Mailspring/CHANGELOG.md

Mailspring Changelog

1.0.12 (12/28/2017)

Improvements:

• Automatic CC / BCC: From Preferences > Accounts, you can now configure automatic CC / BCC on emails sent from an account. (#275)

• The "Are you sure you want to send addressed to 'XXX'" warning is smarter and better phrased. (#381)

• You can now change the interface zoom from Preferences > Appearance. (#176)

Fixes:

• A regression from 1.0.11 has been fixed - Mailspring no longer fails to sync new mail for some accounts that do not support CONDSTORE. Mailspring will no longer give these messages timestamps from "1970". (#475)

• Panel widths are now saved correctly on exit. (#41)

• When waking from sleep, Mailspring checks for new mail immediately. (#468)

• When linking an account, you can now omit the SMTP username for SMTP without authentication. (#469)

• Mailspring allows all deprecated HTML attributes like <strike>, improving the rendering of emails. (#260)

• The View links in the contact sidebar now open the browser correctly.

• Electron has been bumped to 1.7.10, which fixes:

  • Subpixel font rendering with freetype on Linux.

  • Rendering issues with Nvidia GPU on High Sierra

  • Downloading updates twice on Windows

  • Auto-update for non-admin users on macOS.

1.0.11 (12/15/2017)

Improvements:

• You can now reset the cache for an individual account from Preferences > Accounts

• Mailspring now creates its config directory with more appropriate unix permissions (thanks @agurz!)

Fixes:

• On Windows, Mailspring now sends attachments with non-latin characters correctly.

• Mailspring now moves mail correctly (via archiving, deleting, etc.), even if the provider does not support the IMAP MOVE extension.

• Mailspring now fetches incoming messages correctly (and immediately) for providers that support both CONDSTORE and QRESYNC.

• On Linux, the Mailspring snap no longer complains about missing typefaces on some machines.

• Drang and drop from search results into folders/labels has been fixed.

• The translation plugin has been fixed.

1.0.10 (12/7/2017)

Features:

• A brand new signature editor makes it easy to create beautiful signatures with images and important contact details.

Performance:

• SQLite schema changes significantly improve Mailspring's sync performance on very large mailboxes.

Fixes:

• A major memory leak on Windows has been fixed which caused Mailspring to slow down your computer, especially when waking from sleep.

• Mailspring no longer reports that it is still "looking for messages" in some cases after sync has completed.

• Search now correctly supports the "in:" syntax for all arbitrary folders and labels as well as built-in ones like "in:inbox".

• Several exceptions thrown in UI edge-cases have been fixed.

1.0.9 (12/1/2017)

Improvements:

• Sync progress reporting and status messages have been improved.

• Mailspring only attempts to passively fetch message contents once for each message, so bad messages no longer cause the app to "hang" in an "Syncing your Mailbox" state.

• A new setting allows you to choose the default spellcheck language. (Thanks @oserban!)

• A new setting allows you to choose whether Mailspring opens containing folders after downloading attachments. (Thanks @mattlyons0!)

• You can now copy-paste a file from the Finder or Windows Explorer into the composer.

• Mailspring now correctly sends mail with inline image attachments on all providers.

• Many issues that caused search to "hang" have been resolved.

• Mailspring now correctly linkifies URLs in more scenarios. (Thanks @agurz!)

• Many small email rendering issues have been resolved thanks to a new message sanitizer.

• Creating and immediately sending a draft with tracking enabled no longer fails in rare cases.

• Undo send no longer causes other open composer windows to close when a message is sent.

Development:

• Improved error collection will make it much easier to track down and fix remaining sync issues.

• Password management errors are now considered fatal, since they break the app during onboarding.

• The analytics package has been removed - we were not using the collected metrics.

1.0.8 (11/10/2017)

Features:

• A brand new Activity View (in the sidebar beneath Drafts) provides quick mailbox statistics and analytics for read receipts and link tracking.

Improvements:

• When snoozing, a setting in Preferences > General now allows you to choose whether emails should be moved to the top of your inbox or just returned to the inbox as unread. (Thanks @casuallancelot)

• Space and shift-space now move you up and down in the thread view. (Thanks @victortrac)

• The window title now carries the subject of the currently selected email. (Thanks @agurz)

• The dark theme has been overhauled to improve readability and ensure visual queues are present for important UI. It looks more like Spotify and less "all gray."

Fixes:

• Undo send now works correctly!

