-30th January 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0
+5th April 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
http://claws.sylpheed.org
Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
-lightweight, and fast e-mail client
+user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client.
Notes for this release:
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-* libetpan >= 0.41 is now required for IMAP support
+* libetpan version 0.45 or newer is now required for IMAP support,
+ this allows checking for IMAP/SSL certificates.
+
New in this release:
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-Manual
-------
-* A new and completely rewritten manual has been added.
- It is accessible using your browser by clicking '/Help/Manual' on
- the main toolbar.
-
-Icon legend
------------
-* An icon legend window has been added to the Help menu, accessible
- by clicking '/Help/Icon legend' on the main toolbar.
-
-Priting
--------
-* Attached images can now be printed along with the message when using
- the optional libgnomeprintui support.
-
-Command line usage
-------------------
-* '--exit' has been added.
-
-* '--subscribe' has been added.
- Calling sylpheed-claws --subscribe '%s' will ask the loaded plugins
- if they can handle the type of URL passed as a parameter. Thus, if
- using the RSSyl or vCalendar plugins, for example, the user will be
- able to subscribe RSS feeds or Webcals from the browser.
+* Support for the Face header has been added,
+ see http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/
-* sylpheed-claws email@domain.com is now equivalent to --compose
+* In the Templates dialog TAB address completion has been added for
+ Cc and Bcc fields, in addition to To.
-* sylpheed-claws proto://blah.com is equivalent to --subscribe
+* An account's signature file, (Account Preferences, Compose tab),
+ can now been edited in place using the configured text editor.
-GUI improvements
-----------------
-* HIG compliant button order has been implemented.
+* An advanced search is now possible in the '/Edit/Search folder'
+ dialog.
-* Several dialogues throughout have been improved.
+* '/Edit/Find' has been added to the Compose window for text
+ searching.
-Main Toolbar
-------------
-* Text can now also been displayed next to the icons.
+* A progress bar is now shown in the status bar whilst doing a Quick
+ Search.
-* Quick mail retrieval from any account is now possible due to the
- account submenu which has been added to the 'Get All' button.
+* A long search can now be cancelled.
-Compose window
---------------
-* The spellchecker context menu in the compose window has been added
- to the standard GtkTextView menu instead of replacing it.
+* In a Sent mail folder the From column in the message list is now
+ automatically changed to the To column.
-* The Subject in the window title now updates instantaneously.
+* '/Message/Colour Label' has been added to the main menu, enabling
+ (unmodifiable) shortcut keys, Ctrl+[0-7].
-* The mimetypes list in the attachment pane is now alphabetically
- ordered.
+* The colour labels are now customisable from the 'Display/Colours'
+ page of the Preferences. It is now possible to choose any colours
+ and to give them each a label.
-Message View
-------------
-* The email and URI parsers have been enhanced.
+* A Spell Checking option to 'Recheck message when changing
+ dictionary' has been added.
-Quick Search
-------------
-* In Extended mode, a '...' button has been added, this provides the
- user with a dialogue enabling the quick formation of search
- criteria.
+* An option to 'Render HTML-only mail with plugin if possible' has
+ been added to the 'Message View/Text Options' preferences page.
-* Do not refocus quick search after executing (Esc or Enter). This
- enables using the '/' shortcut key, search for something, then move
- up/down in the message list, and then Esc a search and be back in
- the folder list.
+* Headers in the message view and the Custom headers dialog are now
+ translated if the option 'Translate header names' is activated.
-* When quick search is activated, the entry box is given a yellow
- background for greater visibility.
+* It is now possible to sort the columns in the Addressbook.
-Address book
-------------
-* The LDAP search in the address book now supports wildcard searching
- using '*'.
+* More drag-n-drop capabilities have been added, from the message
+ list to other apps, from the mimeview to other apps, from other
+ apps to message list, from other apps to folder list, from the
+ mimeview to the message and folder lists and the Compose window's
+ attachments pane.
-Preferences
------------
-* The option 'Go to inbox after receiving new mail' has been moved
- from 'Display/Summaries' to 'Mail handling/Receive'.
+* "Ignore thread" has beed added as a filtering action.
-* The 'Wrap at send' option has been removed.
+* The Compose window is now hidden when sending mails via filtering.
-* Colour preferences have been moved from '/Message View/Colors' to
- '/Display/Colors'.
+* An alphabetical resort is done immediately when a folder's name
+ is changed.
-* The previously hidden option, color_new, has been added to the GUI
- as '/Display/Colors/Folder' containing new messages.
+* Unsubscribing a newsgroup now removes the related folder and
+ articles from newscache/
-Plugins
--------
-* The spamassassin and spamassassin_gtk plugins have been merged into
- one single plugin, and this plugin is now built by default if the
- requirements are matched.
+* A "Get more..." link has been added to the Plugins window. This
+ loads http://claws.sylpheed.org/plugins.php in your browser.
-* The clamav and clamav_gtk plugins have been merged into one single
- plugin.
