Changes of the Sylpheed-Claws GTK2 branch
+* 2.5.0
+-------
+
+* Minimum required versions of GTK+ and GLIB is now 2.6.0
+
+* Minimum required version of libetpan (for IMAP support) is now 0.46
+
+* metamail support has been dropped, this is now handled internally
+
+* New plugin: Bogofilter, providing Spam filtering and learning
+
+* Account-based filtering rules. Each filtering rule can now be
+ assigned to a specific account, by default it's "All".
+
+* Filtering against Address Book. It is now possible add matched
+ conditions to determine if any email address in a message matches
+ or doesn't match any or all books or folders in the Address Book.
+
+* Quote folding. Quotes in the message view can now be folded, via
+ the "/View/Quotes/..." menu. The folding can also be toggled by
+ double clicking on the quotes in the Message View
+
+* Re-enabled user-defined Headers in Displayed Headers configuration
+
+* "/View/Go to/Parent message" and "/View/Go to/Last read message"
+ have been added
+
+* Made the list views look more modern by add alternating coloured
+ lines, replacing the box-type expanders with arrows, removing the
+ dotted lines.
+ Hidden prefs have been added to enable users to maintain the old
+ style:
+ 'enable_dotted_lines' for the dotted lines and box-type expanders.
+ 'use stripes_in_summary' to enable alternating coloured lines in
+ the Message and Folder lists.
+ 'use stripes_everywhere' to also enable alternating coloured lines
+ in all other lists.
+ Note: 'use_stripes_everywhere' replaces the previous hidden option
+ 'enable_rules_hint'.
+
+* New hidden pref, 'stripes_color_offset', to change the value added/
+ subtracted to normal bgcolor to create the stripes in the summaries
+
+* The Send button on the main toolbar is now inactive when the Queue
+ folders are empty
+
+* IMAP: Added a View Log button on auth error
+
+* PGP/Core plugin: it is now possible to create a new key pair from
+ within Sylpheed-Claws
+
+* PGP/Core plugin: When encrypting, if only one key matches, and it
+ matches exactly, it is automatically used
+
+* TrayIcon plugin: the icon now has transparency
+
+* Enabled text selection for replying from MimeViewer plugins
+
+* The attachments list in the MimeView column can now be scrolled
+ using the mousewheel
+
+* In the MimeView column a middle-click will now just open the Mime
+ part without showing it in the Message View, likewise, a right-
+ click will display the context menu without displaying the part
+
+* The "When entering a folder..." selection option is now used for
+ '/View/Go to/Next unread folder'
+
+* A special Return-Receipt message is shown if the message is from
+ the user
+
+* An icon has been added to the statusbar to notify of errors
+
+* Added missing icons to the Icon Legend dialog
+
+* Enabled closing of SSL certificates and Folder Sort dialogs with Esc
+ key
+
+* Displaying of huge mails can now be cancelled, so the GUI doesn't
+ block
+
+* Sylpheed-Claws' internal queue headers are now hidden when showing
+ all headers. They'll be present only in Source window.
+
+* Several GUI improvements.
+
+* Faster loading of folders and other optimisations and speed-ups
+
+* Logging has been improved.
+
+* improved sizing of some widgets
+
+* Made the desktop file XDG compliant
+
+* The manuals have been updated
+
+* A Spanish translation of the manual has been added
+
+* Added an action tool, tools/uuooffice, to open uuencoded *.doc files
+ with OpenOffice.
+
+* Added an action tool, tools/fix_date.sh, to fix a missing Date field
+ in emails.
+
* 2.4.0
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-31st July 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0
+25th September 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
http://www.sylpheed-claws.net
Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
-New in this release:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* A ./configure option has been added, --with-mandir=DIR allowing the
- setting of the man directory location
+Notes for this release:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* 'Send queue' has been added to the folder contextual menu, which
- allows sending the contents of a single queue, as opposed to the
- toolbar's Send Queue, which sends all queues
+* Minimum required versions of GTK+ and GLIB is now 2.6.0
-* '/View/Go to/Next unread folder' has been added
+* Minimum required version of libetpan (for IMAP support) is now 0.46
-* 'View/Go to/Next marked messages' now traverses folders
+* metamail support has been dropped, this is now handled internally
-* sftp:// links are now recognised in mails
+New in this release:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-* A dialogue is presented to the user when dropping files into the
- Compose window, asking whether to insert or attach the file(s). The
- default behaviour can be controlled via a new option in
- Compose/Writing
+* New plugin: Bogofilter, providing Spam filtering and learning
-* Allow attached message parts to be selected, opened, or saved via
- their text label in the message body
+* Account-based filtering rules. Each filtering rule can now be
+ assigned to a specific account, by default it's "All".
