# HG changeset patch # User Teodor Zlatanov # Date 1217624417 0 # Node ID 0fd3de34a4570550ac1cb57fc764b2d6703b6e18 # Parent 0a23e6d9e6ab279624ef63693d2bbc7bb4df2a87 Add entries about the new auth-source integration and about the cyrillic-translit modifications. diff -r 0a23e6d9e6ab -r 0fd3de34a457 etc/ChangeLog --- a/etc/ChangeLog Fri Aug 01 18:56:08 2008 +0000 +++ b/etc/ChangeLog Fri Aug 01 21:00:17 2008 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2008-08-01 Teodor Zlatanov + + * NEWS: Add entries about the new auth-source integration and + about the cyrillic-translit modifications. + 2008-08-01 Adrian Robert * Emacs.clr: Remove. diff -r 0a23e6d9e6ab -r 0fd3de34a457 etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Fri Aug 01 18:56:08 2008 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Fri Aug 01 21:00:17 2008 +0000 @@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the opacity; the default is 20. +*** Emacs can now use `auth-source' for authentication. +`smtpmail' and `url' (Tramp and Gnus also) use `auth-source' to obtain +login names and passwords. The match, if found, is reported +in *Messages* with the password blanked out. + ** Internationalization changes *** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode. @@ -197,6 +202,11 @@ accepts numbers in hash notation (e.g. #o21430 for octal, or #10r8984 for decimal). It also accepts Unicode character names with completion. +*** The `cyrillic-translit' input method supports many new characters. +Common typographical characters available from Unicode were added to +`cyrillic-translit': punctuation marks, accented characters, fractions, +and others. + ** Emacs now supports serial port access on GNU/Linux, Unix, and Windows. The new command `serial-term' starts an interactive terminal on a serial port. The serial port can be configured at runtime with @@ -692,6 +702,11 @@ correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to Gnus across different Emacs versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule'. +*** Password are consistently loaded through `auth-source' +Gnus can use `auth-source' for POP and IMAP passwords. Also see that +`smtpmail' and `url' support `auth-source' for SMTP and HTTP/HTTPS/RSS +authentication respectively. + ** Help mode *** New macro `with-help-window' should set up help windows better than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'.