-5th April 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.0
+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,
-user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client.
+Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+email client.
-Notes for this release:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+New in this release:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* libetpan version 0.45 or newer is now required for IMAP support,
- this allows checking for IMAP/SSL certificates.
+* 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
-New in this release:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+* 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
+
+* A progressbar for copy/move functions has been added
+
+* More dialogues have been made HIG compliant
+
+* Allow recursive setting of properties for whole mailboxes
+
+* A Face header has been added to the Welcome mail
+
+* The user manual has been updated
-* Support for the Face header has been added,
- see http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/
+* tools/filter_conv_new.pl has been updated for rule
+ enabling/disabling
-* In the Templates dialog TAB address completion has been added for
- Cc and Bcc fields, in addition to To.
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, French, German,
+ Greek, Italian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
+ translations.
-* An account's signature file, (Account Preferences, Compose tab),
- can now been edited in place using the configured text editor.
-
-* An advanced search is now possible in the '/Edit/Search folder'
- dialog.
-
-* '/Edit/Find' has been added to the Compose window for text
- searching.
-
-* A progress bar is now shown in the status bar whilst doing a Quick
- Search.
-
-* A long search can now be cancelled.
-
-* In a Sent mail folder the From column in the message list is now
- automatically changed to the To column.
-
-* '/Message/Colour Label' has been added to the main menu, enabling
- (unmodifiable) shortcut keys, Ctrl+[0-7].
-
-* The colour labels are now customisable from the 'Display/Colours'
- page of the Preferences. It is now possible to choose any colours
- and to give them each a label.
-
-* A Spell Checking option to 'Recheck message when changing
- dictionary' has been added.
-
-* An option to 'Render HTML-only mail with plugin if possible' has
- been added to the 'Message View/Text Options' preferences page.
-
-* Headers in the message view and the Custom headers dialog are now
- translated if the option 'Translate header names' is activated.
-
-* It is now possible to sort the columns in the Addressbook.
-
-* More drag-n-drop capabilities have been added, from the message
- list to other apps, from the mimeview to other apps, from other
- apps to message list, from other apps to folder list, from the
- mimeview to the message and folder lists and the Compose window's
- attachments pane.
-
-* "Ignore thread" has beed added as a filtering action.
-
-* The Compose window is now hidden when sending mails via filtering.
-
-* An alphabetical resort is done immediately when a folder's name
- is changed.
-
-* Unsubscribing a newsgroup now removes the related folder and
- articles from newscache/
-
-* A "Get more..." link has been added to the Plugins window. This
- loads http://claws.sylpheed.org/plugins.php in your browser.
-
-* The SpamAssassin plugin is now equipped with a spam learning
- interface, usable by right-clicking a message and choosing
- 'Mark as Spam' or 'Mark as Ham' in the Mark submenu. It is now also
- possible to disable SpamAssasin filtering when receiving mail, so
- that the plugin can be used for learning only.
-
-* Remote learning in the SpamAssassin plugin has been added. This
- requires SpamAssassin 3.1.x.
-
-* A new script has been added that integrates a Thunderbird folder
- tree into Sylpheed-Claws, tools/tbird2syl.py
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Bulgarian, Czech,
- Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Serbian,
- Simplified Chinese, and Spanish translations.
-
-* Bugfixes:
-
- o bug 908, 'Flagging on IMAP-Server fails'
- o bug 916, 'newsgroup unsubscribe segmentation fault'
- o bug 924, 'Account combo box shows up wrong if & is in
- account name'
- o bug 927, 'SIGSEGV during Update Summary'
- o bug 929, 'Unnecessary reload in quick search bar'
- o fix a crash in JPilot
- o fix drafting on IMAP
- o prevent double-timeouts when connection IMAP fails
- o return immediately when IMAP password dialog is cancelled
- o fix missing expunge on IMAP, causing folder refresh
- problems in certain conditions
- o fix crash on Reply with no From:
- o fix undoing by blocks with spaces in Compose
- o fix auto-wrap disabling itself after a middle-click paste
- o convert passphrase to locale encoding
- o fix GPG preferences items sensitivity
- o fix some problems on heavily customized toolbars
- o fix race conditions when big uncached mails are used in
- closable windows
- o fix crashes on cancelling the Quick Search
- o fix wrong Fake URL Warning
- o fix the busy cursor not appearing in the textview
- o fix a crash with the preview in file dialog, on Solaris
- o fix useless reload of summaryview after execution (of copy
- or delete actions)
- o fix update of caches after actions involving %f or %F
- o fix search in quoted-printable bodies
- o fix code conversion on reply when date format returns a
- non-UTF8 string
- o fix some GUI issues and compilation warnings
- o Empty strings for passwords are now allowed.
- o disable Manual menu if the manual's not installed
- o Allow URIs containing '(' and ')'
+* 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
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi