/*****************************************************************
- * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.2.0 *
- * The "And I Still Have Not Wrapped My Wife's Presents" Release *
- * aka the "Miriam Noel" Release *
- * December 25, 2001 *
+ * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.2.5 *
+ * The "Welcome to the Teams" Release *
+ * 22 February 2002 *
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-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.
-
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
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 responsiblity to continue push
+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 sleak and unbloated and
+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 uncomplete list of new features and enhancements since the last
+an incomplete list of new features and enhancements since the last
stable release.
- * Collapsable Folders - The folder list can be collapsed at any
+ * Collapsible 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.
+ 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
- facelift. The HTML has been largely overhauled, and while
+ face-lift. The HTML has been largely overhauled, and while
it still has the same general feel, it has been made more
- intuative.
+ 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
* 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
+ 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).
- * Ablity to mark messages as read and unread from the message listing.
+ * 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 optomized
+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.
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 bugs!!!) The PROPER place to report these bugs is the
-SquirrelMail Bug Tracker.
+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
Important Note about PHP 4.1.0
==============================
-First of all, let me say that you all HAVE been warned: the
-SquirrelMail Project Team is not supporting PHP 4.1.0 for the 1.2.0
-release. Basically, SquirrelMail was in the final death throws of
-this development series when the witty PHP folks decided to make the
-release of 4.1.0. Of course, we greatly appreciate their hard work! :)
-
-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
-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
-weeks, as a part of a later 1.2.X release.
-
-
-Where are we going from here?
-=============================
-
-After things cool down a bit and the smoke clears from 1.2.0,
-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
-for SquirrelMail 2.0 will be in making SquirrelMail more flexible
-and modular so that it might do a better job meeting the needs of
-our system administrators and end-users. We are greatly anticipating
-working in this area.
-
-At the same time, we will kick start the SquirrelMail Teams. For
-some time now, we have been planning a reorganization of the project
-into a variety of subteams. Each subteam will focus on a different
-aspect of SquirrelMail Project work. These teams will hopefully help
-keep the SquirrelMail project more on track and 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 effectively. The teams (as planned) are as follows:
-
- Stable Series Team: Maintains the stable series
- Development Series Team: Works on the development series
- i18n Team: Handles i18n (internationalization) 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
-
-Teams will be led by one or two SquirrelMail team members. And team
-members can participate in as many teams as he or she desires.
-
-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,
-focus will shift toward getting the teams in gear and starting work
-on the SquirrelMail 1.3 development series.
-
- Have a Merry Christmas!
+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
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