The Bat! Professional (64-bit) 歷史版本列表
更新時間：2018-06-04
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
- GMS2 now allows you to work with the IDE in French, German, or Spanish! Install using one of these languages and GMS2 will download the manual in that language also
- Stacks of bugs have been fixed, we've also made improvements to the initial startup sequence, increased performance when working on large projects, and the resource tree now has a visual helper when reordering items. There are also a few new runtime features, such as config support in #macro defines and support for IPv6 in the networking functions - see the Runtime release notes for more info
- Please note 2.1.4 is mandatory as we have fixed a licensing bug and are also preparing for General Data Protection Regulation changes. Accordingly, you will get "license is invalid" the first run after updating from 2.1.3 - please just login again once to fix
更新時間：2018-04-12
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
Hotfix v288+:
- Fixed a keyboard input crash when using Chinese or Japanese keyboard layouts
- Fixed instance variables overriding parent values properly
- Fixed changing an instance variable to a Boolean and then running game makes GMS2 unstable if you don't edit the Boolean tickbox first
French, German and Spanish Language Support:
- Choose which language you would like to use during the installer, this choice will carry through into the IDE and the corresponding manual will be downloaded during the first run of the IDE
- If you want to change your language after install this is still possible via 'Preferences -> General Settings'
User login performance/stability fixes:
- The initial startup sequence for network connectivity checks and user-login has been improved, so you should no longer see long stalls during startup
- However, if you are still having issues please contact the Helpdesk for further support
Resource Tree improvements:
- Resource reordering is now easier and clearer to understand, thanks to a new visual indicator as you drag resources in the tree
- Further optimisations have been made for all tree views to improve the performance of the IDE when editing large projects
Per-configuration #macro support:
- Added the ability to override macro definitions in different configs using the syntax #macro CONFIGNAME:MACRONAME
- E.g, #macro MOVESPEED 10 could be overidden on the next line by #macro WINDOWS:MOVESPEED 12 or #macro GOOGLE:MOVESPEED 6
Misc IDE Changes:
- Android Options > 'Build Settings' now has a drop-down which populates with your current Android SDK installation information
- Added support for additional iOS splash screens for iPhones SE, 7, 8 and X
Known Issues:
- It should be fixed now, but if you still get Windows Defender giving false-positives and blocking runtime downloads in 2.1.4+, please tell the Helpdesk
- Explorer file dialogs can sometimes fail to open. This is a Windows 10 Creators Update issue and has been seen failing in other applications
- Runtime download/activation has been seen to crash the IDE occasionally during subsequent startup
- Dead instances of Window's RuntimeBroker application can block attempts to use the manual in the IDE - just get a white page
更新時間：2018-04-06
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
French, German and Spanish Language Support:
- Choose which language you would like to use during the installer, this choice will carry through into the IDE and the corresponding manual will be downloaded during the first run of the IDE
- If you want to change your language after install this is still possible via 'Preferences -> General Settings'
User login performance/stability fixes:
- The initial startup sequence for network connectivity checks and user-login has been improved, so you should no longer see long stalls during startup
- However, if you are still having issues please contact the Helpdesk for further support
Resource Tree improvements:
- Resource reordering is now easier and clearer to understand, thanks to a new visual indicator as you drag resources in the tree
- Further optimisations have been made for all tree views to improve the performance of the IDE when editing large projects
Per-configuration #macro support:
- Added the ability to override macro definitions in different configs using the syntax #macro CONFIGNAME:MACRONAME
- E.g, #macro MOVESPEED 10 could be overidden on the next line by #macro WINDOWS:MOVESPEED 12 or #macro GOOGLE:MOVESPEED 6
Misc IDE Changes:
- Android Options > 'Build Settings' now has a drop-down which populates with your current Android SDK installation information
- Added support for additional iOS splash screens for iPhones SE, 7, 8 and X
Known Issues:
- It should be fixed now, but if you still get Windows Defender giving false-positives and blocking runtime downloads in 2.1.4+, please tell the Helpdesk
- Explorer file dialogs can sometimes fail to open. This is a Windows 10 Creators Update issue and has been seen failing in other applications
- Runtime download/activation has been seen to crash the IDE occasionally during subsequent startup
- Dead instances of Window's RuntimeBroker application can block attempts to use the manual in the IDE - just get a white page
更新時間：2018-03-25
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
The Bat! Professional 8.3.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- The "Copy Format" in the Message Editor
- You can now add a column with a short folder name – just a name without its full path
- It is now possible to add secondary addresses of an address book entry to the To or CC field or to not add at all, instead of just an option to add to BCC as before
Fixes:
- The menu entry "Download International Pack" is obsolete
- Outdated version number while authenticating at Gmail via OAUTH
- Needless confirmation on closing editor window after saving the message via Ctrl+S
- The Message Dispatcher does not remember the position of the header auto-view splitter
- CardDAV synchronization did not transfer URLs to server and deleted them afterwards in The Bat (tested with mailbox.org)
- CardDAV synchronization duplicates three phone numbers and overwrites three others (tested with mailbox.org)
- Wrong handling of "<" and ">" characters in the messages created out of HTML-templates
- The "Lock toolbars" option is not remembered in the Message Dispatcher window
- The Quick Search skips the search/display criteria of the selected tab
- Fixed the bug "TLS protocol error" Internal error GenerateKeyBlockCipher when connecting to servers with DES/3DES ciphers (a bug of The Bat! v8.2.8)
- Fixed an access violation on exit when The Bat! was configured to be minimized to the System Tray
The Bat! Professional 8.2.8 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 8.2.4 (64-bit)
New features:
- Improved speed of the IDEA encryption algorithm
- Improved speed of the RC4 encryption algorithm
- Libiconv version updated to version 1.15. Added ISO-2022-JP-MS converter. Updated the CP1255 converter to map one more character
Improvements:
- Improved speed of the UTF-8 encoder and decoder
- Some internal optimizations in the interface element dynamic layouts
Fixes:
- Scrolling in address book moves selection bar instead of address list
- CardDAV-Syncronization transfers Home Location Street address correctly, but deletes it afterwards (tested with mailbox.org)
- The Bat! v7.4.16 (64 Bit) - cannot print multiple mails
- Issue with OAUTH for Mail.Ru while creating a new account
- Misleading "Authentication failed" message while creating a new account for Mail.Ru and Gmail and using OAUTH
- It's possible to overcome the mandatory "Unique ID" handle while creating a color group
- Previously created templates (text format) were not usable if switching to HTML editor
- The Message Dispatcher does not remember the position of the header auto-view splitter
- The MailTicker was sometimes improperly updated or not updated or caused Access Violation errors
The Bat! Professional 8.2 (64-bit)
Improvements:
- New context-aware message header decoder to address the Mailsploit issues. Besides making the header line decoder context aware, we have also made the following checks in the display name part of an address: if it contains an "@" character or any control character (with code less than code of a space character), then such a name part is discarded
- Some improvements in multi-threaded locking mechanism (32-bit only)
- Some improvements in handling AVX-512 instructions (64-bit only)
Fixes:
- Macros did not work in HTML templates (for folder, account, etc) - fixed %- in html template and trailing spaces in HTML
- Image compression routine was called twice -- Unnecessary delays when saving html message with images to "Outbox"
- "Tab" in HTML editor deletes the highlighted text
- CardDAV-Syncronization did not transfer Birthday
- CardDAV-Syncronization was duplicating email addresses when entry contains more than one email address (tested with mailbox.org)
- Issues synchronizing CardDAV. Server reports error: "HTTP/1.1 501 Request Failed"
- Synchronization log window of Address book always showed in modal state
The Bat! Professional 8.0.18 (64-bit)
Improvements:
- The Download Manager writes additional information to the ex_log.txt file whenever there is an exception inside a WinInet API function call
- Added some root certificates used by Google mail servers
- Better description for the registration key validity version
- More debug messages will be added to the ex_log.txt with /startup_timing_log command line option to figure out why The Bat! hangs at startup
Fixes:
- Fixed a "stack overflow" error which could occur when a message got loaded, e.g. on IMAP
- Fixed an access violation at startup
- Some normal connection state changes were written to the ex_log.txt file
- The MailTicker was sometimes grey and didn't move
- Column "Tags" in message list cannot be size-adjusted by double click
- Copying of Sorting Office filters with hot keys is incomplete
- MailTicker goes to background even of the "Always on top" option is enabled
- Double-clicking a word with national characters doesn't select it
- Table paste not keeping columns widths
- Attachments' names in national characters are converted to underscore
- Shift+Arrows or Ctrl+Arrows don't work as expected in HTML message preview
- Names of the attachments are displayed incorrectly
- %CURSOR is ignored in Quick Template
- On 4K monitors, the mail ticker is too slow
- POP3 Message Dispatcher hangs with an error message
- Quick Template is not inserted into Quick Reply
- UI elements misplaced in filter conditions
- Quick search filter doesn't clear filter on empty filter text
- No caption "paste as text" while pasting smiles in the HTML editor
- Multiple quotes are rendered too wide
- Empty brackets for quick templates in the drop-down menus
- Needles confirmation on closing editor window after saving the message via Ctrl+S
- Access Violation on pasting smilies
- "Undo" and "Redo" work erratically
- "Paste as plain text" does not replace the highlighted text
The Bat! Professional 8.0.14 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 8.0.12 (64-bit)
- Truncated/disappeared buttons in status bar of Editor window when switching text format to HTML mode
- Added the insert/overwrite mode for all message editors, not just MicroEd
- Pasting text to Quick Search was troublesome because when the user selects some text, e.g. an email address, in an outside application, that application often copies text to the clipboard with a trailing space character and when the user pastes it to Quick Search, the user don't see this trailing blank, but The Bat! doesn't find the address in the message list so the user becomes very perplexed.
- The log box in the "Message Base Maintenance Center" window doesn't scroll properly (as in the Connection Center)
- HTML Table editor is unavailable
- Quick Search in Message List does not use focused tab for a refined search
- Untranslatable string in the Connection Center
The Bat! Professional 8.0.10 (64-bit)
New features:
- 32-bit version of The Bat! now works even under very old computers with CPUs that don’t support MMX instruction set. In this case, FPU is used to copy data.
