-19th December 2008 Claws Mail 3.7.0
+17th December 2017 Claws Mail 3.16.0
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
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Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
New in this release:
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-* Expanding/Collapsing of threads is now approximately 95% faster.
+* Preferences: for the 'default selection on entering a folder' on
+ the Display/Summaries page, the first new, first unread, and first
+ marked message options are now sort-order aware.
+
+* Preferences: the previously hidden preference to 'Warn when sending
+ to more recipients than []' has been added to the
+ Mail Handling/Sending page.
-* Cache reading is now approximately 10% faster.
+* Preferences: Toolbars/Compose window: Sign/Encrypt toggle buttons
+ can been added to the toolbar.
-* The shortcut key settings of the main window and the message list
- context menus are now connected.
+* Preferences: Fancy Plugin: allow stylesheet file/folder names to
+ have spaces in them.
-* The preferences on the 'Other' page have now been moved to
- Other/Miscellaneous. The parent pages are now unselectable and the
- first page is automatically selected on opening the preferences.
+* Account Preferences: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next
+ to the password fields.
-* In the Compose window, on the Others tab, the 'Save message to'
- entry now has a drop-down list of the previous save locations.
+* Account Preferences: the OpenPGP and S/MIME preferences have been
+ split into two separate pages.
-* In the Compose window, the Attachments Properties window is now
- confirmed and closed with the Return key.
+* Account Preferences: newline characters are disallowed in account
+ usernames and passwords, and warnings are shown to the user if this
+ is attempted.
-* When using an external editor to compose messages, the message is
- automatically saved to Drafts when the external editor is closed.
+* Compose: more UTF-8 list-item characters have been added.
-* A hidden option has been added, 'primary_paste_unselects' which
- causes the primary buffer to be cleared and the insertion point to
- be repositioned when the middle mouse button is used for pasting
- text. It is turned off by default.
+* Address book: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next to the
+ LDAP server 'bind password' field.
-* In the Actions window, the Escape key now cancels the action
- editing.
+* GPG: full key/signature fingerprints are now shown instead of the
+ short versions.
-* Offline SSL certificate verification has been added.
+* SSL Certificate Manager: added support for ipv6 addresses.
-* Privacy plugins: The decryption failure messages are now shown
- in the NoticeView just above the message text rather than in a
- popup window.
+* NNTP: Fetch XOVER and XHDR data in batches of 5000 and use the
+ statusbar progress meter when opening/refreshing a NNTP folder.
-* Privacy plugins: when listing the UIDs during a signature check,
- show the UID validity
+* CLI: the --insert option has been added to --compose, to allow
+ inserting files from the command line.
-* tools/kdeservicemenu
- Support for kde4 has been added.
+* Plugins window: keyboard shortcuts to Load/Unload buttons have
+ been added.
-* tools/popfile-link.sh
- Support for reusing existing POPFile session ID has been added.
+* PDF Viewer Plugin: a print button has been added.
-* win32: better integration has been implemented by using the
- standard file associations.
+* The HTML parser now supports all entities.
-* The user manuals have been updated.
+* Tools: a simple bash completion helper has been added,
+ tools/bash_completion/claws-mail.
-* Updated French translations.
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Danish,
+ Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian,
+ Norwegian Bokmål, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
+
+* New translations: Japanese, Polish, Romanian.
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1591, 'S/MIME: better key handling/selection dialog'
- o bug 1711, 'Save-as attachment crashes'
- o bug 1736, 'Key import does not work'
- o bug 1746, 'Makes a mailto link from several paragraphs'
- o bug 1756, "Outdated translators list in About dialogue"
- o bug 1768, 'claws-mail crashes while checking smime bad
- signature'
- o bug 1771, 'Folder template gets truncated when exiting the
- application'
- o bug 1776, 'use encoded name parameters for attachments
- instead of ascii'
- o bug 1779, 'PGP Inline badly handles multipart'
- o bug 1789, 'filtering account selection (regression)'
- o bug 1796, 'PGP/MIME setting: "select key by your email
- address" doesn't work'
- o fix building with gnuTLS on (Open)Solaris
- o fix account selection in Mailing list menu
- o fix "display sender using addressbook" when
- prefs_common.swap_from is in use.
- o win32: fix unlinking, renaming and bug with non-ascii
- username
- o win32: fix getting content-type
- o win32: prevent multiple launch
- o win32: fix Start menu update after registering as default
- Mail app
-
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+ o bug 3266, 'procmime.c: FILE leak in specific circumstances'
+ o bug 3784, 'Very similar strings in src/gtk/about.c'
+ o bug 3793, 'Segfaults when master passphrase dialog is
+ launched in the middle of autocompletion'
+ o bug 3795, 'Fix typo in utils.c'
+ o bug 3796, 'Fix format-security warnings in alertpanel_ use'
+ o bug 3797, 'Unfold quoting renders quotes completely
+ confusing'
+ o bug 3801, 'Broken auto wrapping'
+ o bug 3808, 'vCalendar plugin does not load due to undefined
+ symbol icaltime_from_timet'
+ o bug 3813, '"mouse up" activates link even if "mouse down"
+ occurred outside the link / cannot copy link
+ text'
+ o bug 3814, 'end of mouse drag or text selection erroneously
+ activates links'
+ o bug 3819, 'Duplicate definition of global pygtk symbols'
+ o bug 3821, 'Potential security issue with libetpan code in
+ mailmbox plugin'
+ o bug 3916, 'message view shows wrong message contents'
+ o bug 3843, 'Non-functional "Change to..." command in
+ Spelling menu'
+ o bug 3852, 'delete header entry button doesn't restore
+ colour'
+ o bug 3881, 'Hide Read Threads eats emails'
+ o bug 3886, '"About to send mail to 2 recipients" warning
+ when one of them is Reply-To'
+ o bug 3892, 'build fails with enchant-2.1.0'
+ o bug 3893, 'Text mode open/copy web links ignores trailing
+ tilde(s)'
+ o bug 3924, 'Fix configuration of sieve plugin on FreeBSD
+ (segfaulted)'
+ o bug 3931, 'segfault searching server with master password'
+ o off-by-one error in textview's quote unfolding
+ o Make sure outgoing messages have a trailing newline
+ o 'add_to_addressbook' filtering action correctly add the
+ name
+ o improved handling of bad filenames get_serverport() in
+ ssl_manager.c
+ o building against older webkitgtk versions
+ o crash in mailimf_group_parse() in mailmbox plugin
+ o missing invalid regexp indication in folder preferences.
+ o truncated input widgets in preferences window
+ o ignore_thread not marking complete thread
+ o buffer length handling in GnuTLS password encryption and
+ decryption
+ o many memory leaks
+
+For further details of the numbered bugs and RFEs listed above
+see http://claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
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