3.1 coming soon; 4.0 has begun..

Below you will find a partial release notes update for 3.1 and 4.0.
We have NOT settled on the feature set of 4.0 except that we have decided
that Browser Launch will be in and, in fact, we have already completed it
and it is in Beta testing (it turned out GREAT)!

3.1 will be out just as soon as we figure out the situation with the conduit
and resolve a couple of minor Treo issues (they have different hard button
labels/functions than all the other PDAs).

One of the reasons we decided to implement Browser Launch for 4.0 our
discovery of the wonderful FREE project 'nntprss':
http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nntprss/

This tool *should* allow for most users (anyone who interfaces with a host
Windows PC to retrieve messages) to use Yanoff as an RSS reader!
It works for conduit users just fine but we are having trouble getting it
work through BlueTooth because for some reason the network connection
through BT does not recognize localhost redirection (127.0.0.1).  Not sure
how it will work for direct Wi-Fi but we will test this soon.  Once we
figure all this out, then the only users who will not be able to RSS will be
those who poll "live" over their Palm phones.  But even for those users, if
they are clever enough (be sure to let me know if you figure out how to do
this), it should be possible to setup nntprss servers "live" over the
internet.  Once somebody documents this (we probably won't get around to it
any time soon), every type of user will be able to RSS with Yanoff (or any
other newsreader for that matter)!

Although Browser Launch is a crucial supplement for RSS (because most RSS
articles are composed of a teaser followed by a URL) and will be GREAT in
4.0, this RSS solution should work right now for any users of Yanoff
(including GPL).

So I encourage you to get your bug reports (3.1) and feature requests (4.0)
in SOON!

Here are the changes new in release 4.0 (from 3.1):

* Browswer Launch features completed (prefs/infrastructure in 3.1) (Yanoff+)

Here are the changes new in release 3.1 (from 3.0):

* New "Com" menu on article screen
* New "Go on-/off-line" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
* New "Reply" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
* New "Forward" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
* New "Followup" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
* New "New article" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
* New "New eMail" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
* New "eMail the author" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
* New "Test SMTP server" menu items under "Com" menu on article screen
* New "Browser Launch" menu item under all screens' "Com" menu
* New "Browser Launch No Prompt" menu item under all screens' "Com" menu
* New "Browser Launch" ButtonActions on all screens (up to 4 flavors per
screen)
* As a result of above, changed several shortcut letters
* Some help text typos cleanup (esp. Misc Prefs)
* Restored left/right movement function to some broken input dialogs
* Removed "keyboard" ButtonAction (no screens are editable so its useless!)
* Fixed title bar vestiges on Article View with DIA closed when long->short
* Fixed "liar" outgoing "Content-Transfer-Encoding:" MIME headers!
* Encode trailing spaces when Content-Transfer-Encoding is
"Quoted-Ptrintable"
* Fixed ButtonAction menu items where "...EtScrn" should have been
"...ExScrn"
* Added "Info" menu with "List Subscribed NGs" option to "Server Prefs"
screens
* Fixed "Purge killfile" crash
* Validate/repair "Followup-To:" headers in outgoing articles
* Enforce rule: "Followup-To:" header must be subset of "To:" (except
"POSTER")
* Fixed crash when "too long since last MID Purge" dialog not on NG list
screen
* User is pushed into ButtonAction prefs on first visit to 3 main screens
* Do not prompt user to purge MIDs if "Save MIDs" Poll Pref is unchecked
* Modified (again) confusing "mail server not ready to use" error text
* Made "Go on-/off-line" and "Network Prefs" work from within Yanoff-
* Fixed incorrect hard button (FiveWay) override when menu bar is first
opened
* Fixed over-drawing of open menu list with message body text during redraw
* Removed erroneous "crashed" dialog when returning from "Network Prefs"
* Upgraded to new SDK from PocketPurchase to fix these 4 problems:
*    Pocket Purchase: nag displayed when returning from "Network Prefs"
*    Pocket Purchase: nag-if-key-present-at-first-run error
*    Pocket Purchase: FiveWay center button no worky in their dialogs
*    Pocket Purchase: crash when entering crdit card expiration month


Here are the bugs that are outstanding:

* Cursor sometimes misplaced when returning to NG list screen
* Occasional post-poll crash on some devices when memory is low (< 600KB)
* If poll started inside NG with 0 articles, screen improperly refreshed
* Occasional non-redrwan screen when minimizing DIA on HandEra
* Popup keyboard used to insert <Return> into field such as "T:" may lock
field


Here are the features on our ToDo list:

* Color support
* RSS Support
* SSL Support
* Full MIME support
* Don't split mid-word when encoding Quoted-Printable
* format=flowed support (support infrastructure currently exists)
* Multi-language support
* Memory Free in upper-right corner updated during purges
* Turn off backlight during article thread/index
* Export article to address book (Name=Name/Email=Email/Note=article)
* Beam article as Memo
* VFS support (including log-to preference)
* Preference: Exported Memo destination category
* Take WordWrap setting into account when Quoting article text for F'Up/Re
* Custom-Headers-Exist indicator on NG Prefs
* XFace support
* Mail-Copies-To support
* Left-handed scrollbar support (infrastructure exists now)
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