Release notes
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Version:	0.82
Authors:	Constantin Szallies & Erik Dðrnenburg
E-Mail:	alexandra-info@object-factory.com
Homepage:	http://www.object-factory.com/Alexandra

IMPORTANT NOTES

You need an NNTP server to use Alexandra. Flatfile support is neither included nor planned. Alexandra makes use of a NOV database and the relevant command extensions to NNTP. If access seems slow ask your news administrator to install a NOV database and/or read the section titled `Performance Tuning' in the online-help.

If you plan to compile Alexandra yourself make sure that you have installed MiscKit version 1.6.1 or higher. Alexandra should compile with any NEXTSTEP Developer release 3.x; it is known to compile with release 3.3.

HISTORY

Changes in 0.82

· UUdecoding
· Service to open news URLs from other Applications (OmniWeb, Netsurfer etc.)
 
Changes in 0.81

·	Authentication (AUTHINFO USER/PASS only)
·	New mode for newgroups list: `Groups with articles'
·	Catch Up button does `Catch Up to selection' when clicked first and `Catch Up' all when clicked again
·	Automatically created From Header can be confirmed/edited and saved into Defaults
·	Check for new news on activation and periodically
·	Body rewrapping and signature detection work outside newspaper mode
·	Inspector panel for all headers
·	Custom keybindings in Compose window

Changes in 0.8

·	`New News' command
·	The author's name is displayed after the subject
·	The articles size is indicated by the size of a dot
·	Automatic reconnect to NNTP server after a timeout.
·	Change the default font size.
·	Sort the newsgroup list.
·	Kill filter (kill a thread or an author).
·	Mark all articles read even if more than one newsgroup is selected.
·	Browser view
·	Choose some headers and hide all the others.
·	Find/Find-All Panel (Find newsgroups, subjects, authors, message ids, references). Regular expressions are supported.
·	Use curser up/down to go to the previous/next article
·	Use curser right/left to mark all articles in the current selected thread as read and go to the next/previous unread article.
·	Use Emacs keybindings in the Compose window.
·	Preferences Panel

Changes in 0.7

·	Multi NNTP server support - open more then one server at a time
·	`Slow Link' feature; use this if you read news via a slow modem
·	Hide article header
·	Default database support (see below)
·	Save window position and size
·	Conforms to RFC 1036
·	A couple small changes

Changes in 0.6

·	NEWGROUPS command
·	You can now sort the newsgroup list (just control - drag)
·	Add optional headers 
·	Save article
·	Print article (needs improvement)
·	Cancel article
·	NNTP server specific newsrc file (.<nntpserver>.newsrc)
·	Forward article by mail
·	Reply by mail
·	Go to next/previous article
·	fgrep newsgroup names
·	Show all replies to an article (Nice feature -- threading would be nicer of course)

Features of version 0.5 (first public version)

·	All the basic stuff	
·  ISO 8859-1 coding support (default content type)

KNOWN PROBLEMS

If you you are connected to the standard NNTP server (not INN) version 1.5.11 do not use the `New Groups' command.