-* Save named inlined attachments with "Save all"
+* Filtering against Address Book. It is now possible add matched
+ conditions to determine if any email address in a message matches
+ or doesn't match any or all books or folders in the Address Book.
-* An option to change the Folder Type has been added to the Folder
- Properties
+* Quote folding. Quotes in the message view can now be folded, via
+ the "/View/Quotes/..." menu. The folding can also be toggled by
+ double clicking on the quotes in the Message View
-* Add |i{sub_expr} to Templates, which allows inserting user-entered
- text in a template
+* Re-enabled user-defined Headers in Displayed Headers configuration
-* A new option has been added to '/Preferences/External programs' to
- allow "Display as text" on attachments to be done via a script
+* "/View/Go to/Parent message" and "/View/Go to/Last read message"
+ have been added
-* An option to 'Never send Return Receipts' has been added to the
- 'Other' page of the preferences.
+* Made the list views look more modern by add alternating coloured
+ lines, replacing the box-type expanders with arrows, removing the
+ dotted lines.
+ Hidden prefs have been added to enable users to maintain the old
+ style:
+ 'enable_dotted_lines' for the dotted lines and box-type expanders.
+ 'use stripes_in_summary' to enable alternating coloured lines in
+ the Message and Folder lists.
+ 'use stripes_everywhere' to also enable alternating coloured lines
+ in all other lists.
+ Note: 'use_stripes_everywhere' replaces the previous hidden option
+ 'enable_rules_hint'.
-* The Custom Header dialogue in Account Preferences now has a 'From
- file...' button, which enables a Face or X-Face header to be set by
- selecting a file
+* New hidden pref, 'stripes_color_offset', to change the value added/
+ subtracted to normal bgcolor to create the stripes in the summaries
+
+* The Send button on the main toolbar is now inactive when the Queue
+ folders are empty
-* libgnomeprint support : A font for printing can be specified in
- '/Display/Fonts'
+* IMAP: Added a View Log button on auth error
-* Add Help buttons to some dialogues, clicking on them will open the
- manual at a suitable section in the configured browser
+* PGP/Core plugin: it is now possible to create a new key pair from
+ within Sylpheed-Claws
-* The option 'Add date header' has been removed, a date header is
- now always added
+* PGP/Core plugin: When encrypting, if only one key matches, and it
+ matches exactly, it is automatically used
-* The '/Message/Re-edit' menu item has been removed from the separate
- Message View, where it was useless
+* TrayIcon plugin: the icon now has transparency
-* Display an Account's Protocol as a label instead of the unusable
- combo when editing accounts
+* Enabled text selection for replying from MimeViewer plugins
-* It is now possible to move and copy mails from and to the Drafts
- and Queue folders
+* The attachments list in the MimeView column can now be scrolled
+ using the mousewheel
-* More non-English Subject prefixes have been added
+* In the MimeView column a middle-click will now just open the Mime
+ part without showing it in the Message View, likewise, a right-
+ click will display the context menu without displaying the part
-* The Attachment flag is now set for some inlined attachments
+* The "When entering a folder..." selection option is now used for
+ '/View/Go to/Next unread folder'
-* Faster recursive quicksearch (show current folder's results before
- searching sub-folders)
+* A special Return-Receipt message is shown if the message is from
+ the user
-* Faster send on IMAP
+* An icon has been added to the statusbar to notify of errors
-* Alert in case of authentication error on imap
+* Added missing icons to the Icon Legend dialog
-* Better error reporting in GPG plugins
+* Enabled closing of SSL certificates and Folder Sort dialogs with Esc
+ key
-* Faster and better MBOX import/export
+* Displaying of huge mails can now be cancelled, so the GUI doesn't
+ block
-* Save caches on SIGPIPE (like on Xorg exit)
+* Sylpheed-Claws' internal queue headers are now hidden when showing
+ all headers. They'll be present only in Source window.
-* Unified Info/Help/Symbols buttons
+* Several GUI improvements.