- Upgraded the HTML editor. Text formatting has improved (the components render bi-directional text and “exotic” scripts reliably; "justify" alignment and custom character spacing now can be applied to bi-directional text; new paragraph alignment type: "distribute"; distributed paragraphs are similar to justified paragraphs, but space is added between all characters, not between words; this type of alignment is common for Far East languages; customized alignment for the last line of justified and distributed paragraphs; special options for vertical text in table cells - automatic application of vertical fonts and switching column order from right-to-left to left-to-right). There were also visual improvements: the users can define a customized degree of transparency for backgrounds of paragraphs, tables, table cells, text boxes; user interface is compatible with high-DPI display modes
- AVX/AVX2/AVX-512 use: if the CPU supports AVX or AVX2 instruction set, 64-bit version of The Bat! will use large, 32-byte YMM registers for faster memory copy and fill, and if the CPU supports AVX-512 instruction set, The Bat! will use even larger, 64-byte ZMM registers for even faster memory copy and fill. These instruction sets are not used by 32-bit version of The Bat!
- The Bat! now uses improved multi-threading locking mechanism as a part of the improved memory manager - FastMM4-AVX. The new locking mechanism is much better than the mechanism implemented in the default memory manager which is used by the Delphi compiler
- If the CPU supports Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB (ERMS), The Bat! uses this feature for faster memory copy or fill
- Faster overall program work gained by removing the "lock" prefix from many instructions that were supposed to provide multi-thread handling. On practice, adding "lock" prefix to an instruction slows it down significantly, and, in most cases, was not needed, e.g. increasing reference counters when assigning strings
- Internal program code rewrite regarding to HTML editors that was used in the message editor and HTML template editors
- AVX-512 Instruction Set is used, if available, for faster memory copy and fill operations. In order for The Bat! to make use it, a CPU with AVX-512 instruction set is required, for example Intel's Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) and Skylake-X Core i7 and i9 models. Besides that the operating system should also support AVX-512 registers. It is Windows 10 latest update and Windows Server 2016 that support AVX-512
- Version 8 Splash Screen
Improvements:
- Better thread handling - the program works faster and generates lower number of the Page Faults
- Auto-configuration of display fonts on The Bat! first run. On Windows 7 and later, if the fonts are configured in Windows settings to be displayed as Cleartype or if the screen resolution (pixels per inch) is 150% of base DPI or higher, then, on The Bat! first run for this Windows user account after the new installation, the new fonts are automatically configured be used (instead of previously hard-coded values): Consolas and Calibri are now used instead of the old Courier New and Arial. Besides that, during that first run, the default editor font size now accommodates to the screen resolution (pixels per inch): if the current DPI is below 150% of the base DPI (96), the default editor font size is 9pt as before, but for 150%<200% - 10pt, 200%<300% - 11pt, 300% and higher - 12pt.
- Auto-substitution of the Courier New on 4K monitors when viewing HTML messages. The details are the following. On Windows 7 and later, with ultra-high-definition (4K) monitors with DPI of 192 and more (>200% of base DPI), if an HTML email arrives with Courier New font defined, and the characters have font size of or between 5 and 28 points, the font is automatically displayed as Consolas. This behavior of substation of Courier New to Consolas is hardcoded and you cannot change it. This only affects screen, not the printer. On printer, when printing HTML with Courier New, this font is always used if defined so in the HTML
- Updated Root CA certificates
- Improved speed of CRC-32 calculation when the processor does not support CRC32 instruction, but if it does, the speed has increased even more. The Bat! uses CRC-32 algorithm internally in many cases, so the overall program speed has increased as a result
- Non-exceptional (normal) situations like IMAP server responses "NO" and "BAD" were added to the exceptions log
- Improvements on multi-threaded operation: The Bat! often worked poorly on multi-core processors or multi-CPU computers. The thread operation wasn’t very good thought out in some places. As a result, there were various errors like Access Violation
- The Bat! MSI installation package no longer include EWS DLL files. As a result, The Bat! would not support Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol until you manually download a DLL and store it un the same directory where thebat32.exe/thebat64.exe resides.
Fixes:
- 64-bit Simple MAPI handler DLL gave access violation errors
- When a QR Code window was already open and then the user has put another window to front and chose to generate a QR code from the menu, the old QR Code window remained in the background so the user had no idea what happened, as if nothing happened. Now the QR Code window will be brought to front in such cases
- The QR Code generator didn't save a generated code to file properly. It asked for a list of graphic formats, but in fact only supported BMP. So if you chose, for example, PNG, it saved a BMP into the file with .PNG extension which was incorrect. Now it only offers to save to PNG
- If you save generated QR code to file or copy it to clipboard, it didn't scale to the fixed number of times, which might result uneven scaling
- If a QR Code window was called from the main window and was open, and you close The Bat!, there was an Access Violation error
- If there were a message source view window open and you closed The Bat!, there were an access violation error
- The Bat! couldn't gracefully handle improperly specified "charset=unicode", especially in malformed HTML messages
- Screen reader did not read the contents of the status bar
- Screen reader did not read the text of the tabs
- Attributes of messages in threaded message lists were not read
- The option "Complete address automatically from" in the message editor did not work
- The auto-complete did not offer a suggestion right away as only the suggestion list with no selection appears
- The Bat! gave an access violation error on exit when NVDA (www.nvaccess.org) was active on The Bat!
- The Bat! crashed upon invoking the address book if JAWS is running
- Invalid key handling in the Message Editor address grid (arrows)
- The cursor jumped between From/To/CC/BCC/Subject fields using the arrow keys whereas only the Tab key should be applied
- The screen reader did not notice that a list of addresses appears in the message editor window
- Screen reader improperly read RSS item list
- Accessibility Feature: Label for fields in the message creation window was not read properly
- Screen reader did not read the names of folders in the "Manage IMAP folders" window
- JAWS was speaking after each character when auto-completion in the "To" field was in the "on" state
- Screen reader did not read the names of contacts in the Address Book
- The Bat! could not down load HTML images under 32-bit if there were a message with many images with the same URL
- Space bar sets/removes the check-box on the selected folder and jumps into the search field in Watch for virtual folders
- The Up key does not return to the To, CC or BCC field in the message editor
- Change of the checkboxes in the Options tab of the Sorting Office did not immediately affect the checkboxes in the left tree
- The Bat! crashed while returning to the terminal session
- The Bat! hangs on testing outgoing connection in the Create New Account wizard
- A screen reader did not speak the check-marks and selected/not selected in the Sorting Office
- Embedded images in messages bodies grow in size on each reply on high-DPI (4K) monitors
- URLs were incorrectly displayed in the plain text part of messages
- Images in HTML templates are resized under high DPI (4K) monitors
- "List index out of bounds" error appeared while trying to assign an URL to an image in the HTML template
- Sometimes, very rarely, due to a bug, Message Headers got multiplied everywhere - in the Preferences, in the Message Editor, in the viewers. Other configuration items like color groups, etc., could also have been duplicated
- The program became faster as a whole because of significant improvements to internal algorithms related to data storage and retrieval (data containers)
- The algorithms to process, load and store configuration items, e.g. mail folders, message headers, color groups, etc. (data containers) contain flaws that could lead to data loss
- When The Bat! saves images, for example when you edit and HTML message where you have inserted inline images from clipboard, or you have added a photo to an address book entry - The Bat! chooses between the two file formats - PNG and JPG, compressing to both formats and seeing which of the files are smaller. For PNG, compression level from 1 to 9 is selected, based on the dimensions of the image: larger images take faster compression levels, to not produce interface freezes when saving message; for JPG, quality of 85 is always chosen. Previously, The Bat! did always save in JPG with 100 level, which did produce very big files. For photos, JPG process smaller files than PNG, while PNG makes smaller files when there are flat images with just a few colors, like a simple screenshot
- Not enough room for "User / Server" localization in the Connection Center window
- Truncated options' names on the "Options" tab of the customizer (select the menu item "WorkspaceToolbarsCustomize" and then go to the "Options" tab)
- When the Sorting Office window was opened, but The Bat! was in foreground, the Sorting Office window was trying to check the clipboard data used by other programs, which gave errors under Windows 10
- The server-side "Sent" folder is lost and re-downloaded on each program start for hotmail.com accounts. Although this was not related solely for Hotmail. The bug was the following: if we had a local folder in the IMAP account with a particular name, and then we've got an IMAP folder with the same name from the server, The Bat! couldn't handle such situations properly, it didn't permanently store the TBB cache file, but instead created a new TBB on each restart of The Bat!, but the old TBB file was abandoned and no longer used, thus occupying the disk space in vain
- The Bat! didn't always set the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY for temporary files; setting this attribute increases speed of working with temporary files
- The default string encoding in anti-spam plugin changed from Windows-default-for-non-Unicode-programs to UTF-8
- Miscellaneous HTML-editor-related fixes
- Modal dialog boxes with modal window frame have an icon that overlaps text on Windows XP computers
- Fixed html editor dialog translations
- A division by zero error in the MicroEd
- Editing links in HTML-editor is faulty – the lings got truncated, e.g., after a particular character in the link
- Wrong icons in the title bars
- Truncated Quick Search options
- Column width is not remembered in "Manage IMAP folders"
- Untranslatable Quick Search options in the Message Viewer
- Macro %QUOTES sets HTML message quotes to uppercase
- All caracters of the quoted text are put into the uppercase while replying
- The Bat! crashes on selecting an HTML message if the internal HTML viewer is used
- Embedded images are rendered too big
- If there is not enough free space, no warning appears during the compacting process
- A 32-bit version of The Bat! did release memory right when it started (to release memory used by startup data and startup code that was no longer needed) and when was minimized, but the 64-bit version didn't do that properly - vice versa - it tried to reserve 4GB for itself instead. Now the 64-bit version is also doing things properly - it doesn't try to reserve 4GB, but releases memory just when started (once) and each time you minimize it
- Message List Tabs cannot be scrolled to the right on high DPI
- No confirmation popup for changed mail after closing window
- Wrong display of the sender in Address History
- The Sorting Office conditions are not vertically aligned (edit/text)
- Fixed a EStringListError "List index out of bounds (0)" error in the image download manager
- Fixed an access violation error related to IMAP which could happen in many cases, e.g. after sending out a message, etc.
