-27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.6.0
+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:
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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.
-
-* Better support of SSL certificate stores, to be able to verify
- server certificates.
-
-* Renaming of newsgroups is possible.
-
-* "Always open message when selected" can now have three values:
- 'Never', 'Always' and 'When message view is visible'.
-
-* 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'.
-
-* Auto-wrapping settings are now saved in drafted messages.
-
-* Support for basic auto-indentation in the Compose window.
-
-* Support for animated GIFs in the message view.
-
-* Type-ahead search in Filtering, Templates, Actions dialogs now
- select the result of the search.
+* GnuTLS 2.2 is now a minimum requirement if encrypted connections to
+ servers are required.
-* Finer granularity in POP3 accounts' Remove After delay - hours in
- addition to days.
+* 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.
-* Spam/Ham flag is now stored on IMAP server when possible, using
- "Junk" and "NonJunk" keywords.
+* 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.
-* Use less precise intervals when possible for auto-checking, thus
- the CPU is woken up less frequently.
+* /View/Message scroll has been added, allowing keyboard shortcuts to
+ be added and used for message scrolling.
-* The warning icon in the main window is cleared when the error it
- relates to is clipped from the network log.
+* Home and End keys now function in the Message View.
-* IMAP errors now reveal the server on which they happen.
+* /Message/Print has been added to the Compose window.
-* All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced with their
- non-deprecated equivalents.
+* Updated manuals
-* csv2addressbook.pl: Added support for FoxMail.
+* Update man page
-* Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, French,
+ Hungarian, Indonesian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian.
* 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
- 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 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/
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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.