-27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
+14th December 2018 Claws Mail 3.17.2
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
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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.
-
-* Finer granularity in POP3 accounts' Remove After delay - hours in
- addition to days.
-
-* Spam/Ham flag is now stored on IMAP server when possible, using
- "Junk" and "NonJunk" keywords.
-
-* Use less precise intervals when possible for auto-checking, thus
- the CPU is woken up less frequently.
-
-* The warning icon in the main window is cleared when the error it
- relates to is clipped from the network log.
-
-* IMAP errors now reveal the server on which they happen.
-
-* All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced with their
- non-deprecated equivalents.
-
-* csv2addressbook.pl: Added support for FoxMail.
-
-* Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and 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
- 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)
-
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+* Message List: A context menu has been added to the column headers,
+ it has two entries: a new option, 'Lock column headers', and 'Set
+ displayed colums'.
+
+* Folder List: A context menu has been added to the column headers,
+ containing 'Set displayed columns'.
+
+* Preferences: The Display/Summaries option page has been split into
+ three notebook pages: Folder List, Message List, and Defaults.
+ The Message List page contains the new 'Lock column headers'
+ option. The Defaults page contains several new options for new
+ folders.
+
+* New Folder Properties: It is now possible to control signing and
+ encrypting options on the Compose page. By default it follows the
+ Account preferences, but they can be overridden to always sign
+ and/or encrypt, or never sign/encrypt.
+
+* Saving sent messages: The global preference, 'Save sent messages',
+ can now be overriden by the Folder Property and Account
+ preferences. The global preference no longer needs to be activated
+ for the Account Preference, 'Put sent messages in ...' option to
+ function. Likewise, the Folder Property, 'Save copy of outgoing
+ messages to this folder instead of Sent', no longer relies on the
+ global preference being set.
+
+* SSL/TLS certificates: The SHA-256 fingerprint is now displayed, and
+ the MD5 fingerprint has been removed.
+
+* SSL/TLS certificates list: Status and Expiry columns have been
+ added, and expired and invalid certificates are now clearly
+ indicated.
+
+* QuickSearch: body searches are now quicker.
+
+* QuickSearch: symbols used in Extended searches are now expanded
+ in the 'Edit' dialogue.
+
+* Re-editing: Flags and tags are now preserved when re-editing a
+ message.
+
+* Fancy plugin: The minimum required webkitgtk version is now 1.10.0.
+
+* PDF Viewer plugin: Ctrl+scroll now zooms.
+
+* Tools: added cm-break.pl script, which breaks thread references for
+ the selected messages; textviewer.pl has been updated and now
+ requires perl 5.14.1.
+
+* The legacy "sylpheed-claws" symlink is no longer installed in the
+ bindir.
+
+* New translation: Portuguese.
+
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Danish,
+ Dutch, French, German, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
+
+* bug fixes:
+ o bug 3418, 'Building on a Cross Compiling toolchain doesn't
+ work'
+ o bug 3889, 'Address and quoted message inconsistent in
+ reply'
+ o bug 4114, 'autogen.sh: Fix argument quoting'
+ o bug 4115, 'autogen: avoid unwarranted re-configure'
+ o bug 4120, 'New cert files are created in $HOME instead of
+ in ~/.claws-mail/certs'
+ o byg 4121, 'Moving a subfolder in another folder erases its
+ processing rules' (sic)
+ o bug 4132, '"Mark all as (un)read" dialog appears when
+ acting on 1 message only'
+ o bug 4133, 'trying to read message from an NNTP group (with
+ all expired articles.'
+ o regression where mail was not being checked at startup when
+ it should have been
+ o links not being opened in browser when Fancy menu is opened
+ with a keyboard
+ o show correct address:port in SOCKS5 proxy connection failure
+ message
+ o prevent unexpected loss of drafted message
+ o Quicksearch eating keypresses it didn't handle
+ o build on Debian 7
+ o build on FreeBSD, sys/wait.h is needed for WEXITSTATUS
+ macro
+ o Reply from mainwindow menu and toolbar when mainwindow's
+ messageview is hidden
+ o CID 1438531 Fix wrong test leading to dead code
+ o CID 1439871 and validate Unicode char strictly
+ o CID 1439996 and remove unnecessary comparison
+ o Fancy: left-click on links not opening in browser
+ o RSSyl: lost processing rules when renaming folder
+ o annoyance where your current reading is disturbed when a
+ new msg is filtered into the current folder
+ o don't leave the user in limbo when privacy system is 'none'
+ and auto signing/encrypting is set
+ o several memory leaks
+
+For further details of the numbered bugs and RFEs listed above
+see https://www.claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.
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