-31st October 2005 Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.99
+8th May 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0
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 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'
-
-* 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.
+* S/MIME signature verification has been removed from the PGP/MIME
+ plugin as it is now provided by the S/MIME plugin.
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
-
-* Installation Wizard:
- Added Local mbox.
- Added IMAP subdir.
- Moved IMAP subdir from Advanced to Receive tab.
- A welcome message has been added.
-
-* 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.
+* IMAP users will see significant speed improvements.
+
+* ANONYMOUS auth has been added for IMAP
+
+* In the Compose window all spell-checker options are now available
+ from the /Spelling/Options menu.
+
+* Syntax errors in the extended Quick Search are now indicated by
+ a pink/red background.
+
+* An encrypt-to-self option has been added to the Account Privacy
+ options.
+
+* Sysadmins can now provide their users with pre-filled values in
+ the Setup Wizard. See the manual, '6.6. Deploying Sylpheed-Claws',
+ for details.
+
+* Various GUI improvements have been added.
+
+* A new command line option has been added: --select 'folder[/msg]'
+ This can be used at startup and causes the specified folder/message
+ to be selected. 'folder' is a folder id like '#mh/Mailbox/inbox'
+
+* Optional background colouring of quotes has been added. It can be
+ configured from the Colour Preferences dialogue.
+ GTK+-2.8.x or newer is required for this feature.
+
+* In the Compose window, multiple quote levels are now coloured in
+ the same way as the Message View.
+
+* A warning is now displayed on expired SSL certificates and the
+ expiration date is shown.
+
+* A hidden option has been added, 'compose_no_markup', this prohibits
+ the use of bold and italic text in Compose dialogue's account
+ selector.
+
+* LDAPS support has been added.
+
+* The user manual has been updated, and French and Polish
+ translations are now also included.
+
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Czech, Dutch,
+ Finnish, French, German, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and
+ Spanish translations.
+
+* Bugfixes:
+ o bug 859, 'problems with cyrilic input in search panel'
+ o bug 912, '"new" count randomly set to message count'
+ o bug 919, 'libetpan: SEGV when connecting using command'
+ o bug 925, 'File accountrc does not store non-ascii
+ characters correctly'
+ o bug 933, 'Crash re-entering the custom headers list dialog
+ in accounts prefs'
+ o bug 943, 'Incorrectly parsed email address list in short
+ headers on message view and in printouts'
+ * src/compose.c
+ Fix inserting files not in utf8 when locale is utf8
+ * Don't show error dialog when cancelling connection
+ * src/summary_search.c
+ 'stop' button was sticky when searching in an empty
+ folder.
+ * src/addressbook.c
+ Fix crash with empty columns
+ * src/plugins/spamassassin/spamassassin_gtk.c
+ Fix missing set_text on unix socket
+ * src/send_message.c
+ enforce a check for domain in account prefs (a
+ sending error could be faced if domain was checked
+ but no value set)
+ * src/prefs_matcher.c
+ Fix values when reselecting a ~test rule
+ * IMAP: fix preventing renaming with namespace separator
+ * Fix build on DragonFly
+ * Fix occasional flicker in folderview
+ * Fix crash on redirect (related to the return of the aspell
+ menu in compose's toolbar)
+ * Fix returned quick search results when search term contains
+ an underscore
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.