- SMTP log does not auto-scroll in the Connection Center
- The Bat! does not remember column width in the "Select Quick Template" window
- The window "The Bat! Master Password" gets hidden behind other windows
- The default fonts in the message editor (The default font Courier New 9 pt is small and pale)
- Importing messages from Outlook 2016 fails to include senders' email addresses
- Access Violation popups if inspecting message source on IMAP account
- Image viewer does not display a PNG file although it is displayed in the preview tab
- Ctrl+A doesn't work in Memo in the address book properties
- Quick Search tabs do not display separate message lists
- Sorting office column widths (in the filters tree - left part of the windows) are not saved
- Sorting office default column widths are not proportional to the text
- Tip of the day image is not rescaled to accommodate higher resolution
- It is not obvious that in the Address Entry, the list of addresses should be separated by CR, not comma
- Some HTML messages were incorrectly displayed by The Bat! internal HTML viewer. Element positions were incorrect. Elements were doubled up in some of the messages
- Fixed the selection of items (in check/uncheck items in the selection tree view) in some dialogs. For example, the behaviour of these items was OK in the Message Finder (F7) dialog, but wasn't OK in the other dialogs like the "Manage IMAP Folders" dialog. If you open this dialog to manage IMAP folders and try to select/unselect a folder with subfolders, or an account node, the expected behaviour was that the sub-items would also be selected/unselected (checked/unchecked). But his didn't happen - this was especially illogical for the account root nodes - checking/unchecking this node didn't have actually any effect - the account node was checked/unchecked, but the account folders weren't affected at all, so in fact there was absolutely no practical meaning in checking/unchecking the account node of the tree view control in the Manage IMAP folders dialogs. The only exception (that worked correctly) was the Message Finder (F7). Now, behaviour of all this places is identical to the correct behaviour used in the Message Finder
- Shortcut editor (when you configure shortcuts for a particular toolbar button) hotkey edit field is not zoomed on 4K
- The code was optimized - some generic classes were removed in favour of old-fashioned container classes that didn't use generic source code constructs. The rationale behind this optimization was that the compiler didn't automatically eliminate the duplicated binary code when generics were used to created containers for different classes in such places where the classes were very similar and there was no reason for the compiler to create multiple instances of the binary code that implements the containers like "lists" (TList<> vs Classes.TList). This explosion of the binary code was not cache-friendly, especially not L0/L1 friendly - the program worked slower because of this code size explosion that had no rationale
- Fixed a bug that might cause "Access Violation" error in filters when there were multiple connections already working with the filters, for example, when moving sent message from Outbox to Sent folder
- Fixed an error when cancelling a folder compression task on exit
- Fixed issue with wrong font family in preferencessource viewer
- In some dialog windows of The Bat!, font face of some GUI elements was hard-coded (e.g. to Tahoma). Now this hardcoding is removed and the font face of these elements is also dynamic as for all other GUI elements, so it matches exactly the font face of the surrounding GUI elements (controls)
- The captions of the "processing folders" status display window were too narrow
- There were some bugs in the "View message source" where first or last character of second and subsequent lines was corrupted, which also led to incorrect cursor placement
- Image detection for the internal image viewer was incorrect: every type of image was detected as "JPEG". As a result, other images, like "PNG" could not be displayed in the internal image viewer
- The "Illegal instruction" error on viewing some JPG files under 32-bit version of The Bat!
- Removed duplicate code from HTML templates handling
- Paste image into HTML mail from clipboard fails
- Pasting copied file in HTML mail fails with exception
- An Access Violation error on exit, related to virtual folders
- An invalid pointer operation error when dealing with mail messages (copy, move, process by a filter, etc)
- Pasting copied file in HTML mail fails with exception
- Paste image into HTML mail from clipboard fails
- If the user creates a tag with a duplicate name, The Bat! did not start with "Config:1 EStringListError String list does not allow duplicates"-error messages in ex_log.txt during program startup
- Embedded images are too narrow in the internal HTML viewer
- Phantom window of the action "Add addresses to Address Book" appears in the preview of windows on the task bar
- Tip of The Day displays national characters incorrectly. For example, if the "Language for non-Unicode programs" configured in Windows is different from The Bat! interface language, the national characters were incorrectly displayed in the "Tip of The Day"
- Fixed an access-violation on exit when the messages were loading via IMAP in progress and the user exits The Bat! at this moment
- Impossible to insert smiles to the message
- Inserting smileys with ">" or "<" in the plain text editors inserts HTML-code instead
- Some fixes of Access Violation errors on IMAP
- Long labels didn't wrap in progress dialogues
- Program size decreased slightly
- Addresses are not added into address book automatically in IMAP accounts
- "Insert Hyperlink" interprets command-line arguments as named HTML characters, and thus falsified the HREF
- Image files attached to messages are not printed correctly if image width is larger than height but paper (page) width is smaller than its height. If the width of an image is larger than the size of the page, then the right part of the image gets cut while printing/in print preview
- External image download control for the system's HTML viewer does not work if set according to The Bat! rules
- Sorting Office does not trigger on tags
- External image download control for the system's HTML viewer does not work if set according to The Bat! rules
- Scheduler did sometimes lose its settings
- If the user interface was in such a language to which the website www.ritlabs.com was not translated and the user pressed "Help" button of F1 key, and there were no CHM file of this language present, The Bat! gave an obscure error "Missing context help indxed ...". Now it opens the online help in English
- Option "Headers | Show" in Message body is checked, even Header pane is disabled
- v6.3.2: Message List for normal email folder shown in the "Summary View"
- The log box in the "Account Log" window doesn't scroll properly (as in the Connection Center)
- Email is not validated in redesigned "New Account" wizard
- Logs are incorrectly scrolled in the message re-filter dialog
- IMAP positive test results are not displayed in the New Account Wizard when you click the Test Now Button
- Message List cannot be sorted by column "Tags"
- Fixed an error that could happen when there were no free space left on disk
- Can't change language from HTML editor status bar
The Bat! Professional 8.0.8 (64-bit)
- Opening addressbook entry having multiple mail adresses breaks stored adresses
The Bat! Professional 8.0.6 (64-bit)
- Fixed an access violation error at startup
The Bat! Professional 7.4.16 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.14 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.12 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.10 (64-bit)
- Removed the MD5 hash from the S/MIME preferences
- Import S/MIME certificates(s) from a signed message didn't always work
- When non-OpenPGP mode is selected, the PGP menu items in the message editor are hidden
- Malformed account transport settings on high resolution monitors
- Untranslatable tooltips in the print preview
- Fixed several memory leaks: when deleting messages, when working with the text editor and the spell checker
- Unable to start The Bat! if on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) setup has been cancelled
- Better error handling of The Bat! version checking via DNS, sometimes invalid responses could cause an Access Violation error
- Opening mail shows error popup "TMailMessage.FindIdx --- ALREADY DESTROYED!" (Fixed "ALREADY DESTROYED!" or "METHOD CALLED ON FREED OBJECT!" errors when selecting different folders on IMAP while The Bat! filters messages on IMAP)
- Fixed an Access Violation error at start related to Quick Reply, also fixed the "ClassName: EComponentError / Message: A component named __ already exists" error related to quick reply
- Messages arrived to an IMAP folder aren't filtered if they arrive while other messages are filtered (definitely fixed)
- If an IMAP filter has multiple actions, sometime only some of them are executed
- Minor speed increase when working with internal hash structures
- The Bat! didn't highlight addresses with equal sign ("=") in the local-part. If such addresses were displayed in the headers, there were no menu to do operations with them like add to the address book.
- The Bat! didn't properly support character encodings when working with HunSpell dictionaries, e.g. the Latvian special symbols are replaced with Cyrillic symbols in the Spell Checker
- Filtering on IMAP stops with an Access Violation error while setting color group
- Drop-downs on the main toolbar have areas with no reaction to mouse clicks
- Editor text color and search highlight text colors were hardcoded as "black" and "white", while they had to take colors from Windows system colors (Themes)
- There was an error when trying to run The Bat! while another The Bat! process didn't exit for some reason
- Automatic filters stop working altogether for certain IMAP folders, restarting doesn't help, newly arrived messages not filtered also
- Wrong size of fonts in print preview and the printed message (in tags like "small")
- Print preview looks OK but the final print is not formatted properly
- The HTML is viewed OK but in print or print preview, margins are incorrectly calculated and the text is trimmed at the right
- There were redundant right and bottom margins on printed pages
- Searching for messages using the mid: links in other folders didn't work since 5.0.36.2 released on 02-Mar-2012.
- If there were national characters in mailto url and The Bat! was set as a default mailto handler, these national characters were replaced to question marks. As a result, description of web-pages with national characters sent from browsers appears as question marks in Subject.
- Filling the background color of table cells fails
- "Minus" closing buttons in the message finder didn't scale on high-definition monitor; besides that, these buttons were two pixels higher than needed
- OpenPGP Error Window does not show national characters
- PGP 10.4 was not supported
- Truncated text field in QR-Code Generator (German GUI)
- Decryption of an email with large attachment takes much time if internal OpenPGP implementation is used
- Support for modern GnuPG 2.1
- Welcome message (in the Inbox) is no longer used for IMAP accounts
- Increased speed of entering a folder or sorting messages in the list by From/To/Subject columns when there were only latin characters. The speed increase is mostly noticeable in folders with more than 100 thousand messages
- If you collapse an account in the folder tree and restart The Bat!, this account again becomes open, if you click the folder tabs before
- The Bat! didn't start on single-processor single-core computers, it gave an Access Violation error
- The Bat! can log Simple MAPI calls. To enable logging, do the following. Uder "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWARERITThe Bat!" add DWORD value named "LogMapiCalls", value "1". Then, restart The Bat!. After that, The Bat! will create mapi_log.txt file in the %EMAIL% directory and will append lines to it every time an application like MS Word or MSIE wants to send a message or do any other MAPI function.
