/*****************************************************************
- * SquirrelMail 1.2.0 *
- * The "And I Still Have Not Wrapped My Wife's Presents" Release *
- * December 25, 2001 *
+ * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.3.0 *
+ * The "Pasta" Release *
+ * 17 august 2002 *
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-The past year has been anything but uneventful for SquirrelMail.
-This year has seen two leadership changes, the release of the 1.0
-series, the 1.1 development series, and finally the much awaited
-1.2.0 release.
-
-Being one of the most popular webmail clients, the developers of
-SquirrelMail feel a huge desire to continue pusing the envelope and
-making their product better and better. You won't be disappointed
-with this release, as it is by far the most feature rich, and yet it
-is still the same sleak and unbloated app that we have all grown to
-love. Here is an uncomplete list of new features since the last
-stable release.
-
- * 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
- facelift. The HTML has been largely overhauled, and while
- it still has the same general feel, it has been made more
- intuative.
- * Drafts - It is now possible to compose a message and save it to
- be sent at a later date with the drafts option.
- * Collapsable Folders - The folder list can be collapsed at any
- parent folder. This makes folder lists with large
- heirarchital structures much easier to manage and navigate.
- * 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
- unpredictable: attachment_common, paginator,
- printer_friendly, xmailer, sqclock, priority.
- * 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).
- * Ablity 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 optomized
-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
-
-Where are we going from here? Good progress is already being made on
-the Great SquirrelMail Rewrite, also known as the 1.3 branch which
-will eventually be called 2.0. Paul has put a lot of effort into
-reorganizing the development team into different teams that have
-different roles. The purpose in doing this is to keep developers on
-track and have to provide some semblance of order. This project has
-grown so large in the past two years that an orderly structure is
-necessary if anything is to get done. The teams are as follows:
-
- Stable Series Team: Maintains the stable series
- Development Series Team: Works on the development series
- i18n Team: Handles i18n work
- Plugin Team: Manages the mass of plugins
- User Support Team: Helps users with their problems
- Documentation Team: Manages the documentation
- Evangelism Team: Spreads the good news of SquirrelMail
-
-For the next few weeks, the developers will be working on bugfixing
-and making the 1.2 series rock solid. After that, about mid
-January, they will start focusing solely on the rewrite.
-
- Have a Merry Christmas!
+In this edition of SquirrelMail Release Notes:
+ * All about this Release!!!
+ * Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.3 bug
+ * Important Note about PHP 4.2.2
+ * About our Release Aliases
+
+All about this Release!!!
+=========================
+
+This is the first release on our way to a new stable series.
+On our way to, that is, this is a development release, which is not
+intended for production servers. We feel that releasing development
+versions will help us making the to-be stable release more stable, and
+restricting the ability to test no longer to people who use CVS.
+
+So download it! Install it, and try to break it! We are hungry for any
+bug report you send. If stumbling over a bug is a true non-option,
+this release is not for you. In that case, download the stable version
+and enjoy that one.
+
+In general, we are planning to regularly release a 1.3.x version until
+it is stable enough to call her 1.4 or 2.0. While I'm at it, one
+comment on version numbers. Our version numbers take the form of A.B.C
+ A increases with time, but only very seldomly.
+ B if it is even (0, 2, 4 etc), it is a stable release
+ if it is odd (1, 3, 5 etc), it is a development release
+ C indicates small changes.
+Which is to say our version numbering system is the same as that of
+the linux kernel. So 1.2.7 is a stable version, and 1.3.0 (this one)
+is a development release.
+
+We are excited to bring you the first fruits of a very good
+development series. Major rewrites of the back-end and the user
+interface have been happening since the 1.2 series. These rewrites
+have inspired me for the release alias (see down this document).
+
+
+A note on plugins
+=================
+
+There have been very severe architecture improvements. Lots of plugins
+have not yet been adapted to this. Plugins which are distributed with
+this release (eg. in the same .tar.gz file) may work. Plugins not
+distributed with this plugin most probably WILL NOT WORK.
+
+So if you have ANY problem at all, first try turning off all plugins.
+
+
+A note on PHP 4.2.2
+===================
+
+There are certain issues with PHP 4.2.2 and session handling that have
+not yet been addresses in this release. So this release MAY NOT WORK
+when you use PHP 4.2.2. These issues will be addressed to in
+forthcoming 1.3.x releases.
+
+
+A note on your configuration
+============================
+
+For a whole bunch of reasons, it is MANDATORY that you run conf.pl
+(and then save your configuration) from the config/ directory before
+using this release.
+
+If you have problems with UID support, please do these 2 things:
+
+1) For our comfort and the prosper of SquirrelMail:
+ send a bugreport with this information
+ * IMAP server type + version
+ * Whether you use server-side sorting
+ * Whether you use thread sorting
+ * The value of "sort" (as in conf.pl)
+ bugs can be submitted at: http://www.squirrelmail.org/bugs
+2) For your own pleasure and comfort:
+ turn of UID support in conf.pl, so you can continue to use 1.3.0
+
+
+A note on MIME
+==============
+
+In case you stumble over a message of which something goes wrong with
+MIME (it does not display some of its parts all right, etc. etc.),
+please forward the message AS AN ATTACHMENT to
+squirrelmail-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. However, AVOID
+forwarding emails over 20k of size. Please not as well that messages
+which are NOT forwarded AS AN ATTACHMENT are COMPLETEY USELESS for our
+testing purposes.
+
+
+Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.3 bug
+==========================================
+
+It is not unlikely you will experience some bugs while using this
+development version. Please submit these bugs. Also, please mention
+that the bug is in this 1.3.0 release.
+
+ 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.
+
+In case you want to join us on coding SquirrelMail, or have other
+things to share with the developers, join the development mailinglist:
+
+ squirrelmail-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
+
+
+About our Release Aliases - By Wouter Teepe
+=========================
+
+Pasta is, as we all know, a group of Italian dishes. As most of us
+know, several types of pasta exist, two of which are:
+
+* Spaghetti: Tastes good, but is very hard to untangle. Its structure
+ is unneccecarily complex, but it is relatively easy to cook.
+* Lasagne: Tastes excellent, and its structure is very elegant: it is
+ layered. Cooking it takes quite a bit more patience and design.
+
+I will not bore you with Italian cooking more except for this: The
+difference between spaghetti and lasagne applies to SquirrelMail as
+well. Where 1.2 is good, its inside is unneccecarily complex. Opposed
+to this, 1.3 is quite well structured from the inside. Its potential
+is true excellence. Its flavor is already excellent. Expect 1.4/2.0 to
+be, well...
+
+With the slicing up the internals of SquirrelMail, whole new
+possibilities will emerge. Listen on the development mailinglist to
+hear which!
+
+
Happy SquirrelMailing!
- The SquirrelMail Project Team
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