From: Teodor Zlatanov Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:00:17 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add entries about the new auth-source integration and X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~3704 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d496c76c6d828c0cd2385a8015e844200f3cb3b;p=emacs.git Add entries about the new auth-source integration and about the cyrillic-translit modifications. --- diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index c18a590d87f..0d0504ce708 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -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 --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index c6c063f112d..f9c0eac98d3 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ active frame and INACTIVE is the opactity of non-active frames. 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 @@ unify-8859-on-decoding-mode are obsolete. 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 @@ saving articles drafts and ~/.newsrc.eld. These file may not be read 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'.