X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?p=squirrelmail.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ReleaseNotes;h=a6de2f0a10d666b7151eb71e1349bf7983647079;hp=8849aa5c4c9c5c46c1b2b62cc5dbb1a7a859f098;hb=ef1932a453c1533ed51a3a1fa2c03084b2772926;hpb=d22a4aeaad645a99edb51127bf4ef2069e63e0db diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index 8849aa5c..a6de2f0a 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -1,101 +1,79 @@ /***************************************************************** - * 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 * *****************************************************************/ 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 some 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 @@ -103,37 +81,18 @@ 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. +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