- Fixed an access violation error on exit that could prevent from saving toolbar configuration data
The Bat! Professional 7.4.8 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.6 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.4 (64-bit)
- HTML background images are not shown or shown distorted
- Access Violation while exiting and background download tasks are not yet finished
- Fixed the about box on high definition monitors
- HTML/CSS values were improperly converted from inches, centimeters and other length units to physical pixels
- Scrolling large images in an internal image viewer was slow
- If images had size "100%", they were much smaller than their proper size
- URLs which contained a mixture of national characters and percent-encoded characters were incorrectly encoded
- URLs in the HTML editor are no longer percent-encoded when saving a message; national characters and " < > & are replaced to htlm-entities. Plus and space are left intact.
- Images in some HTML messages are not displayed properly if internal HTML viewer is used
- Truncated text field in account properties
- URLs with Russian characters are corrupted in Quick Templates
- Widened buttons to restore templates in the account properties
- Sometimes image size is improperly calculated, the last (bottom right) line of the image is tiled from the first (left top), this is visible when zooming the about box
- The max-width attribute wasn't supported, thus some HTML newsletter weren't centered
- Default font in HTML viewer was too large under high definition monitors: twice as large at 200% DPI, thrice as large under 300%, and so on
- Fixed toolbar and popup menu display
- Font size drop-downs in the HTML-editor are too small on high DPI
- Color tool palette dropdown in the HTML-editor had too small bricks on high DPI
- The drop-down for "Style" in HTML-editor is to small on high DPI
- Missing left edge line in menus
- Menu navigator in other windows than the main did activate the main window instead
- Tab set height didn't adjust to used font size
- Toolbar grippers too small on high DPI
- Close button for floating toolbars was too small on high DPI
- Better algorithm for removing duplicate messages. You can also run The Bat! with various command line options to ignore several message attributes while comparing messages: /DEDUPIGNOREMSGID (ignore Message-ID), /DEDUPIGNORETO (ignore To), /DEDUPIGNOREDATE (ignore Date), /DEDUPIGNORETOMSGID (ignore To and Message ID - this command line option is reserved for past compatibility). You can combine multiple command line options mentioned.
- Toolbar chevrons didn't scale under high resolution DPI
The Bat! Professional 7.4.2 (64-bit)
- Smilies are not scaled on high DPI
- There were no "Synchronize" pop-up menu item for Google address books
- Print Pictures from internal viewer: aspect ratio is not maintained with large pictures
- Print Pictures from internal viewer: large pictures are printed twice
- 7.2 (64-bit) Some graphics appear extraordinarily large in the preview pane
- In message preview pane the PNG of a HTML message has black background
- Fixed access violation when viewing HTML messages with images (can be reproduced when changing message zoom back and forth by scrolling the mouse wheel), introduced in 7.3.12.29.
- Downloaded images into message body are not scaled
- 7.2 (64-bit) GIF break in Preview pane
- Animated GIFs didn't work in version 7.4
The Bat! Professional 7.4 (64-bit)
New features:
- Improved speed, reduced CPU use and decreased GUI latency on receiving messages via POP3 and sending via SMTP
- /BENCHMARK_STARTUP_TIME displays time passed to start The Bat!, in milliseconds
Improvements:
- Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
- Improved speed of checking for new message via MAPI in large folders
- Splash screen now uses default UI font
- Changed CSS length values for "ex" (was 1/1.3 of "em", now 1/2 of "em") and for cm&mm (was 1/2.52 of inch, now 1/2.54 of inch) - in accordance with https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units
- If a tbuser.def file is larger than 500K, it is not loaded but renamed to .bak instead
- Plugins are now loaded at startup from a separate thread. In The Bat! version 5.0, has performed time-consuming startup routines (like loading of plug-ins, parsing of interface definition files) in parallel threads. The performance boost was noticeable even on old single-core CPUs, because disk and processor operations were running simultaneously; while on multi-core CPUs and multiprocessor systems the boost was even higher because computations could run in parallel, without one affecting another. In version 6.0, plugins weren’t loaded from a separate thread, but from the main thread. This is now fixed and plugin loading is now the same as it was in 5.0.
- Optimized IMAP work with multiple connections. When there are several idle connections, and there were need to work with another folder, The Bat! could use a connection that had INBOX selected; now connection with INBOX will only be used if no other connections are available
- dlNSpellLanguages is displayed when the user have selected too many languages for spell checking, in this case, the status bar didn't manage to display all the languages and there were a bug that other status bar items were hidden
Fixes:
- "Message filtered counter" window element partially hidden in Filter Mail
- Wrong wrapping in the message boxes
- For HTML/plain text and HTML only editor modes after paste a link an unexpected space is added
- For Plain Text (Windows) editor mode after paste a link a selection remains
- MAPI tasks could give access violations on errors or if the user cancels them
- Photo area is too small in address book contact's properties
- Fixed "Thread Error: The handle is invalid" on HTML spell checkers
- Fixed a bug in spellchecker introduced in version 6.8.0.5 (05-May-2015)
- Selected color for even rows was incorrect
- Buttons' height in HTML didn't scale
- Incorrectly underlined text in the internal HTML viewer
- Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
- Truncated line in "OptionsPreferencesMessage List"
- Fixed a vertical scroll bar in Preferences | Message List
- Items in User Preferences and Address Entry Editor dialog were misaligned
- CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) characters were too big and didn't fit the interface sometimes, didn't look good
- Fixed the "Address Book photo width/height is mis-sized" error while adding new image for address book on high-resolution monitor
- Controls in the Account Properties form were misaligned
- Photos in the address book didn't scale properly
- The Bat! didn't delete TMP files older than 1 months (since version 5)
- If there were more than 2GB of total mail on the server during POP3 retrieval, total received size was displayed incorrect (negative) in the connection center; the word "bytes" was used twice there.
- Some dialog elements in the Account Properties, Folder Properties, Address Entry weren't properly aligned or sized with high-DPI settings in various dialogs (on high-definition displays)
- The pie chart didn't paint correctly in the connection center
- In URLs, the ampersand parameter delimiter gets percent-encoded as %26, rather than encoded as an HTML entity
- URLs with ampersands are incorrectly opened in the HTML editor after you reopen it
- Message list column width and attachments' icon too small (on high-definition displays)
- Small check boxes and overlapping buttons in text search (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Not enough room for headers fields on the header pane (on high-definition displays)
- Message list nodes are too small (on high-definition displays)
- Address book icons truncated on 4K monitors (on high-definition displays)
- Toolbar buttons do not scale according to higher DPI setting (on high-definition displays)
- The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
- Account/folder nodes and the respective lines are barely seen (on high-definition displays)
- Truncated font size drop-down menu in the HTML editor (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny icons in the message editor window (on high-definition displays)
- Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action doesn't look good (on high-definition displays)
- Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny font in the account information tab (on high-definition displays)
- Attachment panel is too narrow on high-resolution monitors, the icons don't fit, a scroll bar appears
- Editor/Viewer header layout uses an old font by default when you run fresh install of The Bat! under modern OS. For example, if you run The Bat! first time under Windows 10, it will set Tahoma 8, but should have set Segoe UI 9 or similar
- Issues with QR-Code Generator (on high-definition displays)
- Disappearing buttons in dialog Edit Event | Categories on high-definition display (on high-definition displays)
- The color of the even row of the quoted text is not purple as it used to be in The Bat! version 1 (purple)
- The font didn't get updated in the address headers in the message preview and the open message editor, after the user have changed the font in the Preferences dialog.
- The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
- Changes in look and feel of the nodes and lines in the message list and folder tree
- The text in the splash screen was truncated under 300% DPI or more (on high-definition displays)
- High-contrast themes with large dpi (300% or more) didn't draw enlarged tree node glyph (plus/minus sign in a square), it was very small and not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters didn't use system-defined colors, used a fixed color instead that ignored color schemes
- For certain widths of the header columns, in the message list, the ellipses became visible (mostly on high-definition monitors)
- Tiny and overlapping "next" and "last" buttons below the message body (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny "first/last" and "next/previous" buttons for the message list tabs (on high-definition displays)
- Account/folder tree tabs are tiny and overlap (on high-definition displays)
- Mouse cursor shows the "forbidden" sign if the user opens contact properties using double-click
- The Bat! could not complete the "Exit" command (the main window became inoperable after you close it) after you have created an account and tested connectivity to SMTP in the new account wizard
- Images are printed with the template
- SmartBat: Printed Text uses print templates for mails when printing via Print Preview
- If Quick Reply is enabled in the Message Finder, the Results tab becomes empty
- Tiny progress bar in Message Finder (F7) (on high-definition displays)
- Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action was displayed incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny close buttons in the message list tabs incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
- Quick Reply pane is small (on high-definition displays)
- Grayed out items (like IMAP messages that weren't loaded) in the message list didn't scale
- Buttons didn't scale in the address grid of the message editor (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny contents of the OAUTH window (on high-definition displays)
- Internal HTML viewer didn’t scale logical pixels properly to physical pixels (on high-definition displays)
- The letter "g" does not fit on the search pane in the separate message viewer and in message finder (F7)
- Attachments' size turns 0 bytes after editing an email for the second time
- The mail ticker didn't scale (on high-definition displays)
- When resolution and display scaling is increased, the text gets unreadable in the address book (on high-definition displays)
- Selection color becomes invalid in the message list and in the Connection Center
- The widths of the status bar elements in the Message Finder and in the Connection Center didn't scale on high-definition monitors
- Sorting Office columns too narrow (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny conditions' drop-down arrows in Sorting Office (on high-definition displays)
- Filter text in Sorting Office always black
- AV errors on exit if an image was opened in an IMAP account
- Sorting office - filters that set colour groups always use blue text
- Spell-checker-specific underline (red) are not scaled for high resolution
- Check boxes were truncated at the bottom when UI font 9pt was used in the Message List Tabs editor dialog
- The radio buttons did overlap in the print preview window
- Access Violation error after compacting address books
- The Bat! could only allow compressing an address book when there were at least 1% of free space; the user could not compress the address book when there were less free space, e.g. only one entry deleted, which is not good from the security or privacy point of view
- Errors on compressing address books while On-The-Fly encryption was on
- Memory corruption on compacting address books with photos or certificates
- Message header names were top-aligned in the Message Editor
- Numbered list - Description is missing
- Removed import/export address entries from Google and Synchronize popup item from Google address books created earlier
- Print Preview: Two groups of option boxes did exclude each other
- URLs are not displayed as hyperlinks in Windows Editor
- Access Violation while starting The Bat (related to quick reply)
- "List index out of bounds" error message in the HTML-editor
- Clicking anywhere in the message body opens mail.ru sign-in page
- Access violation when working with 64-bit plugins, for example when clicking learn spam/learn ham plugin on the toolbar
- The main menu command Folder|Check for viruses was removed in 6.3.0.5 - now put back
- Cleanup for possible multiple "List index out of bounds" error messages while editing/moving/undo/redo and tracking mouse in editor
- Fixed an Access Violation when running The Bat! for the first time and creating an account with empty account password
- An IMAP connection went to Inbox between other commands, when it was not needed. A connection should only go to Inbox when there are no pending tasks at all, so all the connections are idle. There were a bug in determining whether a connection is idle, so it went to INBOX over and over again between executing other commands. You could observe it in the IMAP protocol log
- The Bat! didn't exit properly if the user had tags configured
- The Bat! didn't support "Priority: non-urgent" (see RFC-4021 section 2.1.54)
- Connection center labels were occasionally deleted in The Bat! 5.0.18.12 (23-Jul-2011) - now restored
The Bat! Professional 7.3.12 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.3.8 (64-bit)
- Friendly error messages when The Bat! is unable to open an URL
- Changed file name for the Image Download Rules configuration file. It is now ImgDlRules.TXT
- Umlauts in URLs are encoded wrong with Quoted-Printable in HTML messages
- Address Book did not synchronize with iCloud
- MAPI: Cyrillic characters in file names are turned into question marks in the Subject filed of the message when sent from MS Word 2013
- Messages about unknown errors were too confusing
- Incomplete Hint is shown in Inbox Analyzer Window
- Umlauts in URLs are encoded wrong with Quoted-Printable in HTML messages
- New account window didn't have focus on first run
- Image Download Manager rules are not restored from backup
- IMAP had low performance when browsing messages one-by-one in a folder, when multiple connections were active - it did UNSELECT the folder after getting a message and then SELECT again for next message
- Cropped smiley in internal HTML mail viewer
- When forwarding several mails to one recipient with the dialog box, the inline graphics arrive as attachments if at all
- Image Viewer is very slow on large images, consumes lot of CPU
- MAPI connections to Exchange might not work sometimes under 64-bits because pointers might have been truncated to 32 bits
The Bat! Professional 7.3.6 (64-bit)
- The Bat! was unstable when using animated GIF files as smiles (consumption of GDI objects was too high)
- Increased higher limit of available smilies for custom collections (from 299 to 999)
- Better display of error messages during SMTP STATTLS. For example, if a server did silently close the connection during SMTP STATTLS, The Bat! didn't report it to the log file.
