gnus: Gnus Versions
11.2.1 Gnus Versions
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The first “proper” release of Gnus 5 was done in November 1995 when it
was included in the Emacs 19.30 distribution (132 (ding) Gnus releases
plus 15 Gnus 5.0 releases).
In May 1996 the next Gnus generation (aka. “September Gnus” (after
99 releases)) was released under the name “Gnus 5.2” (40 releases).
On July 28th 1996 work on Red Gnus was begun, and it was released on
January 25th 1997 (after 84 releases) as “Gnus 5.4” (67 releases).
On September 13th 1997, Quassia Gnus was started and lasted 37
releases. It was released as “Gnus 5.6” on March 8th 1998 (46
releases).
Gnus 5.6 begat Pterodactyl Gnus on August 29th 1998 and was released
as “Gnus 5.8” (after 99 releases and a CVS repository) on December 3rd
1999.
On the 26th of October 2000, Oort Gnus was begun and was released as
Gnus 5.10 on May 1st 2003 (24 releases).
On the January 4th 2004, No Gnus was begun.
On April 19, 2010 Gnus development was moved to Git. See
http://git.gnus.org for details (http://www.gnus.org will be updated
with the information when possible).
On the January 31th 2012, Ma Gnus was begun.
If you happen upon a version of Gnus that has a prefixed name—“(ding)
Gnus”, “September Gnus”, “Red Gnus”, “Quassia Gnus”, “Pterodactyl Gnus”,
“Oort Gnus”, “No Gnus”, “Ma Gnus”—don’t panic. Don’t let it know that
you’re frightened. Back away. Slowly. Whatever you do, don’t run.
Walk away, calmly, until you’re out of its reach. Find a proper
released version of Gnus and snuggle up to that instead.
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