Re: Oort Gnus v0.16 is released

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> As suggested (off the list), let's aim for a May 1st release date for
> Gnus 5.10.  Most things in Oort Gnus work, but if there is anything
> experimental going on in any parts of the code, or things that you
> absolutely want to have in the next Gnus release, try getting it in
> during the next couple of weeks.

TLS/SSL support without third party lisp libraries would be useful
too.  It didn't seem disruptive, so I have added it.  Instead of
altering the existing "ssl" functions and variables, I added parallel
"tls" functions and variables, and a tls.el that uses GNUTLS
gnutls-cli.  Someone needs to try it though.

It is probably a good idea to implement STARTTLS via GNUTLS too, it
appears gnutls-cli can do it, since the external "starttls" binary
isn't that common (e.g., no Debian package).

** TLS wrapper shipped with Gnus

TLS/SSL is now supported in IMAP and NNTP via tls.el and GNUTLS.  The
old TLS/SSL support via (external third party) ssl.el and OpenSSL
still works.