- The Bat! did send TLS 1.2 cipher suites with SHA-256 and SHA-384 during a TLS 1.1 handshake, which is discouraged.
- Errors in Simple MAPI handling (for example, it was impossible to organize sending messages from Microsoft Word via the "Mailings" feature)
The Bat! Professional 7.3.4 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.3.2 (64-bit)
New features:
- Perfect Forward Secrecy TLS/SSL algorithms support
- Elliptic Curve certificates support on TLS/SSL
Added support for the following cryptographic algorithm suites:
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
Fixes:
- Unneeded folders in RSS Subscriptions
- PNG image had no transparency in XHTML messages
- Some HTML messages were not rendered correctly in the Windows OS HTML viewer
- Error while displaying HTML when switched on Windows OS HTML viewer
- Contents of a folder of a password protected account could be accessed without the password
- Some graphics appeared extraordinarily large in the preview pane
- Some inline GIF files were truncated
- Certain GIF files were incorrectly rendered
- Images came in correctly but when replied or forwarded, they were compressed horizontally
- Templates were not respected when forwarding multiple messages
- It was impossible to sync all contacts if message base encryption was used
The Bat! Professional 7.2 (64-bit)
New features:
- A warning dialog is now displayed when a second copy of the program is running
- Email body in XHTML format is now displayed
- Option to "Save HTML with default font" (see "OptionsPreferencesViewer/EditorEditor Preferences")
- Content-Type: text/calendar is now associated with vCalendar
- If Internet Explorer 8 is available, the layout engine is calculating document pixels as 96 dpi
- A warning is displayed if images used in templates were moved or renamed
Improvements:
- The internal messages queue has been redesigned resulting in significant speed improvements when receiving a large number of small messages via very fast connection to a POP3 or EWS server, the user interface became much more responsive
- The creation time of a message is displayed in case a message’s receipt time is much earlier than its creation time
- X-Priority header line is only included into the new messages with low and high priority. For normal-priority messages, this header line is no longer used, thus the "X-Priority: 3 (Normal)" will not be specified from now on
- Faster mail retrieval in large MAPI accounts
- Selection moves to the top of the list after deleting a contact in the address book
- EWS: reduced memory usage
Fixes:
- Example email address in the default address book has been changed from [email protected] to [email protected]
- Cannot pin the Mail Ticker on secondary monitor positioned vertically
- Not enough space for "Input OpenPGP key pass phrase" and "Please input the master password"
- The window when compacting a folder had no title
- Out of memory or Access Violation error message when opening a corrupted folder file has been fixed
- Quick templates inserted in HTML mode were losing hyperlinks formatting
- Domain for punycode was case sensitive
- An extra line appeared while inserting HTML quick templates in the plain text editor
- Hyperlinks were not created in the HTML editor while inserting plain text quick templates with hyperlinks
- Extra blanks were applied to standard signature template
- Fixes in message body tags while generating HTML messages
- Font size of non-hypertext fragments of inserted plain text quick template is now the same as default settings
- The issue with the flickering black message editor window on Windows XP has been eliminated
- Font size was not applied to hyperlinks in the templates signature
- Replies were losing multiple levels of quotes
- A workaround for bad implementations of the Authority Key Identifier decoding, which finally turned out to negatively affect proper implementations - some parent certificates couldn't be found, has been removed
- EWS: cannot send email with large attachments when using on-the-fly message base encryption
- EWS: messages could not be moved or deleted while using the on-the-fly message base encryption
- EWS: received messages had wrong creation date - Jan 1, 1980
- A part of Facebook notification messages was displayed two times
- Access violation error when editing several contacts in the address book at once
- "Select the Account" window appears behind the web-browser
- Exceptions.log contains NULL bytes
- Tags are not displayed on the header pane
- Tags in Cyrillic turn into garbage and get multiplied
- An issue with extra double apostrophes in the names of senders/recipients has been eliminated
- When account password was empty, sometimes the password dialog stayed in the background and was invisible
- In case an HTML template contained a table, it was impossible to place the cursor to the required field
- An Access Violation error message which appeared while trying to edit an HTML template with a table has been fixed
- An Access Violation on address search termination in the address book has been fixed
- RSS feed Links containing Cyrillic characters were displayed incorrectly
- Images with Cyrillic in file names inserted into HTML do not disappear anymore
- Invalid pointer operation error message caused by the spell checker locking the clipboard
- No more freezes when scrolling large RSS documents on the Entire text tab
- Files attached to messages get multiplied
- Some RSS feeds displayed wrong creation date
- When forwarding mail with external graphics links, the links are not carried into the email
- Fixed an access violation when moving between IMAP folders
- Short strings in the "OptionsPreferences..." window in Russian
- Truncated text in folder maintenance start window
- Passphrase dialog has not enough size and can’t be resized
- Reply to HTML mail has no quotes
- The Bat! could not display transparent 8-Bit PNG files
- 8bit PNG pictures (indexed color table, with transparency) always showed black background
- Images are not displayed if The Bat! HTML Viewer is used
- Image Viewer is very slow on large images, consumes lot of CPU
- Some inline GIF files were truncated
- Certain HTML messages were not rendered correctly when using the internal HTML viewer
- Certain PNG (indexed palette) pictures were displayed black
- HTML Links were not clickable
- Hyperlinks in the HTML Editor opened wrong web-pages
- Formatting of the quick templates was lost if inserted in HTML messages
- While forwarding multiple messages the respective Forward-templates were not used
- Images are compressed horizontally when replying or forwarding the email
- It's not possible to save changes in the "Insert Hyperlink" window
- Some fixes of the Unicode password handling in the GUI- Fixed an access violation error at startup
更新時間：2018-03-25
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
AV Voice Changer Software Diamond 9.5.21
- Small display changes, can you tell the differences?
- Record and export to mono files without glitches
- Pause is enabled, in case you want to take a break, during File Morphing process
- Other minor bugs fixed
AV Voice Changer Software Diamond 9.5.16
New features for File Morpher:
- Tempo morpher: Quickly apply the tempo effect to accelerate or slow down the tempo of the output audio files
- Volume booster: Quickly increase the outputs volume up to 200%
Minor bug fixes:
- Unstable quality problem with morphed files from File Morpher fixed
AV Voice Changer Software Diamond 9.5.12
- Major update in Code Signing to ensure integrity and authenticity with all Windows versions
AV Voice Changer Software Diamond 9.5.11
- Code Signing updated ensuring integrity and authenticity on all Windows versions
AV Voice Changer Software Diamond 9.5.10
- Negative Feedback filter (or Noise Reduction): It allows you to eliminate the electronic noise of self-induction which could appear when your microphone is close to your speakers
- Non-human nickvoices and Voice effects are now displayed in one classic-style window for a better controlling over any real-time voice changing session
- Formant morpher is updated with core changes that makes it become a more powerful feature in enhancing the output quality
- More ready-to-use presets for the Voice Equalizer
- Virtual-Audio-Driver (VAD) mode is giving possibility to change stream which you choose in Application combo-box
- New ready-to-use parody voice packages
- New ready-to-use comparator voices
- Fully supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10(32-bit & 64-bit)
- Improve interface with smartphone style (colorful theme & round icon)
AV Voice Changer Software Diamond 9.5.02
- New simple flat skin for fresh and clean look, friendlier to users
- Main Voice Morpher features the new Pitch-Timbre 2 dimensional graph
- Side-by-side Voice Effect panel helps effect management easier and more efficient
- Loading playlists is now available in File Morpher; users import existing playlists to morph and convert file format just in one clickAlso, new Quick Mode added for prompt act
- Save, Load, Reset buttons added to Voice Beautifying and Advanced settings
- Other minor bugs fixed
更新時間：2018-03-25
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
App Builder 2018.58
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2018.57
- Properly catch possible errors in the HTTP calls made by the SimpleGet and SimplePost actions. Now this errors are reported into the [App.LastError] global variable and causes than the app's Error event are fired
App Builder 2018.56
- Fix a bug in the Timer controls, who can cause unexpected behaviours if we try to start and stop it from different views. The problems can be to unable to stop Timers to double Timers intervals executions. This bug is fixed now.
