* Balsa-2.4.7 release. Release date 2010-02-13 - infinite loop (debian #568298). - avoid crashes when manually verifing GPG signature. * Balsa-2.4.6 release. Release date 2010-01-27 Clearly, 2.4.3 to 2.4.5 were of a release-candidate quality... - add forgotten part of filter comparison patch. - fix occasional IMAP failures on compressed connections. * Balsa-2.4.5 release. Release date 2010-01-24 - fix building with GNOME. * Balsa-2.4.3 release. Release date 2010-01-23 - IMAP compression (COMPRESS=DEFLATE) when supported by server - making opening attachment easier by saving them in a directory - downloadable images when using Webkit html widget - faster opening of the compose window. - text searching enabled in the WebKit html viewer. - options to hide toolbars and other parts of the UI (useful on netbooks etc). - For laptop/wifi users: not trying to reach POP3 servers while disconnected, and instead checking immediately on reconnection. * Balsa-2.4.2 release. Release date 2009-12-06 - searching in HTML parts. - improved webkit support. - NetworkManager events intercepted to reconnect to IMAP servers. - compatibility with recent openssl. - compatibility with gtk version >= 2.18 - improved Mac OS X integration. - bug fixes! - better translations! * Balsa-2.4.1 release. Release date 2009-08-09 - Continuing cleanup work: removing obsolete library calls. - partial workaround for the deadlock in xcb library code. - experimental use of libcanberra for sound. - many small bugfixes. * Balsa-2.4.0 release. Release date 2009-05-25 - GMime-2.4, GLib-2.16, and Gtk-2.14 required. - use libunique as an alternative to BonoboActivation, whenever available. - compile and run on Mac OSX. - VCALENDAR and VEVENT handling. - deprecation cleanup. - message threading improvements (eg. thread selection) and fixes. * Balsa-2.3.28 release. Release date 2009-01-18 - Fix the IMAP message threading regression. - Use GIO library when available. - Improve GMail IMAP compatibility. - Bug fixes for 509434, 567323, 566426, 566420, 566415. * Balsa-2.3.27 release. Release date 2008-12-30 - porting to most recent GTK versions. - documentation ported to gnome-doc format. (#559825) - partial translations of the manual to German and Spanish. - gnome-keyring is used if available (experimental). - disable deprecated apis only in svn tree (#561875). - initial experimental support for WebKit. * Balsa-2.3.26 release. Release date 2008-09-07 - composing format=flowed messages with spaces pasted in works better. - allow to explicitly specify a GPG key id for an identity. * Balsa-2.3.25 release. Release date 2008-06-14 - GMail compatibility. - notification icon in GNOME panel is optional now. - wrapping of flowed text improved. - lots of various bug fixes. * Balsa-2.3.24 release. Release date 2008-05-31 - Support for accessing files over gnome-vfs (smb, ssh mounts, etc.) - maildir tree scanning fixes. - Rudimentary support for sending text/html messages. - UIDPLUS IMAP extension support. * Balsa-2.3.23 release. Release date 2008-03-20 - Suppport for IMAP MULTIAPPEND extension for faster uploading of message batches to and from IMAP servers. - improved scanning of mailbox trees. - GtkSourceView2 support. * Balsa-2.3.22 release. Release date 2007-12-23 - new address edition widget in the compose window. - compose window displays languages available for spell checking. - more new icons. * Balsa-2.3.21 release. Release date 2007-12-08 - migration from GnomeUI to GtkUIManager - Rubrica address book support. - bugs fixed: GNOME: 481842, 488432, 496316; Redhat: 414361. * Balsa-2.3.20 release. Release date 2007-09-07 - fix buffer overflow (#474366). - avoid sending messages twice under certain conditions. * Balsa-2.3.19 release. Release date 2007-08-25 - more build fixes. * Balsa-2.3.18 release. Release date 2007-08-22 - reflow improvements. - Build problems against steaming-hot GNOME fixed. - Make BINARY and ESEARCH IMAP extensions usage more robust. * Balsa-2.3.17 release. Release date 2007-07-04 - check validity of server APOP challenge. - add ability to store VCARD signatures. - use ESEARCH IMAP extension if available. - message wrapping fixes. - and an usual bunch of bugfixes. * Balsa-2.3.16 release. Release date 2007-05-27 - fix message threading regression. - reorganize "Identity" dialog. - code cleanup. * Balsa-2.3.15 release. Release date 2007-05-01 - Use GtkPrint infrastructure if available. - handle LDAP referrals. - nicer citation marks. - initial libnotify support. - IMAP BINARY support. * Balsa-2.3.14 release. Release date 2006-12-12 - deferred population of the mailbox index. - client-side IMAP sorting. - be compatible with recent gtk2 releases. - mailbox tabs reorderable with d&d. - enhanced mailto: URL handling. * Balsa-2.3.13 release. Release date 2006-06-26 - many small fixes - nicer icons. * Balsa-2.3.12 release. Release date 2006-03-04 - do not reference freed memory in mbox driver. * Balsa-2.3.11 release. Release date 2006-02-28 - assure messages are properly signed after identity change. - Ctrl-N goes over unread messages in all mailboxes. - Redone Preference Manager. - support better slow LDAP servers. - use better real estate when displaying message counts. - fixed bugs: 330085, 330093, 332980. * Balsa-2.3.10 release. Release date 2006-01-29 - local mailbox opening acceleration. - composed message saving and postponing UI improvements. * Balsa-2.3.9 release. Release date 2006-01-06 - fix mailbox locking regressions. - GtkSpell improvements. * Balsa-2.3.8 release. Release date 2005-12-27 - improved local mailbox opening performance. - fix gtk2-2.8.9 compatibility (324516). - fixed 323442, 323458, 323618, 323617, 323448, 323871, 323871, * Balsa-2.3.7 release. Release date 2005-12-04 - few ready quick filters added to "Subject or Sender" one. - optional GtkSpell support. - POP3 delivery speedup. - Face and X-Face: header support. * Balsa-2.3.6 release. Release date 2005-10-23 - improved support for splitting messages. - fix bugs 318171, 317240. * Balsa-2.3.5 release. Release date 2005-09-20 - improve error handling. - doc updates. - bugs fixes: 309574, 312091 and 312105. * Balsa-2.3.4 release. Release date 2005-07-06 - fixed regression in message encryption. - working address book edition. - possible buffer overflow in IMAP code fixed. - double free occuring when user rejects POP3 TLS certificate fixed. * Balsa-2.3.3 release. Release date 2005-06-06 - preserve local mailbox statistics between sessions. - SQLite v.3 support (#305152). - default inbox location (#305659). - better mailbox popup menu (#305668). - fix imap scanning on 64-bit machines. - fix unlikely crash in initial configuration (#30666). * Balsa-2.3.2 release. Release date 2005-05-08 - fix bugs 302782, 303421, 303422. * Balsa-2.3.1 release. Release date 2005-05-02 - build with GNOME-2.10, OSX, SuSE, gcc4. - omit self from cc addresses. - cache message counts between sessions. - allow sending messages through a pipe to an external program. - support for multiple esmtp servers. - allow using STATUS for checking IMAP mailboxes. - reimplement message duplicate deletion. - bugs fixed 123765, 153386, 168732, 168733, 168353, 171388, 170456, 170512, 171415, 172005, 172145. * Balsa-2.3.0 release. Release date 2005-02-23 - require GTK+ >= 2.4.0 - new address completion widget. - new themeable icon scheme. - new composer attachment handling widget. - migrate from GnomeFileEntry to GtkFileChooser. - IMAP IDLE support. * Balsa-2.2.6 release. Release date 2004-11-19 - fixed MBOX driver over NFS problem. - use ISO-2022-JP for composing Japanese messages. - yet more exceptions caught. - S/MIME support. - improved identity selection and address book completions. - IMAP optimizations. * Balsa-2.2.5 release. Release date 2004-10-02 - sent messages saved to sentbox only after being sent. - use of fixed-height with gtk2>=2.4.9 to speed