-14th November 2012 Claws Mail 3.9.0
+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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-* Added IMAP server side search
-
-* Added the file .claws-mail/extraheaderrc which holds editable extra
- headers to be added to compose window combobox
-
-* Added 'Select html part of multipart messages' to the Folder
- Properties
-
-* GnuPG: Consider marginal signature validity as untrusted
-
-* The mimeview shortcuts are now user configurable
-
-* Spell checker: Always show 'change dictionary' menu
-
-* Filtering dialogue: TreeView type-ahead is now case insensitive
-
-* Separated 'Mark all read' from 'Mark as read' and 'Ignore thread'
-
-* Made 'Mark all read' confirmation button more clear
-
-* Made the clickable area of the expander arrows in the folder list
- larger
-
-* Made SSL client certificate error messages more meaningful
-
-* The type of units required in the Extended Search information
- dialogue are now indicated
-
-* Several speed-ups and optimisations
-
-* Updated manual
-
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French, German,
- Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish, traditional Chinese, Ukrainian
-
-* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1137, 'loading plugins with same profile on different
- archs'
- o bug 1961, 'patches for a couple of clang warnings'
- o bug 1975, 'preference mutt key bindings do not take effect'
- o bug 2096, 'MEMORY-ERROR w/ Claws-Mail/IMAP and Lotus
- Domino'
- o bug 2203, 'Problems in forwarding multipart/alternative
- messages with HTML part'
- o bug 2390, 'Non-fully-trusted-key-warning appears based on
- primary UID rather than recipient e-mail'
- o bug 2579, 'Installed headers redefine autotools-specific
- constants'
- o bug 2596, 'Spell checker does not work properly'
- o bug 2638, 'Respect $LEX environment variable in autogen.sh'
- o bug 2639, 'The MSGBUFSIZE definition collides with a
- definition of OpenBSD'
- o bug 2650, 'segfault in pgp when gpgme_strerror() returns
- a non utf-8 string'
- o bug 2689, 'segfault when trying to view info about
- pgp/smime sign'
- o bug 2697, 'segfault in parse_parameters()'
- o bug 2718, 'Failure to check peer hostname when checking
- certificate'
- o bug 2723, 'Missing encoding in generated html manual'
- o bug 2743, 'null pointer crash in procmime strchr'
- o bug 2744, 'Quick search throws bad command argument error
- since recent change'
- o bug 2751, 'g_mutex_new/g_mutex_free removed from GLib 2.32'
- o bug 2760, 'display correct libc version in crash dialog
- when uclibc is used'
- o bug 2761, 'Desktop file does not pass validation'
- o bug 2776, 'Make all menu shortcuts work properly in the
- message window'
- o bug 2777, 'Installing latest cvs116 package 14 Windows
- version results in wrong paths in clawsrc'
- o Fix some modal windows
- o Only show HTML parts by default (if the pref is set so) if
- the part disposition-type is inline or unknown, but not
- attachment.
- o IMAP: Always clear the tags list when fetching a folder, or
- Claws will never untag an untagged email.
- o Fix double mainwindow presentation that confuses GNOME3
- when some plugins fail to load (subsequent Claws windows
- got no focus in that case)
- o Fix build on Fink/OS X
- o Fix build with gnutls 3.1.3
- o Fix Windows build
- o Fix Windows runtime crash
- o Fix socket communication
-
-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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