-* Honor display-header-pane setting in separate window too
+* Faster loading of folders and other optimisations and speed-ups
-* Use the user-defined From: in the Return-Path: header when sending
+* Logging has been improved.
-* Grab Save button by default in Save dialog, which allows saving
- by hitting Enter
+* improved sizing of some widgets
-* The online status is checked before resetting mailcheck timer
+* Made the desktop file XDG compliant
-* Show POP3 connection earlier in statusbar
+* The manuals have been updated
-* Re-read /etc/resolv.conf before connecting to IMAP servers, and
- when switching to Online mode
+* A Spanish translation of the manual has been added
-* tools/textviewer.pl has been added, which can be used with the new
- option 'Command for Display as Text' in '/Preferences/External
- programs'
+* Added an action tool, tools/uuooffice, to open uuencoded *.doc files
+ with OpenOffice.
-* The Sylpheed-Claws logo has been updated
+* Added an action tool, tools/fix_date.sh, to fix a missing Date field
+ in emails.
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, French, German, Greek,
- Italian, Polish, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
- translations.
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German,
+ Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak and Spanish translations.
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 977, 'Can't add or edit imap accounts'
- o bug 978, 'Disconnect from IMAP server when going offline'
- o bug 981, 'sc 2.3.1 segfaults with gtk+ 2.10'
- o Fix double '/Go to/Next ...'
- o Fix signature replacement when changing accounts and
- re-editing, in certains cases
- o Don't report a GPG error when Cancel is clicked on the
- passphrase dialogue
- o Block undo while changing signature
- o Don't freeze the GUI when rescanning local folders after a
- crash/kill
- o Fix default button for rules, actions, templates when
- attempting to close without saving (default was to close)
- o Fix compilation on some systems
- o Fix a race condition when, after an SC crash, rescanning
- folders took more than 0.5 seconds
- o Don't allow the use of inboxes from F_UNKNOWN folders as
- default inbox, vCalendar plugin for example
- o Fixed off-by-one count of current message in the statusbar
- filtering progressbar
- o Fix focus of button in Actions I/O dialogue
+ o bug 456 'current message is hidden when the view is
+ refreshed and extended search is "unread
+ messages"'
+ o bug 956 'DnD text with accents in compose text entry'
+ o bug 973 'Unicode punctation characters are not recognized'
+ o bug 979 'Plugin crashes when exiting sylpheed-claws'
+ o bug 988 'Very specific filesystem issue on temp files'
+ o bug 995 '"Mark cross-posted as read" doesn't work'
+ o bug 998 'last attachment is not accessible'
+ o bug 999 'Timing out on TSL cert validation dialog makes
+ ugly things happen'
+ o bug 1007 'Wrong folder highlighted'
+ o bug 1011 'wrong (negative) count on unread messages'
+ o bug 1012 'crashed upon sending mail from compose window'
+ o bug 1013 'expand selected thread tree'
+ o problem with Actions of the format "> stuff >"
+ o strict ISO C90 compliance
+ o crash setting the priority on re-edit
+ o default font size setting after wizard run
+ o missing last line in some mail cases (Fixes debian bug
+ #381872)
+ o Send button sensitivity at startup
+ o encrypt bug on IMAP
+ o occasional IMAP bug where large msgs were left in the queue
+ folder after sending
+ o encrypted mail marked as new when saved in normal folders
+ o switching to offline, asking if it should be overriden for
+ synchronising
+ o body quicksearch in non-encoded bodies containing '='
+ o replied flag not being set after drafting
+ o data loss when copy fails during a move
+ o automatic sizing of some dialogs
+ o compilation on FreeBSD
+ o fix free-after-use in some cases
+ (when procmime_encode_content() frees mimeinfo->data.mem
+ and turns it to a temp file)
+ o fix "real-time" sorting in folder list by freezing/thawing
+ o fix can't click forward/backward buttons in the summary
+ search
+ o miscellaneous printing issues:
+ - Bad font for linkified headers
+ - Different font if the mail was displayed or not
+ o select the mimepart icon when displaying as text
+ o fix blocking check of an SSL certificate
+ o update folder name label on folder rename
+ o workaround possible GTK crash: remove selection clipboard
+ before destroying widget, or GTK+-2.10
+ o workaround GTK+ Bug 351600 - 'Can't re-click on button after
+ sensitivity update'
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi