the Task Manager, Rules tool, offline posting, .newsrc
  Anything Amusing?: The beginning of the RIAA-Pan lawsuit, SuperPimpSoft joins the Amazon single-click boycott, SuperPimpSoft Receives $8.37 in 29th Round of Funding.
• News from the 0.9.x releases
  Biggest change: Inline pictures, mime support
  Anything Amusing?: Napster buys SuperPimpSoft, RIAA Wins Pan Lawsuit, Napster Cancels Pan, and the unfortunate release of Pan 0.9.3, the buggiest Pan ever.
• News from the 0.10.x releases
  Biggest change: Posting profiles, external editor,
  Anything Amusing?: Andrew Orlowski Can Kiss My Ass.
• News from the 0.11.x releases
  Biggest change: Most crashes stopped around 0.11.2
  Anything Amusing?: Pan Name Change to KAgent, Pan on the Palm Pilot.
• News from the 0.12.x releases
  Biggest change: Port from Gnome 1.4 to GTK 2
  Anything Amusing?: Nah.
• News from the 0.10x releases
  Biggest change: Weekly beta versions of a full Pan redesign and rewrite in C++
  Anything Amusing?: Yep.