-6th May 2013 Claws Mail 3.9.1
+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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-All plugins previously packaged as 'Extra Plugins' are now contained
-within the Claws Mail package. In addition to that, the following
-plugins have been dropped: TrayIcon, Dillo Viewer, and Gtkhtml2
-Viewer.
+* 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.
-This release contains the following plugins: ACPI Notifier, Address
-Keeper, Attachment Remover, Attachment Warner, Bogofilter, BS Filter,
-Clam AntiVirus, Fancy HTML Viewer, FetchInfo, gData, GeoLocation,
-Mail Archiver, MailMBOX, New Mail, Notification, PDF Viewer, Perl,
-PGP/Core, PGP/Inline, PGP/MIME, Python, RSSyl, SMime, Spam Report,
-SpamAssassin, TNEF Parse, and vCalendar.
+* Preferences: Toolbars/Compose window: Sign/Encrypt toggle buttons
+ can been added to the toolbar.
-* 3 command-line switches have been added:
- --cancel-receiving which cancels the currently running message
- retrieval operation
- --cancel-sending which cancels the currently running message
- sending operation
- --debug which toggles debug output.
+* Preferences: Fancy Plugin: allow stylesheet file/folder names to
+ have spaces in them.
-* '/Message/Cancel sending' has been added to the main menu.
+* Account Preferences: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next
+ to the password fields.
-* In the filtering and processing condition configuration for Age,
- it is now possible to match based on number of hours.
+* Account Preferences: the OpenPGP and S/MIME preferences have been
+ split into two separate pages.
-* The GnuPG signature timestamp is now displayed in the full
- signature information
+* Account Preferences: newline characters are disallowed in account
+ usernames and passwords, and warnings are shown to the user if this
+ is attempted.
-* Support for GnuTLS priority string has been added. This is achieved
- via 2 hidden account preferences, gnutls_set_priority and
- gnutls_priority. The former turning the option on or off, the
- latter containing the required priority string.
+* Compose: more UTF-8 list-item characters have been added.
-* Keep-alive pings are now performed on IMAP and NNTP connections.
+* Address book: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next to the
+ LDAP server 'bind password' field.
-* In the Compose window, the focus is now moved to the message body
- when focus is in the Subject entry and the Enter key is pressed.
-
-* The Delete key can now be used to remove Colour Label hotkeys.
+* GPG: full key/signature fingerprints are now shown instead of the
+ short versions.
-* PDF Viewer: The printed PDF quality has been improved.
+* SSL Certificate Manager: added support for ipv6 addresses.
-* Fancy HTML viewer: The options dialogue has been completely
- reworked, and disabling remote content is now totally strict.
-
-* Python plugin: Added Cc field to messageinfo objects.
+* NNTP: Fetch XOVER and XHDR data in batches of 5000 and use the
+ statusbar progress meter when opening/refreshing a NNTP folder.
-* Python plugin: Added examples.
+* CLI: the --insert option has been added to --compose, to allow
+ inserting files from the command line.
-* Python plugin: Added a function to get an arbitrary header from a
- MessageInfo object
+* Plugins window: keyboard shortcuts to Load/Unload buttons have
+ been added.
-* Perl plugin: The documentation for insert_perl.pl has been
- improved.
+* PDF Viewer Plugin: a print button has been added.
-* Basic handling of vcard 3.0 has been added to vcard2xml.py.
+* The HTML parser now supports all entities.
-* A Swedish translation has been added to claws-mail.desktop.
-
-* The man page has been updated.
+* Tools: a simple bash completion helper has been added,
+ tools/bash_completion/claws-mail.
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Finnish, French,
- German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish
+* 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 1137, 'loading plugins with same profile on different
- archs'
- o bug 1684, 'view news messages with large attachements
- segfaults'
- o bug 1963, 'Preferences Templates Information Window Focus
- loss'
- o bug 2340, 'Create block list'
- o bug 2617, 'code cleanup'
- o bug 2624, 'dialog "Action Configuration" cannot be closed'
- o bug 2702, 'Support splitting subject line for small screen
- layout'
- o bug 2774, 'Select folder/New Folder dialog - modal problem'
- o bug 2785, 'Marking mails for deletion reopens internal
- message view'
- o bug 2801, 'Filtering Header:Name list is blank/corrupt'
- o bug 2826, 'replace deprecated gnutls function'
- o bug 2828, 'Use MD5 digest for socket name'
- o bug 2832, 'mail to from adress-book splitt names'
- o bug 2835, 'add_address() in addr_compl.c should allow a
- NULL name'
- o bug 2859, 'Newmail plugin doesn't work if Mail folder not
- present when it is loaded.'
- o bug 2862, 'Segmentation fault when replying to a message
- where the "code conversion" fails'
- o bug 2863, 'Applying has_attachment quicksearch on IMAP
- segfaults'
- o bug 2878 'bsfilter / folder.c:1435 Condition identifier
- != NULL failed'
- o bug 2879, 'Plain text mails treated as encrypted'
- o bug 2882, 'Reverse preference for external content'
- o bug 2885, 'SIGSEGV in hooks_marshal at hooks.c:108'
- o bug 2890, 'html2ps required...'
- o bug 2893, 'ical_yy_scan_bytes has wrong type'
- o bug 2903, 'key 'C' mention harcoded in string'
- o bug 2909, 'Changing folder quickly can cause wrong email to
- be deleted'
- o IMAP: Don't set charset on simple searches. Fixes Exchange
- 2007.
- o Disconnect NNTP accounts too when switching offline.
- o Fix sensitivity of next-unread toolbar button.
- o tools/gif2xface.pl, tools/outlook2claws-mail.pl: Fix
- address.
- o Add missing \n at end of the return receipt last part's
- headers.
- o Make LDAP over SSL work on Win32.
- o Fix crash on action error.
- o Fix trimming of leading spaces in actions.
- o tools/vcard2xml.py: Fix missing file encoding info.
- o fix sensitivity of 'Use both dictionaries' in compose
- window.
- o Fix actions with spaces (and quotes).
- o tools/vcard2xml.py: Lines split over more than one line
- breaks parser; Get email addres correct. Not only
- email;internet.
- o Escape filename/description text of MIME parts, prevents
- error if, e.g., the filename contains an ampersand.
- o Fix 'edit accounts' windows going behind when leaving an
- 'account preferences' window, by re-focusing this window.
- o Fix crash closing PDF information alert panel.
- o Fix default fonts on Windows.
- o Fix ugly icon in XFCE's alt-tab window.
- o Fix untranslated description in archiver plugin
- o fix crasher when using /Edit/Search folder on start-up with
- nothing selected.
-
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/
+ 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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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.
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