• Mailspring no longer pre-processes HTML through tidy, which was too strict and causing emails to display incorrectly and links to break.

• The thread list no longer "flickers" when archiving / deleting unread email.

• The spellchecker now handles non-ASCII characters in words correctly. (Thanks @jGleitz)

• Undo toasts no longer re-appear after switching views.

• In single pane mode, the "Back" button title with the folder name is no longer converted to titlecase.

• Disabling read receipts and link tracking now effects the current draft correctly in addition to future drafts.

• You can now provide any IMAP/SMTP hostname (e.g. mail)

• Starting and deleting a forwarded message no longer blocks you from creating another one in the same thread for a few seconds.

• The secret "Show Original" feature is back.

• Screenshot mode has been fixed. (Thanks @agurz)

• Mailspring now corrects inconsistencies in it's data as you perform mail actions, so threads can't get "stuck" in the trash, snoozed folder, etc.

• Drag and drop to the starred or unread views now works properly.

• Snooze dates are properly synced to the Mailspring backend, so they're persisted when you clear your cache or re-install Mailspring.

• On Windows, Mailspring no longer has problems saving attachments with extended UTF-16 characters, (eg Japanese or Polish.)

• Mailsync no longer crashes when messages have more than ~150 references to other messages in their headers.

1.0.7 (10/28/2017)

Fixes:

• The Starred and Unread views now correctly show threads with many starred/unread messages. (#100)

• The folder and label shortcuts are now separate and work properly for Gmail accounts. (#259 - thanks @casuallancelot)

• Mailspring no longer segfaults when it's unable to connect to your SMTP server during onboarding, and error messages no longer "destroy" the layout of the window.

• Mailspring no longer uses all memory on the computer in a rare scenario where your mail provider return an infinite range of message IDs. (#91)

• Mailspring can now be put in a verbose logging mode using AppEnv.mailsyncBridge.toggleVerboseLogging(), in which all IMAP and SMTP traffic is logged.

• You can now dismiss the "Please pay for Mailspring Pro!" prompt in the bottom left when more than four accounts are syncing. (Thanks @mattlyons0)

• On Linux, Mailspring no longer launches with the onboarding window in between monitors on dual-display setups. (Thanks @dbhowell)

• The contact search index now includes the first names of contacts, so you can find them more easily when typing in address fields. (#227)

• The default template no longer references Nylas incorrectly. (Thanks @Galaxias)

1.0.6 (10/19/2017)

Features:

• Mailspring now identifies an "Archive" folder if one is present in your Office 365 / IMAP accounts and enables the "Archive" button and "Swipe to Archive" behavior. If it is not picked up automatically, you can set it from Preferences > Folders.

• Mailspring now warns you if you the salutation in your email ("Hey Ben!") doesn't match the name of a recipient or appears misspelled.

• A new keyboard shortcut allows you to attach a file in the composer. (Ctrl-Shift-A by default!)

Fixes:

• The contact sidebar now loads correctly if you switch to a contact with no name.

• On Windows, Mailspring no longer needs to be restarted once before you can link a Gmail account.

• When replying to a message you sent in a thread, Mailspring no longer incorrectly addresses the new message to yourself.

• Mail rules now run correctly as new mail is received.

• The label picker is now correctly hidden if your selection includes threads from non-Gmail accounts.

• When you forward a message, it is now correctly associated with the existing thread.

• When renaming folders / labels, the app no longer shows the old and new items side-by-side in the left panel for a few minutes.

• When creating folders / labels, you can now use any characters supported by your provider, including emoji.

• When you move an item to a folder in a generic IMAP account, undoing the action now works properly.

1.0.5 (10/15/2017)

Features:

• A new bar appears when you view the Trash and Spam folders allowing you to permanently delete messages.

Fixes:

• On Windows, Mailspring now uses the system font, which looks more crisp on Windows 10.

• On Windows, swipe to archive now works on touch-screen laptops.

• On Windows, we now ship the VS C++ Redistributable runtime, fixing issues many users had running the app after a fresh install.

• The default Chomium "double-tap-to-zoom" behavior has been disabled on all platforms.

• Preferences > Folders now shows UTF8 folder titles correctly.

• On OpenSUSE, Mailspring now looks for certificates at the correct path, fixing authentication issues with servers that use SSL.

• The undo/redo toast no longer appears when switching to Drafts and back.

