-30th January 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0
+31st July 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://claws.sylpheed.org
+ http://www.sylpheed-claws.net
-Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
-lightweight, and fast e-mail client
-
-Notes for this release:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* libetpan >= 0.41 is now required for IMAP support
+Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+email client.
New in this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Manual
-------
-* A new and completely rewritten manual has been added.
- It is accessible using your browser by clicking '/Help/Manual' on
- the main toolbar.
+* A ./configure option has been added, --with-mandir=DIR allowing the
+ setting of the man directory location
+
+* '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
+
+* '/View/Go to/Next unread folder' has been added
+
+* '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
-Icon legend
------------
-* An icon legend window has been added to the Help menu, accessible
- by clicking '/Help/Icon legend' on the main toolbar.
+* Grab Save button by default in Save dialog, which allows saving
+ by hitting Enter
-Priting
--------
-* Attached images can now be printed along with the message when using
- the optional libgnomeprintui support.
+* The online status is checked before resetting mailcheck timer
-Command line usage
-------------------
-* '--exit' has been added.
+* Show POP3 connection earlier in statusbar
-* '--subscribe' has been added.
- Calling sylpheed-claws --subscribe '%s' will ask the loaded plugins
- if they can handle the type of URL passed as a parameter. Thus, if
- using the RSSyl or vCalendar plugins, for example, the user will be
- able to subscribe RSS feeds or Webcals from the browser.
+* Re-read /etc/resolv.conf before connecting to IMAP servers, and
+ when switching to Online mode
-* sylpheed-claws email@domain.com is now equivalent to --compose
+* tools/textviewer.pl has been added, which can be used with the new
+ option 'Command for Display as Text' in '/Preferences/External
+ programs'
-* sylpheed-claws proto://blah.com is equivalent to --subscribe
+* The Sylpheed-Claws logo has been updated
-GUI improvements
-----------------
-* HIG compliant button order has been implemented.
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, French, German, Greek,
+ Italian, Polish, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
+ translations.
-* Several dialogues throughout have been improved.
-
-Main Toolbar
-------------
-* Text can now also been displayed next to the icons.
-
-* Quick mail retrieval from any account is now possible due to the
- account submenu which has been added to the 'Get All' button.
-
-Compose window
---------------
-* The spellchecker context menu in the compose window has been added
- to the standard GtkTextView menu instead of replacing it.
-
-* The Subject in the window title now updates instantaneously.
-
-* The mimetypes list in the attachment pane is now alphabetically
- ordered.
-
-Message View
-------------
-* The email and URI parsers have been enhanced.
-
-Quick Search
-------------
-* In Extended mode, a '...' button has been added, this provides the
- user with a dialogue enabling the quick formation of search
- criteria.
-
-* Do not refocus quick search after executing (Esc or Enter). This
- enables using the '/' shortcut key, search for something, then move
- up/down in the message list, and then Esc a search and be back in
- the folder list.
-
-* When quick search is activated, the entry box is given a yellow
- background for greater visibility.
-
-Address book
-------------
-* The LDAP search in the address book now supports wildcard searching
- using '*'.
-
-Preferences
------------
-* The option 'Go to inbox after receiving new mail' has been moved
- from 'Display/Summaries' to 'Mail handling/Receive'.
-
-* The 'Wrap at send' option has been removed.
-
-* Colour preferences have been moved from '/Message View/Colors' to
- '/Display/Colors'.
-
-* The previously hidden option, color_new, has been added to the GUI
- as '/Display/Colors/Folder' containing new messages.
-
-Plugins
--------
-* The spamassassin and spamassassin_gtk plugins have been merged into
- one single plugin, and this plugin is now built by default if the
- requirements are matched.
-
-* The clamav and clamav_gtk plugins have been merged into one single
- plugin.
-
-* GnuPG support: Add support for PKA info if available
-
-* The PGP/Inline plugin now supports Content-Type 'application/pgp'.
-
-* A check to verify that plugins are licenced under a GPL-compatible
- licence has been added.
-
-* The unmaintained mathml_viewer plugin has been removed.
-
-Tools
------
-* Add filter_conv_new.pl.
- Converts the new style Sylpheed filter rules (Sylpheed >= 0.9.99)
- to Claws filtering rules.
-
-Translations
-------------
-* new Greek and Swedish translations.
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Dutch, Finnish,
- French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Serbian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese translations.
-
-* Bugfixes:
- o bug 843, 'Inbox cannot be changed for local mailboxes'
- o bug 845, 'sylpheed-claws 1.9.99+ start in minimised state'
- o bug 856, 'reediting messages forgets Request Return
- Receipt'
- o bug 862, 'undo of wrapped, pasted text deletes part of
- message'
- o bug 863, 'windows-1252 encoding option missing from message
- view window'
- o bug 866, 'Show key id when missing'
- o bug 867, 'Report also key trust'
- o bug 875, 'Freeze On Inline Forward of Large Message'
- o bug 882, 'quick scroll in folder list displays wrong folder
- contents'
- o bug 883, 'default inbox does not track folder move'
- o bug 884, ''Send receipt' button visible in queue'
- o bug 888, '2.0.0rc3 not displaying image in message view'
- o bug 896, 'PT_BR locale broken'
- o bug 897, 'message header is resetted if one is copied to
- Drafts'
- o crash when closing description windows using the WM's [X]
- button
- o crash when copying/moving message(s) from and to the same
- folder
- o missing listing of text/* attachments in the message view
- o Filtering ~message, ~headers_part, ~body_part rules
- o possible crash on connection failure when sending
- o crashes in prefs after unloading Spamassassin or Clamav
- plugins
- o spurious displaying on message when "Always open messages"
- isn't set
- o last-used directory for loading attachments wasn't cached
- o assertion failure in msgcache_add_msg
- o cursor positioning not obeying %X
- o don't deselect stuff in compose window before right-
- clicking, with aspell.
- o autosave on IMAP
- o copying/moving between normal and draft/queue in IMAP
- o occasional failure in fetching a mail over IMAP
- o don't remove a draft when sending it, if it is locked
- o wrapping issues
- o prevent mail from being lost without notice when an SMTP
- error happens on trying to send an unmodified drafted mail
- o forget SMTP password if wrong
- o recursive prefs apply
- o attach_load_dir set to PLUGINDIR on plugin load
- o possible crashes on exit and in addressbook
- o allow templates without text
- o deselection of text when right-clicking in Compose windows
- o automatic encoding in some corner-cases
- o 'Get Mail' sensitivity in the Trayicon Plugin
- o 'Trash' sensitivity when receiving
- o don't start the wizard when folders exist, even if they are
- unloaded
- o update the default keybinds
+* 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