-7th August 2016 Claws Mail 3.14.0
+15th August 2018 Claws Mail 3.17.0
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
New in this release:
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-* Passwords can now be secured with a Master Passphrase.
- (/Configuration/Preferences/Other/Miscellaneous/)
-
-* Passwords: The password storage method has changed. All passwords
- are now stored in a separate file, (~/.claws-mail/passwordstorerc),
- and use a stronger encryption than previously. Existing passwords
- are moved to the new file automatically, in the old format. The
- new format will be used whenever old passwords are changed or when
- a Master Passphrase is used. All new passwords are saved using the
- new format, irrespective of whether a Master Passphrase is used or
- not. Further information can be found here:
- http://www.claws-mail.org/doc/password_encryption.txt
-
-* Compose window: Removed the outer scrollbar from header area.
-
-* Message view: The HTML to plain text converter now indicates list
- items with a hyphen (-), adds a line break after <dd>, and indents
- text within blockquotes.
-
-* Main window: Changed default /View/Show or hide/Menubar shortcut to
- Ctrl+F12.
-
-* SSL certificates list: Added automatic scrollbar.
-
-* Address book: Double-clicking datasources now opens the edit
- dialogue.
-
-* Forwarding: The external editor is now automatically used when
- forwarding as attachment, if the preference is set.
-
-* Preferences: Automatic mail checking can now be configured in
- hours, minutes and seconds.
- (/Configuration/Preferences/Mail Handling/Receiving)
-
-* Preferences: The 'next_on_delete' hidden preference now applies to
- trashing or moving, in addition to deleting, a message.
-
-* Command line: Added -geometry to set geometry for main window.
-
-* IMAP: Added SASL 'PLAIN' and 'LOGIN' authentication methods for
- accounts. Renamed the old plaintext 'LOGIN' to 'plaintext'.
-
-* IMAP: The acccount preference, 'Move deleted mails to trash and
- expunge immediately' has been removed.
-
-* Notification plugin: Added 'Get mail from account...' to the
- SysTray module's menu.
-
-* Notification plugin: Focus the widget between iconify/deiconify
- events.
-
-* Tools: Added tools/cm-reparent.pl, which can be used to fix thread
- parenting for two or more messages.
-
-* Documentation: Updated man page and manual.
-
-* Translations: Updated: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian,
- Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional
- Chinese.
- Added: Danish, Indonesian, Turkish.
- Dropped: Lithuanian (unmaintained)
-
-* Bug fixes:
- o bug 2518, '"Reply-All" message from NNTP-account does not
- contain CC'ed correspondents'
- o bug 2781, 'Unsanitised Folder Creation'
- o bug 3028, 'Claws doesn't select html part if attachments
- present'
- o bug 3213, 'Line break in subject of message'
- o bug 3573, 'Out of bounds read in macro LBREAK_IF_REQUIRED
- in codeconv.c'
- o bug 3581, 'sys:1: Warning: Source ID # was not found when
- attempting to remove it'
- o bug 3603, 'Feeds from Reddit are empty'
- o bug 3610, 'Heap use after free in
- privacy_mimeinfo_check_signature()'
- o bug 3616, 'segfault setting up new CM in new userid'
- o bug 3623, 'Client crash on importing duplicated feed'
- o bug 3629, 'Invalid subject can distort message list view'
- o bug 3652, 'utils.c:4740:47: warning: ordered comparison of
- pointer with integer zero [-Wextra]'
- o bug 3653, 'Upgrading from Mageia5 default (3.11.1),
- 3.13.2git tries to load 3.11.1 plugins'
- o bug 3658, 'Passphrase ignored during keypair generation
- with gpg2'
- o include Reply-To value when using 'reply to all'
- o inputdialog modality and focus issue
- o fix Compose account selection when imap folder is selected.
- o set correct rcdir on Win32
- o Fix behavior in selecting PGP MIME signature on Windows.
- o RSSyl: typo in handling feed name ending with a period on
- Win32
- o vCalendar: Handle ical lines longer than 256 bytes
+* 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 http://claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
+see https://www.claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
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