+* The SpamAssassin plugin is now equipped with a spam learning
+ interface, usable by right-clicking a message and choosing
+ 'Mark as Spam' or 'Mark as Ham' in the Mark submenu. It is now also
+ possible to disable SpamAssasin filtering when receiving mail, so
+ that the plugin can be used for learning only.
-* GnuPG support: Add support for PKA info if available
+* Remote learning in the SpamAssassin plugin has been added. This
+ requires SpamAssassin 3.1.x.
-* The PGP/Inline plugin now supports Content-Type 'application/pgp'.
+* A new script has been added that integrates a Thunderbird folder
+ tree into Sylpheed-Claws, tools/tbird2syl.py
-* A check to verify that plugins are licenced under a GPL-compatible
- licence has been added.
-
-* The unmaintained mathml_viewer plugin has been removed.
-
-Tools
------
-* Add filter_conv_new.pl.
- Converts the new style Sylpheed filter rules (Sylpheed >= 0.9.99)
- to Claws filtering rules.
-
-Translations
-------------
-* new Greek and Swedish translations.
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Dutch, Finnish,
- French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Serbian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese translations.
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Bulgarian, Czech,
+ Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Serbian,
+ Simplified Chinese, and Spanish translations.
* Bugfixes:
- o bug 843, 'Inbox cannot be changed for local mailboxes'
- o bug 845, 'sylpheed-claws 1.9.99+ start in minimised state'
- o bug 856, 'reediting messages forgets Request Return
- Receipt'
- o bug 862, 'undo of wrapped, pasted text deletes part of
- message'
- o bug 863, 'windows-1252 encoding option missing from message
- view window'
- o bug 866, 'Show key id when missing'
- o bug 867, 'Report also key trust'
- o bug 875, 'Freeze On Inline Forward of Large Message'
- o bug 882, 'quick scroll in folder list displays wrong folder
- contents'
- o bug 883, 'default inbox does not track folder move'
- o bug 884, ''Send receipt' button visible in queue'
- o bug 888, '2.0.0rc3 not displaying image in message view'
- o bug 896, 'PT_BR locale broken'
- o bug 897, 'message header is resetted if one is copied to
- Drafts'
- o crash when closing description windows using the WM's [X]
- button
- o crash when copying/moving message(s) from and to the same
- folder
- o missing listing of text/* attachments in the message view
- o Filtering ~message, ~headers_part, ~body_part rules
- o possible crash on connection failure when sending
- o crashes in prefs after unloading Spamassassin or Clamav
- plugins
- o spurious displaying on message when "Always open messages"
- isn't set
- o last-used directory for loading attachments wasn't cached
- o assertion failure in msgcache_add_msg
- o cursor positioning not obeying %X
- o don't deselect stuff in compose window before right-
- clicking, with aspell.
- o autosave on IMAP
- o copying/moving between normal and draft/queue in IMAP
- o occasional failure in fetching a mail over IMAP
- o don't remove a draft when sending it, if it is locked
- o wrapping issues
- o prevent mail from being lost without notice when an SMTP
- error happens on trying to send an unmodified drafted mail
- o forget SMTP password if wrong
- o recursive prefs apply
- o attach_load_dir set to PLUGINDIR on plugin load
- o possible crashes on exit and in addressbook
- o allow templates without text
- o deselection of text when right-clicking in Compose windows
- o automatic encoding in some corner-cases
- o 'Get Mail' sensitivity in the Trayicon Plugin
- o 'Trash' sensitivity when receiving
- o don't start the wizard when folders exist, even if they are
- unloaded
- o update the default keybinds
+
+ o bug 908, 'Flagging on IMAP-Server fails'
+ o bug 916, 'newsgroup unsubscribe segmentation fault'
+ o bug 924, 'Account combo box shows up wrong if & is in
+ account name'
+ o bug 927, 'SIGSEGV during Update Summary'
+ o bug 929, 'Unnecessary reload in quick search bar'
+ o fix a crash in JPilot
+ o fix drafting on IMAP
+ o prevent double-timeouts when connection IMAP fails
+ o return immediately when IMAP password dialog is cancelled
+ o fix missing expunge on IMAP, causing folder refresh
+ problems in certain conditions
+ o fix crash on Reply with no From:
+ o fix undoing by blocks with spaces in Compose
+ o fix auto-wrap disabling itself after a middle-click paste
+ o convert passphrase to locale encoding
+ o fix GPG preferences items sensitivity
+ o fix some problems on heavily customized toolbars
+ o fix race conditions when big uncached mails are used in
+ closable windows
+ o fix crashes on cancelling the Quick Search
+ o fix wrong Fake URL Warning
+ o fix the busy cursor not appearing in the textview
+ o fix a crash with the preview in file dialog, on Solaris
+ o fix useless reload of summaryview after execution (of copy
+ or delete actions)
+ o fix update of caches after actions involving %f or %F
+ o fix search in quoted-printable bodies
+ o fix code conversion on reply when date format returns a
+ non-UTF8 string
+ o fix some GUI issues and compilation warnings
+ o Empty strings for passwords are now allowed.
+ o disable Manual menu if the manual's not installed
+ o Allow URIs containing '(' and ')'
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
* and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.