-5th April 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.0
+8th May 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
http://claws.sylpheed.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
-user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client.
+Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+email client.
Notes for this release:
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-* libetpan version 0.45 or newer is now required for IMAP support,
- this allows checking for IMAP/SSL certificates.
-
+* S/MIME signature verification has been removed from the PGP/MIME
+ plugin as it is now provided by the S/MIME plugin.
New in this release:
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-* Support for the Face header has been added,
- see http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/
-
-* In the Templates dialog TAB address completion has been added for
- Cc and Bcc fields, in addition to To.
-
-* An account's signature file, (Account Preferences, Compose tab),
- can now been edited in place using the configured text editor.
-
-* An advanced search is now possible in the '/Edit/Search folder'
- dialog.
-
-* '/Edit/Find' has been added to the Compose window for text
- searching.
-
-* A progress bar is now shown in the status bar whilst doing a Quick
- Search.
+* IMAP users will see significant speed improvements.
-* A long search can now be cancelled.
+* ANONYMOUS auth has been added for IMAP
-* In a Sent mail folder the From column in the message list is now
- automatically changed to the To column.
+* 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.
-* '/Message/Colour Label' has been added to the main menu, enabling
- (unmodifiable) shortcut keys, Ctrl+[0-7].
+* An encrypt-to-self option has been added to the Account Privacy
+ options.
-* 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.
+* Sysadmins can now provide their users with pre-filled values in
+ the Setup Wizard. See the manual, '6.6. Deploying Sylpheed-Claws',
+ for details.
-* A Spell Checking option to 'Recheck message when changing
- dictionary' has been added.
+* Various GUI improvements have been added.
-* An option to 'Render HTML-only mail with plugin if possible' has
- been added to the 'Message View/Text Options' preferences page.
+* 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'
-* Headers in the message view and the Custom headers dialog are now
- translated if the option 'Translate header names' is activated.
+* 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.
-* It is now possible to sort the columns in the Addressbook.
+* In the Compose window, multiple quote levels are now coloured in
+ the same way as the Message View.
-* 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.
+* A warning is now displayed on expired SSL certificates and the
+ expiration date is shown.
-* "Ignore thread" has beed added as a filtering action.
+* A hidden option has been added, 'compose_no_markup', this prohibits
+ the use of bold and italic text in Compose dialogue's account
+ selector.
-* The Compose window is now hidden when sending mails via filtering.
+* LDAPS support has been added.
-* An alphabetical resort is done immediately when a folder's name
- is changed.
+* The user manual has been updated, and French and Polish
+ translations are now also included.
-* Unsubscribing a newsgroup now removes the related folder and
- articles from newscache/
-
-* A "Get more..." link has been added to the Plugins window. This
- loads http://claws.sylpheed.org/plugins.php in your browser.
-
-* 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.
-
-* Remote learning in the SpamAssassin plugin has been added. This
- requires SpamAssassin 3.1.x.
-
-* A new script has been added that integrates a Thunderbird folder
- tree into Sylpheed-Claws, tools/tbird2syl.py
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Bulgarian, Czech,
- Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Serbian,
- Simplified Chinese, and Spanish translations.
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Czech, Dutch,
+ Finnish, French, German, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and
+ Spanish translations.
* Bugfixes:
-
- 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 ')'
+ 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
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi