[sylpheed-announce:00023] Sylpheed 2.3.0 released

Hiroyuki Yamamoto hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp
Sun Dec 24 00:19:04 JST 2006


Hello,

The latest stable version Sylpheed 2.3.0 has been released.

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/news.html
http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/download.html

2.3.0 provides the new printing function and new mail notification by
the tray icon. 2.3.0 also includes various usability improvements.

In Win32 version, the included GTK+ library has been updated to the
latest 2.10.6, and it introduces the improvements of usability and
bugfixes. Changes from 2.2

    * New features
          o The new printing function was implemented.
                + The native print dialog is available now. This allows
                  users to select printers or range.
                + Page setup was added.
                + Each page is now rendered by the Cairo graphic engine.
                + The font for displaying messages is used for printing.
                + Page number is printed for each page.
                + The printing of text attachments was implemented.
          o Win32: The tray icon was implemented.
          o When new mails arrive, the tray icon is changed, and it
            notifies the arrival of new mails by blinking itself for
            several seconds.
          o The feature to minimize the main window to the tray icon
            was added.
          o POP before SMTP was implemented.
          o The option "Open inbox on startup" was added.
          o The option "Remeber last selected message" was added.
          o The option "Inherit recipients on reply to self messages"
            was added.
          o The option to input signature directly was added to the
            account preferences. Signature is also automatically
            generated when creating a new account.
          o Cc: was added to the header view.
          o Bcc: and Reply-To: entries were added to the template.
          o Win32: The common CA certificates were included in the
            package.
          o CA certificates are now looked up in multiple location.
          o The bundle file which bundles multiple CA certificates in
            PEM format can be used.
          o When SSL certificate cannot be verified, the confirmation
            dialog is now displayed.
    * Improvements
          o Win32: The included GTK+ was updated to 2.10.6.
          o Win32: The performance of network communication at
            receiving and sending was improved.
          o Win32: The appearance of the UI became more native-like.
          o Win32: The scrolling speed of the summary view with cursor
            keys was improved.
          o The default directory of the file selection dialog was
            changed (in Win32, 'My Documents' is used. In Unix, the
            home directory is used).
          o The UI is now updated periodically on manual filtering.
          o Cursor is now placed at the top of the text (alternatively
            To or Subject entry if they are empty) when reediting
            messages.
          o Unix: Resolver is now reinitialized if the DNS setting is
            modified on running,
    * Fixes
          o Win32: The broken display of the text view when it was
            partially hidden was fixed.
          o Win32: The position of color labels menu in the search
            dialog is correct now.
          o Win32: The problem that GTK+ strings became untranslated
            after the popup of context menu on the text view was fixed.
          o Win32: The crash that occurred on startup if a font with
            non-ascii name was specified for system font was fixed.
          o Win32: The application icon was modified.
          o Win32: The issue that the progress dialog was not updated
            while sending large messages was fixed.
          o The encoding setting of the message view in new window is
            enabled also on reply.
          o The bug that the blank message view appeared when
            displaying window from the tray icon while the message view
            was hidden in separate window mode was fixed.

Changes from 2.3.0rc

    * The Japanese manual was updated.

--
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>
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