-31st October 2005 Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.99
+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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-* The binary is now 'sylpheed-claws' and not 'sylpheed'
+* libetpan version 0.45 or newer is now required for IMAP support,
+ this allows checking for IMAP/SSL certificates.
-* The default config dir is now '~/.sylpheed-claws'. The user will
- be prompted to perform an automatic migration of configuration
- options to this new directory.
-
-* A new default internal icon theme has been added, based on the
- Gnomaws theme.
New in this release:
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-* Every Alert Panel now has keyboard accelerators.
-
-* An 'Only once' button has been added for overriding Offline mode
+* Support for the Face header has been added,
+ see http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/
-* Installation Wizard:
- Added Local mbox.
- Added IMAP subdir.
- Moved IMAP subdir from Advanced to Receive tab.
- A welcome message has been added.
+* In the Templates dialog TAB address completion has been added for
+ Cc and Bcc fields, in addition to To.
-* Messages are now sorted by Date by default
-
-* An offline switch has been added to the Trayicon plugin
-
-* Speed improvements to IMAP have been added.
-
-* When replying to an ML post with a Reply-To set on the poster's
- email, set the ML address in the To field and the Reply-To address
- in the Cc: field.
-
-* A warning dialog has been added on Mark all read, with a pref to
- prohibit it from re-asking.
-
-* GnuPG support:
- The noticeview is now shown on the message/rfc822 part in addition
- to the text/plain part.
- The privacy icon in the noticeview is now clickable and also uses
- key C to perform the signature check.
- The Trust field has been moved into Full info display.
- When trust is less than full, don't display a warning icon.
- Visual feedback is provided in the statusbar when checking
- signature.
- The PGP/MIME signature file is now named 'signature.asc'.
- The dialog for entering a passphrase has been improved.
-
-* Local deletion of news posts has been added.
-
-* A file selector has been added for selecting an account's Signature
- file
-
-* Many window sizes are now remembered.
-
-* The presense of marked msgs in unexpanded subfolders is now indicated
- by the icon of the parent folder.
-
-* QuickSearch:
- The message list is reset when the dialog is hidden.
- The 'Sticky' option, for keeping the search activated across folders.
-
-* The Subject is now set when forwarding multiple mails.
-
-* When a default Cc or Bcc is used, a check is performed to make sure
- the To header has also been set.
-
-* In the filtering dialog a warning dialog is shown if the rule was
- not saved.
-
-* The file and directory Browse buttons, ("...") have been improved.
-
-* When double-clicking an attachment the "Open with" dialog is
- presented if no command was found for the file type.
-
-* The X-Face has been added to the message view and can be toggled by
- '/Configuration/Preferences/Message View/Text options/Display
- X-Face in messageview'.
-
-* The message list context menu has been reworked.
-
-* When replying to a mail sent by yourself, Reply excludes your own
- address from the list of recipients. 'Reply All' and 'Reply to
- sender' still work like before.
-
-* When the Folder Preference 'Default To for replies' the entry in
- the Compose window is presented in bold text.
-
-* The About window has been reworked.
-
-* In the Themes preferences the list of themes is now alphabetically
- sorted.
-
-* updated translations: British English, Catalan, French, German,
- Italian, Norwegian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, and Spanish.
-
-* Bug fixes, including the following:
- o bug 826, 'X-Server hangs when right-clicking a PGP
- encrypted message'
- o bug 827, 'sylpheed-claws-gtk2: "Welcome" setup wizard after
- a permission error gives up & forgets itself.'
- o bug 828, 'Ignoring headers with spaces around = sign'
- o bug 829, 'Non-working "Encrypt message by default when
- replying to an encrypted message"'
- o bug 833, 'Autocompleting from addressbook fails with
- extended chars'
- o bug 834, 'Pressing CTRl-D on a message marked as locked
- crashes sylpheed.'
- o Fix mbox import/export buglets
- o fix disabled Execute menu item
- o Fix selection of current theme in prefs
- o Reselect "None" Privacy system when selecting an account
- with no privacy system defined
- o IMAP: Fixes related to mail subdir, creation and deletion
- of folders
- o IMAP: Don't allow creation of folders in NoInferior folders
- o IMAP: Fix bug when moving a folder
- o Fix pref corruption on folder move.
- o Fix corruption of column titles in summaryview
- o Fix SSL manager buttons' layout resizing when window size
- changes
- o fix news folder Folder Properties
- o Fix encoding issue in Save all and in overwrite-
- confirmation alertpanel
- o jPilot: Fix encoding
- o gnomeprint: Fix date format
- o Actions: fix crash on menu creation due to '/' in the
- action menu name
- o Fix updating of 'n items selected' count in summaryview
- when deselecting
- o Fix building on Solaris
- o Fix cursor position if quotation gets rewrapped.
+* 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 ')'
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.