up large mailboxes. - GPG is expected to be fully functional now. - mbox mailbox driver fixes. * Balsa-2.2.4 release. Release date 2004-08-28 - periodic expunge configurable. - cleanup IMAP password quering code. - GPE address book support - http://gpe.handhelds.org/projects/GPE-address.shtml - new configuration druid. * Balsa-2.2.3 release. Release date 2004-08-15 - periodic expunge code crash fixed. - fixed recovery from broken IMAP connections. - startup speedup. - some memory leaks fixed. * Balsa-2.2.2 release. Release date 2004-08-08 - configurable hiding of deleted messages. - keyboard navigation fixes. - message counting in some edge cases fixed. - GPG fixes. * Balsa-2.2.1 release. Release date 2004-07-30 - IMAP mailboxes could be incorrectly marked as read-only. - message selection behaves more sanely. - 64-bit fixes. - memory leaks fixed. - handle better imap servers without server-side threading and limits on number of concurent connections. - quick "Sender or Subject" message index filtering. - various UI improvements. * Balsa-2.2.0 release. Release date 2004-07-06 - fix 143322, 143263, 145701. - GPGME updates. - GSSAPI IMAP authentication. - more build fixes. * Balsa-2.1.91 release. Release date 2004-07-06 - multiple build fixes. - few crashes fixed. * Balsa-2.1.90 release. Release date 2004-07-03 - mailbox scanning improvements. - Edit/Find UI more user-friendly. - message filtering fixes. - reset TLS status of broken IMAP sessions. * Balsa-2.1.3 release. Release date 2004-05-22 - GPGME fixes. - Reduce memory usage of local mailbox drivers. - numerous i18n fixes. - more careful error checking. - user configuration of TLS, APOP settings to work around broken servers. * Balsa-2.1.2 release. Release date 2004-04-05 - POP3 with TLS and PIPELINING. - mbox driver performance improvements. - numerous other performance improvements. - filters reenabled. - memory leaks plugged. * Balsa-2.1.1 release. Release date 2004-02-29 Numerous fixes, most prominent are: - reduce memory usage of mbox driver. - major cleanup of local and remote drivers. - searching re-enabled again. - SSL/TLS re-enabled again. - Use bonobo to bring up already running instances. * Balsa-2.1.0 release. Release date 2004-01-11 - entirely new backend and message index. * Balsa-2.0.14 release. Release date 2003-08-26 - message wrapping improvements, RFC 2646 support. - experimental LDAP write support (feedback and patches appreciated). - number of bugs fixed. * Balsa-2.0.13 release. Release date 2003-07-27 - more flexible printing configuration. - l10n improvements. - number of bug fixes. * Balsa-2.0.12 release. Release date 2003-07-06 - Added Undo and Redo in the message composer. - occasional mangling of text attachments fixed. - more information about attached messages is shown. - further GPG improvements. * Balsa-2.0.11 release. Release date 2003-05-11 - text wrapping improvements. - charset encoding validation and conversion improvements. - several message signing and encryption improvelemts. - minor LDAP fixes (large directories, non-US-ASCII characters). * Balsa-2.0.10 release. Release date 2003-03-24 - GPG support. - translation fixes and enhancements. - large set of UI fixes. - wrapping cleanups. - autocommit improvements. - (lib)mutt buffer overflow fix. - ...and lots of other bugs fixed. * Balsa-2.0.9 release. Release date 2003-02-23 - some crashes and deadlocks fixed. - bugs in --without-esmtp build fixed. - autocommit feature misbehaviors fixed. - filtering in presence of deleted messages fixed. * Balsa-2.0.8 release. Release date 2003-02-16 - infinite loops in message threading fixed. - bug fixed: 105763, 105871, 105605. * Balsa-2.0.7 release. Release date 2003-02-09 - message threading improvements. - IMAP connections pinged to prevent timeouts. - configurable procmail commands used for POP filtering. * Balsa-2.0.6 release. Release date 2003-01-29 - authenticated LDAP binding. Option to