-18th April 2008 Claws Mail 3.4.0
+7th August 2016 Claws Mail 3.14.0
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.
New in this release:
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-* Added support for /dev/mem_notify. This Linux kernel feature
- will allow applications to be notified that memory has to be
- freed before getting OOM-killed.
- For more information: http://lwn.net/Articles/267013/
+* Passwords can now be secured with a Master Passphrase.
+ (/Configuration/Preferences/Other/Miscellaneous/)
+
+* Passwords: The password storage method has changed. All passwords
+ are now stored in a separate file, (~/.claws-mail/passwordstorerc),
+ and use a stronger encryption than previously. Existing passwords
+ are moved to the new file automatically, in the old format. The
+ new format will be used whenever old passwords are changed or when
+ a Master Passphrase is used. All new passwords are saved using the
+ new format, irrespective of whether a Master Passphrase is used or
+ not. Further information can be found here:
+ http://www.claws-mail.org/doc/password_encryption.txt
+
+* Compose window: Removed the outer scrollbar from header area.
-* Enabled moving/copying folders to root folders when using the
- folder selection dialogue.
+* Message view: The HTML to plain text converter now indicates list
+ items with a hyphen (-), adds a line break after <dd>, and indents
+ text within blockquotes.
-* Global and per-folder templates can now override the From name.
+* Main window: Changed default /View/Show or hide/Menubar shortcut to
+ Ctrl+F12.
-* Added a tooltip with extended folder stats. (Hover the cursor over
- the short stats on the right, below the message list.)
+* SSL certificates list: Added automatic scrollbar.
-* Implemented 2-line items in the message list when in three column
- mode.
+* Address book: Double-clicking datasources now opens the edit
+ dialogue.
-* Added support for png themes.
+* Forwarding: The external editor is now automatically used when
+ forwarding as attachment, if the preference is set.
-* Added an icon for attached patches (text/x-patch and text/x-diff).
+* Preferences: Automatic mail checking can now be configured in
+ hours, minutes and seconds.
+ (/Configuration/Preferences/Mail Handling/Receiving)
-* When viewing a message that has a large amount of text, show a
- maximum of 1MB of text and add a noticeview to show optionally show
- the whole message.
+* Preferences: The 'next_on_delete' hidden preference now applies to
+ trashing or moving, in addition to deleting, a message.
-* Added a button to the templates preferences to restore defaults for
- current language.
+* Command line: Added -geometry to set geometry for main window.
-* Added search in filtering rules list.
+* IMAP: Added SASL 'PLAIN' and 'LOGIN' authentication methods for
+ accounts. Renamed the old plaintext 'LOGIN' to 'plaintext'.
-* Bogofilter Plugin:
- Added a "learn from whitelist" preference.
+* IMAP: The acccount preference, 'Move deleted mails to trash and
+ expunge immediately' has been removed.
-* MAEMO:
- Added information when fetching large messages.
+* Notification plugin: Added 'Get mail from account...' to the
+ SysTray module's menu.
-* tools/csv2addressbook.pl
- Added support for Kmail/Kaddressbook.
+* Notification plugin: Focus the widget between iconify/deiconify
+ events.
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French,
- German, and Italian.
+* Tools: Added tools/cm-reparent.pl, which can be used to fix thread
+ parenting for two or more messages.
+
+* Documentation: Updated man page and manual.
+
+* Translations: Updated: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Dutch,
+ Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian,
+ Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional
+ Chinese.
+ Added: Danish, Indonesian, Turkish.
+ Dropped: Lithuanian (unmaintained)
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1494, 'Trayicon plugin breaks UI...' (MAEMO)
- o bug 1515, 'large messages crash claws when syncing for
- offline mode'
- o bug 1532, '"login refused" message insufficiently
- detailed'
- o bug 1533, 'Claws is unable to mark messages as "read" in
- IMAP shared folders'
- o bug 1534, 'Segmentation fault when doing some draft saving
- and then throwing away'
- o bug 1539, 'Program crashes':
- Setup Gcrypt's thread functions when built with
- GnuTLS
- o bug 1541, 'Deleting message from within read window
- displays next message then closes.' (MAEMO)
- o bug 1553, 'File lock not respected'
- o bug 1555, 'Bug with the feature "save a copy of outgoing
- messages in this folder"'
- o bug 1559, 'Claws Mail crashed deleting all common contacts'
- o bug 1561, 'Crashes leaving unsubscribed folder after
- ticking "Show only subscribed"'
- o bug 1562, 'Claws-Mail does not completely respect settings
- in GTK2_RC_FILES environment'
- o Fix blinking of the taskbar entry.
- o Fix folder view's scrollbar at startup if starting hidden.
- o If no MH mailbox and no account exists, when creating a
- POP/Local account, just create it and use the default one
- instead of bailing with a "Mailbox doesn't exist" error.
- o Clean up session disconnection. Possibly fix Ubuntu bug
- #204290
- o Fix RedHat bug 431735, 'segfault if /home is full'
- o Fix compose template formats (in global preferences)
- getting translated under specific conditions.
- o Fix updating of tags menu.
- o Fix log size getting out of control (claws-mail getting
- SIGXFSZ): rotate if every 10MB.
- o Fix debian bug 474712, 'claws seg faults when IMAP
- connection breaks after an IMAP protocol error (BAD UID
- SEARCH Invalid parameter: $Forwarded)]'
-
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+ o bug 2518, '"Reply-All" message from NNTP-account does not
+ contain CC'ed correspondents'
+ o bug 2781, 'Unsanitised Folder Creation'
+ o bug 3028, 'Claws doesn't select html part if attachments
+ present'
+ o bug 3213, 'Line break in subject of message'
+ o bug 3573, 'Out of bounds read in macro LBREAK_IF_REQUIRED
+ in codeconv.c'
+ o bug 3581, 'sys:1: Warning: Source ID # was not found when
+ attempting to remove it'
+ o bug 3603, 'Feeds from Reddit are empty'
+ o bug 3610, 'Heap use after free in
+ privacy_mimeinfo_check_signature()'
+ o bug 3616, 'segfault setting up new CM in new userid'
+ o bug 3623, 'Client crash on importing duplicated feed'
+ o bug 3629, 'Invalid subject can distort message list view'
+ o bug 3652, 'utils.c:4740:47: warning: ordered comparison of
+ pointer with integer zero [-Wextra]'
+ o bug 3653, 'Upgrading from Mageia5 default (3.11.1),
+ 3.13.2git tries to load 3.11.1 plugins'
+ o bug 3658, 'Passphrase ignored during keypair generation
+ with gpg2'
+ o include Reply-To value when using 'reply to all'
+ o inputdialog modality and focus issue
+ o fix Compose account selection when imap folder is selected.
+ o set correct rcdir on Win32
+ o Fix behavior in selecting PGP MIME signature on Windows.
+ o RSSyl: typo in handling feed name ending with a period on
+ Win32
+ o vCalendar: Handle ical lines longer than 256 bytes
+
+For further details of the numbered bugs and RFEs listed above
+see http://claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
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