Welcome to POPFile v0.22.4 This version is a bug fix release and contains an important security related bug fix. It is a highly recommended upgrade because of the problem described in #1 below. WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE v0.22.3 1. A bug in the handling of the charset in an email could be exploited to cause POPFile to crash when downloading messages. 2. Japanese users were unable to use the insert.pl script. This has been corrected so the Nihongo language is now correctly recognized. In addition the Nihongo language translation has been updated. 3. POPFile's license has changed (slightly). Prior to v0.22.4, POPFile was released under the General Public License version 2, stating that the user could choose that or any later version. With the current uncertainty about GPLv3, POPFile has been restricted to version 2 starting from v0.22.4. Once GPLv3 has been finalized, we will review it and decide whether to revert to the "version 2 or later" permission. Naturally, all prior versions are unaffected. 4. The Installer's Brazilian Portuguese translations were updated. The installer now uses a longer timeout value so it can better monitor upgrading large SQLite databases. The SQLite Database Status Check utility now displays the size of the database (in KB). 5. All the "Remove" buttons are now at the top of the History page as well as the bottom. 6. It should be rare that anyone sees it, but we added a 404 page. 7. X-POPFile-Link improvements to let users change the link address used in Stealth Mode. By default POPFile uses 127.0.0.1 for this address, but at least one email client (Eudora) issues a security warning for links with an IP address or 'localhost'. The wiki explains how to avoid these warnings: http://getpopfile.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HowTos/SuppressXPLWarning 8. Prior to v0.22.0, "Remove Page" used to archive messages (when archiving is active), that behavior has been restored. 9. Updated the UI to the latest Brazilian Portuguese translation. GETTING STARTED WITH POPFILE An introduction to installing and using POPFile can be found in the QuickStart guide: http://getpopfile.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?QuickStart SSL SUPPORT IN WINDOWS SSL Support is offered as one of the optional components by the installer. If the SSL Support option is selected the installer will download the necessary files during installation. If SSL support is not selected when installing (or upgrading) POPFile or if the installer was unable to download all of the SSL files then the command setup.exe /SSL can be used to run the installer again in a special mode which will only add SSL support to an existing installation. CROSS PLATFORM VERSION KNOWN ISSUES The current version of SQLite (v3.x) is not compatible with POPFile. You must use DBD:SQLite2 to access the database. Users of SSL on non-Windows platforms should NOT use IO::Socket::SSL v0.97. It is known to be incompatible with POPFile; v0.96 is the most recent release of IO::Socket::SSL that works correctly. v0.22.0 RELEASE NOTES If you are upgrading from pre-v0.22.0 please read the v0.22.0 release notes for much more information: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=266477 DONATIONS Thank you to everyone who has clicked the Donate! button and donated their hard earned cash to me in support of POPFile. Thank you also to the people who have contributed their time through patches, feature requests, bug reports, user support and translations. http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=213876 THANKS Big thanks to Joseph Connors and Brian Smith for working on v0.22.4 and to John Murray for the reporting and diagnosis of the charset bug. John
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