-3rd September 2007 Claws Mail 3.0.0
+27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
Notes for this release:
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-* Claws Mail is now licensed under GPLv3 or later.
-
+* 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 Tags feature
- Tags are arbitrary labels that can be applied to messages. It is
- possible to create, edit, remove Tags; apply them to mails;
- filter on Tags or Tag presence; apply or unset Tags via Filtering
- actions; reference Tags in reply Templates.
-
-* Threads can now be sorted by most recent message
- /View/Sort/By thread date
-
-* Added "/View/Show or Hide/Column headers"
-
-* Added 'watch thread' feature
-
-* Enabled the running of folder Processing rules on demand
-
-* Added options to stop/enable writing logs to disc, see Logging
- page of preferences
-
-* IMAP and News: Implement age-based caching: allow the specifying
- of a threshold for the offline synchronisation feature, and whether
- old cached bodies should be removed. Accessible from the Folder
- Properties.
-
-* IMAP: Made multiple copy, (in the same IMAP account), faster by
- matching source/destination message UIDs.
-
-* LDAP: Ability to edit all Person attributes
-
-* Nicer layout of the message part icons
-
-* Speed up and clean up rendering of larger msgs
-
-* Use progress bar when sending messages
-
-* Made mainwindow's /Help/Manual point to the remote copy if the
- local copy doesn't exist
-
-* Replaced some deprecated widgets
-
-* Enabled changing the emphasis color used to highlight the
- newsreader/x-mailer header value when it matches our preferred
- mail agent, (hidden pref 'emphasis_color' added to clawsrc).
-
-* tools/mew2claws-mail.pl
- Added new script that imports a Mew address book
-
-* tools/popfile-link.sh
- Added a new script that will open selected messages in
- POPFile control center, in order to change the message
- status.
-
-* Updated the manual
-
-* Check that Dillo's installed when loading the Dillo Browser
- plugin
-
-* Maemo improvements:
- o Automatically choose the correct application
- to open parts
- o Better way to notify of new mails
- o Destroy messageview after trashing mail
- o Simplified layout
- o Better toolbars, removal of CTree headers
- o Add a specific icon to go back to folder list
- o Improvements to the Wizard, About and icon legend dialogues
- o add an easy way to store data (mails and IMAP/NNTP caches)
- on one of the SD cards, and protect against unmounts if
- needed
- o plug the online/offline system into maemo's interfaces to
- have Claws automatically switch according to the system
- status (on IT OS 2007)
- o use HildonBanners to display status messages
- o force layout to be Small screen
- o put the progress bar in the toolbar
-
-* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Finnish, French,
- German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and
- Slovak translations.
-
-
-* Bugfixes:
- o bug 1224, 'The process of Replying to emails with large
- attachments seems unreasonably long...'
- o bug 1246, 'compose becomes increasingly slow replying to
- complex emails'
- o bug 1261, '[DE] coloring messages in overview keys are
- not localised'
- o bug 1267, 'printing mutliple messages opens one message-
- dialog after the other'
- o bug 1275, 'auto-saved draft messages not always being
- removed'
- o bug 1284, 'The html -> text converter ignores entities'
- o bug 1286, 'Can't move a folder into a "Folders Only"
- folder'
- o bug 1287, 'Compile time problem on Solaris (nexenta
- gnu/Solaris) utils.c'
- o bug 1292, 'CM crashes on writing mail'
- o bug 1290, 'Claws Mail crashes if too little memory when
- rebuilding folder tree'
- o bug 1293, 'LDAP address book not working'
- o fix processing progressbar
- o fix re-opening of all composing messages that were opened
- when closing the previous instance
- o fix toolbar prefs crash when no actions exist
- o fix typos around long form expressions in the quote lexer.
- o Quicksearch: Make search run on GDK_KP_Enter too
- o fix missing timestamp update on MH source folder when
- moving mails
- o fix 'o' (Open) shortcut on MIME parts
- o fix two vCard-related crashes
- o fix threads use on BSDs
- o copy all account preferences in account_clone() - some
- were missing.
- o fix 'List URLS'
- o Fix format string vulnerability
- o Fix all potential misuses of format-string functions
- o Address Book: Contacts are now locale-aware sorted in the
- address book
- o use suitable defaults for outbox,
- queue, drafts and trash folders
- o fix loss of subfolders properties when renaming a folder
- o fix Quicksearch's Sticky mode
- o fix signature replacement when it's been wrapped
- o fix cursor offset when quote contains UTF-8 chars
- o fix coloring of pastes as quotation
- o fix wizard crash when Mailbox dir already exists
- o IMAP: fix timeout setting (requires libetpan 0.52)
- o IMAP: better scanning (NOOP instead of CLOSE/SELECT)
- o IMAP: fix unwanted creation of libetpan's stream dump file
- o LDAP: fix possible crash on cache invalidation
- o LDAP: fix port being reset to 636 on SSL
- o LDAP: fix wrong "Connected successfully to server".
- o Maemo: layout fixes
- o Maemo: fix auto-completion
- o Maemo: fix sticking statusbars
- o Maemo: fix the strange "top_application" info at startup.
- o Maemo: fix crash on first launch
- o Maemo: don't opened selected folder when clicking on white
- space
- o Maemo: make Esc close messageviews
- o Maemo: fix message scrolling to the end on opening
- o Maemo: fix reopening same message
- o Maemo: fix opening of mails from keypad in Sent folders
- o Maemo: fix adjustments changes
- o Refresh window when processing
- o Windows: never pass NULL pointers for %s substitutions
+* 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/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi