This week-end I’ve been able to make IMAP much faster, by caching the folders’ UIDNEXT property and only SELECT’ing folders when they changed… Hardcore IMAP users should feel a nice difference. Anyone wanting to try that out, it’s already in the daily snapshot.
Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 has been released today! It’s the first release out of the new stable branch. This means it’s 2.1.0 plus all the bugs fixed in CVS since this release, but without the new features in CVS. This way it should be really stable.
You can download it there, and the release notes are here.
I feel unmotivated for the packages right now, though ;)
Lots of things happening with Sylpheed-Claws development these days… Paul released 2.1.0 on Thursday; it was initially planned on Monday, but Sourceforge’s CVS problems prevented us to do it on time. Anyway, 2.1.0 is out and seems stable so far. Only one crasher has been reported, one that happens only with some versions of GTK. This prompted me to finally start a -stable branch. We’ll see if it isn’t too much work to merge fixes in this branch…
The long feature-freeze before 2.1.0 allowed some of us to gather a few kilobytes of patches, and we flushed all of this just after release. So, the next release will, very probably, be 2.2.0 as we already put in some new features: S/MIME support (although in an external plugin), a configuration template for the wizard that will please sysadmins trying to deploy Sylpheed-Claws in their organization, eye-candy in the MessageView messages, and a french translation for the manual, mentioned here yesterday. The manual is kept up-to-date this far, which is better than the previous thing we had!
Finally, I’ve put printed versions of the manual online at lulu.com, both the english and the french one. Lulu.com seems to be a good service, a bit like Cafepress, but for books. I hope people will like these manuals, because they’ll make me rich (one day. at $1.40 per copy, maybe I’ll be rich in 2020).
Je viens juste de terminer la traduction du manuel de Sylpheed-Claws en français ! Merci à Olivier Delhomme pour les quatre premières pages, qui m’a motivé à faire celle qui restaient ;-)
Les utilisateurs de CVS pourront le découvrir à leur prochaine mise à jour. Pour les autres, il est là.