Pan 0.10.0.93, "Little Leprechaun", 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 0.10.0.93
This is a big bugfix release: for once I'm unable to crash it in
heavy torture testing. Undoubtedly you'll be able to correct this
situation. :)
The improbable version number is to indicate that this is a beta
between 0.10.0 and 0.10.1, without confusing RPM with sane,
human-readable phrases like "beta".
Changes between 0.10.0.92 and 0.10.0.93
UPDATES
* Added Preferences option to toggle custom foreground/background
colors in the text pane vs. using the default gtk theme colors.
Thanks to Justin Piszcz for suggesting this.
BUG FIXES
* Fixed problems with different threads manipulating articles
concurrently. This should fix some of the bugs recently reported
which are irreproducable but all similar.
* Articles' memory management is now tied to an article refcount
of the group which owns them. This resolves the Article life
cycle issues like "what happens if a rule deletes an article that
articlelist is drawing?" and "what if an article is expired while
a person's reading it?" etc.
* Fixes bug that caused some Tasks to get stuck in an Abort state
even if they completed successfully.
* Fixed bug that caused Tasks to sometimes not get run in the queue
until another task was added to give it a bump. Thanks to
Douglas Kilpatrick for tracking down this bug.
* Fixes for creating/saving negated filter conditions. Thanks to
Jed S. Baer for reporting this bug.
* Fixed small but nasty memory corruption bug when saving attachments.
* Fixes bug that didn't disconnect correctly from the news server
when an error occurred while saving attachments.
* Show the correct linecount in the Header Pane for multipart
binaries when reposts are included in the multipart thread.
* Fix bug that caused Pan to crash when it was started in zoom mode.
Thanks to Leo Lipelis for reporting this bug.
* Fix in GMime for Debian and Solaris charsets. Thanks to
Volodymyr M. Lisivka for submitting a patch to GMime.
* Wrap excessively long email addresses in the header display
so that Pan's window doesn't strech off the screen. Thanks to
David Watson for reporting this bug.
