-27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
+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.
-Notes for this release:
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+New in this release:
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-* Claws Mail now requires libetpan 0.56 for IMAP and NNTP
+* the minimum GLib requirement is now 2.28.
-* Spell checking is now provided by Enchant instead of Aspell. To
- build spell checker support, you will need the libenchant headers.
+* the mimimum GTK+2 requirement is now 2.24.
-* The S/MIME plugin is now part of this package.
+* nettle is now required, following removal of libcrypt from glibc.
-* IMAP, NNTP, and SSL are now supported in the Windows port.
+* explicit use of --disable-gnutls is now required if gnuTLS support
+ is not required.
-New in this release:
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+* 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.
-* 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
+* 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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