-27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
+26th July 2019 Claws Mail 3.17.4
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
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Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
-Notes for this release:
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-* Claws Mail now requires libetpan 0.56 for IMAP and NNTP
-
-* Spell checking is now provided by Enchant instead of Aspell. To
- build spell checker support, you will need the libenchant headers.
-
-* The S/MIME plugin is now part of this package.
-
-* IMAP, NNTP, and SSL are now supported in the Windows port.
-
New in this release:
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-* Support for client SSL certificates.
-
-* Better support of SSL certificate stores, to be able to verify
- server certificates.
-
-* Renaming of newsgroups is possible.
-
-* "Always open message when selected" can now have three values:
- 'Never', 'Always' and 'When message view is visible'.
-
-* Unsaved server passwords can now be temporarily saved for the
- duration of the session. They can be cleared before the session
- expires by using '/Tools/Forget all session passwords'.
-
-* Auto-wrapping settings are now saved in drafted messages.
-
-* Support for basic auto-indentation in the Compose window.
-
-* Support for animated GIFs in the message view.
-
-* Type-ahead search in Filtering, Templates, Actions dialogs now
- select the result of the search.
-
-* Finer granularity in POP3 accounts' Remove After delay - hours in
- addition to days.
-
-* Spam/Ham flag is now stored on IMAP server when possible, using
- "Junk" and "NonJunk" keywords.
-
-* Use less precise intervals when possible for auto-checking, thus
- the CPU is woken up less frequently.
-
-* The warning icon in the main window is cleared when the error it
- relates to is clipped from the network log.
-
-* IMAP errors now reveal the server on which they happen.
-
-* All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced with their
- non-deprecated equivalents.
-
-* csv2addressbook.pl: Added support for FoxMail.
-
-* Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.
-
-* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1620, 'Can't use hardware zoom buttons' (MAEMO)
- o bug 1398, 'Change current account available even when
- there's only one account'
- o bug 1609, 'Icon issues'
- o bug 1673, 'Tools/Harvest Addresses is greyed out if
- folder is empty'
- o bug 1681, 'GnuPG plugin doesn't compile on Solaris"
- o bug 1684, 'View news messages with large attachments
- segfaults'
- o bug 1688, 'Compilation problems on MingW32'
- o bug 1690, 'Copy/paste in edit window may break Undo'
- o bug 1696, 'Viewing binary attachments as text over
- 1MB' (various buglets)
- o bug 1699, 'Separator line misplaced when printing
- emails with long header lines'
- o bug 1412, 'Sign reply if mail was signed'
- o bug 1707, 'Segfault when sorting on hidden column'
- o bug 1710, 'User misreads Discard Message as Discard
- Changes'. Closing a modified re-edited draft will
- now ask whether to discard changes
- o bug 1712, 'Invalid Phishing attempt warning when linked
- text ends with spaces'
- o bug 1723, 'Buffer overflow crash caused by
- preview in 'Date format help' dialog box'
- o bug 1725, 'useless lines in clawsrc'
- o Fixed compilation with GTK 2.14
- o Fixed some memory leaks
- o Fixed upgrading of themes
- o Fixed po-headers appearing on empty templates
- o Fixed folderview's scrollbar state when starting minimized,
- and popping up is done via command line
- o Fixed race condition when closing the Plugins window while a
- plugin is loading
- o Fixed missing localityName (l) field in LDAP
- o Fixed wild rewrapping when adding text to start of some long
- lines
- o Added "Fwd" to the list of known subject prefixes
- o Fixed nickname edition in non-LDAP address books
- o Fixed compose window size saving, which changed when using
- compose-related filtering actions
- o Fixed English usage
- o Don't go to Inbox after manual mail retrieval if there are no
- new mails
- o Fixed migration problems from Aspell to Enchant dictionaries
- o Fixed double opening of file, leading to multiple signatures
- when using signify
- o Fixed image viewer (wrong image displayed, break of resizing
- functionality
- o Fixed handling of HTML parts in multipart/related parts
- o Workaround to decode correctly mails in Windows-1252 codeset
- advertised as ISO-8859-1
- o Added the nb_NO locale's default charset (ISO-8859-1)
- o IMAP: Fixed crash when error happen on session establishment
- o Fixed a lot of Windows-only bugs (bugs 1041, 1042, 1051,
- problems with folders that have non-ASCII characters, the
- huge memory leak, crash on connection failures)
-
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+* New HTML viewer plugin: Litehtml viewer
+
+* Added option 'Enable keyboard shortcuts' to the 'Keyboard
+ shortcuts' frame on /Configuration/Preferences/Other/Miscellaneous
+
+* Compose: implemented copying of attached images to clipboard
+
+* Compose: images and text/uri-list (files) can now be attached by
+ pasting into the Compose window
+
+* Python plugin: window sizes are now remembered for the Python
+ console, the 'Open URLs' and the 'Set mailbox order' windows.
+
+* Fancy plugin: the download-link feature now follows redirections
+
+* MBOX export: the Enter key in the dialogue now starts the export
+
+* The date (ISO format) has been added to log timestamps
+
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Danish,
+ Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Polish, Portuguese,
+ Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese,
+ Turkish
+
+* bug fixes:
+ o bug 1920, 'No automatic NNTP filtering'
+ o bug 2045, 'address book blocks focus on email window'
+ o bug 2131, 'Focus stealing after mail check'
+ o bug 2627, 'Filtering does not work on NNTP'
+ o bug 3070, 'misbehaving text wrapping when URL chars are
+ present'
+ o bug 3838, 'Canceled right-click on message list leaves UI
+ in inconsistent state'
+ o bug 3977, 'Fix crashes when some external APIs fail'
+ o bug 3979, 'Hang (with killing needed) during action which
+ extracts attachments'
+ o bug 4029, 'segfault after deleting message in a window'
+ o bug 4031, 'fingerprint in SSL/TLS certificates for ...
+ (regress error)'
+ o bug 4037, 'Fix some small issues'
+ o bug 4142, 'Translation error on Russian'
+ o bug 4145, 'proxy server for sending doesn't work'
+ o bug 4155, 'remember directory of last saving'
+ o bug 4166, 'corrupted double-linked list'
+ 0 bug 4167, 'Max line length exceeded when forwarding mail'
+ o bug 4188, 'STL file is sent not as an attachment but as its
+ base64 representation in plaintext'
+ o CID 1442278, 'impossible to trigger buffer overflow'
+ o Make key accelerators from menu work in addressbook window
+ o save checkbox choices of display/summaries/defaults prefs
+ o Do not throw an error when cancelling 'Save email as...'.
+ o occasional crash on drag'n'drop of msgs
+ o possible stack overflow in vcalendar's Curl data handler
+ o crash when LDAP address source is defined in index, but
+ LDAP support is disabled
+ o crash in Fancy plugin if one of the MIME parts has no
+ Content-ID
+ o a few small memory leaks in scan_mailto_url()
+ o configure script for rare cases where python is not
+ installed
+ o incorrect charset conversion in sc_html_read_line().
+ o markup in 'key not fully trusted' warning in pgpcore
+ o use after free in rare code path in rssyl_subscribe()
+ o several memory leaks
+ o verify_folderlist_xml() for fresh starts
+ o printf formats for size_t and goffset arguments.
+ o alertpanel API use in win32 part of mimeview.c
+ o pid handling in debug output of kill_children_cb()
+ o incorrect pointer arithmetic in w32_filesel.c
+
+For further details of the numbered bugs and RFEs listed above
+see https://www.claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.
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