-30th January 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0
+12th June 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://claws.sylpheed.org
+ http://www.sylpheed-claws.net
-Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
-lightweight, and fast e-mail client
-
-Notes for this release:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* libetpan >= 0.41 is now required for IMAP support
+Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+email client.
New in this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Manual
-------
-* A new and completely rewritten manual has been added.
- It is accessible using your browser by clicking '/Help/Manual' on
- the main toolbar.
+* Mailing-list support (Subscribe, Unsubscribe, View Archive, etc)
+ has been added in the main window's 'Message/Mailing list' menu
+
+* Filtering and processing rules can be disabled with just one click
+
+* The From address is editable in the Compose window
+
+* A menu has been added to the Compose toolbar button to enable
+ choosing the account to use
+
+* Write-only support of .mh_sequences' Unseen property has been added
+ for MH mailboxes, allowing synchronised flags when reading your MH
+ mailbox with Mutt or other MH-based mail clients
+
+* More feedback is provided to the user when importing MBOX files
+
+* 'k' added as a shortcut for 'colorlabel' in the Extended Quick
+ Search
+
+* The option to go to the first Marked message when entering a
+ folder has been added.
+
+* The 'ignore thread' flag is now correctly set on mails threaded by
+ subject, in addition to standard headers.
+
+* Hidden prefs have been added that allow customization of the
+ colours used in the Log window (useful for dark GTK+ themes)
+
+* Optimised large folder reading
+
+* Optimised copy/move/deletion/selection
+
+* Optimised 'mark all read' in the current folder
+
+* 'test' filtering rules are processed in the background
+
+* A progressbar for cache updates has been added
-Icon legend
------------
-* An icon legend window has been added to the Help menu, accessible
- by clicking '/Help/Icon legend' on the main toolbar.
+* A progressbar for copy/move functions has been added
-Priting
--------
-* Attached images can now be printed along with the message when using
- the optional libgnomeprintui support.
+* More dialogues have been made HIG compliant
-Command line usage
-------------------
-* '--exit' has been added.
+* Allow recursive setting of properties for whole mailboxes
-* '--subscribe' has been added.
- Calling sylpheed-claws --subscribe '%s' will ask the loaded plugins
- if they can handle the type of URL passed as a parameter. Thus, if
- using the RSSyl or vCalendar plugins, for example, the user will be
- able to subscribe RSS feeds or Webcals from the browser.
+* A Face header has been added to the Welcome mail
-* sylpheed-claws email@domain.com is now equivalent to --compose
+* The user manual has been updated
-* sylpheed-claws proto://blah.com is equivalent to --subscribe
+* tools/filter_conv_new.pl has been updated for rule
+ enabling/disabling
-GUI improvements
-----------------
-* HIG compliant button order has been implemented.
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, French, German,
+ Greek, Italian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
+ translations.
-* Several dialogues throughout have been improved.
-
-Main Toolbar
-------------
-* Text can now also been displayed next to the icons.
-
-* Quick mail retrieval from any account is now possible due to the
- account submenu which has been added to the 'Get All' button.
-
-Compose window
---------------
-* The spellchecker context menu in the compose window has been added
- to the standard GtkTextView menu instead of replacing it.
-
-* The Subject in the window title now updates instantaneously.
-
-* The mimetypes list in the attachment pane is now alphabetically
- ordered.
-
-Message View
-------------
-* The email and URI parsers have been enhanced.
-
-Quick Search
-------------
-* In Extended mode, a '...' button has been added, this provides the
- user with a dialogue enabling the quick formation of search
- criteria.
-
-* Do not refocus quick search after executing (Esc or Enter). This
- enables using the '/' shortcut key, search for something, then move
- up/down in the message list, and then Esc a search and be back in
- the folder list.
-
-* When quick search is activated, the entry box is given a yellow
- background for greater visibility.
-
-Address book
-------------
-* The LDAP search in the address book now supports wildcard searching
- using '*'.
