Pan Newsreader

The Pan newsreader project is active again making new releases. The 0.9x releases are a series of unstable betas of a C++ rewrite of Pan that adds multiserver and nzb support, reduces memory use by over two thirds, can cut the time to download new headers by over two thirds, and slashes the time it takes to load headers from disk by almost 90%. View the website for more.

Pan Website

Pan 0.14.2 fixes a configuration corruption bug in 0.14.1, which was
released a few days ago.

Pan 0.14.1 added faster article loading/saving/threading/sorting, better
scorefile integration, and more than fifty other bugfixes, usability
improvements,
and portability changes. See the full list of changes on the Pan Homepage.

A new stable version of the Pan newsreader 0.14.0 - "I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!" has been released.
0.14.0 supports slrn and XNews-style scorefiles. Seven betas were released to
smooth out Pan's scorefile integration and to shake out any scorefile bugs.
This shook out quite a few bugs from the 0.13 series as well...

This release contains a huge list of bugfixes, a few big speedups, and a handful of usability improvements.

There have been four betas since the last stable release to shake out any new bugs caused by all these changes.

Pan Homepage/Changelog

Pan 0.13.2.91, "A Cat Named Noburu Wataya", is
out.
Release notes within.

This new stable release adds Custom Filters back to the header pane. It also fixes some charset & memory bugfixes, some minor new features, and refreshed dialogs for better adherence to the the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.

Release Notes

This version of Pan adds a smaller memory footprint, improved i18n, the ability to restore tasks that were queued when your last Pan session ended, support for random signatures a la `fortune', a new toolbar, optional spellchecking, and many bugfixes. There have also been five beta releases to shake out any new bugs.

0.12.1 "The din of other people"
0.12.91 "By the surly beard of Mrifk, Grignr kneels to no man!"

0.12.1 is a stable bugfix release, addressing the most common
issues reported against 0.12.0. Most fixes are related to i18n,
so non-English users will want to upgrade to this release.

0.12.90 is an unstable beta release that starts with 0.12.1,
restores Pan's old single-click filtering buttons, then adds
a toolbar,
optional spellchecking,
the ability to restore tasks from the previous session --
and maybe a few bugs. :)

This is the first non-beta release in two months. In that time Pan has been ported to gtk2, added font and charset handling in reading and posting, improved offline reading, added many usability improvements, dropped most library prerequisites, about 15 bugs from the last stable release, and had five beta releases to shake out any new bugs.

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This is the second beta of 0.12.0, which is a port of Pan 0.11.3
to gtk2. The port adds better charset/internationalization support,
fewer library dependencies than 0.11.3, usability improvements,
and bugfixes.

This is mostly a stability release. It fixes about twenty-five bugs
that were present in 0.11.2, and adds few new features, with the
notable exception of yEnc support.

This is a port of Pan to gtk2.
The gtk1 (0.11.2.9x) and gtk2 (0.11.9x) branches of Pan are being developed in parallel,
so they share bugfixes and most features. This gtk2 branch does add some new features though..........

This version fixes a pair of yEnc bugs. It also adds a button to jump back to the previous read article, recognition of non-standard quote prefix characters, support for articles that specify x-uuencode encoding in mime headers, and small usability improvements.

Charles Kerr writes:
Pan 0.12.0 is the gtk+ 2.0 port of Pan which is being developed in parallel with 0.11.3, which is a bugfix release. All of 0.11.3's bugfixes are folded into 0.12, but it adds some neat new graphics and finally adds support for posting and reading non-Latin charset languages.

0.12.0 is coming along quickly and will have a public beta next week. Here's a screenshot taken earlier today to show off the new i18n support.

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.