App Builder 2018.55
- Avoid an error if we try to clear a variable with a null valueu using the ClearVariables action. We receive an error in that case that is fixed now
App Builder 2018.54
- The optional "PluginDocumentReadyEvent" function for App Builder Javascript plugins are not executing properly said when the document DOM is ready, but, just a few milliseconds before of that, which can cause some unexpected problems. This is fixed in this release, and, the refered function is executed when the document DOM is really ready to be used
App Builder 2018.53
- Prevent (only in certain scenario) that an shown view fit only the keyboard allowed space (in device with software keyboards) if the keyboard is present when we use the ShowView or ReplaceView actions
App Builder 2018.52
- Add up to 14 splash screen images (and refer it into the config.xml file) to Apache Cordova for iOS, and, more specifically, trying to solve certain issue found when run the apps in an iPhone X device
App Builder 2018.51
- Complete the spanish translation of the App Builder i18n file and update the french translation of the App Builder i18n with some fixes and new strings added
App Builder 2018.50
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2018.49
- Increase the Min SDK option for Android to 16 instead of 14. Add the new Android Oreo 8.1 API 27 into the Target SDK ComboBox of the app Cordova / Android options. Establish this option as the selected by default too
- Update the Phonegap CLI version to the latest Apache Cordova version: 8.0.0
App Builder 2018.48
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2018.47
- App Builder generates now the new splash screens (named "story boards") for the iOS platform, instead to the "old" splash screen images. These new images are of course also referred in the Cordova config.xml file. Made also some more other changes at the core app CSS. Both of these changes are made in order to be ready with the iPhone X and other iOS devices
App Builder 2018.46
- The "SplashMaintainAspectRatio" and the "StatusBarOverlaysWebView" Cordova options are not properly saved in the Cordova config.xml file, that is, the App Builder compiler do not take in consideration the default values for this option and do something wrong in some cases. This has been fixed now and the refered options are properly saved and used
App Builder 2018.45
- Move the Cordova Screen options from the General tab to the Configuration one. Inside the Configuration tab we place a new page control with an Screen, Statusbar and Extra XML tabs. The Statusbar tab contains three new Cordova Statusbar related options: Overlay WebView, Style and Background color
App Builder 2018.44
- Add the new Configuration tab in the app's options dialog for the Apache Cordova Android platform. Inside this new tab we add a new Splash Screen Maintain Ratio option. This new option allows to choose (for Android) between to maintain the aspect ratio of the splash screens
App Builder 2018.43
Fixed:
- The HistoryBack and the HistoryForward actions don't cause the [App.CurrentView] to be properly set, which is the expected behaviour. Only the ShowView and ReplaceView actions causes the [App.CurrentView] to be properly set. This has been fixed now and all these actions causes the [App.CurrentView] to be filled properly
- The [App.DialogView] variable are not filled in the proper way when more than one dialog view are open (one after another). This variable store an empty string when a second modal view is closed. This problem has been fixed and the [App.DialogView] stores the current modal view or an empty string (if any modal view is opened)
- If we pass some params to an app view the [App.CurrentView] variable are not filled in the right way, and include the params inside the variable, which is not what we can expected. This problem has been solved too in this DecSoft's App Builder release
App Builder 2018.41
- Upgrade the FontAwesome icons to the latest version 5. The IDE icon picker dialog as well the apps can now use up to 929 icons from the FontAwesome pack, including all the Regular, Solid and Brands icons. Note that some icons names has been renamed from the previous FontAwesome 4.x versions. Review your apps and use the IDE icon picker dialog in order to assign new icons if needed
App Builder 2018.39
- Enhance the algorithm used when generate the splash screens for all the supported Apache Cordova platforms. Thanks very, very, very much José! Without your help we probably can't get our desired result: the best as possible! Thanks again!
App Builder 2018.38
- Change the algorithm used when generate the splash screens for all the supported Apache Cordova platforms. Now the provided splash screen is resized, but, only to fit the generated splash screen. This release includes also a bug fix for the generated landscape splash screens, which certainly crop the provided splash screen in a wrong way before this fix.
App Builder 2018.37
- Introducing the app's views' Params variable. Take a look at the app's views' help topic in order to learn about this new variable that every view in the app have now. Take also a look at the new ViewParams app sample (number 170), that shows how we can use the new views' Params variable.
App Builder 2018.36
- Some other minor changes and enhancements has been made over the App Builder compiler, some of the includes app samples, the program's help file and the spanish translation.
- Added the new CopyVar action. This action allows to copy or assign the specified variable B into the specified variable A. If the variable A did not exists, a new variable is created. If the variable B did not exists, then an "undefined" value is assigned to the variable A. This action did not take in consideration the type of the variables, then we can use this action to copy or assign variables of any type. For example, we can copy or assign an variable B of the type Array, Object, etc. into the specified variable A.
- Change the debug layout dock panels positions. Instead of place all the debug related dock panels at the button and using tabs, now the debug related dock panels are placed at the right. The enhancement is that they are not placed now in tabs, then we can see by a quick view all the debug related panels, without the need to change any tab.
App Builder 2018.35
- Update the Boostrap CSS framework used internally by App Builder, and, update all the Boostrap CSS app themes, from the Boostrap CSS beta 3 version to the first stable Boostrap CSS 4 version.
App Builder 2018.34
* Fix a bug in the Watcher control that occur if we try to set the Watcher variable in runtime. The Watcher control works now as expected, except that they no more start automatically when the app start: we must start it explicitly when we wanted.
* Minor changes in the Database sample (server side scripts) in order to offer the appropriate exception message if we can't connect with the database server. Now, in addition to the "Can't connect to the database" we have the right PHP exception message.
App Builder 2018.33
- Fix a bug related with the Apache Cordova splash screen: few releases ago App Builder uses the App icon if an splash screen is not provided, however, the appropriate addition in the Batch generated files for Apache Cordova are missing.
App Builder 2018.32
- The Welcome page has been redesigned, simplified and enhanced. Some useful links are provided, as well an HTML form to directly search in the program support forum. As before, the latest posts in the forum are listed too.
App Builder 2018.31
- Upgrade Boostrap CSS 4 to the latest version. Do the same with all the 21 themes by bootswatch. Upgrade the HTML markup for Select, Radio and Checkbox controls to fit the latest version of Boostrap CSS 4.
App Builder 2018.30
- Added a new AlertBox app sample (number 169) to show the different types that we can use in the AlertBox, MessageBox and InputBox actions. The MessageBox sample has been enhanced with more types, the possible use of HTML and others.
- Enhance the AlertBox, InputBox and MessageBox actions. Now these actions respect the user selected "type" (primary, secondary, success, danger, warning, info, light, dark) in the best wat as possible: with the correct background and foreground colors.
- Complete the spanish translation of the App Builder i18n file and update the french translation of the App Builder i18n with some fixes and new strings added. Thanks very much for your work Jean!
App Builder 2018.29
- Fix an anoying bug that causes the code editor indentation do not work as expected when we choose an App Builder action from the code editor autocomplete list.
- Enhance the ApplyModel action in order to try to avoid Angular JS "digest" problem when that action are "abused" or not used properly in the right place. Since the error that can cause this action can affect the app behaviour, this fix try to avoid these problems.
App Builder 2018.28
- Added the new FileDownload app sample (number 168). This sample show us how to download an file into the user device storage (to be available for the user) and also download an image file in the app private storage (to be used only by the app).
- Added the Apache Cordova plugin FileTransfer into the app options dialog, under the Cordova / General / Plugins options. This plugin has been added primarely to be used by the new FileDownload action, but can also be used for other purposes too.
- Added the new action FileDownload, which allow us to download files in both the app private storage and the user device storage. See the FileDownload action help reference for more information and details.
- Added an header in all the generated Batch and Shell files for Apache Cordova with the App Builder version and release number. Just for information purposes.
- From some releases ago App Builder pick the app icon to be used as the splash screen of the app, if an specific splash screen is not specified. However, App Builder do not include the appropriate Apache Cordova plugin to show the app splash screen. This is fixed now.
App Builder 2018.27
- Add the new FrontCamera, FlipButton and TorchButton variables / options to the Barcode control. The Barcode app samples has been enhanced in order to shown the usage of these new variables / options of the Barcode control. The program's help file has been also upgraded describing that variables / options too.
App Builder 2018.26
- App Builder never requires a portrait and landscape splash screens anymore, but, just one image, that, the program uses to automatically generate all the splash screen images for all the supported Apache Cordova platforms. This change is made mostly to be ready with the iOS platform, who changes their splash screens conventions. App Builder continue generating portrait and lanscape screens for the supported platforms, but, now based in the only one image that you must to provide in the app.
- Fix an introduced error in the conditions related actions wich can cause certain problems if we deal with decimal numbers "as is" (not using variables) in that conditions related actions.
App Builder 2018.25
- We are proud to announce that the splash screens for Apache Cordova that App Builder generates for your app, looks now better than never. App Builder uses now certain new algorithm to create the splash screen files for all the Cordova platforms, and, now also saves the aspect ratio of your provided images.
- App Builder creates now the appropriate splash screens for Apache Cordova based in the app icon, if no other images has been provided in the Cordova / Splash options.
- Translate some missing spanish strings in the DecSoft's App Builder i18n file.
