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Claws Mail 3.20.0 and 4.2.0 unleashed

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 21, 2023

CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org

20th Novemer 2023                           Claws Mail 3.20.0 / 4.2.0
                    CLAWS MAIL  RELEASE NOTES
                    http://www.claws-mail.org
Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
* An easy way to open any folder on start-up has been added:
  Right-click a folder and choose 'Open on start-up'.
  This can also be configured on the 'Folder list' tab of the
  /Configuration/Preferences/Display/Summaries page.
* Spam statistics have been added to the session statistics.
* It is now possible to save message attachments only, without the
  other message parts.
* QuickSearch: support for a "v H V" search expression has been added
  and the 'y S' expression has been removed ('v X-Label S' can be
  used instead).
* font/* and chemical/* MIME types are now recognised.
* The image viewer now works correctly when not auto-loading images.
* Icon Themes: it is no longer possible to install or remove system
  themes.
* IMAP: Support for SCRAM-SHA-{224,256,384,512} authentication
  mechanisms has been added.
* IMAP: The statusbar now shows that expunge is happening.
* The GData plugin has been removed.
* The Fancy plugin no longer requires libsoup or libsoup-gnome.
* The LiteHTML Viewer plugin has been synchronised with litehtml 0.7.
* The LiteHTML viewer plugin will now only be built automatically if
  libgumbo 0.12 or newer is available. Building with libgumbo 0.10
  must be explicitly requested using --enable-litehtml_viewer-plugin.
* For extra debug output use --enable-more-addressbook-debug and
  --enable-more-ldap-debug.
* Added translation: Portuguese  
* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, French,
  Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese,
  Turkish.
* bug fixes:
        * bug 4491, 'address autocompletion list does not expand in
                     height with the number of matches'
        * bug 4618, 'Rate limit by remote breaks queued/marked
                     actions (Delete/Move)'
        * bug 4631, 'Embedding external editor crashes Claws-Mail on
                     Wayland'
        * bug 4637, 'Segmentation fault when using SUMMARY is empty'
        * bug 4645, 'fails to check for perl-ExtUtils::Embed'
        * bug 4648, 'fails to build with gcc 13'
        * bug 4658, 'Headers unfolded incorrectly in message view'
        * bug 4664, 'OAUTH2 overwrites passwords even for plaintext
                     logins'
        * bug 4666, 'fancy plugin doesn't build with
                     libwebkit2gtk-4.1'
        * bug 4670, 'To/CC incorrectly escaped with a trailing
                     backslash'
        * bug 4679, 'The correct date header is interpreted
                     incorrectly to display strange date.'
        * bug 4693, 'Hang and crash when enable disable SVG Rendering
                     prefs'
        * when starting with msgview hidden, toggling msgview to show
          it would use incorrect height
        * update quicksearch history list when changing type 
        * wrong message which is shown when mail can't be sent
        * when redirecting, disable queueing
        * arbitrary paste restriction
        * when queueing or drafting a msg with an attachment which no
          longer exists, use the correct label on the button of the
          warning dialogue
        * using a custom header in found_in_addressbook match
          expressions
        * URIs may contain the '$' dollar sign
        * OAuth2, Update on-disk tokens as well when in-memory tokens
          are updated
        * Abusive Monopolist Microsoft POP3 OAuth2 protocol
For further details of the numbered bugs and RFEs listed above
see https://www.claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.
        

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