-8th May 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0
+3rd October 2008 Claws Mail 3.6.0
- SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://claws.sylpheed.org
+ CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
+ http://www.claws-mail.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
Notes for this release:
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-* S/MIME signature verification has been removed from the PGP/MIME
- plugin as it is now provided by the S/MIME plugin.
+* 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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-* IMAP users will see significant speed improvements.
-
-* ANONYMOUS auth has been added for IMAP
-
-* In the Compose window all spell-checker options are now available
- from the /Spelling/Options menu.
-
-* Syntax errors in the extended Quick Search are now indicated by
- a pink/red background.
-
-* An encrypt-to-self option has been added to the Account Privacy
- options.
-
-* Sysadmins can now provide their users with pre-filled values in
- the Setup Wizard. See the manual, '6.6. Deploying Sylpheed-Claws',
- for details.
-
-* Various GUI improvements have been added.
-
-* A new command line option has been added: --select 'folder[/msg]'
- This can be used at startup and causes the specified folder/message
- to be selected. 'folder' is a folder id like '#mh/Mailbox/inbox'
-
-* Optional background colouring of quotes has been added. It can be
- configured from the Colour Preferences dialogue.
- GTK+-2.8.x or newer is required for this feature.
-
-* In the Compose window, multiple quote levels are now coloured in
- the same way as the Message View.
-
-* A warning is now displayed on expired SSL certificates and the
- expiration date is shown.
-
-* A hidden option has been added, 'compose_no_markup', this prohibits
- the use of bold and italic text in Compose dialogue's account
- selector.
-
-* LDAPS support has been added.
-
-* The user manual has been updated, and French and Polish
- translations are now also included.
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Czech, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and
- Spanish translations.
-
-* Bugfixes:
- o bug 859, 'problems with cyrilic input in search panel'
- o bug 912, '"new" count randomly set to message count'
- o bug 919, 'libetpan: SEGV when connecting using command'
- o bug 925, 'File accountrc does not store non-ascii
- characters correctly'
- o bug 933, 'Crash re-entering the custom headers list dialog
- in accounts prefs'
- o bug 943, 'Incorrectly parsed email address list in short
- headers on message view and in printouts'
- * src/compose.c
- Fix inserting files not in utf8 when locale is utf8
- * Don't show error dialog when cancelling connection
- * src/summary_search.c
- 'stop' button was sticky when searching in an empty
- folder.
- * src/addressbook.c
- Fix crash with empty columns
- * src/plugins/spamassassin/spamassassin_gtk.c
- Fix missing set_text on unix socket
- * src/send_message.c
- enforce a check for domain in account prefs (a
- sending error could be faced if domain was checked
- but no value set)
- * src/prefs_matcher.c
- Fix values when reselecting a ~test rule
- * IMAP: fix preventing renaming with namespace separator
- * Fix build on DragonFly
- * Fix occasional flicker in folderview
- * Fix crash on redirect (related to the return of the aspell
- menu in compose's toolbar)
- * Fix returned quick search results when search term contains
- an underscore
+* Support for client SSL certificates.
+
+* Better support of SSL certificate stores, to be able to verify
+ server certificates.
+
+* Renaming of newsgroups is possible.
+
+* "Always open message when selected" can now have three values:
+ 'Never', 'Always' and 'When message view is visible'.
+
+* 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'.
+
+* Auto-wrapping settings are now saved in drafted messages.
+
+* Support for basic auto-indentation in the Compose window.
+
+* Support for animated GIFs in the message view.
+
+* Type-ahead search in Filtering, Templates, Actions dialogs now
+ select the result of the search.
+
+* Finer granularity in POP3 accounts' Remove After delay - hours in
+ addition to days.
+
+* Spam/Ham flag is now stored on IMAP server when possible, using
+ "Junk" and "NonJunk" keywords.
+
+* Use less precise intervals when possible for auto-checking, thus
+ the CPU is woken up less frequently.
+
+* The warning icon in the main window is cleared when the error it
+ relates to is clipped from the network log.
+
+* IMAP errors now reveal the server on which they happen.
+
+* All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced with their
+ non-deprecated equivalents.
+
+* csv2addressbook.pl: Added support for FoxMail.
+
+* Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch,
+ Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian,
+ Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.
+
+* 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/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
-
-* and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
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-See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in
-this release.
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+See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.