-18th April 2008 Claws Mail 3.4.0
+27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
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:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* 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 support for /dev/mem_notify. This Linux kernel feature
- will allow applications to be notified that memory has to be
- freed before getting OOM-killed.
- For more information: http://lwn.net/Articles/267013/
+* 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.
-* Enabled moving/copying folders to root folders when using the
- folder selection dialogue.
+* Added an option, "Select the HTML part of multipart/alternative
+ messages". This is available on the Message View/Text Options
+ preferences page.
-* Global and per-folder templates can now override the From name.
+* 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 a tooltip with extended folder stats. (Hover the cursor over
- the short stats on the right, below the message list.)
+* 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.
-* Implemented 2-line items in the message list when in three column
- mode.
+* 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.
-* Added support for png themes.
+* Added support for the Avant Window Navgator (Awn) information
+ bubble. This is automatically enabled if dbus is available.
-* Added an icon for attached patches (text/x-patch and text/x-diff).
+* 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.
-* When viewing a message that has a large amount of text, show a
- maximum of 1MB of text and add a noticeview to show optionally show
- the whole message.
+* The SHA1 fingerprint is now shown on the SSL certificate dialogue
+ and the labels are now selectable.
-* Added a button to the templates preferences to restore defaults for
- current language.
+* Several GUI improvements have been made, (Address book, filtering
+ dialogue, Actions dialogue, and Account preferences).
-* Added search in filtering rules list.
+* 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.
-* Bogofilter Plugin:
- Added a "learn from whitelist" preference.
+* Added the Trash and Delete icons to the Custom Toolbars options.
-* MAEMO:
- Added information when fetching large messages.
+* SMTP-only accounts are now not shown in the Receive menus and
+ Account lists in filtering/processing, as they are irrelevant here.
* tools/csv2addressbook.pl
- Added support for Kmail/Kaddressbook.
+ Support for a gmail exported csv address book was added.
+
+* Updated English, French, and Spanish manuals.
* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French,
- German, and Italian.
+ 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)
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1494, 'Trayicon plugin breaks UI...' (MAEMO)
- o bug 1515, 'large messages crash claws when syncing for
- offline mode'
- o bug 1532, '"login refused" message insufficiently
- detailed'
- o bug 1533, 'Claws is unable to mark messages as "read" in
- IMAP shared folders'
- o bug 1534, 'Segmentation fault when doing some draft saving
- and then throwing away'
- o bug 1539, 'Program crashes':
- Setup Gcrypt's thread functions when built with
- GnuTLS
- o bug 1541, 'Deleting message from within read window
- displays next message then closes.' (MAEMO)
- o bug 1553, 'File lock not respected'
- o bug 1555, 'Bug with the feature "save a copy of outgoing
- messages in this folder"'
- o bug 1559, 'Claws Mail crashed deleting all common contacts'
- o bug 1561, 'Crashes leaving unsubscribed folder after
- ticking "Show only subscribed"'
- o bug 1562, 'Claws-Mail does not completely respect settings
- in GTK2_RC_FILES environment'
- o Fix blinking of the taskbar entry.
- o Fix folder view's scrollbar at startup if starting hidden.
- o If no MH mailbox and no account exists, when creating a
- POP/Local account, just create it and use the default one
- instead of bailing with a "Mailbox doesn't exist" error.
- o Clean up session disconnection. Possibly fix Ubuntu bug
- #204290
- o Fix RedHat bug 431735, 'segfault if /home is full'
- o Fix compose template formats (in global preferences)
- getting translated under specific conditions.
- o Fix updating of tags menu.
- o Fix log size getting out of control (claws-mail getting
- SIGXFSZ): rotate if every 10MB.
- o Fix debian bug 474712, 'claws seg faults when IMAP
- connection breaks after an IMAP protocol error (BAD UID
- SEARCH Invalid parameter: $Forwarded)]'
+ 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\"
+
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
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