-3rd October 2008 Claws Mail 3.6.0
+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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-
-* Claws Mail now requires libetpan 0.56 for IMAP and NNTP
-
-* Spell checking is now provided by Enchant instead of Aspell. To
- build spell checker support, you will need the libenchant headers.
-
-* The S/MIME plugin is now part of this package.
-
-* IMAP, NNTP, and SSL are now supported in the Windows port.
-
New in this release:
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-* Support for client SSL certificates.
-
-* Better support of SSL certificate stores, to be able to verify
- server certificates.
-
-* Renaming of newsgroups is possible.
+* Added IMAP server side search
-* "Always open message when selected" can now have three values:
- 'Never', 'Always' and 'When message view is visible'.
+* Added the file .claws-mail/extraheaderrc which holds editable extra
+ headers to be added to compose window combobox
-* 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'.
+* Added 'Select html part of multipart messages' to the Folder
+ Properties
-* Auto-wrapping settings are now saved in drafted messages.
+* GnuPG: Consider marginal signature validity as untrusted
-* Support for basic auto-indentation in the Compose window.
+* The mimeview shortcuts are now user configurable
-* Support for animated GIFs in the message view.
+* Spell checker: Always show 'change dictionary' menu
-* Type-ahead search in Filtering, Templates, Actions dialogs now
- select the result of the search.
+* Filtering dialogue: TreeView type-ahead is now case insensitive
-* Finer granularity in POP3 accounts' Remove After delay - hours in
- addition to days.
+* Separated 'Mark all read' from 'Mark as read' and 'Ignore thread'
-* Spam/Ham flag is now stored on IMAP server when possible, using
- "Junk" and "NonJunk" keywords.
+* Made 'Mark all read' confirmation button more clear
-* Use less precise intervals when possible for auto-checking, thus
- the CPU is woken up less frequently.
+* Made the clickable area of the expander arrows in the folder list
+ larger
-* The warning icon in the main window is cleared when the error it
- relates to is clipped from the network log.
+* Made SSL client certificate error messages more meaningful
-* IMAP errors now reveal the server on which they happen.
+* The type of units required in the Extended Search information
+ dialogue are now indicated
-* All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced with their
- non-deprecated equivalents.
+* Several speed-ups and optimisations
-* csv2addressbook.pl: Added support for FoxMail.
+* Updated manual
-* Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French, German,
+ Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish, traditional Chinese, Ukrainian
* 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)
+ 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.