ReleaseNotes

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   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