-8th May 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0
+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 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:
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-* S/MIME signature verification has been removed from the PGP/MIME
- plugin as it is now provided by the S/MIME plugin.
+* 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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-* IMAP users will see significant speed improvements.
-
-* ANONYMOUS auth has been added for IMAP
-
-* In the Compose window all spell-checker options are now available
- from the /Spelling/Options menu.
-
-* Syntax errors in the extended Quick Search are now indicated by
- a pink/red background.
-
-* An encrypt-to-self option has been added to the Account Privacy
- options.
-
-* Sysadmins can now provide their users with pre-filled values in
- the Setup Wizard. See the manual, '6.6. Deploying Sylpheed-Claws',
- for details.
-
-* Various GUI improvements have been added.
-
-* A new command line option has been added: --select 'folder[/msg]'
- This can be used at startup and causes the specified folder/message
- to be selected. 'folder' is a folder id like '#mh/Mailbox/inbox'
-
-* Optional background colouring of quotes has been added. It can be
- configured from the Colour Preferences dialogue.
- GTK+-2.8.x or newer is required for this feature.
-
-* In the Compose window, multiple quote levels are now coloured in
- the same way as the Message View.
-
-* A warning is now displayed on expired SSL certificates and the
- expiration date is shown.
-
-* A hidden option has been added, 'compose_no_markup', this prohibits
- the use of bold and italic text in Compose dialogue's account
- selector.
-
-* LDAPS support has been added.
-
-* The user manual has been updated, and French and Polish
- translations are now also included.
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Czech, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and
- Spanish translations.
-
-* Bugfixes:
- o bug 859, 'problems with cyrilic input in search panel'
- o bug 912, '"new" count randomly set to message count'
- o bug 919, 'libetpan: SEGV when connecting using command'
- o bug 925, 'File accountrc does not store non-ascii
- characters correctly'
- o bug 933, 'Crash re-entering the custom headers list dialog
- in accounts prefs'
- o bug 943, 'Incorrectly parsed email address list in short
- headers on message view and in printouts'
- * src/compose.c
- Fix inserting files not in utf8 when locale is utf8
- * Don't show error dialog when cancelling connection
- * src/summary_search.c
- 'stop' button was sticky when searching in an empty
- folder.
- * src/addressbook.c
- Fix crash with empty columns
- * src/plugins/spamassassin/spamassassin_gtk.c
- Fix missing set_text on unix socket
- * src/send_message.c
- enforce a check for domain in account prefs (a
- sending error could be faced if domain was checked
- but no value set)
- * src/prefs_matcher.c
- Fix values when reselecting a ~test rule
- * IMAP: fix preventing renaming with namespace separator
- * Fix build on DragonFly
- * Fix occasional flicker in folderview
- * Fix crash on redirect (related to the return of the aspell
- menu in compose's toolbar)
- * Fix returned quick search results when search term contains
- an underscore
+* 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\"
-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.
+For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
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-See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in
-this release.
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+See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.