-3rd October 2008 Claws Mail 3.6.0
+6th May 2013 Claws Mail 3.9.1
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
-Notes for this release:
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-
-* Claws Mail now requires libetpan 0.56 for IMAP and NNTP
-
-* Spell checking is now provided by Enchant instead of Aspell. To
- build spell checker support, you will need the libenchant headers.
-
-* The S/MIME plugin is now part of this package.
-
-* IMAP, NNTP, and SSL are now supported in the Windows port.
-
New in this release:
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-* Support for client SSL certificates.
+All plugins previously packaged as 'Extra Plugins' are now contained
+within the Claws Mail package. In addition to that, the following
+plugins have been dropped: TrayIcon, Dillo Viewer, and Gtkhtml2
+Viewer.
-* Better support of SSL certificate stores, to be able to verify
- server certificates.
+This release contains the following plugins: ACPI Notifier, Address
+Keeper, Attachment Remover, Attachment Warner, Bogofilter, BS Filter,
+Clam AntiVirus, Fancy HTML Viewer, FetchInfo, gData, GeoLocation,
+Mail Archiver, MailMBOX, New Mail, Notification, PDF Viewer, Perl,
+PGP/Core, PGP/Inline, PGP/MIME, Python, RSSyl, SMime, Spam Report,
+SpamAssassin, TNEF Parse, and vCalendar.
-* Renaming of newsgroups is possible.
+* 3 command-line switches have been added:
+ --cancel-receiving which cancels the currently running message
+ retrieval operation
+ --cancel-sending which cancels the currently running message
+ sending operation
+ --debug which toggles debug output.
-* "Always open message when selected" can now have three values:
- 'Never', 'Always' and 'When message view is visible'.
+* '/Message/Cancel sending' has been added to the main menu.
-* Unsaved server passwords can now be temporarily saved for the
- duration of the session. They can be cleared before the session
- expires by using '/Tools/Forget all session passwords'.
+* In the filtering and processing condition configuration for Age,
+ it is now possible to match based on number of hours.
-* Auto-wrapping settings are now saved in drafted messages.
+* The GnuPG signature timestamp is now displayed in the full
+ signature information
-* Support for basic auto-indentation in the Compose window.
+* Support for GnuTLS priority string has been added. This is achieved
+ via 2 hidden account preferences, gnutls_set_priority and
+ gnutls_priority. The former turning the option on or off, the
+ latter containing the required priority string.
-* Support for animated GIFs in the message view.
+* Keep-alive pings are now performed on IMAP and NNTP connections.
-* Type-ahead search in Filtering, Templates, Actions dialogs now
- select the result of the search.
+* In the Compose window, the focus is now moved to the message body
+ when focus is in the Subject entry and the Enter key is pressed.
+
+* The Delete key can now be used to remove Colour Label hotkeys.
-* Finer granularity in POP3 accounts' Remove After delay - hours in
- addition to days.
+* PDF Viewer: The printed PDF quality has been improved.
-* Spam/Ham flag is now stored on IMAP server when possible, using
- "Junk" and "NonJunk" keywords.
+* Fancy HTML viewer: The options dialogue has been completely
+ reworked, and disabling remote content is now totally strict.
+
+* Python plugin: Added Cc field to messageinfo objects.
-* Use less precise intervals when possible for auto-checking, thus
- the CPU is woken up less frequently.
+* Python plugin: Added examples.
-* The warning icon in the main window is cleared when the error it
- relates to is clipped from the network log.
+* Python plugin: Added a function to get an arbitrary header from a
+ MessageInfo object
-* IMAP errors now reveal the server on which they happen.
+* Perl plugin: The documentation for insert_perl.pl has been
+ improved.
-* All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced with their
- non-deprecated equivalents.
+* Basic handling of vcard 3.0 has been added to vcard2xml.py.
-* csv2addressbook.pl: Added support for FoxMail.
+* A Swedish translation has been added to claws-mail.desktop.
+
+* The man page has been updated.
-* Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Finnish, French,
+ German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1620, 'Can't use hardware zoom buttons' (MAEMO)
- o bug 1398, 'Change current account available even when
- there's only one account'
- o bug 1609, 'Icon issues'
- o bug 1673, 'Tools/Harvest Addresses is greyed out if
- folder is empty'
- o bug 1681, 'GnuPG plugin doesn't compile on Solaris"
- o bug 1684, 'View news messages with large attachments
+ o bug 1137, 'loading plugins with same profile on different
+ archs'
+ o bug 1684, 'view news messages with large attachements
+ segfaults'
+ o bug 1963, 'Preferences Templates Information Window Focus
+ loss'
+ o bug 2340, 'Create block list'
+ o bug 2617, 'code cleanup'
+ o bug 2624, 'dialog "Action Configuration" cannot be closed'
+ o bug 2702, 'Support splitting subject line for small screen
+ layout'
+ o bug 2774, 'Select folder/New Folder dialog - modal problem'
+ o bug 2785, 'Marking mails for deletion reopens internal
+ message view'
+ o bug 2801, 'Filtering Header:Name list is blank/corrupt'
+ o bug 2826, 'replace deprecated gnutls function'
+ o bug 2828, 'Use MD5 digest for socket name'
+ o bug 2832, 'mail to from adress-book splitt names'
+ o bug 2835, 'add_address() in addr_compl.c should allow a
+ NULL name'
+ o bug 2859, 'Newmail plugin doesn't work if Mail folder not
+ present when it is loaded.'
