= BarnOwl 1.8 release notes =

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The BarnOwl Developers are pleased to announce the release of BarnOwl
version 1.8.

It has been installed in the Athena locker, and you can download it
from the website [1] or get the source from Github [2]. BarnOwl 1.8
contains various bug fixes and new features, including:

* Text saved to the kill buffer with C-k now persists globally among
 all edit windows.

* Various cross-realm fixes, notably fields on cross-realm outgoing
 messages are set correctly.

* The default style now decorates unauthenticated zephyrgrams with the
  string 'UNAUTH:'.

* Non-CC'd personals with multiple recipients now generate multiple
  outgoing messages in the message list, thanks to new developer DD
  Liu.

* Zephyr variables 'exposure' and 'default_exposure' have been added
  to manipulate zephyr visibility.

* Using more than 256 foreground/background color pairs in 256-color
  mode no longer causes drawing artifacts.

* The sepbar now shows how far you are in a truncated message.

* Our custom event loop has been replaced with GLib's implementation.
  This buys us better interoperability with third-party code, some
  thread-safety, and an event loop we don't have to write ourselves.

* AnyEvent (and thus the vast body of AnyEvent-based code on CPAN)
  is now available to perl modules. The existing timer and
  io-dispatch APIs now backend onto it.

* The IRC module has been ported to AnyEvent::IRC which, among other
  things, is not abandoned. The new module also fixes the
  long-standing reconnect bug.

* Logging is now delegated to a background thread. This should greatly
  improve responsiveness, especially for those on an AFS home
  directory.

* A new delete-and-expunge command (delx for short) has been added for
  perl modules that wish to remove a message.

The full Changelog is available online [3].

Thank you for using BarnOwl, and we hope you enjoy the new release. As
usual, any bug reports, questions, or feature requests can be directed
to the developers at <barnowl@mit.edu>.

- David Benjamin
for the BarnOwl developers

[1] http://barnowl.mit.edu/dist/
[2] http://github.com/barnowl/barnowl/
[3] http://github.com/barnowl/barnowl/blob/barnowl-1.8/ChangeLog
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