Changelog

Version 2.2.17:

• Fixed reading/writing config file
• Fixed several other bugs

Version 2.2.16:

• Updated translations
• Added Esperanto, Finnish and Serbian translations

Version 2.2.15:

• Added missing ui-files
• Some smaller bug fixes

Version 2.2.14:

• Migrated to GTK3 and Gnome3

Version 2.2.13:

• Updated Vietnamese translation (thanks to Clytie Siddall)
• Updated Dutch translation (thanks to Erwin Poeze)
• Updated Swedish translation (thanks to Daniel Nylander)
• Added Indonesian translation (thanks to Arif E. Nugroho)
• Fixed a bug (restarting looking for mail after connection failures)
• Support for IPv6

Version 2.2.12:

• Fixed some small bugs
• Added .desktop file for better desktop integration

Version 2.2.11:

• Fixed some compiler warnings/problems
• Fixed a bug when filtering messages

Version 2.2.10:

• Fixed a bug when using IMAP4
• Fixed several message header parsing bugs
• Updated Dutch translation (thanks to Erwin Poeze)

Version 2.2.9:

• Fixed some bugs when using IMAP4
• Fixed a bug when using gnubiff in the system tray without image
• Updated German translation
• GPL exception for distributing gnubiff linked to OpenSSL (see README file for details)

Version 2.2.8:

• Upgraded license to GPL version 3
• Updated Swedish translation (thanks to Daniel Nylander)
• Updated Vietnamese translation (thanks to Clytie Siddall)
• Updated German translation

Version 2.2.7:

• Showing/Hiding popup via SIGUSR signals
• Options for showing/hiding popup/applet in the taskbar
• Several small bugfixes

Version 2.2.6:

• Updated Swedish translation (thanks to Daniel Nylander)
• A bug fix

Version 2.2.5:

• Some bug fixes

Version 2.2.4:

• Some bug fixes
• Portuguese translation now available (thanks to Gunther Furtado)

Version 2.2.3:

• Passwords longer than 15 characters are now handled properly
• Compiling without fam.h is now possible
• Some other bug fixes

Version 2.2.2:

• Some bug fixes
• Updated Hungarian translation (thanks to Wallner Adam)
• Updated Vietnamese translation (thanks to Clytie Siddall)
• Options for filtering messages via regular expressions

Version 2.2.1:

• Some bug fixes
• It is now possible to compile gnubiff without support for FAM
• New option for not showing the preferences dialog at startup as default
• Updated Vietnamese translation (thanks to Clytie Siddall)

Version 2.2.0:

• Lots of bugfixes and code cleanups
• gnubiff applet can be put in the system tray
• gnubiff can be run without GUI or X
• USR1 and USR2 signals are now monitored
• Saved passwords are now encrypted via AES
• Decoding of base64 encoded message bodies
• About dialog for Gnome version

Version 2.1.9:

• Better detection of FAM/GAMIN at configuration time
• FAM can be disabled for monitoring mailboxes (and polling be used instead)
• Some additional FAM bugfixes
• Some other small bugfixes

Version 2.1.8:

• Some smaller bugfixes
• Updated Italian translation (thanks to Stefano Fabri)
• Added Hungarian translation (thanks to Wallner Adam)

Version 2.1.7:

• Fixed a bug that prevented 2.1.6 to be installed on certain systems

Version 2.1.6:

• The gnome version of gnubiff can now be installed to any directory by any user

Version 2.1.5:

• Fixed some FAM and GAMIN related problems
• Fixed problems when displaying non ASCII characters when using non UTF-8 locales
• Some other bugfixes

Version 2.1.4:

• Support for mh mailboxes as used by Sylpheed
• Handling of mh protocols optimized
• Czech translation (thanks to Josef Vybiral)
• Compliance with RFC 2047
• Race conditions in FAM code fixed
• Various other bugfixes

Version 2.1.3:

• Maildir protocol fixed
• Mh protocol fixed
• Fixes for 64 bit systems
• Various other bugfixes

Version 2.1.2:

• Many bug fixes
• Improved displaying of messages
• Vietnamese translation available

Version 2.1.1:

• Many bug fixes
• Review of network code
• Applet and Popup window can be set to be sticky, kept above all other windows and not appear in pagers
• Idling can be disabled (IMAP4)
• Mails are now only fetched once per session
• Out of the box support for FreeBSD (thanks to Tim Bishop)
• Expert editing mode for all options provided by gnubiff (including internal options)
• Sorting order of headers in popup can be configured
• Many thanks to Byron Foster and Calum Mackay for their help in creating this release

Version 2.1.0:

• New and simpler interface
• Better detection of mailbox format
• Support of the IDLE state for imap4, no more polling
• Support of the File Alteration Monitor (FAM), no more polling for mh/qmail/mailfile
• Better security against DoS attacks
• Lot of bug fixes

Version 2.0.3:

