MicroPlanet Gravity 2.1
Release Notes

• A new scoring system has been added for assigning relevance values to article headers. Essentially, you indicate keywords that add or lower the score for each article header. These scores can in turn be manipulated by rules. When you add a score entry, you have the options to specify whether the phrase is a wildcard, regular expression or a plain text phrase. You can indicate whether the phrase can appear in the From header, Subject header, or both. Finally, you can indicate whether the phrase has to appear as a whole word, or whether it can appear as a part of a word.
• Add a score for the current group by hitting the ‘S’ key.
• In addition to specifying scores for individual groups, you can specify scores for wildcard expressions such as “alt.binaries.*”
• A new column has been added to the thread pane – Score. You can sort by score.
• Threads can be sorted by their score. In other words, you can sort the most important threads to the top and the least important to the bottom of the list. The thread score value is based on the article with the highest score within the thread.
• A new command has been added to allow immediate re-scoring of the current group.
• Score ranges can have associated background colors. Generally, you will want to use “Define Custom Colors” in the color selection dialog to achieve good results.

• There is a new rule condition that allows the rule to examine the score.
• There is a new rule action to adjust the score of an article.
• You can specify that a rule applies to newsgroups that match a wildcard expression (alt.binaries.* for example)
• You can control the order that rules are evaluated by moving them up and down within the main rules dialog.
• When you create a Rule with the Alert action, the action indicates the group of the matching article.
• There is now a “Replace rules with same name” option for Importing rules.
• Rule conditions can be copied from another rule by using the “Insert From…” button on the rule condition page.

• The directory bar now functions as a most recently used list of directories that you have viewed. Each time you open a directory for viewing, it appears at the top of the list.
• A new toolbar button has been added to allow easy filing using a most recently moved-to directory list. This list is similar to the Move To toolbar button in Microsoft Outlook.
• In the thumbnail view, positioning the mouse over an image that Gravity decoded will cause a tool tip (bubble help) to pop up with the subject of the article.
• In the Image Gallery, when the display adjusts its size or position to accommodate an image, the mouse cursor is automatically repositioned so that it is over the button that was clicked (e.g. Next).
• An option has been added to the Image Gallery that allows the user to turn off automatic viewing even when the user hits the ‘v’ key in Gravity.
• The Image Gallery now supports drag and drop. When you use the Move To button, Gravity will keep track of the image’s From, Subject, and so forth. If you drag the file out of Gravity and into Explorer or the desktop, then Gravity removes the file from its internal description database.
• The Image Gallery now has Waiting and Done indicators in the status bar which correspond to what is in the Image Factory.
• The Image Gallery has a progress bar in the status bar that shows the download progress of the current image being fetched for display.
• The Image Gallery has a Protect command that marks an Image as read only (this read only status is not implemented using the file system read only attribute).
• The Image Gallery now provides a command for launching the Image Factory (Ctrl-I).
• The Image Gallery now has popup menus.

• Filter definitions now allow the specification of the sort order.
• Each newsgroup can have its own default view filter.
• A button has been added to the filter bar for setting the current filter to the default for the group you are viewing.

• Articles with multiple attachments generate multiple Result window items.
• The Delete From Disk command removes the deleted item’s thumbnail if one exists.
• A Priority View (Ctrl+Shift+V) command has been added to allow you to automatically insert an article into the top of the queued jobs in the Image Factory. If you invoke the command on an article that is already queued up, that article is moved to the top of the queue.

• A new server property setting has been added “Verify local headers when retrieving new header,” which can be disabled to speed the retrieval of headers. If your purging options are set aggressively and headers are removed prior to when they would be removed at the server, then this is a good option.
• A "Verify Local Headers" command has been added to the Newsgroup pane context menu to allow manual checking for expired articles.
• A new server property, “Retrieve headers for group automatically after subscribe,” has been added.
• Secure Password Authentication (SPA) is now supported for connecting to servers such as netnews.msn.com.
• Dialup Networking passwords are now encrypted when stored in the registry.
• A /socket command line option has been added that causes Gravity to log the communication between itself and the news server. The files are named GRAVXXXX.TRC and are created in the Gravity program directory.

• Articles with the same subject and articles that have a common ancestor (based on references) now appear as one tree within the thread display.
• When sorted by thread, the threads themselves can be sorted by score.
• The background color can be set for score ranges.

• A new command “Mute Quoted Text”, has been added to allow quoted text to be toggled on and off within the article display. This is particularly helpful if you are following a thread and have already read the quoted material.
• Paging down within the article pane (using the Space key) maintains a couple of lines of text from the previous page.

• Top, bottom, left, and right margins can be set.
• The print font and color can be controlled.
• Full headers can be explicitly included or omitted for each article.

• Gravity now automatically removes signatures that are in the standard format (dash dash space carriage return) from replies and followups.

• A new tab has been added to the Global options that allows Gravity to automatically check the MicroPlanet web site for newer versions of Gravity.  By default, the software will check every 7 days.  The number of days between checks can be adjusted or the check can be disabled altogether.  When a new version is found, Gravity displays a notification that describes the new version.

• The list of servers on the Server menu is kept sorted.
• Numerous usability requests were implemented.

• Can display common formats such as GIF, JPEG, BMP, etc...
• Allows the images to be viewed as thumbnails. The thumbnail size can be specified.
• Has a customizable toolbar.
• Has a directory bar that the user can use to see images in the various decode output directories.
• A Session button that allows the user to restrict the view to the Images that have been decoded in the current session.
• First, Last, Previous, and Next Navigation.
• Enlarge and Reduce images.
• A command to set the viewed image as the Windows desktop wallpaper.
• A command to spawn a new window with the current image.
• Commands to move and delete images.
• Slideshow capabilitities. The user can view a slideshow of all images, or tagged images.
• Images can be sorted on various criteria.
• The image window automatically sizes according to the image size.

• The dialog can be sized so that long group names are easily visible. The orientation of the available and selected groups is improved.
• Multiple items in the Selected Groups pane can be edited at once.
• Groups can be sampled rather than subscribed. Sampled groups are removed at the end of the session or when the user switches to another news server..

• Full Name
• Email Address
• Decode Directory
• Custom Headers

Custom Headers

• Remove decoded items on exit. This is great if you are more into viewing the images than archiving them.
• Output 4DOS compatible description files.
• Use the new Image Gallery to view binaries.