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- * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.2.0 *
- * The "And I Still Have Not Wrapped My Wife's Presents" Release *
- * aka the "Miriam Noel" Release *
- * 25 December 2001 *
+ * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.2.3 *
+ * The "One-Eyed Programmer" Release *
+ * 21 January 2002 *
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+ Note: Please see the ChangeLog for 1.2.0, 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 bugs
+ that have been fixed in this 1.2.2 release.
+
After a long wait, SquirrelMail is finally making a new major stable
series release. The past year has been ANYTHING but uneventful for
the SquirrelMail Project. This year has seen two leadership changes,
the release of the 1.0 series, the 1.1 development series, and now
-finally the much awaited 1.2.0 release.
+finally the much awaited 1.2 release.
In this edition of SquirrelMail Release Notes:
* All about this Release!!!
- * Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.2.0 bug
+ * Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.2 bug
* Important Note about PHP 4.1.0
* Where are we going from here?
- * About our release Aliases
+ * About our Release Aliases
All about this Release!!!
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ScreenShots: http://www.squirrelmail.org/screenshots.php
-Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.2.0 bug
-============================================
+Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.2 bug
+==========================================
-Of course, in the words of Linus Torvalds, this release is
-officially certified to be Bug-Free (tm).
+Of course, in the words of Linus Torvalds, this release is officially
+certified to be Bug-Free (tm).
However, if for some reason some bugs manage to find their way to the
surface, please report them at once (after all, they ARE uncertified
However, we were too close to the end of this whole thing to be able
to spend the week or two EXTRA that it will take to get SquirrelMail
-1.2.0 PHP 4.1.0 ready. This will, on the bright side, be a major
+1.2 PHP 4.1.0 ready. This will, on the bright side, be a major
priority amongst the team in the immediate future. At first look, it
seems that 4.1.0 support should just require a collection of
relatively minor tweaks. You can expect 4.1.0 support within 2-3
Where are we going from here?
=============================
-After things cool down a bit and the smoke clears from 1.2.0,
+After things cool down a bit and the smoke clears from 1.2,
progress will begin on the Great SquirrelMail Rewrite, also known as
the 1.3 development branch. This branch will eventually become the
long talked about SquirrelMail 2.0. The major developmental emphasis
on the SquirrelMail 1.3 development series.
-About our Release Aliases - by Paul Joseph Thompson
+About our Release Aliases - by Wouter Teepe
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-Most importantly, this release of SquirrelMail is dedicated to my
-wife and the new baby that she had on 13 December 2001, Miriam Noel
-Thompson.
+Philippe, one of our main developers has been having quite some trouble
+with the health of his eyes. Though luckily it is not of a permanent
+nature, it is terrible enough. Essentially he had only one eye
+available when he was squashing many of the bugs that are fixed in this
+release.
+
+However, more eyes have been helping in making this release
+possible. I'd also like to specially thank Bron Godwana, who traced a
+bug in the IMAP code - and fixed it.
See http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/SquirrelRelease for more details.
- Have a Merry Christmas!
Happy SquirrelMailing!
- The SquirrelMail Project Team