-27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
+27th June 2012 Claws Mail 3.8.1
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.
-
-* "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.
+* 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
-* Use less precise intervals when possible for auto-checking, thus
- the CPU is woken up less frequently.
+* '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.
-* The warning icon in the main window is cleared when the error it
- relates to is clipped from the network log.
+* '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.
-* IMAP errors now reveal the server on which they happen.
+* A short symbol has been added the QuickSearch Extended mode: 'ha',
+ an abbreviated form of 'has_attachment'.
-* All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced with their
- non-deprecated equivalents.
+* Basic session statistics are now available, from the Statistics
+ tab in About dialog and the command-line.
-* csv2addressbook.pl: Added support for FoxMail.
+* 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: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, German, French, Hungarian,
+ Indonesian, Lithuanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish,
+ Traditional Chinese.
* 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 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/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.