更新時間：2018-02-19
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
The Bat! Professional 8.2.8 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 8.2.4 (64-bit)
New features:
- Improved speed of the IDEA encryption algorithm
- Improved speed of the RC4 encryption algorithm
- Libiconv version updated to version 1.15. Added ISO-2022-JP-MS converter. Updated the CP1255 converter to map one more character
Improvements:
- Improved speed of the UTF-8 encoder and decoder
- Some internal optimizations in the interface element dynamic layouts
Fixes:
- Scrolling in address book moves selection bar instead of address list
- CardDAV-Syncronization transfers Home Location Street address correctly, but deletes it afterwards (tested with mailbox.org)
- The Bat! v7.4.16 (64 Bit) - cannot print multiple mails
- Issue with OAUTH for Mail.Ru while creating a new account
- Misleading "Authentication failed" message while creating a new account for Mail.Ru and Gmail and using OAUTH
- It's possible to overcome the mandatory "Unique ID" handle while creating a color group
- Previously created templates (text format) were not usable if switching to HTML editor
- The Message Dispatcher does not remember the position of the header auto-view splitter
- The MailTicker was sometimes improperly updated or not updated or caused Access Violation errors
The Bat! Professional 8.2 (64-bit)
Improvements:
- New context-aware message header decoder to address the Mailsploit issues. Besides making the header line decoder context aware, we have also made the following checks in the display name part of an address: if it contains an "@" character or any control character (with code less than code of a space character), then such a name part is discarded
- Some improvements in multi-threaded locking mechanism (32-bit only)
- Some improvements in handling AVX-512 instructions (64-bit only)
Fixes:
- Macros did not work in HTML templates (for folder, account, etc) - fixed %- in html template and trailing spaces in HTML
- Image compression routine was called twice -- Unnecessary delays when saving html message with images to "Outbox"
- "Tab" in HTML editor deletes the highlighted text
- CardDAV-Syncronization did not transfer Birthday
- CardDAV-Syncronization was duplicating email addresses when entry contains more than one email address (tested with mailbox.org)
- Issues synchronizing CardDAV. Server reports error: "HTTP/1.1 501 Request Failed"
- Synchronization log window of Address book always showed in modal state
The Bat! Professional 8.0.18 (64-bit)
Improvements:
- The Download Manager writes additional information to the ex_log.txt file whenever there is an exception inside a WinInet API function call
- Added some root certificates used by Google mail servers
- Better description for the registration key validity version
- More debug messages will be added to the ex_log.txt with /startup_timing_log command line option to figure out why The Bat! hangs at startup
Fixes:
- Fixed a "stack overflow" error which could occur when a message got loaded, e.g. on IMAP
- Fixed an access violation at startup
- Some normal connection state changes were written to the ex_log.txt file
- The MailTicker was sometimes grey and didn't move
- Column "Tags" in message list cannot be size-adjusted by double click
- Copying of Sorting Office filters with hot keys is incomplete
- MailTicker goes to background even of the "Always on top" option is enabled
- Double-clicking a word with national characters doesn't select it
- Table paste not keeping columns widths
- Attachments' names in national characters are converted to underscore
- Shift+Arrows or Ctrl+Arrows don't work as expected in HTML message preview
- Names of the attachments are displayed incorrectly
- %CURSOR is ignored in Quick Template
- On 4K monitors, the mail ticker is too slow
- POP3 Message Dispatcher hangs with an error message
- Quick Template is not inserted into Quick Reply
- UI elements misplaced in filter conditions
- Quick search filter doesn't clear filter on empty filter text
- No caption "paste as text" while pasting smiles in the HTML editor
- Multiple quotes are rendered too wide
- Empty brackets for quick templates in the drop-down menus
- Needles confirmation on closing editor window after saving the message via Ctrl+S
- Access Violation on pasting smilies
- "Undo" and "Redo" work erratically
- "Paste as plain text" does not replace the highlighted text
The Bat! Professional 8.0.14 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 8.0.12 (64-bit)
- Truncated/disappeared buttons in status bar of Editor window when switching text format to HTML mode
- Added the insert/overwrite mode for all message editors, not just MicroEd
- Pasting text to Quick Search was troublesome because when the user selects some text, e.g. an email address, in an outside application, that application often copies text to the clipboard with a trailing space character and when the user pastes it to Quick Search, the user don't see this trailing blank, but The Bat! doesn't find the address in the message list so the user becomes very perplexed.
- The log box in the "Message Base Maintenance Center" window doesn't scroll properly (as in the Connection Center)
- HTML Table editor is unavailable
- Quick Search in Message List does not use focused tab for a refined search
- Untranslatable string in the Connection Center
The Bat! Professional 8.0.10 (64-bit)
New features:
- 32-bit version of The Bat! now works even under very old computers with CPUs that don’t support MMX instruction set. In this case, FPU is used to copy data.
- Upgraded the HTML editor. Text formatting has improved (the components render bi-directional text and “exotic” scripts reliably; "justify" alignment and custom character spacing now can be applied to bi-directional text; new paragraph alignment type: "distribute"; distributed paragraphs are similar to justified paragraphs, but space is added between all characters, not between words; this type of alignment is common for Far East languages; customized alignment for the last line of justified and distributed paragraphs; special options for vertical text in table cells - automatic application of vertical fonts and switching column order from right-to-left to left-to-right). There were also visual improvements: the users can define a customized degree of transparency for backgrounds of paragraphs, tables, table cells, text boxes; user interface is compatible with high-DPI display modes
- AVX/AVX2/AVX-512 use: if the CPU supports AVX or AVX2 instruction set, 64-bit version of The Bat! will use large, 32-byte YMM registers for faster memory copy and fill, and if the CPU supports AVX-512 instruction set, The Bat! will use even larger, 64-byte ZMM registers for even faster memory copy and fill. These instruction sets are not used by 32-bit version of The Bat!
- The Bat! now uses improved multi-threading locking mechanism as a part of the improved memory manager - FastMM4-AVX. The new locking mechanism is much better than the mechanism implemented in the default memory manager which is used by the Delphi compiler
- If the CPU supports Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB (ERMS), The Bat! uses this feature for faster memory copy or fill
- Faster overall program work gained by removing the "lock" prefix from many instructions that were supposed to provide multi-thread handling. On practice, adding "lock" prefix to an instruction slows it down significantly, and, in most cases, was not needed, e.g. increasing reference counters when assigning strings
- Internal program code rewrite regarding to HTML editors that was used in the message editor and HTML template editors
- AVX-512 Instruction Set is used, if available, for faster memory copy and fill operations. In order for The Bat! to make use it, a CPU with AVX-512 instruction set is required, for example Intel's Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) and Skylake-X Core i7 and i9 models. Besides that the operating system should also support AVX-512 registers. It is Windows 10 latest update and Windows Server 2016 that support AVX-512
- Version 8 Splash Screen
Improvements:
- Better thread handling - the program works faster and generates lower number of the Page Faults
- Auto-configuration of display fonts on The Bat! first run. On Windows 7 and later, if the fonts are configured in Windows settings to be displayed as Cleartype or if the screen resolution (pixels per inch) is 150% of base DPI or higher, then, on The Bat! first run for this Windows user account after the new installation, the new fonts are automatically configured be used (instead of previously hard-coded values): Consolas and Calibri are now used instead of the old Courier New and Arial. Besides that, during that first run, the default editor font size now accommodates to the screen resolution (pixels per inch): if the current DPI is below 150% of the base DPI (96), the default editor font size is 9pt as before, but for 150%<200% - 10pt, 200%<300% - 11pt, 300% and higher - 12pt.
- Auto-substitution of the Courier New on 4K monitors when viewing HTML messages. The details are the following. On Windows 7 and later, with ultra-high-definition (4K) monitors with DPI of 192 and more (>200% of base DPI), if an HTML email arrives with Courier New font defined, and the characters have font size of or between 5 and 28 points, the font is automatically displayed as Consolas. This behavior of substation of Courier New to Consolas is hardcoded and you cannot change it. This only affects screen, not the printer. On printer, when printing HTML with Courier New, this font is always used if defined so in the HTML
- Updated Root CA certificates
- Improved speed of CRC-32 calculation when the processor does not support CRC32 instruction, but if it does, the speed has increased even more. The Bat! uses CRC-32 algorithm internally in many cases, so the overall program speed has increased as a result
- Non-exceptional (normal) situations like IMAP server responses "NO" and "BAD" were added to the exceptions log
- Improvements on multi-threaded operation: The Bat! often worked poorly on multi-core processors or multi-CPU computers. The thread operation wasn’t very good thought out in some places. As a result, there were various errors like Access Violation
- The Bat! MSI installation package no longer include EWS DLL files. As a result, The Bat! would not support Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol until you manually download a DLL and store it un the same directory where thebat32.exe/thebat64.exe resides.
Fixes:
- 64-bit Simple MAPI handler DLL gave access violation errors
- When a QR Code window was already open and then the user has put another window to front and chose to generate a QR code from the menu, the old QR Code window remained in the background so the user had no idea what happened, as if nothing happened. Now the QR Code window will be brought to front in such cases
- The QR Code generator didn't save a generated code to file properly. It asked for a list of graphic formats, but in fact only supported BMP. So if you chose, for example, PNG, it saved a BMP into the file with .PNG extension which was incorrect. Now it only offers to save to PNG
- If you save generated QR code to file or copy it to clipboard, it didn't scale to the fixed number of times, which might result uneven scaling
- If a QR Code window was called from the main window and was open, and you close The Bat!, there was an Access Violation error
- If there were a message source view window open and you closed The Bat!, there were an access violation error
- The Bat! couldn't gracefully handle improperly specified "charset=unicode", especially in malformed HTML messages
- Screen reader did not read the contents of the status bar
- Screen reader did not read the text of the tabs
- Attributes of messages in threaded message lists were not read
- The option "Complete address automatically from" in the message editor did not work
- The auto-complete did not offer a suggestion right away as only the suggestion list with no selection appears
- The Bat! gave an access violation error on exit when NVDA (www.nvaccess.org) was active on The Bat!
