-27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
+16th December 2011 Claws Mail 3.8.0
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:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* IMAP with STARTTLS
- The certificate port on TLS was fixed, however this will trigger
- one wrong 'New certificate' warning on the first connection.
-
New in this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* Added an option, "Use secure file deletion if possible", which
- enables shredding of temporary files and messages instead of
- just removing them. This is available on the Other preferences
- page.
-
-* Added an option, "Select the HTML part of multipart/alternative
- messages". This is available on the Message View/Text Options
- preferences page.
-
-* Added an option to the 'Create new folder' dialogue which enables
- new folders to inherit the properties of their parent folders
- during folder creation.
-
-* Added a hidden option, "two_line_vertical", which toggles the
- 2-line view in the message list when using the 3-column layout.
- Defaults to '1', show 2 lines.
+* GnuTLS 2.2 is now a minimum requirement if encrypted connections to
+ servers are required.
-* Added a hidden option, "outgoing_fallback_to_ascii", which allows
- the user to specify an outgoing charset/encoding, but still fall
- back to 7bit US-ASCII when possible.
- Defaults to '1', fallback when possible.
+* The list displays have been updated to use newer GTK+ functions,
+ this means that the expanders look different and the optional dotted
+ lines have been dropped.
-* Added support for the Avant Window Navgator (Awn) information
- bubble. This is automatically enabled if dbus is available.
+* A hidden option, 'summary_from_show', which controls the display in
+ the From column of the Message List: 0 (default): show name,
+ 1: show address, 2: show name + address
+
+* The image viewer now uses the EXIF Orientation.
+
+* 'Generate X-Mailer header' has been added as an Account option.
-* Face and X-Face headers can now be added globally and per-account
- from configuration files under ~/.claws-mail/autofaces/. Further
- information is provided in the manual.
+* /View/Message scroll has been added, allowing keyboard shortcuts to
+ be added and used for message scrolling.
-* The SHA1 fingerprint is now shown on the SSL certificate dialogue
- and the labels are now selectable.
+* Home and End keys now function in the Message View.
-* Several GUI improvements have been made, (Address book, filtering
- dialogue, Actions dialogue, and Account preferences).
+* /Message/Print has been added to the Compose window.
-* New icons have been added for 'Reply to list' and 'Cancel'. The
- 'Insert file' and 'Close' icons have been improved, as have the
- tray icons.
+* Updated manuals
-* Added the Trash and Delete icons to the Custom Toolbars options.
+* Update man page
-* SMTP-only accounts are now not shown in the Receive menus and
- Account lists in filtering/processing, as they are irrelevant here.
-
-* tools/csv2addressbook.pl
- Support for a gmail exported csv address book was added.
-
-* Updated English, French, and Spanish manuals.
-
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French,
- German, and Spanish.
-
-* Removed unmaintained translations: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech,
- Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian,
- Swedish, and Taiwanese. (New maintainers are very welcome,
- contact paul@claws-mail.org)
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, French,
+ Hungarian, Indonesian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian.
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1447, 'If user tries to close while starting up, it
- will not close ever.'
- o bug 1566, 'too short I/O timeout on OpenBSD'
- o bug 1576, 'Curly brace literals reported as error in
- message template'
- o bug 1581, 'Bad File Format during Import LDIF'
- o bug 1586, '3-pane vertical layout now and then still shows
- sender column'
- o bug 1587, 'can not replay with quote'
- o bug 1589, 'tagsdb file not removed when folder deleted'
- o bug 1597, 'In news folders, "Move Message to Wastebin" icon
- isn't grayed although ineffective'
- o bug 1598, 'Leading slash while translating "Unsubscribe"'
- o bug 1599, 'attach multiple files with the same name from
- one mail to another'
- o bug 1602, 'Crash when sending return receipt for messages
- with no subject'
- o bug 1604, 'found_in_addressbook "From" in "Any" in non
- english local'
- o bug 1608, 'Inconsistent behaviour of mark as read options'
- o bug 1610, 'claws crash after opening/closing preferences
- and window update'
- o bug 1613, 'Various memory leaks'
- o bug 1615, 'hang on FIFO when the other end's not opened'
- o bug 1616, 'strange question while emptying trash'
- o bug 1623, 'exits with segfault when logging in to certain
- imap-servers'
- o bug 1624, '[PATCH] Quick search should be disabled for
- folder view'
- o bug 1628, 'Claws Mail crashes when filtering selected
- messages'
- o bug 1635, 'Last character of message is truncated when
- changing accounts w/ sigs'
- o bug 1636, 'Can't select "properties" on "folders only"
- folders'
- o bug 1650, 'Message line too small after changing columns in
- "three columns" layout'
- o Use g_(un)setenv instead of (un)setenv which doesn't exist
- on IRIX 6.5.
- o Fix 'Delete line' and 'Delete to end of line' on the last
- line.
- o Fix double free when STARTTLS fails
- o Fix ldap deprecated calls
- o Fix debian bug 481856, 'Segmentation fault when verifying a
- GPG signature'
- o Fix cursor placing on signature change
- o tools/thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl
- Fix reading a tb rule that contains something like that:
- \"Sender\"
-
+ o bug 1489, 'Filter action mark_as_read inoperative
+ following move action
+ o bug 1563, 'Folder view: show complete threads if they
+ contain unread messages'
+ o bug 1870, 'arrow scrolling in filters'
+ o bug 2116, 'Rip spaces off server names in account
+ configuration'
+ o bug 2127, 'SSL cert check uses canonical name instead of
+ specified name'
+ o bug 2177, 'addrbook/addrbook-00000?.xml is not deleted
+ after removing the address book in the GUI'
+ o bug 2303, 'Next unread message enables message view'
+ o bug 2310, 'Crash when hitting Ctrl+R to reply to a
+ particular mail'
+ o bug 2377, 'Show All Headers - make change persistent
+ between sessions'
+ o bug 2402, 'GnuTLS change breaks socket communication'
+ o bug 2404, 'matcherrc updates upon account renaming'
+ o bug 2406, 'some part of accountrc not updated upon account
+ rename'
+ o bug 2408, 'Some UI elements are not persistent between
+ sessions'
+ o bug 2422, 'Toggle Message View w/ V crashes Claws'
+ o bug 2479, 'LDIF address book import matches tags case
+ sensitive'
+ o bug 2481, 'do not scroll "from" dropdown list and sender
+ address'
+ o bug 2493, 'Subscription pull down should be alphabetized'
+ o bug 2502, 'gnutls_transport_set_lowat removed in gnutls
+ 3.0.3'
+ o bug 2505, 'tagsdb becomes polluted with old folder entries'
+ o bug 2509, 'manually added headers are lost unless mail is
+ sent inmediately'
+ o bug 2520, 'Please remove verbose "No further processing
+ after rule %s" message.'
+ o bug 2525, 'Address completion window does not get keyboard
+ focus'
+ o bug 2526, 'When reading message in separate window, n and p
+ keys do not work'
+ o bug 2529, 'crash in mimeview_start_drag after deleting
+ message'
+ o bug 2543, 'filter actions in actionsrc not updated upon
+ account renaming'
+ o bug 2560, 'crash when unsubscribing newsgroup and having
+ active search field'
+ o Fix focus problem on Gnome shell
+ o Fix flicker on recursive quicksearch
+ o Fix huge slowness induced by spellcheck "while typing"
+ during initial quote rewraps.
+ o Fix build with GLib 2.31.
+ o Fix crasher when spellchecking is not enabled
+ o Fix compose window size saving/restoring
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/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.