-8th May 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0
+6th November 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://claws.sylpheed.org
+ http://www.sylpheed-claws.net
Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
Notes for this release:
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-* S/MIME signature verification has been removed from the PGP/MIME
- plugin as it is now provided by the S/MIME plugin.
+* libetpan 0.48 or greater is now required for IMAP support.
New in this release:
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-* 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
+* The Compose window now has an /Options/Reply mode/ menu. This
+ enables changing the recipients of a reply on the fly.
+
+* QuickSearch now has a type-ahead option for fast searches.
+
+* Extra symbols are now available for the Quote parser, your name,
+ your email address, the account name, and the organization.
+
+* In the Folder Properties, it is now possible to test the regular
+ expression used in the Simplify Subject RegExp option.
+
+* GSSAPI support has been added for IMAP.
+
+* UIDPLUS support has been added for IMAP.
+
+* A Stop button has been added for Message Body searches, enabling
+ cancelling of a running search. This is available in '/Edit/Search
+ Folder...' and '/Edit/Find in current message...'.
+
+* libSM support has been added. This enables communication with the
+ session manager, so that it is known when the session ends, in
+ order to save the caches, and draft any messages currently being
+ composed.
+
+* Support for Address Book Groups has been added to the Compose
+ window's automatic address completion.
+
+* a new hidden option has been added, 'respect_flowed_format'. This
+ follows RFC3676 with regard to a message part with a Content-Type
+ that includes 'format=flowed' and 'delsp=yes'. This will cause some
+ mails to have long lines, but will fix some URLs that would
+ otherwise be wrapped. By default it is turned off.
+
+* Basic key import/export has been added to the PGP plugins. When
+ generating a new key pair you can export the public key to a key
+ server. When selecting the signature part of a message, if the key
+ is not on your keyring, you will be asked if you want to attempt
+ to import it from a keyserver.
+
+* The TrayIcon now displays 'offline' status.
+
+* More window sizes and placements are remembered across sessions.
+
+* tools/fix_date.sh: Switches to replace non RFC-compliant Date:
+ value, and to use strict RFC matching patterns for dates have been
+ added.
+
+* Several optimisations have been made.
+
+* The manual has been updated.
+
+* Updated translations in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French,
+ German, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ o bug 1035, 'Incorrect handling of flowed lines'
+ o bug 1036, 'Forwarding a mutlipart mail with a "text/html"
+ block to ms outlook users leeds to freeze of
+ outlook'
+ o bug 1044, 'sylpheed-claws segfaults while moving mails'
+ o bug 1045, 'sylpheed-claws doesn't remove the mail from the
+ IMAP Queue folder after sending'
+ o bug 1046, 'jpilot AddressDB.pdb import fail'
+ o bug 1048, 'Spamassassin plugin license problem'
+ o fix broken storage of quote format template when it
+ contains \-escape sequences
+ o fix crash when printing emails with an xface
+ o fix building on BSDs
+ o fix duplicate error messages when sending
+ o do not delete the contacts when deleting address book
+ groups
+ o tools/fix_date.sh: fix date value extraction
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi