This page tries to present as much as possible of the problem
corrections and feature additions occurred in KDE between version 1.1.1 and the
current, 1.1.2. The changes descriptions were kept brief. The main
characteristic of the present release is stability, rock solid stability, as well as
improved visual appearance.
Thanks to all involved. Thanks to the users for their great moral support. Special
thanks to the artists team!
kdebase
Update
kfm
Author: large team
Fixed severe bug which allowed directory-in-itself recursive copy
FTP uploading works again
Short-URL support is fixed/improved
Kfm doesn't hang when right-clicking on FIFOs and other non-regular files
Important memory leak (esp. when browsing the web) fixed
Error handling improved (fixes frequent crashes)
Update
kpanel
Author: Matthias Ettrich, Pietro Iglio
Fixed memory leaks (HP)
Update
krdb
Author: Mark Donohoe, Dirk A. Mueller
Primitive support for ~/.Xdefaults
Update
kscreensaver
Author: various
Fixed security hole in klock
Fixed compile problem in kscience (J6t, HP)
Update
kwm
Author: Matthias Ettrich
Fixed color gradient on big endian machines
kdemultimedia
Update
kscd
Author: Bernd Johannes Wuebben
Fixed problem with qmail
Silenced some compiler warnings
kdenetwork
Update
kmail
Author: Stefan Taferner, Markus Wuebben
Changes since 1.1.1
New filter actions: execute (a shell command), forward-to. (ST)
Updated documentation about PGP5 and new filter actions. (ST)
Added settings option to turn off automatic sending of
receive/read confirmations (default on). (ST)
Added settings option to compact all (needed) folders on exit. KMail
can now together with pine on same folders(SR)
Added Compact All Folders menu entry. (SR)
KMail now tries harder to determine attachment icon (SR)
We create now proper In-Reply-To an References header.
Alternative send method has accelerator Shift+Ctrl+Return (Default method
has Ctrl-Return). Also if default method is "Send Now" composer has
toolbar icon for "Send Later" (SR)
Bugfixes since 1.1.1
Proper resizing of filter-action specific widgets (list of folders, entry fields) when
filter is selected. (ST)
Security fix according attachments: changed place of attachment temp directory
from /tmp to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/tmp (ST)
Fixed displaying text formatted with spaces (TP)
Fix against deleteing two messages at once when in trash (bug 1037) (DN)
Corrected prepending of "--" before signature (DN)
Button "Help" works now in filter dialog (DN)
Cancel/Reject fix for kmfilterdialog.cpp (DN)
Updown-bugfix in filter dialog: moving a filter up could corrupt the filter list (DN)
Fixed wrongly sorted message list when sorting by subject was requested. (J6t)
Added delayed update of folder list. This fixes the drastical
performance loss by the display of the number of unread messages (when
processing many messages). (ST)
Filters: <body>, <message> and <any header> filter work. (DN)
Added explanation of %\_ to text in settings dialog. (ST)
Fixed eat-last-char-of-message-bug in compacting folders. (SR)
Fixed nasty bug reported by Daniel Naber: open composer, change
visible header fields, close composer, open it again -> crash. (DS)
Fixed bug: move last message from folder, then try to set header style ->
segfault. Also, KMail now doesn't show contents of deleted mails in mail reader. (JB)
Never, ever again send something to X-Loop header. (SR, thanks to DN)
Edit + Send Later now really saves changes and updates edited message in
reader (SR, thanks JB)
Right-click on headers can act on all selected messages (DN)
Fix for bug no-windows-but-running-wild, which also prevented user
to start new KMail instance, unless killed first - in which case it used to
corrupt layout (SR, thanks to JB for finding this)
Fixed bug reported by Jacek Stolarczyk (jacek@mer.chemia.polsl.gliwice.pl):
kmail could create attachment dirs with zero permissions and then couldn use them.
Security: unlink lock and message files before writing
to them. (SR)
KMail used to die after user deleted a filter. This was probably introduced after
1.1.1. Fixed. (SR)
Fixed signing with PGP 5. (bugs #1353, #1543 and #1578) (SR)
Fixed updating index files on exit. This bug sometimes caused deleted
messages to be visible as new or unread on next kmail start. (WB)
Who's who:
ST Stefan Taferner (taferner@kde.org) (Author/maintainer)
DN Daniel Naber (dnaber@mini.gt.owl.de)
DS Don Sanders (dsanders@cch.com.au)
J6t Johannes Sixt (Johannes.Sixt@telecom.at)
SR Sven Radej (radej@kde.org) (Me, maintainer for this release)
TP Toivo Pedaste (toivo@ucs.uwa.edu.au)
JB jbb (jb.nz@writeme.com)
WB Waldo Bastian (bastian@kde.org)
Also thanks to:
Roberto Alsina (ralsina@kde.org)
Petter Reinholdtsen (pere@hungry.com)
Rik Hemsley (rikkus@postmaster.co.uk) (Check out his Empath mailer too)
Jacek Stolarczyk (jacek@mer.chemia.polsl.gliwice.pl)
And everyone else who helped to make KMail more stable, secure, nice and usable
(in short to make KMail an KDE application :-)
Update
kppp
Author: B. Wuebben, M. Weilguni, H. Porten
Fixed a cause of those "Timeout expired" errors (the
default speed was broken)
Removal of stale lock files works again.
Line Termination defaults to CR as the more
common case.
Update statistic data even if window is not
visible.
"PPP support missing" is no longer fatal. Just a warning.
Update
ksirc
Author: Andrew Stanley-Jones
fixed compilation warnings and errors (HP)
Update
kbiff
Author: Kurt Granroth
Features added since 1.1.1
Support for MH mailboxes
Support for NNTP (USENET/Newsgroups)
Very simple support for Netscape Mail folders
Added "tooltip" (Floating Status) that pops up the number of
new mails for each mailbox when the mouse is over the icon
Can now launch your mail client from the "Notify" dialog
Can test "new mail" sound from the setup dialog
More tiny little features... See the ChangeLog
Bugfixes since 1.1.1
Config files should no longer randomly disappear!!
Will compile on HP-UX again
PINE/IMAP/POP3 mailboxes that are also MBOXs are now handled
correctly (I hope)
Lots of socket/network "leaks" are now gone. Socket code is
also somewhat asynchronous, now.
Usernames are now encoded. Funky usernames like
'granroth@kde.org', '/users/granroth', and those with '(' in them
should now work
Lots more little ones. See the ChangeLog
kdeutils
Update
kfloppy
Author: Bernd Johannes Wuebben
fix for 3.5" drives (HP)
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