-27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
+14th November 2012 Claws Mail 3.9.0
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
-Notes for this release:
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-
-* IMAP with STARTTLS
- The certificate port on TLS was fixed, however this will trigger
- one wrong 'New certificate' warning on the first connection.
-
New in this release:
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-* Added an option, "Use secure file deletion if possible", which
- enables shredding of temporary files and messages instead of
- just removing them. This is available on the Other preferences
- page.
+* Added IMAP server side search
-* Added an option, "Select the HTML part of multipart/alternative
- messages". This is available on the Message View/Text Options
- preferences page.
+* Added the file .claws-mail/extraheaderrc which holds editable extra
+ headers to be added to compose window combobox
-* Added an option to the 'Create new folder' dialogue which enables
- new folders to inherit the properties of their parent folders
- during folder creation.
+* Added 'Select html part of multipart messages' to the Folder
+ Properties
-* Added a hidden option, "two_line_vertical", which toggles the
- 2-line view in the message list when using the 3-column layout.
- Defaults to '1', show 2 lines.
+* GnuPG: Consider marginal signature validity as untrusted
-* Added a hidden option, "outgoing_fallback_to_ascii", which allows
- the user to specify an outgoing charset/encoding, but still fall
- back to 7bit US-ASCII when possible.
- Defaults to '1', fallback when possible.
+* The mimeview shortcuts are now user configurable
-* Added support for the Avant Window Navgator (Awn) information
- bubble. This is automatically enabled if dbus is available.
+* Spell checker: Always show 'change dictionary' menu
-* Face and X-Face headers can now be added globally and per-account
- from configuration files under ~/.claws-mail/autofaces/. Further
- information is provided in the manual.
+* Filtering dialogue: TreeView type-ahead is now case insensitive
-* The SHA1 fingerprint is now shown on the SSL certificate dialogue
- and the labels are now selectable.
+* Separated 'Mark all read' from 'Mark as read' and 'Ignore thread'
-* Several GUI improvements have been made, (Address book, filtering
- dialogue, Actions dialogue, and Account preferences).
+* Made 'Mark all read' confirmation button more clear
-* New icons have been added for 'Reply to list' and 'Cancel'. The
- 'Insert file' and 'Close' icons have been improved, as have the
- tray icons.
+* Made the clickable area of the expander arrows in the folder list
+ larger
-* Added the Trash and Delete icons to the Custom Toolbars options.
+* Made SSL client certificate error messages more meaningful
-* SMTP-only accounts are now not shown in the Receive menus and
- Account lists in filtering/processing, as they are irrelevant here.
+* The type of units required in the Extended Search information
+ dialogue are now indicated
-* tools/csv2addressbook.pl
- Support for a gmail exported csv address book was added.
+* Several speed-ups and optimisations
-* Updated English, French, and Spanish manuals.
+* Updated manual
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French,
- German, and Spanish.
-
-* Removed unmaintained translations: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech,
- Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian,
- Swedish, and Taiwanese. (New maintainers are very welcome,
- contact paul@claws-mail.org)
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French, German,
+ Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish, traditional Chinese, Ukrainian
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1447, 'If user tries to close while starting up, it
- will not close ever.'
- o bug 1566, 'too short I/O timeout on OpenBSD'
- o bug 1576, 'Curly brace literals reported as error in
- message template'
- o bug 1581, 'Bad File Format during Import LDIF'
- o bug 1586, '3-pane vertical layout now and then still shows
- sender column'
- o bug 1587, 'can not replay with quote'
- o bug 1589, 'tagsdb file not removed when folder deleted'
- o bug 1597, 'In news folders, "Move Message to Wastebin" icon
- isn't grayed although ineffective'
- o bug 1598, 'Leading slash while translating "Unsubscribe"'
- o bug 1599, 'attach multiple files with the same name from
- one mail to another'
- o bug 1602, 'Crash when sending return receipt for messages
- with no subject'
- o bug 1604, 'found_in_addressbook "From" in "Any" in non
- english local'
- o bug 1608, 'Inconsistent behaviour of mark as read options'
- o bug 1610, 'claws crash after opening/closing preferences
- and window update'
- o bug 1613, 'Various memory leaks'
- o bug 1615, 'hang on FIFO when the other end's not opened'
- o bug 1616, 'strange question while emptying trash'
- o bug 1623, 'exits with segfault when logging in to certain
- imap-servers'
- o bug 1624, '[PATCH] Quick search should be disabled for
- folder view'
- o bug 1628, 'Claws Mail crashes when filtering selected
- messages'
- o bug 1635, 'Last character of message is truncated when
- changing accounts w/ sigs'
- o bug 1636, 'Can't select "properties" on "folders only"
- folders'
- o bug 1650, 'Message line too small after changing columns in
- "three columns" layout'
- o Use g_(un)setenv instead of (un)setenv which doesn't exist
- on IRIX 6.5.
- o Fix 'Delete line' and 'Delete to end of line' on the last
- line.
- o Fix double free when STARTTLS fails
- o Fix ldap deprecated calls
- o Fix debian bug 481856, 'Segmentation fault when verifying a
- GPG signature'
- o Fix cursor placing on signature change
- o tools/thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl
- Fix reading a tb rule that contains something like that:
- \"Sender\"
-
+ 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/index.cgi
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/
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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.