1.0.4 (10/12/2017)

Features:

• Company profiles are now available in the right sidebar! See tons of great information about the people you're emailing, including their local time zone, the company's core business area, and more.

• You can now choose folder associations explicitly if Mailspring is unable to correctly identify your Sent folder, for example.

• The IMAP/SMTP authentication panel automatically defaults to security settings that match the ports you provide.

Fixes:

• Sending mail is considerably faster for accounts that do not place the message in the Sent folder automatically.

• Sent mail no longer appears to be from Dec 31st 1969 when sent through some older SMTP gateways.

• New folders / labels appear faster after you create them, and adding folders now works properly on IMAP servers that use a namespace prefix like INBOX..

• Improves display of "Identity is missing required fields" error and directs people to a knowledge base article.

• Localhost is an allowed IMAP/SMTP server address.

• <object> tags are now completely blocked in message bodies.

1.0.3 (10/10/2017)

Features:

• You can now choose custom IMAP and SMTP ports when linking a custom email account.

• You can now leave the SMTP username and password blank to connect to an SMTP gateway that does not require authentication.

Fixes:

• On Linux, Mailspring looks for your trusted SSL certificate roots in more locations, fixing the "Certificate Errors" many Fedora and ArchLinux users were seeing when linking accounts.

• On Linux, Mailspring bundles SASL2 and SASL2 plugins, resolving "Authentication Error" messages that users of non-Debian Linux distros saw when the local installation of SASL2 was an incompatible version.

• On Linux, Mailspring now links against libsecret, resolving intermittent "Identity missing required fields" errors that were caused by the Node bindings to libgnome-keyring's API.

• On Linux, composer and thread windows no longer have a "double window bar".

• On Linux, window menu bars no longer hide until you press the Alt key.

• The .rpm package now requires libXss, resolving installation issues for some users.

• Spellchecking on linux now works reliably.

• On Mac OS X, some menu shortcuts (like Command-H) now appear in the menu bar properly.

• Mailspring now correctly parses mailto: links with multiple semicolon-separated CC and BCC addresses.

• The "Raw HTML" signature editor is now the proper size.

1.0.2 (10/6/2017)

Fixes:

• During authentication, you can now view a "Raw Log" of the IMAP and SMTP communication with your servers for easy debugging of connection issues.

• During authentication, Mailspring will warn you if you connect Gmail via IMAP.

• The "Install Theme...", "Install a Plugin Manually..." and "Create a Plugin..." menu items now work. Note that Nylas Mail / N1 themes require some modifications to work with Mailspring!

• On Windows and Linux, Mailspring can now make itself the default mail client.

• The contact sidebar in the app now works reliably and is rate-limited for free users (The Clearbit API is very expensive!)

• On Windows, Mailspring now displays emails with encoded subject lines (often containing emoji or foreign characters) correctly.

• On Windows, you can now resize and maximize the Mailspring window.

• Mailspring now skips folders it can't sync rather than stopping the entire account.

1.0.1 (10/4/2017)

Fixes:

• On Linux, Mailspring now syncs mail reliably thanks to fixed builds of curl and mailcore2.

• On Windows, the app's icon now includes all the required resolutions.

• Many other minor fixes and sync improvements.

1.0.0 (10/3/2017)

Features:

• Entirely re-written sync engine uses significantly less RAM and CPU, improving performance and battery life.

• Mailspring launches 55% faster, thanks to a new package manager and theme manager and a thinner application bundle.

• Improved quoted text detection makes it easier to read threads, especially messages sent from Exchange and older versions of Outlook.

Developer:

• Mailspring now stores user preferences in the appropriate platform-specific location: Library/Application Support on the Mac, AppData/Roaming on Windows, etc.

• NylasEnv is now known as AppEnv and nylas-exports and nylas-component-kit have been renamed mailspring-*. Additionally, packages need to specify "engines": {"mailspring":"*"} instead of listing nylas.

• Much more of Mailspring has been converted to ES2016, and CoffeeScript is no longer supported for plugin development. The CoffeeScript interpreter will be removed in a future version. Please use ES2016 JavaScript instead.

• Mailspring now uses Prettier — before submitting pull requests, ensure npm run lint is clean, or add a Prettier plugin to your text editor. (It's awesome!)

• A plugin browser / "store" is coming soon - stay tuned!

Privacy:

• Mailspring does not send your email credentials to the cloud. Features like Snooze, Send Later, and Send Reminders now run on your computer. Future versions may re-introduce the option to run these features in the cloud.