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What is Pan?

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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"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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

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