-6th May 2013 Claws Mail 3.9.1
+15th August 2018 Claws Mail 3.17.0
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.
New in this release:
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-All plugins previously packaged as 'Extra Plugins' are now contained
-within the Claws Mail package. In addition to that, the following
-plugins have been dropped: TrayIcon, Dillo Viewer, and Gtkhtml2
-Viewer.
-
-This release contains the following plugins: ACPI Notifier, Address
-Keeper, Attachment Remover, Attachment Warner, Bogofilter, BS Filter,
-Clam AntiVirus, Fancy HTML Viewer, FetchInfo, gData, GeoLocation,
-Mail Archiver, MailMBOX, New Mail, Notification, PDF Viewer, Perl,
-PGP/Core, PGP/Inline, PGP/MIME, Python, RSSyl, SMime, Spam Report,
-SpamAssassin, TNEF Parse, and vCalendar.
-
-* 3 command-line switches have been added:
- --cancel-receiving which cancels the currently running message
- retrieval operation
- --cancel-sending which cancels the currently running message
- sending operation
- --debug which toggles debug output.
-
-* '/Message/Cancel sending' has been added to the main menu.
-
-* In the filtering and processing condition configuration for Age,
- it is now possible to match based on number of hours.
-
-* The GnuPG signature timestamp is now displayed in the full
- signature information
-
-* Support for GnuTLS priority string has been added. This is achieved
- via 2 hidden account preferences, gnutls_set_priority and
- gnutls_priority. The former turning the option on or off, the
- latter containing the required priority string.
-
-* Keep-alive pings are now performed on IMAP and NNTP connections.
-
-* In the Compose window, the focus is now moved to the message body
- when focus is in the Subject entry and the Enter key is pressed.
-
-* The Delete key can now be used to remove Colour Label hotkeys.
-
-* PDF Viewer: The printed PDF quality has been improved.
-
-* Fancy HTML viewer: The options dialogue has been completely
- reworked, and disabling remote content is now totally strict.
-
-* Python plugin: Added Cc field to messageinfo objects.
-
-* Python plugin: Added examples.
-
-* Python plugin: Added a function to get an arbitrary header from a
- MessageInfo object
-
-* Perl plugin: The documentation for insert_perl.pl has been
- improved.
-
-* Basic handling of vcard 3.0 has been added to vcard2xml.py.
-
-* A Swedish translation has been added to claws-mail.desktop.
-
-* The man page has been updated.
-
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Finnish, French,
- German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish
-
-* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1137, 'loading plugins with same profile on different
- archs'
- o bug 1684, 'view news messages with large attachements
- segfaults'
- o bug 1963, 'Preferences Templates Information Window Focus
- loss'
- o bug 2340, 'Create block list'
- o bug 2617, 'code cleanup'
- o bug 2624, 'dialog "Action Configuration" cannot be closed'
- o bug 2702, 'Support splitting subject line for small screen
- layout'
- o bug 2774, 'Select folder/New Folder dialog - modal problem'
- o bug 2785, 'Marking mails for deletion reopens internal
- message view'
- o bug 2801, 'Filtering Header:Name list is blank/corrupt'
- o bug 2826, 'replace deprecated gnutls function'
- o bug 2828, 'Use MD5 digest for socket name'
- o bug 2832, 'mail to from adress-book splitt names'
- o bug 2835, 'add_address() in addr_compl.c should allow a
- NULL name'
- o bug 2859, 'Newmail plugin doesn't work if Mail folder not
- present when it is loaded.'
- o bug 2862, 'Segmentation fault when replying to a message
- where the "code conversion" fails'
- o bug 2863, 'Applying has_attachment quicksearch on IMAP
- segfaults'
- o bug 2878 'bsfilter / folder.c:1435 Condition identifier
- != NULL failed'
- o bug 2879, 'Plain text mails treated as encrypted'
- o bug 2882, 'Reverse preference for external content'
- o bug 2885, 'SIGSEGV in hooks_marshal at hooks.c:108'
- o bug 2890, 'html2ps required...'
- o bug 2893, 'ical_yy_scan_bytes has wrong type'
- o bug 2903, 'key 'C' mention harcoded in string'
- o bug 2909, 'Changing folder quickly can cause wrong email to
- be deleted'
- o IMAP: Don't set charset on simple searches. Fixes Exchange
- 2007.
- o Disconnect NNTP accounts too when switching offline.
- o Fix sensitivity of next-unread toolbar button.
- o tools/gif2xface.pl, tools/outlook2claws-mail.pl: Fix
- address.
- o Add missing \n at end of the return receipt last part's
- headers.
- o Make LDAP over SSL work on Win32.
- o Fix crash on action error.
- o Fix trimming of leading spaces in actions.
- o tools/vcard2xml.py: Fix missing file encoding info.
- o fix sensitivity of 'Use both dictionaries' in compose
- window.
- o Fix actions with spaces (and quotes).
- o tools/vcard2xml.py: Lines split over more than one line
- breaks parser; Get email addres correct. Not only
- email;internet.
- o Escape filename/description text of MIME parts, prevents
- error if, e.g., the filename contains an ampersand.
- o Fix 'edit accounts' windows going behind when leaving an
- 'account preferences' window, by re-focusing this window.
- o Fix crash closing PDF information alert panel.
- o Fix default fonts on Windows.
- o Fix ugly icon in XFCE's alt-tab window.
