-19th December 2008 Claws Mail 3.7.0
+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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-* Expanding/Collapsing of threads is now approximately 95% faster.
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-* Cache reading is now approximately 10% faster.
+* Passwords can now be secured with a Master Passphrase.
+ (/Configuration/Preferences/Other/Miscellaneous/)
-* The shortcut key settings of the main window and the message list
- context menus are now connected.
+* 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
-* The preferences on the 'Other' page have now been moved to
- Other/Miscellaneous. The parent pages are now unselectable and the
- first page is automatically selected on opening the preferences.
+* Compose window: Removed the outer scrollbar from header area.
-* In the Compose window, on the Others tab, the 'Save message to'
- entry now has a drop-down list of the previous save locations.
+* 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.
-* In the Compose window, the Attachments Properties window is now
- confirmed and closed with the Return key.
+* Main window: Changed default /View/Show or hide/Menubar shortcut to
+ Ctrl+F12.
-* When using an external editor to compose messages, the message is
- automatically saved to Drafts when the external editor is closed.
+* SSL certificates list: Added automatic scrollbar.
-* A hidden option has been added, 'primary_paste_unselects' which
- causes the primary buffer to be cleared and the insertion point to
- be repositioned when the middle mouse button is used for pasting
- text. It is turned off by default.
+* Address book: Double-clicking datasources now opens the edit
+ dialogue.
-* In the Actions window, the Escape key now cancels the action
- editing.
+* Forwarding: The external editor is now automatically used when
+ forwarding as attachment, if the preference is set.
-* Offline SSL certificate verification has been added.
+* Preferences: Automatic mail checking can now be configured in
+ hours, minutes and seconds.
+ (/Configuration/Preferences/Mail Handling/Receiving)
-* Privacy plugins: The decryption failure messages are now shown
- in the NoticeView just above the message text rather than in a
- popup window.
+* Preferences: The 'next_on_delete' hidden preference now applies to
+ trashing or moving, in addition to deleting, a message.
-* Privacy plugins: when listing the UIDs during a signature check,
- show the UID validity
+* Command line: Added -geometry to set geometry for main window.
-* tools/kdeservicemenu
- Support for kde4 has been added.
+* IMAP: Added SASL 'PLAIN' and 'LOGIN' authentication methods for
+ accounts. Renamed the old plaintext 'LOGIN' to 'plaintext'.
-* tools/popfile-link.sh
- Support for reusing existing POPFile session ID has been added.
+* IMAP: The acccount preference, 'Move deleted mails to trash and
+ expunge immediately' has been removed.
-* win32: better integration has been implemented by using the
- standard file associations.
+* Notification plugin: Added 'Get mail from account...' to the
+ SysTray module's menu.
-* The user manuals have been updated.
+* Notification plugin: Focus the widget between iconify/deiconify
+ events.
-* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Finnish, French,
- German, Hungarian, Russian and Swedish translations.
+* Tools: Added tools/cm-reparent.pl, which can be used to fix thread
+ parenting for two or more messages.
-* Added Czech translation.
+* Documentation: Updated man page and manual.
-* Removed unmaintained Serbian and Slovak translations.
+* 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 1591, 'S/MIME: better key handling/selection dialog'
- o bug 1711, 'Save-as attachment crashes'
- o bug 1736, 'Key import does not work'
- o bug 1746, 'Makes a mailto link from several paragraphs'
- o bug 1756, "Outdated translators list in About dialogue"
- o bug 1768, 'claws-mail crashes while checking smime bad
- signature'
- o bug 1771, 'Folder template gets truncated when exiting the
- application'
- o bug 1776, 'use encoded name parameters for attachments
- instead of ascii'
- o bug 1779, 'PGP Inline badly handles multipart'
- o bug 1789, 'filtering account selection (regression)'
- o bug 1796, 'PGP/MIME setting: "select key by your email
- address" doesn't work'
- o fix building with gnuTLS on (Open)Solaris
- o fix account selection in Mailing list menu
- o fix "display sender using addressbook" when
- prefs_common.swap_from is in use.
- o win32: fix unlinking, renaming and bug with non-ascii
- username
- o win32: fix getting content-type
- o win32: prevent multiple launch
- o win32: fix Start menu update after registering as default
- Mail app
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-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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