-3rd October 2008 Claws Mail 3.6.0
+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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-* Claws Mail now requires libetpan 0.56 for IMAP and NNTP
-
-* Spell checking is now provided by Enchant instead of Aspell. To
- build spell checker support, you will need the libenchant headers.
-
-* The S/MIME plugin is now part of this package.
-
-* IMAP, NNTP, and SSL are now supported in the Windows port.
-
New in this release:
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-* Support for client SSL certificates.
+* 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.
-* Better support of SSL certificate stores, to be able to verify
- server certificates.
+* Preferences: Toolbars/Compose window: Sign/Encrypt toggle buttons
+ can been added to the toolbar.
-* Renaming of newsgroups is possible.
+* Preferences: Fancy Plugin: allow stylesheet file/folder names to
+ have spaces in them.
-* "Always open message when selected" can now have three values:
- 'Never', 'Always' and 'When message view is visible'.
+* Account Preferences: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next
+ to the password fields.
-* Unsaved server passwords can now be temporarily saved for the
- duration of the session. They can be cleared before the session
- expires by using '/Tools/Forget all session passwords'.
+* Account Preferences: the OpenPGP and S/MIME preferences have been
+ split into two separate pages.
-* Auto-wrapping settings are now saved in drafted messages.
+* Account Preferences: newline characters are disallowed in account
+ usernames and passwords, and warnings are shown to the user if this
+ is attempted.
-* Support for basic auto-indentation in the Compose window.
+* Compose: more UTF-8 list-item characters have been added.
-* Support for animated GIFs in the message view.
+* Address book: a 'Show password' checkbox has been added next to the
+ LDAP server 'bind password' field.
-* Type-ahead search in Filtering, Templates, Actions dialogs now
- select the result of the search.
+* GPG: full key/signature fingerprints are now shown instead of the
+ short versions.
-* Finer granularity in POP3 accounts' Remove After delay - hours in
- addition to days.
+* SSL Certificate Manager: added support for ipv6 addresses.
-* Spam/Ham flag is now stored on IMAP server when possible, using
- "Junk" and "NonJunk" keywords.
+* NNTP: Fetch XOVER and XHDR data in batches of 5000 and use the
+ statusbar progress meter when opening/refreshing a NNTP folder.
-* Use less precise intervals when possible for auto-checking, thus
- the CPU is woken up less frequently.
+* CLI: the --insert option has been added to --compose, to allow
+ inserting files from the command line.
-* The warning icon in the main window is cleared when the error it
- relates to is clipped from the network log.
+* Plugins window: keyboard shortcuts to Load/Unload buttons have
+ been added.
-* IMAP errors now reveal the server on which they happen.
+* PDF Viewer Plugin: a print button has been added.
-* All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced with their
- non-deprecated equivalents.
+* The HTML parser now supports all entities.
-* csv2addressbook.pl: Added support for FoxMail.
+* Tools: a simple bash completion helper has been added,
+ tools/bash_completion/claws-mail.
-* Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and 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 1620, 'Can't use hardware zoom buttons' (MAEMO)
- o bug 1398, 'Change current account available even when
- there's only one account'
- o bug 1609, 'Icon issues'
- o bug 1673, 'Tools/Harvest Addresses is greyed out if
- folder is empty'
- o bug 1681, 'GnuPG plugin doesn't compile on Solaris"
- o bug 1684, 'View news messages with large attachments
- segfaults'
- o bug 1688, 'Compilation problems on MingW32'
- o bug 1690, 'Copy/paste in edit window may break Undo'
- o bug 1696, 'Viewing binary attachments as text over
- 1MB' (various buglets)
- o bug 1699, 'Separator line misplaced when printing
- emails with long header lines'
- o bug 1412, 'Sign reply if mail was signed'
- o bug 1707, 'Segfault when sorting on hidden column'
- o bug 1710, 'User misreads Discard Message as Discard
- Changes'. Closing a modified re-edited draft will
- now ask whether to discard changes
- o bug 1712, 'Invalid Phishing attempt warning when linked
- text ends with spaces'
- o bug 1723, 'Buffer overflow crash caused by
- preview in 'Date format help' dialog box'
- o bug 1725, 'useless lines in clawsrc'
- o Fixed compilation with GTK 2.14
- o Fixed some memory leaks
- o Fixed upgrading of themes
- o Fixed po-headers appearing on empty templates
- o Fixed folderview's scrollbar state when starting minimized,
- and popping up is done via command line
- o Fixed race condition when closing the Plugins window while a
- plugin is loading
- o Fixed missing localityName (l) field in LDAP
- o Fixed wild rewrapping when adding text to start of some long
- lines
- o Added "Fwd" to the list of known subject prefixes
- o Fixed nickname edition in non-LDAP address books
- o Fixed compose window size saving, which changed when using
- compose-related filtering actions
- o Fixed English usage
- o Don't go to Inbox after manual mail retrieval if there are no
- new mails
- o Fixed migration problems from Aspell to Enchant dictionaries
- o Fixed double opening of file, leading to multiple signatures
- when using signify
- o Fixed image viewer (wrong image displayed, break of resizing
- functionality
- o Fixed handling of HTML parts in multipart/related parts
- o Workaround to decode correctly mails in Windows-1252 codeset
- advertised as ISO-8859-1
- o Added the nb_NO locale's default charset (ISO-8859-1)
- o IMAP: Fixed crash when error happen on session establishment
- o Fixed a lot of Windows-only bugs (bugs 1041, 1042, 1051,
- problems with folders that have non-ASCII characters, the
- huge memory leak, crash on connection failures)
-
-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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