use TLS for LDAP. - persistent mailbox sorting and threading. - search improvements. - multiple UI fixes. - printing font and paper selection fixed. * Balsa-2.0.5 release. Release date 2003-01-05 - IMAP message caching fixed. - use images attached to HTML messages. - make identity dialogs non-modal. - do charset conversion (if needed) on including files to compose windows. - do not allow to send messages with wrong charset. - number of other bugs fixed. * Balsa-2.0.4 release. Release date 2002-12-24 - do not use any deprecated GNOME API. - compile against aspell>=0.50 and gnome-2.2 - do not crash on concurrent access to local mailboxes. - finally working help. - update titles of compose windows. - numerous bug fixes. * Balsa-2.0.3 release. Release date 2002-10-28 - preference manager adapted to HIG. - new translations. - IMAP and LDAP fixes. - filter fixes. - printing fixes. * Balsa-2.0.2 release. Release date 2002-09-15 - lot of deprected coe removed. - internationalization problems nailed down. - many bug fixes and improvements ported from the main trunk. * Balsa-2.0.1 release. Release date 2002-06-10 This is a second release of GNOME2 port. It shares many improvements with the main branch. The changes unique to this port are: - port objects to GObjects whenever possible. - replace GtkCTree with GtkTreeView. - redesign identities dialog from scratch. * Balsa-2.0.0 release. Release date 2002-04-24 This is first release of GNOME2 port. * Balsa-1.3.1 release. Release date 2002-02-07 - fixes for printing of multipart messages with different content-types (AD). - rescanning local directories. - delayed message deletion (and undeletion) (PB). - highlight bad addresses in compose window (PB). - external editor support (Jelmer Vernooij). - imap message caching. - imap password handling fixes. * Balsa-1.3.0 release. Release date 2001-12-16 - first step to searching and filters. - require gnome-1.4 or newer: gdk_pixbuf, gnome-vfs and some other. - delayed IMAP tree scanning. - "reply to group" functional. * Balsa-1.2.3 release. Release date 2001-11-05 - improved address extraction from messages. - new tools for the toolbar. - improved handling of mail threading. - other UI fixes. - make building from the tarball easier. * Balsa-1.2.2 release. Release date 2001-10-31 - few crash opportunities removed. - few UI improvements. - better handling of IMAP connection problems. * Balsa-1.2.1 release. Release date 2001-10-21 - new icons (Ali Akcaagac). - handling MIME external-body types: receiving and sending. - forwarding messages as attachement (Albrecht Dreß). - handling format=flowed messages (Peter Bloomfield, rfc2646). - improved handling of collapsed threads (Toralf Lund, Carlos). - handling of distribution lists for LDIF address books (Toralf Lund). - extended D&D compose mail handling (Peter Bloomfield, Toralf Lund). - many new functions added to the toolbar. - multiple UI improvements. - several bugs fixed. * Balsa-1.2.0 release. Release date 2001-09-18 - exit clean up cleaned up. - message D&D improved. - final POP3 fixes. * Balsa-1.2.pre3 release. Release date 2001-08-31 - POP3 code armoured (hopefully) - selective IMAP check fixed. - ESMTP TLS support. - fix some nasty bugs, including gnome_exec_async() and gnome_show_url() ones. * Balsa-1.2.pre2 release. Release date 2001-08-23 - download pop3 mail to arbirary box. - numerous memory leaks plugged. - SSL roughly functional. - new nice icons. - paper selection implemented. - LDIF address book format added (this is the recommended format). - LDAP address book functional for large LDAP servers. - numerous bugs fixed, including: #52384, #55416, #55437, #58473, #59326, #59331 and 34 other less interesting (duplicated, packaging errors, older versions). * Balsa-1.2.pre1 release. Release date 2001-08-08 - bug fixes. * Balsa-1.1.7 pre-release. Release date 2001-07-13 - several improvements in IMAP folder handling (Peter Bloomfield). - message