/*****************************************************************
- * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.2.5 *
- * The "Welcome to the Teams" Release *
- * 22 February 2002 *
+ * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.4.0 *
+ * The "Long Time Coming" Release *
+ * 3 April 2003 *
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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
-==========================================
+ * 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 of our new 1.4.x-series which is officially
+labeled STABLE! We've been through a long development trajectory
+which has resulted in this version. The big plusses of 1.4 over the
+previous 1.2.x series are enhanced stability, better compatibility
+with a wide range of mail/websystems, more features and less bugs.
+See the Major Updates section of this file for more.
+
+
+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. We currently believe that SquirrelMail should work on
+PHP 4.3.x but we lack the experience with this new version to be
+absolutely sure. If you want to be safe, or experience problems, you may
+want to downgrade to PHP 4.2.x.
+
+
+Major updates
+==============
+
+The 1.4.0 series (as a result of 1.3 developent series) brings:
+
+* A complete rewrite of the way we send mail (Deliver-class),
+ and of the way we parse mail (MIME-bodystructure parsing).
+ This makes SquirrelMail more reliable and more efficient
+ at the same time!
+* Support for IMAP UID which makes SquirrelMail more reliable.
+* Optimizations to code and the number of IMAP calls; SquirrelMail
+ is now a very scalable webmail solution.
+* Support for a wider range of authentication mechanisms.
+* Lots of bugfixes, some new features and a couple of UI-tweaks.
+
-Of course, in the words of Linus Torvalds, this release is officially
-certified to be Bug-Free (tm).
+A note on plugins
+=================
-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.
+There have been major plugin 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) should work. Plugin authors
+will need some time to adapt their plugins, so quite a few plugins
+might not work.
+
+So if you have ANY problem at all, first try turning off all plugins.
+If one plugin seems to be the culprit, contact the author to see if
+a 1.4.x version is underway.
+
+
+Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.4 bug
+==========================================
+
+We constantly aim to make SquirrelMail even better. So we need you to
+submit any bug you come across! Also, please mention that the bug is
+in this 1.4.0 release, and list your IMAP server and webserver details.
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
+Thanks for your cooperation with this. That helps us to make
+sure 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
bug reports, but also closed ones as a bug that you report MAY have
been fixed in CVS already.
+If you want to join us in coding SquirrelMail, or have other
+things to share with the developers, join the development mailinglist:
-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. :-)
+ squirrelmail-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
-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.
+About Our Release Alias
+=======================
-(And now...get the Great Rewrite geared up)
+This release is labeled the "Long Time Coming" Release.
+I think you can figure out the meaning behind this yourself.
-See http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/SquirrelRelease for more details.
Happy SquirrelMailing!
- The SquirrelMail Project Team
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