| 1 | /***************************************************************** |
| 2 | * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.2.5 * |
| 3 | * The "Welcome to the Teams" Release * |
| 4 | * 22 February 2002 * |
| 5 | *****************************************************************/ |
| 6 | |
| 7 | In this edition of SquirrelMail Release Notes: |
| 8 | * All about this Release!!! |
| 9 | * Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.2 bug |
| 10 | * Important Note about PHP 4.1.0 |
| 11 | * About our Release Aliases |
| 12 | |
| 13 | All about this Release!!! |
| 14 | ========================= |
| 15 | |
| 16 | The 1.2 series is continuing to get better and more featured. The |
| 17 | latest added features are: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * MDN Support - You can send and request delivery & read receipts. |
| 20 | * Enhanced Search functions - search multiple folders at once, |
| 21 | search history |
| 22 | * And another pileful of fixes and omtimisations |
| 23 | |
| 24 | See the Changelog file for details. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Being one of the most popular webmail clients, the developers of |
| 27 | SquirrelMail feel a huge desire and responsibility to continue push |
| 28 | the envelope and make SquirrelMail the best it can possibly be. You |
| 29 | will not be disappointed with this release, as it is by far the most |
| 30 | feature rich, and yet it is still the same sleek and unbloated and |
| 31 | cuddly webmail application that we have all grown to love. Here is |
| 32 | an incomplete list of new features and enhancements since the last |
| 33 | stable release. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | * Collapsible Folders - The folder list can be collapsed at any |
| 36 | parent folder. This makes folder lists with large |
| 37 | hierarchical structures much easier to manage and navigate. |
| 38 | * The Paginator! - This enables quick access to any page in the |
| 39 | message list by simply choosing the page number to view |
| 40 | rather than tediously clicking "next" 50 times. |
| 41 | * Hundreds of UI tweaks - The user interface has been given a |
| 42 | face-lift. The HTML has been largely overhauled, and while |
| 43 | it still has the same general feel, it has been made more |
| 44 | intuitive. |
| 45 | * Drafts - It is now possible to compose a message and save it to |
| 46 | be sent at a later date with the drafts option. |
| 47 | * New Options Page - The options page has been completely |
| 48 | rewritten for several reasons, the main of which was to |
| 49 | allow seamless integration of plugin options and to |
| 50 | provide uniformity throughout the entire section. |
| 51 | * Multiple Identities - It is now possible to create different |
| 52 | identities (home, work, school) that can be chosen upon |
| 53 | sending. Each identity can have its own email address, |
| 54 | full name, and signature. |
| 55 | * Reply Citations - Different types of citations are now possible |
| 56 | when replying to messages. |
| 57 | * Better Attachment Handling - The plugin, attachment_common, has |
| 58 | been fully integrated into the core of SquirrelMail. This |
| 59 | allows inline viewing of several different types of |
| 60 | attachments. |
| 61 | * Integration of Several Plugins - The following plugins have been |
| 62 | put directly into the core. As a result, be sure not to |
| 63 | install these as plugins, as the result may be (at best) |
| 64 | unpredictable: attachment_common, paginator, priority, |
| 65 | printer_friendly, sqclock, xmailer. |
| 66 | * Improved support for newer versions of PHP. Note that you may |
| 67 | have trouble if you are running PHP version 4.0.100 |
| 68 | (commonly distributed with Debian 3.0). |
| 69 | * Ability to mark messages as read and unread from the message listing. |
| 70 | * Alternating Colors - The message list now alternates row colors |
| 71 | by default. This presents a much cleaner and easier to |
| 72 | read interface to the user. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | Aside from these obvious front end features, there are hundreds of |
| 75 | bugs that have been fixed, and much of the code has been optimized |
| 76 | and/or rewritten. This stable release is far superior in all |
| 77 | aspects to all previous versions of SquirrelMail. |
| 78 | |
| 79 | Home Page: http://www.squirrelmail.org/ |
| 80 | Download: http://www.squirrelmail.org/download.php |
| 81 | ScreenShots: http://www.squirrelmail.org/screenshots.php |
| 82 | |
| 83 | |
| 84 | Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.2 bug |
| 85 | ========================================== |
| 86 | |
| 87 | Of course, in the words of Linus Torvalds, this release is officially |
| 88 | certified to be Bug-Free (tm). |
| 89 | |
| 90 | However, if for some reason some bugs manage to find their way to the |
| 91 | surface, please report them at once (after all, they ARE uncertified |
| 92 | bugs!!!) The PROPER place to report these bugs is the SquirrelMail Bug |
| 93 | Tracker. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | http://www.squirrelmail.org/bugs |
| 96 | |
| 97 | Thank you for your cooperation in that issue. That helps us to make |
| 98 | sure that nothing slips through the cracks. Also, it would help if |
| 99 | people would check existing tracker items for a bug before reporting |
| 100 | it again. This would help to eliminate duplicate reports, and |
| 101 | increase the time we can spend CODING by DECREASING the time we |
| 102 | spend sorting through bug reports. And remember, check not only OPEN |
| 103 | bug reports, but also closed ones as a bug that you report MAY have |
| 104 | been fixed in CVS already. |
| 105 | |
| 106 | |
| 107 | Important Note about PHP 4.1.0 |
| 108 | ============================== |
| 109 | |
| 110 | Finally, we have managed to make *this* SquirrelMail release cooperate |
| 111 | nicely with the new PHP 4.1 release. As opposed to 1.2.4 and before, |
| 112 | which was less good friends with PHP 4.1. |
| 113 | |
| 114 | So: "Yes! It works" |
| 115 | |
| 116 | About our Release Aliases - by Wouter Teepe |
| 117 | ========================= |
| 118 | |
| 119 | Back with the release of 1.2.0, back when Christmas was recent, and |
| 120 | not the Olympics, there was this vision of structurgin the |
| 121 | SquirrelMail community into "Teams", all doing their own thing. |
| 122 | |
| 123 | Finally, the teams have really kicked off. :-) |
| 124 | |
| 125 | And, I would like to welcome all our new community members, being both |
| 126 | YOU, the eventful users of SquirrelMail, as well as Simon Dick, Jason |
| 127 | Munro, Pete Palmer and Chris Hills who have became team leads, as |
| 128 | well as Marc Groot Koerkamp and Thijs Kinkhorst (both just by incident |
| 129 | inhabitants of the same country as me :-)) who have recently joined |
| 130 | SquirrelMail and have made worthy contributions. |
| 131 | |
| 132 | Welcome to the SquirrelMail teams. |
| 133 | |
| 134 | (And now...get the Great Rewrite geared up) |
| 135 | |
| 136 | See http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/SquirrelRelease for more details. |
| 137 | |
| 138 | Happy SquirrelMailing! |
| 139 | - The SquirrelMail Project Team |