-31st October 2005 Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.99
+31st July 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://claws.sylpheed.org
+ http://www.sylpheed-claws.net
-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:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+New in this release:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* The binary is now 'sylpheed-claws' and not 'sylpheed'
+* A ./configure option has been added, --with-mandir=DIR allowing the
+ setting of the man directory location
-* 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.
+* 'Send queue' has been added to the folder contextual menu, which
+ allows sending the contents of a single queue, as opposed to the
+ toolbar's Send Queue, which sends all queues
-* A new default internal icon theme has been added, based on the
- Gnomaws theme.
+* '/View/Go to/Next unread folder' has been added
-New in this release:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+* 'View/Go to/Next marked messages' now traverses folders
+
+* sftp:// links are now recognised in mails
+
+* A dialogue is presented to the user when dropping files into the
+ Compose window, asking whether to insert or attach the file(s). The
+ default behaviour can be controlled via a new option in
+ Compose/Writing
+
+* Allow attached message parts to be selected, opened, or saved via
+ their text label in the message body
+
+* Save named inlined attachments with "Save all"
+
+* An option to change the Folder Type has been added to the Folder
+ Properties
+
+* Add |i{sub_expr} to Templates, which allows inserting user-entered
+ text in a template
+
+* A new option has been added to '/Preferences/External programs' to
+ allow "Display as text" on attachments to be done via a script
+
+* An option to 'Never send Return Receipts' has been added to the
+ 'Other' page of the preferences.
+
+* The Custom Header dialogue in Account Preferences now has a 'From
+ file...' button, which enables a Face or X-Face header to be set by
+ selecting a file
+
+* libgnomeprint support : A font for printing can be specified in
+ '/Display/Fonts'
+
+* Add Help buttons to some dialogues, clicking on them will open the
+ manual at a suitable section in the configured browser
+
+* The option 'Add date header' has been removed, a date header is
+ now always added
+
+* The '/Message/Re-edit' menu item has been removed from the separate
+ Message View, where it was useless
+
+* Display an Account's Protocol as a label instead of the unusable
+ combo when editing accounts
+
+* It is now possible to move and copy mails from and to the Drafts
+ and Queue folders
+
+* More non-English Subject prefixes have been added
+
+* The Attachment flag is now set for some inlined attachments
+
+* Faster recursive quicksearch (show current folder's results before
+ searching sub-folders)
+
+* Faster send on IMAP
+
+* Alert in case of authentication error on imap
+
+* Better error reporting in GPG plugins
+
+* Faster and better MBOX import/export
+
+* Save caches on SIGPIPE (like on Xorg exit)
+
+* Unified Info/Help/Symbols buttons
+
+* Honor display-header-pane setting in separate window too
+
+* Use the user-defined From: in the Return-Path: header when sending
+
+* Grab Save button by default in Save dialog, which allows saving
+ by hitting Enter
+
+* The online status is checked before resetting mailcheck timer
+
+* Show POP3 connection earlier in statusbar
+
+* Re-read /etc/resolv.conf before connecting to IMAP servers, and
+ when switching to Online mode
-* Every Alert Panel now has keyboard accelerators.
+* tools/textviewer.pl has been added, which can be used with the new
+ option 'Command for Display as Text' in '/Preferences/External
+ programs'
-* An 'Only once' button has been added for overriding Offline mode
+* The Sylpheed-Claws logo has been updated
-* Installation Wizard:
- Added Local mbox.
- Added IMAP subdir.
- Moved IMAP subdir from Advanced to Receive tab.
- A welcome message has been added.
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, French, German, Greek,
+ Italian, Polish, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
+ translations.
-* 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.
+* Bug fixes:
+ o bug 977, 'Can't add or edit imap accounts'
+ o bug 978, 'Disconnect from IMAP server when going offline'
+ o bug 981, 'sc 2.3.1 segfaults with gtk+ 2.10'
+ o Fix double '/Go to/Next ...'
+ o Fix signature replacement when changing accounts and
+ re-editing, in certains cases
+ o Don't report a GPG error when Cancel is clicked on the
+ passphrase dialogue
+ o Block undo while changing signature
+ o Don't freeze the GUI when rescanning local folders after a
+ crash/kill
+ o Fix default button for rules, actions, templates when
+ attempting to close without saving (default was to close)
+ o Fix compilation on some systems
+ o Fix a race condition when, after an SC crash, rescanning
+ folders took more than 0.5 seconds
+ o Don't allow the use of inboxes from F_UNKNOWN folders as
+ default inbox, vCalendar plugin for example
+ o Fixed off-by-one count of current message in the statusbar
+ filtering progressbar
+ o Fix focus of button in Actions I/O dialogue
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.
projects / claws.git / blobdiff