size column in index (Maciej Golebiewski). - numerous UI improvements (christophe barbe, M. Thielker, Manuel McLure) - some new command line options. - several bugs fixed. * Balsa-1.1.6 development release. Release date 2001-06-21 - multiple identity support (Matthew Guenther). - message deletion optimizations. - mailbox index flipping on message deletion or transfer fixed. - more IMAP Cyrus fixes (Peter Bloomfield) - MH nested mailboxes support (Gordon Oliver). * Balsa-1.1.5 development release. Release date 2001-05-21 - libESMTP used for message submission: AUTH and PIPELINE extension available. - active URLs in text messages. (Albrecht Dreß) - pipe signature support. (Julian M Catchen) - printing rewritten: printing images etc. (Albrecht Dreß) * Balsa-1.1.4 development release. Release date 2001-04-20 - GDK locking problems resolved. - printing non-english texts enabled. - extended quoted text and reply string configuration. - occasional attachment corruption problem fixed. - SGI compatibility fixes. * Balsa-1.1.3 development release. Release date 2001-03-29 - minor optimization work. - MDN reply suport (Albrecht Dress <albrecht.dress@arcormail.de>). - IMAP timeout handled (bit over-verbosely, IMO). - maildir and MH mailboxes creation. * Balsa-1.1.2 development release. Release date 2001-03-03 - IMAP folders - IMAP mailbox checking tested. Pings connections properly. - initial subscribe support IMAP mailboxes. - MT-enabled mailbox opening. * Balsa-1.1.1 development release. Release date 2001-02-06 - IMAP folders semi-ofically working. - IMAP code considerably improved. - IMAP mailbox checking functional. - preferences dialog improvements. - numerous bug fixes. * Balsa-1.1.0 development release. Release date 2001-01-22 - aliases support improved A LOT. - DnD support. don't stress it too much, it sometimes crashes unexpectedly. - sends Disposition Notification requests. - give a choice to prepend or append the signature. - lot of internal mailbox node restructure and bug fixes. * Balsa-1.0.pre2 test release. Release date 2000-10-06. This is a second official pre-release. No new features, only bugs have been fixed: - don't crash on replying empty mails - fixes solaris build. - updated doc. - make install prefix=xxx should work now. - cancelled spell check outputting garbage bug. The interface has been polished a bit, too. * Balsa-1.0.pre1 test release. Release date 2000-09-27. This is the first official pre-release. The list of changes since 0.9.5 includes mostly bug fixes and interface changes. - new context-sensitive main window menu. - gnome-print-0.22 compatibility. - memory leaks. - spell check improvements and compose message language selection. - improved line wrapping. * Balsa-0.9.5 development release. Release date 2000-09-18. We are in a feature freeze state. The features implemented since 0.9.4 are: - improved multi-threading. - new warning/error reporting code. - LDAP support. - spell check (pspell package required tu compile and use balsa). - gnome-config used for storing/reading configuration. - multiple address book support. vCard- and LDAP-types implemented. - manual updates - gnome-print used for printing. * Balsa-0.9.4 development release. elease date 2000-09-05. - IMAP CRAM-MD5 and GSSAPI authorization methods - POP3 APOP authorization method. * Balsa-0.9.3 development release. Release date 2000-08-28. This is a developement release with unfinished features. POP downloading seem to be finally solved. Crash when deleting the last message from a mailbox has been identified and terminated. Do not report bugs with GtkHTML - it is quite unstable. Patches are welcome. * Balsa-0.9.2 development release. Release date 2000-08-15. - some bug fixes. * Balsa-0.9.1 development release. Release date 2000-08-06. - new message browser. - user defined location of the address book. - alias expansion support. - quoted text highlighting. - gtkHTML experimental support.