-5th April 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.0
+27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
- SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://claws.sylpheed.org
+ CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
+ http://www.claws-mail.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
-user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client.
+Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+email client.
Notes for this release:
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-* libetpan version 0.45 or newer is now required for IMAP support,
- this allows checking for IMAP/SSL certificates.
-
+* 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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-* Support for the Face header has been added,
- see http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/
-
-* In the Templates dialog TAB address completion has been added for
- Cc and Bcc fields, in addition to To.
+* 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 an option, "Select the HTML part of multipart/alternative
+ messages". This is available on the Message View/Text Options
+ preferences page.
+
+* 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 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.
+
+* 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 the Avant Window Navgator (Awn) information
+ bubble. This is automatically enabled if dbus is available.
+
+* 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.
+
+* The SHA1 fingerprint is now shown on the SSL certificate dialogue
+ and the labels are now selectable.
+
+* Several GUI improvements have been made, (Address book, filtering
+ dialogue, Actions dialogue, and Account preferences).
+
+* 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.
+
+* Added the Trash and Delete icons to the Custom Toolbars options.
+
+* 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
+ Support for a gmail exported csv address book was added.
+
+* Updated English, French, and Spanish manuals.
+
+* 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)
+
+* 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\"
-* An account's signature file, (Account Preferences, Compose tab),
- can now been edited in place using the configured text editor.
-
-* An advanced search is now possible in the '/Edit/Search folder'
- dialog.
-
-* '/Edit/Find' has been added to the Compose window for text
- searching.
-
-* A progress bar is now shown in the status bar whilst doing a Quick
- Search.
-
-* A long search can now be cancelled.
-
-* In a Sent mail folder the From column in the message list is now
- automatically changed to the To column.
-
-* '/Message/Colour Label' has been added to the main menu, enabling
- (unmodifiable) shortcut keys, Ctrl+[0-7].
-
-* The colour labels are now customisable from the 'Display/Colours'
- page of the Preferences. It is now possible to choose any colours
- and to give them each a label.
-
-* A Spell Checking option to 'Recheck message when changing
- dictionary' has been added.
-
-* An option to 'Render HTML-only mail with plugin if possible' has
- been added to the 'Message View/Text Options' preferences page.
-
-* Headers in the message view and the Custom headers dialog are now
- translated if the option 'Translate header names' is activated.
-
-* It is now possible to sort the columns in the Addressbook.
-
-* More drag-n-drop capabilities have been added, from the message
- list to other apps, from the mimeview to other apps, from other
- apps to message list, from other apps to folder list, from the
- mimeview to the message and folder lists and the Compose window's
- attachments pane.
-
-* "Ignore thread" has beed added as a filtering action.
-
-* The Compose window is now hidden when sending mails via filtering.
-
-* An alphabetical resort is done immediately when a folder's name
- is changed.
-
-* Unsubscribing a newsgroup now removes the related folder and
- articles from newscache/
-
-* A "Get more..." link has been added to the Plugins window. This
- loads http://claws.sylpheed.org/plugins.php in your browser.
-
-* The SpamAssassin plugin is now equipped with a spam learning
- interface, usable by right-clicking a message and choosing
- 'Mark as Spam' or 'Mark as Ham' in the Mark submenu. It is now also
- possible to disable SpamAssasin filtering when receiving mail, so
- that the plugin can be used for learning only.
-
-* Remote learning in the SpamAssassin plugin has been added. This
- requires SpamAssassin 3.1.x.
-
-* A new script has been added that integrates a Thunderbird folder
- tree into Sylpheed-Claws, tools/tbird2syl.py
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Bulgarian, Czech,
- Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Serbian,
- Simplified Chinese, and Spanish translations.
-
-* Bugfixes:
-
- o bug 908, 'Flagging on IMAP-Server fails'
- o bug 916, 'newsgroup unsubscribe segmentation fault'
- o bug 924, 'Account combo box shows up wrong if & is in
- account name'
- o bug 927, 'SIGSEGV during Update Summary'
- o bug 929, 'Unnecessary reload in quick search bar'
- o fix a crash in JPilot
- o fix drafting on IMAP
- o prevent double-timeouts when connection IMAP fails
- o return immediately when IMAP password dialog is cancelled
- o fix missing expunge on IMAP, causing folder refresh
- problems in certain conditions
- o fix crash on Reply with no From:
- o fix undoing by blocks with spaces in Compose
- o fix auto-wrap disabling itself after a middle-click paste
- o convert passphrase to locale encoding
- o fix GPG preferences items sensitivity
- o fix some problems on heavily customized toolbars
- o fix race conditions when big uncached mails are used in
- closable windows
- o fix crashes on cancelling the Quick Search
- o fix wrong Fake URL Warning
- o fix the busy cursor not appearing in the textview
- o fix a crash with the preview in file dialog, on Solaris
- o fix useless reload of summaryview after execution (of copy
- or delete actions)
- o fix update of caches after actions involving %f or %F
- o fix search in quoted-printable bodies
- o fix code conversion on reply when date format returns a
- non-UTF8 string
- o fix some GUI issues and compilation warnings
- o Empty strings for passwords are now allowed.
- o disable Manual menu if the manual's not installed
- o Allow URIs containing '(' and ')'
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/index.cgi
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+See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.