-25th September 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0
+27th June 2012 Claws Mail 3.8.1
- SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://www.sylpheed-claws.net
+ CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
+ http://www.claws-mail.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
-Notes for this release:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* Minimum required versions of GTK+ and GLIB is now 2.6.0
-
-* Minimum required version of libetpan (for IMAP support) is now 0.46
-
-* metamail support has been dropped, this is now handled internally
-
New in this release:
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-* New plugin: Bogofilter, providing Spam filtering and learning
-
-* Account-based filtering rules. Each filtering rule can now be
- assigned to a specific account, by default it's "All".
-
-* Filtering against Address Book. It is now possible add matched
- conditions to determine if any email address in a message matches
- or doesn't match any or all books or folders in the Address Book.
-
-* Quote folding. Quotes in the message view can now be folded, via
- the "/View/Quotes/..." menu. The folding can also be toggled by
- double clicking on the quotes in the Message View
-
-* Re-enabled user-defined Headers in Displayed Headers configuration
-
-* "/View/Go to/Parent message" and "/View/Go to/Last read message"
- have been added
-
-* Made the list views look more modern by add alternating coloured
- lines, replacing the box-type expanders with arrows, removing the
- dotted lines.
- Hidden prefs have been added to enable users to maintain the old
- style:
- 'enable_dotted_lines' for the dotted lines and box-type expanders.
- 'use stripes_in_summary' to enable alternating coloured lines in
- the Message and Folder lists.
- 'use stripes_everywhere' to also enable alternating coloured lines
- in all other lists.
- Note: 'use_stripes_everywhere' replaces the previous hidden option
- 'enable_rules_hint'.
-
-* New hidden pref, 'stripes_color_offset', to change the value added/
- subtracted to normal bgcolor to create the stripes in the summaries
-
-* The Send button on the main toolbar is now inactive when the Queue
- folders are empty
-
-* IMAP: Added a View Log button on auth error
-
-* PGP/Core plugin: it is now possible to create a new key pair from
- within Sylpheed-Claws
-
-* PGP/Core plugin: When encrypting, if only one key matches, and it
- matches exactly, it is automatically used
-
-* TrayIcon plugin: the icon now has transparency
-
-* Enabled text selection for replying from MimeViewer plugins
-
-* The attachments list in the MimeView column can now be scrolled
- using the mousewheel
-
-* In the MimeView column a middle-click will now just open the Mime
- part without showing it in the Message View, likewise, a right-
- click will display the context menu without displaying the part
-
-* The "When entering a folder..." selection option is now used for
- '/View/Go to/Next unread folder'
-
-* A special Return-Receipt message is shown if the message is from
- the user
-
-* An icon has been added to the statusbar to notify of errors
-
-* Added missing icons to the Icon Legend dialog
-
-* Enabled closing of SSL certificates and Folder Sort dialogs with Esc
- key
-
-* Displaying of huge mails can now be cancelled, so the GUI doesn't
- block
-
-* Sylpheed-Claws' internal queue headers are now hidden when showing
- all headers. They'll be present only in Source window.
-
-* Several GUI improvements.
-
-* Faster loading of folders and other optimisations and speed-ups
-
-* Logging has been improved.
-
-* improved sizing of some widgets
-
-* Made the desktop file XDG compliant
-
-* The manuals have been updated
-
-* A Spanish translation of the manual has been added
-
-* Added an action tool, tools/uuooffice, to open uuencoded *.doc files
- with OpenOffice.
-
-* Added an action tool, tools/fix_date.sh, to fix a missing Date field
- in emails.
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German,
- Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak and Spanish translations.
