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- * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.4.0 Release Candidate 1 *
- * 31 December 2002 *
+ * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.4.0 Release Candidate 2a *
+ * 24 January 2002 *
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In this edition of SquirrelMail Release Notes:
* All about this Release!!!
+ * A note on PHP 4.3.x
* Major updates
* A note on plugins
* Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.4 bug
All about this Release!!!
=========================
-This is the first Release Candidate (RC) for the 1.4.x stable series.
-Please note that this release is not yet labeled STABLE officially.
+This is the second and hopefully last Release Candidate (RC) for the
+1.4.x stable series. Please note that this release is not yet labeled
+STABLE officially.
+
+It is labeled RC 2a because RC 2 was released but pulled back soon
+after because a serious bug was found that needed to be fixed. Thanks
+to Jason Munro for discovering this bug.
However, we've been running this on a number of systems and a variety
of configs and we think it's worthy of the "stable"-title. Before we
can call it stable we want to test it on as many systems as possible
to iron out the last issues.
+In response to RC1, quite some issues were reported AND fixed! We now
+hope that SquirrelMail is really ready to be called STABLE. We need you
+to verify that this is true!
+
So download it! Install it, and try to break it! We are hungry for any
-bug report you send.
+bug report you send. Even the smallest issue deserves to be fixed.
+
+A note on PHP 4.3.x
+===================
+While the developers realize that PHP 4.3.x is the "latest and greatest"
+version of PHP to be available, SquirrelMail has not been extensively
+tested with it. There may be potential session issues with PHP 4.3.x,
+and PHP by default has a session warning which will need to be disabled
+if you wish to use it with SquirrelMail.
+
+Put simply: The SquirrelMail team does not recommend the use of
+PHP 4.3.x with SquirrelMail at this time.
+
+SquirrelMail will put a large ugly warning about the use of PHP 4.3.x on
+the login screen unless you add "$shootMyFootOff = true;" to
+config/config_local.php, or downgrade PHP.
Major updates
==============
* Lots of bugfixes and a couple of UI-tweaks.
-
A note on plugins
=================
This RC is meant to catch the last bugs. So we need you to submit
any bug you come across! Also, please mention that the bug is in
-this 1.4.0 RC1 release.
+this 1.4.0 RC2 release.
http://www.squirrelmail.org/bugs