-18th April 2008 Claws Mail 3.4.0
+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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-* Added support for /dev/mem_notify. This Linux kernel feature
- will allow applications to be notified that memory has to be
- freed before getting OOM-killed.
- For more information: http://lwn.net/Articles/267013/
+* 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.
+
+* Preferences: Toolbars/Compose window: Sign/Encrypt toggle buttons
+ can been added to the toolbar.
+
+* Preferences: Fancy Plugin: allow stylesheet file/folder names to
+ have spaces in them.
-* Enabled moving/copying folders to root folders when using the
- folder selection dialogue.
+* Account Preferences: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next
+ to the password fields.
-* Global and per-folder templates can now override the From name.
+* Account Preferences: the OpenPGP and S/MIME preferences have been
+ split into two separate pages.
-* Added a tooltip with extended folder stats. (Hover the cursor over
- the short stats on the right, below the message list.)
+* Account Preferences: newline characters are disallowed in account
+ usernames and passwords, and warnings are shown to the user if this
+ is attempted.
-* Implemented 2-line items in the message list when in three column
- mode.
+* Compose: more UTF-8 list-item characters have been added.
-* Added support for png themes.
+* Address book: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next to the
+ LDAP server 'bind password' field.
-* Added an icon for attached patches (text/x-patch and text/x-diff).
+* GPG: full key/signature fingerprints are now shown instead of the
+ short versions.
-* When viewing a message that has a large amount of text, show a
- maximum of 1MB of text and add a noticeview to show optionally show
- the whole message.
+* SSL Certificate Manager: added support for ipv6 addresses.
-* Added a button to the templates preferences to restore defaults for
- current language.
+* NNTP: Fetch XOVER and XHDR data in batches of 5000 and use the
+ statusbar progress meter when opening/refreshing a NNTP folder.
-* Added search in filtering rules list.
+* CLI: the --insert option has been added to --compose, to allow
+ inserting files from the command line.
-* Bogofilter Plugin:
- Added a "learn from whitelist" preference.
+* Plugins window: keyboard shortcuts to Load/Unload buttons have
+ been added.
-* MAEMO:
- Added information when fetching large messages.
+* PDF Viewer Plugin: a print button has been added.
-* tools/csv2addressbook.pl
- Added support for Kmail/Kaddressbook.
+* The HTML parser now supports all entities.
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French,
- German, and Italian.
+* Tools: a simple bash completion helper has been added,
+ tools/bash_completion/claws-mail.
+
+* 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 1494, 'Trayicon plugin breaks UI...' (MAEMO)
- o bug 1515, 'large messages crash claws when syncing for
- offline mode'
- o bug 1532, '"login refused" message insufficiently
- detailed'
- o bug 1533, 'Claws is unable to mark messages as "read" in
- IMAP shared folders'
- o bug 1534, 'Segmentation fault when doing some draft saving
- and then throwing away'
- o bug 1539, 'Program crashes':
- Setup Gcrypt's thread functions when built with
- GnuTLS
- o bug 1541, 'Deleting message from within read window
- displays next message then closes.' (MAEMO)
- o bug 1553, 'File lock not respected'
- o bug 1555, 'Bug with the feature "save a copy of outgoing
- messages in this folder"'
- o bug 1559, 'Claws Mail crashed deleting all common contacts'
- o bug 1561, 'Crashes leaving unsubscribed folder after
- ticking "Show only subscribed"'
- o bug 1562, 'Claws-Mail does not completely respect settings
- in GTK2_RC_FILES environment'
- o Fix blinking of the taskbar entry.
- o Fix folder view's scrollbar at startup if starting hidden.
- o If no MH mailbox and no account exists, when creating a
- POP/Local account, just create it and use the default one
- instead of bailing with a "Mailbox doesn't exist" error.
- o Clean up session disconnection. Possibly fix Ubuntu bug
- #204290
- o Fix RedHat bug 431735, 'segfault if /home is full'
- o Fix compose template formats (in global preferences)
- getting translated under specific conditions.
- o Fix updating of tags menu.
- o Fix log size getting out of control (claws-mail getting
- SIGXFSZ): rotate if every 10MB.
- o Fix debian bug 474712, 'claws seg faults when IMAP
- connection breaks after an IMAP protocol error (BAD UID
- SEARCH Invalid parameter: $Forwarded)]'
-
-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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