-
-* Bug fixes:
- o bug 456 'current message is hidden when the view is
- refreshed and extended search is "unread
- messages"'
- o bug 956 'DnD text with accents in compose text entry'
- o bug 973 'Unicode punctation characters are not recognized'
- o bug 979 'Plugin crashes when exiting sylpheed-claws'
- o bug 988 'Very specific filesystem issue on temp files'
- o bug 995 '"Mark cross-posted as read" doesn't work'
- o bug 998 'last attachment is not accessible'
- o bug 999 'Timing out on TSL cert validation dialog makes
- ugly things happen'
- o bug 1007 'Wrong folder highlighted'
- o bug 1011 'wrong (negative) count on unread messages'
- o bug 1012 'crashed upon sending mail from compose window'
- o bug 1013 'expand selected thread tree'
- o problem with Actions of the format "> stuff >"
- o strict ISO C90 compliance
- o crash setting the priority on re-edit
- o default font size setting after wizard run
- o missing last line in some mail cases (Fixes debian bug
- #381872)
- o Send button sensitivity at startup
- o encrypt bug on IMAP
- o occasional IMAP bug where large msgs were left in the queue
- folder after sending
- o encrypted mail marked as new when saved in normal folders
- o switching to offline, asking if it should be overriden for
- synchronising
- o body quicksearch in non-encoded bodies containing '='
- o replied flag not being set after drafting
- o data loss when copy fails during a move
- o automatic sizing of some dialogs
- o compilation on FreeBSD
- o fix free-after-use in some cases
- (when procmime_encode_content() frees mimeinfo->data.mem
- and turns it to a temp file)
- o fix "real-time" sorting in folder list by freezing/thawing
- o fix can't click forward/backward buttons in the summary
- search
- o miscellaneous printing issues:
- - Bad font for linkified headers
- - Different font if the mail was displayed or not
- o select the mimepart icon when displaying as text
- o fix blocking check of an SSL certificate
- o update folder name label on folder rename
- o workaround possible GTK crash: remove selection clipboard
- before destroying widget, or GTK+-2.10
- o workaround GTK+ Bug 351600 - 'Can't re-click on button after
- sensitivity update'
+* Replied and Forwarded message status flags are now non-exclusive.
+ Introduced a new message state (and relevant icon in message list)
+ where both the Replied and Forwarded flags are set
+
+* 'Send to...' has been added to the context menu of a message's
+ parts. This causes a new Compose window to open with the selected
+ mime part attached.
+
+* 'Hide' and 'View Log' buttons have been added to the Send and
+ Receive dialogues. The former will hide the dialogue, the latter
+ will open the Network Log dialogue.
+
+* A short symbol has been added the QuickSearch Extended mode: 'ha',
+ an abbreviated form of 'has_attachment'.
+
+* Basic session statistics are now available, from the Statistics
+ tab in About dialog and the command-line.
+
+* The display of attached patches, (text/x-patch or text/x-diff), is
+ now colourised. The colours are controlled by 3 new hidden
+ preferences: diff_added_color, diff_deleted_color, and
+ diff_hunk_color.
+
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, German, French, Hungarian,
+ Indonesian, Lithuanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish,
+ Traditional Chinese.
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ o bug 1090, 'Standard-folders appear again after rescanning tree'
+ o bug 1924, 'Messages marked move to Trash appear identical to
+ messages marked move to $FOLDER'
+ o bug 2598, 'Actions can move locked messages'
+ o bug 2501, 'opened message blanks when moved to other folder'
+ o bug 2574, 'Statement might be overflowing a buffer in strncat'
+ o bug 2577, 'Focus rectangle on folder list and message
+ list headings doesn't get properly cleared when switching
+ heading and horizontally scrolling list (underlines and
+ vertical lines remain on screen)'
+ o bug 2582, 'Expanded mimeview drag n drop no longer works'
+ o bug 2595, 'Change expand behavior for message list / message view'
+ o bug 2620, 'shift+tab from subject field not working'
+ o bug 2624, 'dialog "Action Configuration" cannot be closed'
+ o bug 2646, 'Compile fails with gnutls-3.0.18'
+ o bug 2659, 'E-mail attachments are handled inconsistently'
+ o bug 2662, '"ag" quicksearch adds "1" to value'
+ o Fix bug in search criteria when doing a complete directory
+ search using '*'
+ o Fix GTK+2.16 build (w32)
+ o Fix sensitivity of toolbar's get_btn (retrieve mail from current
+ account) and of mainwindows's relevant entry when current account
+ is not able to retrieve (SMTP-only).
+ o don't do TLS if not requested by user. fixes connecting to servers
+ which, for example, want SSL 3 only
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
-
-* and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/
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-See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in
-this release.
-
+See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.