- o Fix untranslated description in archiver plugin
- o fix crasher when using /Edit/Search folder on start-up with
- nothing selected.
-
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/
+* the minimum GLib requirement is now 2.28.
+
+* the mimimum GTK+2 requirement is now 2.24.
+
+* nettle is now required, following removal of libcrypt from glibc.
+
+* explicit use of --disable-gnutls is now required if gnuTLS support
+ is not required.
+
+* SOCKS proxy support has been added.
+ Global settings can be found on the Mail Handling/Proxy page.
+ This can be overridden by Account settings on the new Proxy page.
+
+* Accounts can now have their own auto-check intervals, or follow the
+ global interval.
+
+* in the options for 'default selection when entering a folder',
+ 'first [...]' has been renamed to 'oldest [...]', and
+ 'newest [...]' items have been added.
+
+* Message List: when changing sort key by clicking column header,
+ the sort direction is now preserved
+
+* Message View: keypress handling for scrolling, (PgUp/Down, Space,
+ Backspace), has been improved.
+
+* the Network Log now displays output from LDAP operations.
+
+* "Go to last error" has been added to the Log Window context menu.
+
+* Filtering/Processing: "mark_as_spam" is no longer a final action,
+ since it does not move the marked message.
+
+* Filtering/Processing: Resent-From and Resent-To have been added in
+ Any/All header(s) (in Address Book) matcher rules.
+
+* when a Return-Receipt request is received by an unknown address,
+ the user is now required to choose which Account to send it from.
+
+* Colour Labels: confirmation is asked for when clearing or
+ overriding existing colour labels.
+
+* Address Book: basic contact merging has been added.
+
+* NetworkManager support: ported from libnm-util/libnm-glib to libnm.
+
+* Dillo plugin: this HTML rendering plugin is now once again
+ available.
+
+* RSSyl plugin: the modified time is no longer considered when
+ matching deleted items.
+
+* RSSyl plugin: Handle 404 and other fetch failures better.
+
+* Attachment Remover plugin: the user is now notified about what has
+ been done when processing multiple selections.
+
+* SpamAssassin plugin: added support for compression (the server must
+ have compression enabled, and the local spamc too).
+
+* SpamAssassin plugin: disabled SSLv3.
+
+* when using the hidden preference, hide_timezone, the time in the
+ Date header is converted to UTC.
+
+* various other UI improvements.
+
+* many behind-the-scenes improvements.
+
+* updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Danish,
+ Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian Bokmål,
+ Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional
+ Chinese, Turkish.
+
+* bug fixes:
+ o bug 3754, 'interactive auth dialogs pops endlessly'
+ o bug 3919, 'manual filtering does not move spam'
+ o bug 3936, 'LDAP StartTLS does not work for addressbooks'
+ o bug 3947, 'Build break with --disable-libsm
+ --enable-crash-dialog'
+ o bug 3957, 'Claws-Mail 64bit crashes when saving a draft'
+ o bug 3960, 'Sends unencrypted emails when encryption fails'
+ o bug 3971, 'Deleted rss feed item reappears as unread on
+ feed refreshing'
+ o bug 3973, ''select all' in summaryview does not
+ automatically focus the summaryview'
+ o bug 3978, '"From" column displays both name and email
+ address for Outbox'
+ o bug 3984, 'Copy-paste in find/filter field works
+ incorrectly'
+ o bug 3985, 'an empty progress bar remains after POP mail
+ check completes'
+ o bug 3986, 'IMAP quick search using non-ASCII characters
+ creates an infinite loop'
+ o bug 3993, 'Claws Mail connects to IMAP server when it
+ should not'
+ o bug 4014, '"Work offline" doesn't seem to affect RSS'
+ o bug 4022, 'Closing "Account Preferences" window opens "Edit
+ Accounts" window if "Edit Accounts" window has
+ been opened before at least once'
+ o bug 4023, 'Fix some small issues'
+ o bug 4033, 'Claws Mail crashes [malloc(): memory corruption]
+ while trying to save account password greater
+ than 136 chars'
+ o bug 4056, 'Impossible to disable overriding of offline
+ mode'
+ o bug 4058, '# in extended search description window should
+ not be translated'
+ o bug 4068, 'Claws Mail hangs when getting news from a
+ certain feed'
+ o actionsrc was not updated after mailbox name change
+ o two crashes caused by bad GtkListStore management in
+ editaddress.c
+ o wrong malloc of clamd_socket struct, (CID 1220477)
+ o vCalendar: possible access to uninitilized folder pointer
+ (CID 1402515)
+ o vCalendar: mismatch and unneeded display of unavailable
+ folder class in warning (CID 1434197)
+ o vCalendar: Skip whitespace chars at the beginning of ics
+ stream
+ o buffer overrun, always writing at buffer size + 1. (CID
+ 1434188)
+ o wrong use of pointer-to-array as an array CID 1434191)
+ o sensitivity of few preferences widgets of the SA plug-in
+ o compilation using --enable-generic-umpc
+ o crash in quicksearch keypress handling
+ o quoting in reply to format=flowed message
+ o HTML <hX> header handling
+ o 'sort_type' is lost when changing 'sort_key' from
+ /View/sort the bug was apparent with a descending sort
+ o Return-Receipts: MDN mail-accountname leak
+ o auth retry in Managesieve - wrong state variable was being
+ set
+ o memory leaks
+
+For further details of the numbered bugs and RFEs listed above
+see https://www.claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
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