+ o bug 2862, 'Segmentation fault when replying to a message
+ where the "code conversion" fails'
+ o bug 2863, 'Applying has_attachment quicksearch on IMAP
segfaults'
- o bug 1688, 'Compilation problems on MingW32'
- o bug 1690, 'Copy/paste in edit window may break Undo'
- o bug 1696, 'Viewing binary attachments as text over
- 1MB' (various buglets)
- o bug 1699, 'Separator line misplaced when printing
- emails with long header lines'
- o bug 1412, 'Sign reply if mail was signed'
- o bug 1707, 'Segfault when sorting on hidden column'
- o bug 1710, 'User misreads Discard Message as Discard
- Changes'. Closing a modified re-edited draft will
- now ask whether to discard changes
- o bug 1712, 'Invalid Phishing attempt warning when linked
- text ends with spaces'
- o bug 1723, 'Buffer overflow crash caused by
- preview in 'Date format help' dialog box'
- o bug 1725, 'useless lines in clawsrc'
- o Fixed compilation with GTK 2.14
- o Fixed some memory leaks
- o Fixed upgrading of themes
- o Fixed po-headers appearing on empty templates
- o Fixed folderview's scrollbar state when starting minimized,
- and popping up is done via command line
- o Fixed race condition when closing the Plugins window while a
- plugin is loading
- o Fixed missing localityName (l) field in LDAP
- o Fixed wild rewrapping when adding text to start of some long
- lines
- o Added "Fwd" to the list of known subject prefixes
- o Fixed nickname edition in non-LDAP address books
- o Fixed compose window size saving, which changed when using
- compose-related filtering actions
- o Fixed English usage
- o Don't go to Inbox after manual mail retrieval if there are no
- new mails
- o Fixed migration problems from Aspell to Enchant dictionaries
- o Fixed double opening of file, leading to multiple signatures
- when using signify
- o Fixed image viewer (wrong image displayed, break of resizing
- functionality
- o Fixed handling of HTML parts in multipart/related parts
- o Workaround to decode correctly mails in Windows-1252 codeset
- advertised as ISO-8859-1
- o Added the nb_NO locale's default charset (ISO-8859-1)
- o IMAP: Fixed crash when error happen on session establishment
- o Fixed a lot of Windows-only bugs (bugs 1041, 1042, 1051,
- problems with folders that have non-ASCII characters, the
- huge memory leak, crash on connection failures)
+ o bug 2878 'bsfilter / folder.c:1435 Condition identifier
+ != NULL failed'
+ o bug 2879, 'Plain text mails treated as encrypted'
+ o bug 2882, 'Reverse preference for external content'
+ o bug 2885, 'SIGSEGV in hooks_marshal at hooks.c:108'
+ o bug 2890, 'html2ps required...'
+ o bug 2893, 'ical_yy_scan_bytes has wrong type'
+ o bug 2903, 'key 'C' mention harcoded in string'
+ o bug 2909, 'Changing folder quickly can cause wrong email to
+ be deleted'
+ o IMAP: Don't set charset on simple searches. Fixes Exchange
+ 2007.
+ o Disconnect NNTP accounts too when switching offline.
+ o Fix sensitivity of next-unread toolbar button.
+ o tools/gif2xface.pl, tools/outlook2claws-mail.pl: Fix
+ address.
+ o Add missing \n at end of the return receipt last part's
+ headers.
+ o Make LDAP over SSL work on Win32.
+ o Fix crash on action error.
+ o Fix trimming of leading spaces in actions.
+ o tools/vcard2xml.py: Fix missing file encoding info.
+ o fix sensitivity of 'Use both dictionaries' in compose
+ window.
+ o Fix actions with spaces (and quotes).
+ o tools/vcard2xml.py: Lines split over more than one line
+ breaks parser; Get email addres correct. Not only
+ email;internet.
+ o Escape filename/description text of MIME parts, prevents
+ error if, e.g., the filename contains an ampersand.
+ o Fix 'edit accounts' windows going behind when leaving an
+ 'account preferences' window, by re-focusing this window.
+ o Fix crash closing PDF information alert panel.
+ o Fix default fonts on Windows.
+ o Fix ugly icon in XFCE's alt-tab window.
+ o Fix untranslated description in archiver plugin
+ o fix crasher when using /Edit/Search folder on start-up with
+ nothing selected.
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/
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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.