What is Pan?

Pan is a Usenet newsreader that's good at both text and binaries. It supports offline reading, scoring and killfiles, yEnc, NZB, and multiserver. It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations. It runs on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, Mac OS X, and Windows.

The 2006 redesign and rewrite of Pan has made Pan significantly faster, cut its memory footprint by 85% in large newsgroups, and added nzb and multiserver support. See its announcement for details.

June 5, 2011 - Pan 0.135: "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea"

This release introduces a support for creating a NZB file from the list of articles, optional support for GTK+ 3, and a number of other feature improvements and bugfixes. The code is based on the Pan bugfix & testing repository maintained by K. Haley; and it is recommended for everyone using older versions of Pan to upgrade.

February 15, 2011 - Pan 0.134: "Wait for Me"

This release brings a large number of feature improvements and bugfixes that have accumulated over the last 30 months of release hiatus. The code is based on the Pan bugfix & testing repository maintained by K. Haley and it is recommended for everyone using older versions of Pan to upgrade.

August 1, 2008 - Pan 0.133: "House of Butterflies"

This release is recommended for everyone using the rewrite betas: it contains an important security fix and build failures on modern compilers, as well as a handful of usability issues.

August 1, 2007 - Pan 0.132: "Waxed in Black"

This release is recommended for everyone using the rewrite betas: it fixes some crashes, memory leaks, and attachment corruption and it speeds up loading and saving newsgroup headers on disk.

May 26, 2007 - Pan 0.131: "Ghosts: First Variation"

This release is recommended for everyone using the rewrite betas: it fixes some crashes, memory leaks, and attachment corruption and it speeds up loading and saving newsgroup headers on disk.

May 19, 2007 - Pan 0.130: "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic"

This release uses significantly less memory on 64-bit machines, loads and saves articles faster, and has the usual assortment of tweaks, additions, and bug fixes.

May 6, 2007 - Pan 0.129: "Benson & Hedges Moscow Gold"

This release cheerfully inches a little closer to 1.0. A nasty 0.128 crash was fixed, and a handful of requested features have been added.

April 21, 2007 - Pan 0.128: "SR/CL: Leitmotiv: Toynbee Idea"

This is another incremental release -- a handful of bugfixes, a little more polish, and a couple of new features.

Older News

• April 12, 2007: 0.127: "Eckythump"
• March 28, 2007: 0.126: "Demon Sweat"
• February 21, 2007: 0.125: "Potzrebie"
• February 12, 2007: 0.124: "Goblin Worlds"
• February 6, 2007: 0.123: "El Nuevo Barretto"
• February 3, 2007: 0.122: "Not Even Wrong"
• January 22, 2007: 0.121: "Dortmunder"
• January 2, 2007: 0.120: "Plate of Shrimp"
• November 10, 2006: 0.119: "Karma Hunters"
• November 2, 2006: 0.118: "Gustaf Von Musterhausen"
• October 16, 2006: 0.117: "We'll fly and we'll fall and we'll burn"
• October 10, 2006: 0.116: "Blanton's"
• September 30, 2006: 0.115: "Remember the Tip Jar"
• September 25, 2006: 0.114: "You'll Have to Go Sideways"
• September 18, 2006: 0.113 is one of Nakata's favorites"
• September 10, 2006: 0.112: "Elijah Craig"
• September 3, 2006: 0.111: "Tweedy"
• August 27, 2006: 0.110: "Beable Beable"
• August 18, 2006: 0.109: "Beable"
• August 13, 2006: 0.108: "Mama's Little Joyboy Loves Lobsters, Lobsters"
• August 8, 2006: 0.107: "Umi De No Jiatsu"
• August 2, 2006: 0.106: "Dum Maro Dum"
• July 26, 2006: 0.105: "When Churchill opened the door, it was a new car, a Chevrolet Nova."
• July 23, 2006: 0.104: "YES, OK! I *AM* COMMUNIST SPICE!!! NOW THAT YOU KNOW, I AM VERY TICKLE YOU AND THEN YOU ARE DIE!!!"
• July 9, 2006: 0.103: "Eldarfaroth"
• July 1, 2006: 0.102: "From the Years of Neon Through Iodine"
• June 24, 2006: 0.101: "A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist."
• June 18, 2006: 0.100: "Hey, I like this. Early Nothing!"
• May 28, 2006: 0.99: "Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."
• May 20, 2006: 0.98: "The plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness."
• May 14, 2006: 0.97: "Atoz and Tanda"
• May 7, 2006: 0.96: "Afghanistan Banana Stand."
• April 30, 2006: 0.95: "I feel clean now. My whole body's just a-quivering with cleanness!"
• April 23, 2006: 0.94: "Ready! Fire! Aim!"
• April 16, 2006: 0.93: "It's like living inside a bouncy castle!"
• April 10, 2006: 0.92 "I hope the demons pluck your eyes out and use them for marbles!"
• April 4, 2006: 0.91 "I'm lost. I'm drunk. I'm impure. What a life!"
• April 2, 2006: 0.90 "Sero Sed Serio"
• Jan 24, 2004: 0.14.2.91 "As She Crawled Across the Table"
• Nov 28, 2003: 0.14.2.90 "A Bouquet of Corpses"
• Aug 31, 2003: 0.14.2 "This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity."
• Aug 27, 2003: 0.14.1