-27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
+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.
-Notes for this release:
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-* 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 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.
+* 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.
-* Added an option, "Select the HTML part of multipart/alternative
- messages". This is available on the Message View/Text Options
- preferences page.
+* Preferences: Toolbars/Compose window: Sign/Encrypt toggle buttons
+ can been added to the toolbar.
-* Added an option to the 'Create new folder' dialogue which enables
- new folders to inherit the properties of their parent folders
- during folder creation.
+* Preferences: Fancy Plugin: allow stylesheet file/folder names to
+ have spaces in them.
-* 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.
+* Account Preferences: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next
+ to the password fields.
-* 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.
+* Account Preferences: the OpenPGP and S/MIME preferences have been
+ split into two separate pages.
-* Added support for the Avant Window Navgator (Awn) information
- bubble. This is automatically enabled if dbus is available.
+* Account Preferences: newline characters are disallowed in account
+ usernames and passwords, and warnings are shown to the user if this
+ is attempted.
-* 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.
+* Compose: more UTF-8 list-item characters have been added.
-* The SHA1 fingerprint is now shown on the SSL certificate dialogue
- and the labels are now selectable.
+* Address book: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next to the
+ LDAP server 'bind password' field.
-* Several GUI improvements have been made, (Address book, filtering
- dialogue, Actions dialogue, and Account preferences).
+* GPG: full key/signature fingerprints are now shown instead of the
+ short versions.
-* 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.
+* SSL Certificate Manager: added support for ipv6 addresses.
-* Added the Trash and Delete icons to the Custom Toolbars options.
+* NNTP: Fetch XOVER and XHDR data in batches of 5000 and use the
+ statusbar progress meter when opening/refreshing a NNTP folder.
-* SMTP-only accounts are now not shown in the Receive menus and
- Account lists in filtering/processing, as they are irrelevant here.
+* CLI: the --insert option has been added to --compose, to allow
+ inserting files from the command line.
-* tools/csv2addressbook.pl
- Support for a gmail exported csv address book was added.
+* Plugins window: keyboard shortcuts to Load/Unload buttons have
+ been added.
-* Updated English, French, and Spanish manuals.
+* PDF Viewer Plugin: a print button has been added.
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French,
- German, and Spanish.
+* The HTML parser now supports all entities.
-* 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)
+* 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 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
+ 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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