-
-Preferences
------------
-* The option 'Go to inbox after receiving new mail' has been moved
- from 'Display/Summaries' to 'Mail handling/Receive'.
-
-* The 'Wrap at send' option has been removed.
-
-* Colour preferences have been moved from '/Message View/Colors' to
- '/Display/Colors'.
-
-* The previously hidden option, color_new, has been added to the GUI
- as '/Display/Colors/Folder' containing new messages.
-
-Plugins
--------
-* The spamassassin and spamassassin_gtk plugins have been merged into
- one single plugin, and this plugin is now built by default if the
- requirements are matched.
-
-* The clamav and clamav_gtk plugins have been merged into one single
- plugin.
-
-* GnuPG support: Add support for PKA info if available
-
-* The PGP/Inline plugin now supports Content-Type 'application/pgp'.
-
-* A check to verify that plugins are licenced under a GPL-compatible
- licence has been added.
-
-* The unmaintained mathml_viewer plugin has been removed.
-
-Tools
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-* Add filter_conv_new.pl.
- Converts the new style Sylpheed filter rules (Sylpheed >= 0.9.99)
- to Claws filtering rules.
-
-Translations
-------------
-* new Greek and Swedish translations.
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Dutch, Finnish,
- French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Serbian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese translations.
-
-* Bugfixes:
- o bug 843, 'Inbox cannot be changed for local mailboxes'
- o bug 845, 'sylpheed-claws 1.9.99+ start in minimised state'
- o bug 856, 'reediting messages forgets Request Return
- Receipt'
- o bug 862, 'undo of wrapped, pasted text deletes part of
- message'
- o bug 863, 'windows-1252 encoding option missing from message
- view window'
- o bug 866, 'Show key id when missing'
- o bug 867, 'Report also key trust'
- o bug 875, 'Freeze On Inline Forward of Large Message'
- o bug 882, 'quick scroll in folder list displays wrong folder
- contents'
- o bug 883, 'default inbox does not track folder move'
- o bug 884, ''Send receipt' button visible in queue'
- o bug 888, '2.0.0rc3 not displaying image in message view'
- o bug 896, 'PT_BR locale broken'
- o bug 897, 'message header is resetted if one is copied to
- Drafts'
- o crash when closing description windows using the WM's [X]
- button
- o crash when copying/moving message(s) from and to the same
- folder
- o missing listing of text/* attachments in the message view
- o Filtering ~message, ~headers_part, ~body_part rules
- o possible crash on connection failure when sending
- o crashes in prefs after unloading Spamassassin or Clamav
- plugins
- o spurious displaying on message when "Always open messages"
- isn't set
- o last-used directory for loading attachments wasn't cached
- o assertion failure in msgcache_add_msg
- o cursor positioning not obeying %X
- o don't deselect stuff in compose window before right-
- clicking, with aspell.
- o autosave on IMAP
- o copying/moving between normal and draft/queue in IMAP
- o occasional failure in fetching a mail over IMAP
- o don't remove a draft when sending it, if it is locked
- o wrapping issues
- o prevent mail from being lost without notice when an SMTP
- error happens on trying to send an unmodified drafted mail
- o forget SMTP password if wrong
- o recursive prefs apply
- o attach_load_dir set to PLUGINDIR on plugin load
- o possible crashes on exit and in addressbook
- o allow templates without text
- o deselection of text when right-clicking in Compose windows
- o automatic encoding in some corner-cases
- o 'Get Mail' sensitivity in the Trayicon Plugin
- o 'Trash' sensitivity when receiving
- o don't start the wizard when folders exist, even if they are
- unloaded
- o update the default keybinds
+* Bug fixes:
+ o bug 965, 'crash opening inbox (cf just previously described
+ bug)' (Sylpheed-Claws crashed, checking for new
+ messages in local folders)
+ o fix 'mark all read' .mh_sequences support
+ o fix catching cache read errors and detect corruption better
+ o fix possible infinite loop in filtering that was introduced
+ in 2.3.0-rc3
+ o fix memory leaks
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
* and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.
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