• Updated man page (section 1, "GTK+")
• Changed version to 2.0.3
• Various small changes and bugfixes
• Updated german translation, updated po files
• Gnome version can determine itself if in standalone mode or panel mode
• Removed "--gtk" option, added "--applet" option in debug mode instead
• Added "--version" option to all versions of gnubiff
• "--help" option handled by "poptPrintHelp" in all versions of gnubiff
• Removed messages that are no longer necessary
• Bugfix: return value of main
• Output of "--help" restructured
• Code for saving the configuration file cleaned up
• Bugfix: Autodetection of IMAP
• Bugfix: Failure of select command (IMAP)
• Bugfix: Failure of opening connection (IMAP)
• Security Bugfix: DoS attacks by sending unterminated lines anticipated (if SSL is used, this was fixed for non-SSL connections in 2.0.2)
• Bugfix: Handling network writing/reading errors
• Bugfix/Feature: Support for international Mailbox names for IMAP
• Security Bugfix: DoS attacks by sending a unterminated response to the SELECT, SEARCH, FETCH (IMAP) and TOP (POP3) commands anticipated
• Bugfix: User set value for maximum number of mail to be collected is now respected (IMAP)
• Bugfix: Fetching mails is no longer stopped if certain strings are in mail or mail header (IMAP)
• Bugfix: First lines of email content are now displayed (IMAP)
• Bugfix: Displaying mails that do not end with a newline (IMAP)
• Feature: Only get first "text/plain" part of mail, not the whole mail; don't get the whole part if it is very long (IMAP)
• Feature: Message if there is no "text/plain" part (IMAP)
• Bugfix: Setting always status to MAILBOX_ERROR if an error occurs (POP3 & IMAP)
• Bugfixes in displaying first lines of mails
• Bugfix: Creating different tags for different commands (IMAP)
• Update of man page (command line options, version, date)
• Bugfix: Handling of text lines beginning with a dot (IMAP & POP3)
• Bugfix: Deleting of mailboxes when detecting mailbox format
• Bugfix: Updating when connection for mailbox detection fails
• Bugfix: Using <return> in password entry
• Updated french translations

Version 2.0.2:

• A lot of bug fixes, see ChangeLog for details
• gnubiff is now on cvs on sourceforge.net
• a developer list is available at sourceforge.net

Version 2.0.1:

• Small bug fix that prevented gtk version to be compiled

Version 2.0.0:

• gnubiff now officially part of the GNU project
• Complete redesign of interface inspired by MailNotification by Jean-Yves Lefort.
• Automatic detection of mailbox format
• Better handling of SSL certificate
• New option to tell gnubiff to never send passwords in clear
• Various small bugfixes
• Security fix in possible buffer overflow (pop3.c)
• Security fix in pop3 (infinite uidl list would block gnubiff and ultimately crashes it)
• Bugfix in geometry handling (was not saved properly)
• Bugfix in pop3 protocol to really get only most recent headers
• Bugfix in apop protocol which was really broken
• Bugfix in imap4 to handle server panic
• Bugfix in utf8 translation
• Added hidden files in gtk_file_chooser's

Version 1.4.0

• gnubiff now requires glib/gdk/gtk/libglade 2.4
• Use of file chooser instead of file selector
• PNG simple animation support
• Preview added when selecting images
• Image/animation resizing with panel for GNOME version
• Read mails are saved in configuration file
• User can now choose text to be displayed when new mail and when no mail
• Possibility to choose command to play sound
• Possibility to choose popup background color (to make it flashy)
• Possibility to hide image or/and text when no mail and when new mail
• File protocol has been improved to speedup things
• Security fix: table used for password encryption is now configurable using the --with-password-string making your .gnubiffrc dependent on your gnubiff executable (far more secure than previously but still very unsecure)
• Configure script has been changed to auto-detect gnome
• Bug fix for automatic check at startup
• Bug fix in IMAP4 protocol with user/password/folder fields
• Bug fix in maildir protocol with the static mtime field
• Bug fix in file protocol with the static mtime field
• Bug fix with mail read and popup preview
• Bug fix with multi mailboxes and polltime
• Bug fix in creating a default configuration file from void
• Bug fix when no mailbox defined in confiration file
• Bug fix with gethostbyname which is no thread safe on some platform
• --enable-debug option added to configure

Version 1.2.0

• Real multi-mailbox support
• Mouse button clicks are now different
• Bug fix in displaying headers
• GTK version got now a popup menu
• New possibility of marking "mail as seen"

Version 1.0.10

• Multithread support (no more freeze when checking for new mail)
• Spam aware (X-Spam status field)
• Various bug fixes

Version 1.0.9

• Multi mailbox with GNOME
• Small typo fixes
• Rewrite of decode64 function
• Fix a bug for handling bad formatted email

Version 1.0.8

• This is a corrected version that fix bugs introduced by version 1.0.7
• Fix a bug in password saving

Version 1.0.7

• Fix a bug in playing sound in setup
• Fix a bug with forbidden characters in password
• Fix a bug with Pop protocols and null password

Version 1.0.6

• --with-pasword added for saving password
• Fix a bug in IMAP4 that was making gnubiff to stall
• Fix a bug in option saving

Version 1.0.5

• --gtk switch added to GNOME version
• Fix a bug when consulting email and closing popup window
• Fix a bug with the about window (GNOME version)
• Fix a bug in mail file protocol

Version 1.0.4

• Maildir protocol fixed
• Bugfix with environment variables consulting
• Handling of UW-IMAP mailbox state mail into account

Version 1.0.3

• Mailfile protocol fixed

Version 1.0.2

• Use of a certificate for SSL authentication
• Window placement can now be done by window manager

Version 1.0.1

• SSL support
• Possibility to read mail (first 10 lines)
• All protocols fixed (hopefully)