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    1 Pan 0.14.90 is the first beta of a ground-up rewrite of Pan in C++.
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    3 Some of the best user-visible improvements:
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    5   * The memory footprint for large newsgroups has been cut by 2/3.  (A month's
    6     worth of headers in a sample binaries group dropped from 283M to 94M.)
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    8   * The time to download headers has been cut by 2/3 by parallelizing
    9     the download across multiple conections to the server.  (In the same
   10     sample group, downloading a months' worth of headers dropped from
   11     17 minutes to 5 minutes.)
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   13   * The time to load large newsgroups from disk has been cut by 90%.
   14     (In the same sample newsgroup, the time to load from disk
   15     dropped from 14 seconds to 1.3 seconds.)
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   17   * Multiserver support.  Pan can now download files in parallel not just
   18     with multiple connections to one server, but also to other servers.
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   20   * NZB support.  Pan can now import NZB files.  It can also be started in an
   21     NZB client mode that doesn't create the newsreader window at all.
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   23   * All of the user interface windows and dialogs have been redesigned.
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   26 Some of the best backend improvements:
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   28   * The source code's line count has dropped from 44,382 to 23,093 --
   29     and is far cleaner.
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   31   * Fewer library prerequisites: Pan no longer requires GNet or libxml2.
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   33   * Better decoupling.
   34     _ Unit tests that were impossible before, such as tasks running and
   35       talking to a mock news server, can now be done.
   36     _ Pan can now run 'headless' to process queued tasks.
   37     _ The task and application layers are separated from the backend,
   38       so a database backend could be added in the future if desired.