X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?p=squirrelmail.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ReleaseNotes;h=8849aa5c4c9c5c46c1b2b62cc5dbb1a7a859f098;hp=8af516d009a1782de2a3c5c1788ad890962ef491;hb=06dbb77e2cbe83146fb1b3587de9aca9948987c3;hpb=815d9ba0da356cd18b2664b404bf7bdd614b5ecb diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index 8af516d0..8849aa5c 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -1,41 +1,56 @@ /***************************************************************** - * SquirrelMail 1.2.0 * - * The "And I Still Have Not Wrapped My Wife's Presents" Release * - * December 25, 2001 * + * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.2.5 * + * The "Welcome to the Teams" Release * + * 22 February 2002 * *****************************************************************/ -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. +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 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 +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 - 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. - * 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, + 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. @@ -44,20 +59,20 @@ stable release. 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 + 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). - * 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. @@ -65,27 +80,60 @@ aspects to all previous versions of SquirrelMail. 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! + +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