-8th November 2005 Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100
+5th April 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
http://claws.sylpheed.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is an extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
-lightweight, and fast e-mail client
+Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
+user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client.
Notes for this release:
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-* etpan >= 0.40 is now required for IMAP support
- 0.40 fixes the SSL connection errors that some users experienced.
+* libetpan version 0.45 or newer is now required for IMAP support,
+ this allows checking for IMAP/SSL certificates.
-* Buffer overflows in the address book 'Import LDIF/Mutt/Pine file'
- functions were fixed. This was a security hole. It only affected
- these address book import functions, but we recommend that everyone
- upgrade.
New in this release:
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-* GnuPG support:
- Signature checking is now non-blocking
+* Support for the Face header has been added,
+ see http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/
-* The URLs in the About window are now clickable
+* In the Templates dialog TAB address completion has been added for
+ Cc and Bcc fields, in addition to To.
-* the man page has been updated and renamed 'sylpheed-claws'
+* An account's signature file, (Account Preferences, Compose tab),
+ can now been edited in place using the configured text editor.
-* Bug fixes, including the following:
- o bug 314, 'Queue does not empty under certain circumstances'
- o bug 841, 'Sort by the From field doesn't work'
- o Fix replying to ml when confirming subscription
- o Fix totals when read messages are hidden or quicksearch is
- on
- o Fix addressbook import of base-64 encoded items
+* 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 ')'
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.