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July 23, 2006 - Pan 0.104: "YES, OK! I *AM* COMMUNIST SPICE!!! NOW THAT YOU KNOW, I AM VERY TICKLE YOU AND THEN YOU ARE DIE!!!"
This is weekly beta #15 of a full Pan redesign and rewrite in C++. The rewrite adds multiserver and nzb support, cuts alt.binaries' memory overhead by more than two-thirds, slashes the time to load headers from disk by 90%, and has many other improvements, all in half the lines of source code.
This release adds the last must-have 1.0 features, so I suppose it could be considered 1.0 RC 1. Please download it and test it to pieces. :)
Most of the changes in these weekly releases come from user feedback. If you find a bug or something that could be better, let us know.
| New | |
| Christophe | Menu to specify character encoding for articles' bodies. |
| Brad Sims | Added option to toggle 0.103's 'size to fit' feature. (#347268) |
| Phil Wlazlo | Instead of continuing to download, pop up a warning message and go offline when saving attachments and the disk is full. (#347654) |
| Tweaks | |
| Charles | Lower memory overhead (again!) in the group and header panes. |
| Kelly Martin | The 'save' dialog's default action is now 'save', not 'cancel'. |
| Sam Morris | By default, store the scorefile in ~/.pan2 rather than ~/News. (#347713) |
| Christophe | Send keepalive messages to prevent idle connections from closing. (#342492) |
| Douglas Bollinger | Revived 0.14 feature: subjects in the header pane show the number of hidden, unread children. (#347036) |
| Steve Welch | Revived 0.14 feature: "delete group's articles". (#346986) |
| Artur Jachacy | Revived 0.14 feature: header pane 'wraparound'. (#347758) |
| Artur Jachacy | Revived 0.14 feature: toggled header pane threading on/off. (#348188) |
| Bug Fixes | |
| Alen Williams | Fixed crash when reordering tasks via the task pane. (#347272) |
| Valgrind | Fixed 0.103 memory leak when reading articles. |
| Charles | Fixed 0.102 code that significantly slowed down group loading. (#347275) |
| Christian Lohmaier | Fixed 0.100 build error with gcc 3.2.3. |
| Richard Gilbert | Fixed ETA bug in the task pane. (#347007) |
| S. Mazzola | Don't "jump" in the header pane when getting new articles. (#347862) |
July 9, 2006 - Pan 0.103: "Eldarfaroth"
This is weekly beta #14 of a full Pan redesign and rewrite in C++. The rewrite adds multiserver and nzb support, cuts alt.binaries' memory overhead by more than two-thirds, slashes the time to load headers from disk by 90%, and has many other improvements, all in half the lines of source code.
Most of the changes in these weekly releases come from user feedback. If you find a bug or something that could be better, let us know.
More details of the changes in this release can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/ndgfm
| New | |
| Darren Albers | Scale-to-fit of oversized images a la firefox. (#346156) |
| Various | The old 0.14.x "save-as..." dialog is back by popular demand. |
| Tweaks | |
| Charles | When loading an empty group, pop up the 'download headers' dialog, defaulting to "last 7 days'. |
| Jeff Berman | When loading a group, give keyboard focus to the header pane. (#342975) |
| Jeff Berman | Remember between sessions if the body pane's headers expander was expanded. (#342976) |
| Carl Soderstrom | 'Save' tasks now show their target directory in the task manager. (#106763) |
| Charles | Comply with the Gnome HiG by having a View->Toolbar checkbox to toggle the toolbar on/off. (#110953) |
| Bug Fixes | |
| Douglas Bollinger | "Show matching articles' threads" didn't work. (#346408) |
| Artur Jachacy | Some headers were displayed wrong when Pan was confused by their encoding. (#346426) |
| Soren Boll Overgaard | Non-ascii characters were sometimes not handled correctly. (#337317) |
| Artur Jachacy | Bracketed URLs were parsed incorrectly. (#346543) |
| Jeff Berman | The header pane wasn't properly repositioned after deleting articles. (#342985) |
| Charles | Fixed minor 0.101 bug in highlighting bold/italic/underlined text. (#346718) |
| Duncan | Fixed selection 'jumping' when changing filters. |
| Soren Boll Overgaard | The new scoring rule dialog didn't behave nicely. (#338727) |
| K. Haley | Fixed group description warnings on Windows. (#346604) |
July 1, 2006 - Pan 0.102: "From the Years of Neon Through Iodine"
This is weekly beta #13 of a full Pan redesign and rewrite in C++. The rewrite adds multiserver and nzb support, cuts alt.binaries' memory overhead by more than two-thirds, slashes the time to load headers from disk by 90%, and has many other improvements, all in half the lines of source code.
Most of the changes in these weekly releases come from user feedback. If you find a bug or something that could be better, let us know.
| New | |
| Frederic Bezies | Let users set charsets when posting articles. (#345330) |
| F. Ingelrest | Added ETA, bytes remaining to task window. (#346339) |
| Tweaks | |
| Jeff Berman | Remember size of task and event windows. (#345628) |
| Mike Corbett | Improved header pane sorting for a.b.m.divx. (#346069) |
| Bug Fixes | |
| K. Haley | Data files were being opened in the wrong mode under Windows. (#345941) |
| Bigfoot | Fixed 0.101 bug that broke handling of URLs clicked on in the body pane. (#345867) |
| Alen Williams | Fixed crash when downloading articles with invalid `bytes' fields. (#343257) |
| Artur Jachacy | Fixed utf8 string corruption and crash when sorting by subject in some groups. (#345784) |
| Martin Zuziak | "Edit Preferences" always jumped to the group pane when in tabbed mode. (#342517) |
June 24, 2006 - Pan 0.101: "A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist."
This is weekly beta #12 of a full Pan redesign and rewrite in C++. The rewrite adds multiserver and nzb support, cuts alt.binaries' memory overhead by more than two-thirds, slashes the time to load headers from disk by 90%, and has many other improvements... all in half the lines of source code.
Most of the changes in these weekly releases come from user feedback. If you find a bug or something that could be better, let us know.
| New | |
| ERACC | Added text file, text, and script/command sigfile support. (#345555) |
| Mike Dee | Extra headers for outgoing posts can now be added per-posting profile. |
| Frank Olieu | Added a toggle to enable/disable spellchecking in the posting window. |
| Tweaks | |
| Mike Dee | Added 'edit posting profiles' to the main Edit menu. |
| Kelsey Bjarnason | Better handling of *bold*, /italic/, and _underlined_ text markup. (#345705) |
| Jeff Berman | When opening the event window, sort its list to show the latest events. (#345630) |
| Bug Fixes | |
| Charles | Multipart yEnc pictures are now displayed properly. |
| Walt | Multiple attachments in a single article weren't always displayed. (#345450) |
| Artur Jachacy | 'rot13 selected text' didn't work. (#342149) |
| Charles | Fixed fencepost error in scoring articles by Lines or Bytes. |
| Stijn Declercq | Custom fonts in the group pane weren't applied on startup. |
| Christophe Guisquet | More Win2K fixes in the networking code. |
| Yanko Kaneti | Close the 'about' dialog gracefully in gtk 2.9. (#345292) |
| Valgrind | About a dozen minor memory leaks fixed. |