/***************************************************************** * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.2.5 * * The "Welcome to the Teams" Release * * 22 February 2002 * *****************************************************************/ In this edition of SquirrelMail Release Notes: * All about this Release!!! * Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.2 bug * Important Note about PHP 4.1.0 * About our Release Aliases All about this Release!!! ========================= The 1.2 series is continuing to get better and more featured. The latest added features are: * MDN Support - You can send and request delivery & read receipts. * Enhanced Search functions - search multiple folders at once, search history * And another pileful of fixes and omtimisations See the Changelog file for details. Being one of the most popular webmail clients, the developers of SquirrelMail feel a huge desire and responsibility to continue push the envelope and make SquirrelMail the best it can possibly be. You will not be disappointed with this release, as it is by far the most feature rich, and yet it is still the same sleek and unbloated and cuddly webmail application that we have all grown to love. Here is an incomplete list of new features and enhancements since the last stable release. * Collapsible Folders - The folder list can be collapsed at any parent folder. This makes folder lists with large hierarchical structures much easier to manage and navigate. * The Paginator! - This enables quick access to any page in the message list by simply choosing the page number to view rather than tediously clicking "next" 50 times. * Hundreds of UI tweaks - The user interface has been given a face-lift. The HTML has been largely overhauled, and while it still has the same general feel, it has been made more intuitive. * Drafts - It is now possible to compose a message and save it to be sent at a later date with the drafts option. * New Options Page - The options page has been completely rewritten for several reasons, the main of which was to allow seamless integration of plugin options and to provide uniformity throughout the entire section. * Multiple Identities - It is now possible to create different identities (home, work, school) that can be chosen upon sending. Each identity can have its own email address, full name, and signature. * Reply Citations - Different types of citations are now possible when replying to messages. * Better Attachment Handling - The plugin, attachment_common, has been fully integrated into the core of SquirrelMail. This allows inline viewing of several different types of attachments. * Integration of Several Plugins - The following plugins have been put directly into the core. As a result, be sure not to install these as plugins, as the result may be (at best) unpredictable: attachment_common, paginator, priority, printer_friendly, sqclock, xmailer. * Improved support for newer versions of PHP. Note that you may have trouble if you are running PHP version 4.0.100 (commonly distributed with Debian 3.0). * Ability to mark messages as read and unread from the message listing. * Alternating Colors - The message list now alternates row colors by default. This presents a much cleaner and easier to read interface to the user. Aside from these obvious front end features, there are hundreds of bugs that have been fixed, and much of the code has been optimized and/or rewritten. This stable release is far superior in all aspects to all previous versions of SquirrelMail. Home Page: http://www.squirrelmail.org/ Download: http://www.squirrelmail.org/download.php ScreenShots: http://www.squirrelmail.org/screenshots.php 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). 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 bugs!!!) The PROPER place to report these bugs is the SquirrelMail Bug Tracker. http://www.squirrelmail.org/bugs Thank you for your cooperation in that issue. That helps us to make sure that nothing slips through the cracks. Also, it would help if people would check existing tracker items for a bug before reporting it again. This would help to eliminate duplicate reports, and increase the time we can spend CODING by DECREASING the time we spend sorting through bug reports. And remember, check not only OPEN bug reports, but also closed ones as a bug that you report MAY have been fixed in CVS already. Important Note about PHP 4.1.0 ============================== Finally, we have managed to make *this* SquirrelMail release cooperate nicely with the new PHP 4.1 release. As opposed to 1.2.4 and before, which was less good friends with PHP 4.1. So: "Yes! It works" About our Release Aliases - by Wouter Teepe ========================= Back with the release of 1.2.0, back when Christmas was recent, and not the Olympics, there was this vision of structurgin the SquirrelMail community into "Teams", all doing their own thing. Finally, the teams have really kicked off. :-) And, I would like to welcome all our new community members, being both YOU, the eventful users of SquirrelMail, as well as Simon Dick, Jason Munro, Pete Palmer and Chris Hills who have became team leads, as well as Marc Groot Koerkamp and Thijs Kinkhorst (both just by incident inhabitants of the same country as me :-)) who have recently joined SquirrelMail and have made worthy contributions. Welcome to the SquirrelMail teams. (And now...get the Great Rewrite geared up) See http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/SquirrelRelease for more details. Happy SquirrelMailing! - The SquirrelMail Project Team