Pan is a Usenet newsreader that's good at both text and binaries. It supports offline reading, scoring and killfiles, yEnc, NZB, PGP handling, multiple servers, and secure connections. It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations.

It runs on Linux, BSD systems, Mac OS X, and Windows.

September 19, 2021 — Pan 0.147 'Sweet Solitude'

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This release contains mostly bug fixes so pan can be compiled on major Linux distributions.

In the next releases, we'll try to get rid of gmime2 code. Please reach out to pan-devel at nongnu.org if this may cause issues.

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See NEWS for details on the changes in this release, and check the README file before upgrading. Feedback, bug reports, and patches are very much encouraged.

October 12, 2019 — Pan 0.146 'Hic habitat felicitas'

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This is a maintenance release bringing you a number of bug fixes and enhancements. Among other changes, the release addresses several segmentation faults and improves CI for Pan. All users are advised to upgrade to this latest version.

See NEWS for details on the changes in this release, and check the README file before upgrading. Feedback, bug reports, and patches are very much encouraged.

May 20, 2018 — Pan 0.145 'Duplicitous mercenary valetism'

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This is a quick bugfix release that addresses a couple of issues, including crashes on startup and when manipulating NZB files. All users are advised to upgrade to this latest version.

See NEWS for details on the changes in this release, and check the README file before upgrading. Feedback, bug reports, and patches are very much encouraged.

January 7, 2018 — Pan 0.144 'Time is the enemy'

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This release fixes an issue with defaulting to GMime 3.0 when that library version was found at build time, often causing Pan to crash. Support for GMime 3.0 has been improved in this release, but remains experimental. Other changes include improved MIME type handling, a brand new man page for Pan, and conformance to freedesktop.org's Icon Theme Specification. All users are advised to upgrade to this latest version.

See NEWS for details on the changes in this release, and check the README file before upgrading. Feedback, bug reports, and patches are very much encouraged.

December 3, 2017 — Pan 0.143 'Quaint little villages here and there'

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This release improves security by allowing all TLS versions supported by GnuTLS in security connections, it fixes group pane resizing in GTK+ 3, and includes other GUI-related bug fixes and enhancements. This release also comes with an experimental port to GMime 3.0, which is a work in progress. All users are advised to upgrade to this latest version.

See NEWS for details on the changes in this release, and check the README file before upgrading. Feedback, bug reports, and patches are very much encouraged.

July 23, 2017 — Pan 0.142 'He slipped to Sam a double gin'

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This release fixes a number of smaller bugs and re-introduces built-in help as an optional feature, accessible from the Pan Help menu and requiring Yelp. Pan also no longer depends on intltool for UI translations, nor on gnome-common when building from sources. The optional GTK+ 3 port now depends on libsecret and gcr for password storage instead of the deprecated libgnome-keyring.

See NEWS for details on the changes in this release, and check the README file before upgrading. Feedback, bug reports, and patches are very much encouraged.

December 30, 2016 — Pan 0.141 'Tarzan's Death'

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This is an incremental release with a handful of bug fixes and enhancements that get us a little closer to 1.0.

See NEWS for details on the changes in this release. And don't forget to check the README file before upgrading. Feedback, bug reports and patches are very much encouraged.

March 24, 2016 — Pan 0.140 'Chocolate Salty Balls'

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After almost four years of hiatus, here comes a new release of Pan, packed with bug fixes and feature enhancements that have piled up since the last release. We're not quite there yet to make it a 1.0 release but it's really close now.

See NEWS for details on the changes in this release. And don't forget to check the README file before upgrading.

June 30, 2012 — Pan 0.139: 'Sexual Chocolate'

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This release is an intermediate release fixing some minor bugs before the Debian freeze. Enjoy! Everybody is, as always, encouraged to upgrade.

June 14, 2012 — Pan 0.138: 'Der Gerät'

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This is another bugfix and feature enhancement release that contains certain UI improvements.Everybody using older versions of Pan is encouraged to upgrade. Please see the Bug Tickets or NEWS for details.

May 1, 2012 — Pan 0.137: 'The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour'

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This is a bugfix release for certain issues regarding race conditions withthread handling, which resulted in random errors and segmentation faults.Everybody using older versions of Pan is encouraged to upgrade. There havebeen some minor UI enhancements, too. Please see the Bug Tickets or NEWSfor details.

April 8, 2012 — Pan 0.136: 'Far too busy being delicious...'

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This release introduces a plethora of bugfixes and improvements, everybody using older versions of Pan is encouraged to upgrade. This version supports binary uploading, TLS (SSL) connections, PGP handling and other nice features.

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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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