- The Bat! crashed upon invoking the address book if JAWS is running
- Invalid key handling in the Message Editor address grid (arrows)
- The cursor jumped between From/To/CC/BCC/Subject fields using the arrow keys whereas only the Tab key should be applied
- The screen reader did not notice that a list of addresses appears in the message editor window
- Screen reader improperly read RSS item list
- Accessibility Feature: Label for fields in the message creation window was not read properly
- Screen reader did not read the names of folders in the "Manage IMAP folders" window
- JAWS was speaking after each character when auto-completion in the "To" field was in the "on" state
- Screen reader did not read the names of contacts in the Address Book
- The Bat! could not down load HTML images under 32-bit if there were a message with many images with the same URL
- Space bar sets/removes the check-box on the selected folder and jumps into the search field in Watch for virtual folders
- The Up key does not return to the To, CC or BCC field in the message editor
- Change of the checkboxes in the Options tab of the Sorting Office did not immediately affect the checkboxes in the left tree
- The Bat! crashed while returning to the terminal session
- The Bat! hangs on testing outgoing connection in the Create New Account wizard
- A screen reader did not speak the check-marks and selected/not selected in the Sorting Office
- Embedded images in messages bodies grow in size on each reply on high-DPI (4K) monitors
- URLs were incorrectly displayed in the plain text part of messages
- Images in HTML templates are resized under high DPI (4K) monitors
- "List index out of bounds" error appeared while trying to assign an URL to an image in the HTML template
- Sometimes, very rarely, due to a bug, Message Headers got multiplied everywhere - in the Preferences, in the Message Editor, in the viewers. Other configuration items like color groups, etc., could also have been duplicated
- The program became faster as a whole because of significant improvements to internal algorithms related to data storage and retrieval (data containers)
- The algorithms to process, load and store configuration items, e.g. mail folders, message headers, color groups, etc. (data containers) contain flaws that could lead to data loss
- When The Bat! saves images, for example when you edit and HTML message where you have inserted inline images from clipboard, or you have added a photo to an address book entry - The Bat! chooses between the two file formats - PNG and JPG, compressing to both formats and seeing which of the files are smaller. For PNG, compression level from 1 to 9 is selected, based on the dimensions of the image: larger images take faster compression levels, to not produce interface freezes when saving message; for JPG, quality of 85 is always chosen. Previously, The Bat! did always save in JPG with 100 level, which did produce very big files. For photos, JPG process smaller files than PNG, while PNG makes smaller files when there are flat images with just a few colors, like a simple screenshot
- Not enough room for "User / Server" localization in the Connection Center window
- Truncated options' names on the "Options" tab of the customizer (select the menu item "WorkspaceToolbarsCustomize" and then go to the "Options" tab)
- When the Sorting Office window was opened, but The Bat! was in foreground, the Sorting Office window was trying to check the clipboard data used by other programs, which gave errors under Windows 10
- The server-side "Sent" folder is lost and re-downloaded on each program start for hotmail.com accounts. Although this was not related solely for Hotmail. The bug was the following: if we had a local folder in the IMAP account with a particular name, and then we've got an IMAP folder with the same name from the server, The Bat! couldn't handle such situations properly, it didn't permanently store the TBB cache file, but instead created a new TBB on each restart of The Bat!, but the old TBB file was abandoned and no longer used, thus occupying the disk space in vain
- The Bat! didn't always set the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY for temporary files; setting this attribute increases speed of working with temporary files
- The default string encoding in anti-spam plugin changed from Windows-default-for-non-Unicode-programs to UTF-8
- Miscellaneous HTML-editor-related fixes
- Modal dialog boxes with modal window frame have an icon that overlaps text on Windows XP computers
- Fixed html editor dialog translations
- A division by zero error in the MicroEd
- Editing links in HTML-editor is faulty – the lings got truncated, e.g., after a particular character in the link
- Wrong icons in the title bars
- Truncated Quick Search options
- Column width is not remembered in "Manage IMAP folders"
- Untranslatable Quick Search options in the Message Viewer
- Macro %QUOTES sets HTML message quotes to uppercase
- All caracters of the quoted text are put into the uppercase while replying
- The Bat! crashes on selecting an HTML message if the internal HTML viewer is used
- Embedded images are rendered too big
- If there is not enough free space, no warning appears during the compacting process
- A 32-bit version of The Bat! did release memory right when it started (to release memory used by startup data and startup code that was no longer needed) and when was minimized, but the 64-bit version didn't do that properly - vice versa - it tried to reserve 4GB for itself instead. Now the 64-bit version is also doing things properly - it doesn't try to reserve 4GB, but releases memory just when started (once) and each time you minimize it
- Message List Tabs cannot be scrolled to the right on high DPI
- No confirmation popup for changed mail after closing window
- Wrong display of the sender in Address History
- The Sorting Office conditions are not vertically aligned (edit/text)
- Fixed a EStringListError "List index out of bounds (0)" error in the image download manager
- Fixed an access violation error related to IMAP which could happen in many cases, e.g. after sending out a message, etc.
- SMTP log does not auto-scroll in the Connection Center
- The Bat! does not remember column width in the "Select Quick Template" window
- The window "The Bat! Master Password" gets hidden behind other windows
- The default fonts in the message editor (The default font Courier New 9 pt is small and pale)
- Importing messages from Outlook 2016 fails to include senders' email addresses
- Access Violation popups if inspecting message source on IMAP account
- Image viewer does not display a PNG file although it is displayed in the preview tab
- Ctrl+A doesn't work in Memo in the address book properties
- Quick Search tabs do not display separate message lists
- Sorting office column widths (in the filters tree - left part of the windows) are not saved
- Sorting office default column widths are not proportional to the text
- Tip of the day image is not rescaled to accommodate higher resolution
- It is not obvious that in the Address Entry, the list of addresses should be separated by CR, not comma
- Some HTML messages were incorrectly displayed by The Bat! internal HTML viewer. Element positions were incorrect. Elements were doubled up in some of the messages
- Fixed the selection of items (in check/uncheck items in the selection tree view) in some dialogs. For example, the behaviour of these items was OK in the Message Finder (F7) dialog, but wasn't OK in the other dialogs like the "Manage IMAP Folders" dialog. If you open this dialog to manage IMAP folders and try to select/unselect a folder with subfolders, or an account node, the expected behaviour was that the sub-items would also be selected/unselected (checked/unchecked). But his didn't happen - this was especially illogical for the account root nodes - checking/unchecking this node didn't have actually any effect - the account node was checked/unchecked, but the account folders weren't affected at all, so in fact there was absolutely no practical meaning in checking/unchecking the account node of the tree view control in the Manage IMAP folders dialogs. The only exception (that worked correctly) was the Message Finder (F7). Now, behaviour of all this places is identical to the correct behaviour used in the Message Finder
- Shortcut editor (when you configure shortcuts for a particular toolbar button) hotkey edit field is not zoomed on 4K
- The code was optimized - some generic classes were removed in favour of old-fashioned container classes that didn't use generic source code constructs. The rationale behind this optimization was that the compiler didn't automatically eliminate the duplicated binary code when generics were used to created containers for different classes in such places where the classes were very similar and there was no reason for the compiler to create multiple instances of the binary code that implements the containers like "lists" (TList<> vs Classes.TList). This explosion of the binary code was not cache-friendly, especially not L0/L1 friendly - the program worked slower because of this code size explosion that had no rationale
- Fixed a bug that might cause "Access Violation" error in filters when there were multiple connections already working with the filters, for example, when moving sent message from Outbox to Sent folder
- Fixed an error when cancelling a folder compression task on exit
- Fixed issue with wrong font family in preferencessource viewer
- In some dialog windows of The Bat!, font face of some GUI elements was hard-coded (e.g. to Tahoma). Now this hardcoding is removed and the font face of these elements is also dynamic as for all other GUI elements, so it matches exactly the font face of the surrounding GUI elements (controls)
- The captions of the "processing folders" status display window were too narrow
- There were some bugs in the "View message source" where first or last character of second and subsequent lines was corrupted, which also led to incorrect cursor placement
- Image detection for the internal image viewer was incorrect: every type of image was detected as "JPEG". As a result, other images, like "PNG" could not be displayed in the internal image viewer
- The "Illegal instruction" error on viewing some JPG files under 32-bit version of The Bat!
- Removed duplicate code from HTML templates handling
- Paste image into HTML mail from clipboard fails
- Pasting copied file in HTML mail fails with exception
- An Access Violation error on exit, related to virtual folders
- An invalid pointer operation error when dealing with mail messages (copy, move, process by a filter, etc)
- Pasting copied file in HTML mail fails with exception
- Paste image into HTML mail from clipboard fails
- If the user creates a tag with a duplicate name, The Bat! did not start with "Config:1 EStringListError String list does not allow duplicates"-error messages in ex_log.txt during program startup
- Embedded images are too narrow in the internal HTML viewer
- Phantom window of the action "Add addresses to Address Book" appears in the preview of windows on the task bar
- Tip of The Day displays national characters incorrectly. For example, if the "Language for non-Unicode programs" configured in Windows is different from The Bat! interface language, the national characters were incorrectly displayed in the "Tip of The Day"
- Fixed an access-violation on exit when the messages were loading via IMAP in progress and the user exits The Bat! at this moment
- Impossible to insert smiles to the message
- Inserting smileys with ">" or "<" in the plain text editors inserts HTML-code instead
- Some fixes of Access Violation errors on IMAP
- Long labels didn't wrap in progress dialogues
- Program size decreased slightly
- Addresses are not added into address book automatically in IMAP accounts
- "Insert Hyperlink" interprets command-line arguments as named HTML characters, and thus falsified the HREF
- Image files attached to messages are not printed correctly if image width is larger than height but paper (page) width is smaller than its height. If the width of an image is larger than the size of the page, then the right part of the image gets cut while printing/in print preview
- External image download control for the system's HTML viewer does not work if set according to The Bat! rules
- Sorting Office does not trigger on tags
- External image download control for the system's HTML viewer does not work if set according to The Bat! rules
- Scheduler did sometimes lose its settings
- If the user interface was in such a language to which the website www.ritlabs.com was not translated and the user pressed "Help" button of F1 key, and there were no CHM file of this language present, The Bat! gave an obscure error "Missing context help indxed ...". Now it opens the online help in English
- Option "Headers | Show" in Message body is checked, even Header pane is disabled
- v6.3.2: Message List for normal email folder shown in the "Summary View"
- The log box in the "Account Log" window doesn't scroll properly (as in the Connection Center)
- Email is not validated in redesigned "New Account" wizard
- Logs are incorrectly scrolled in the message re-filter dialog
- IMAP positive test results are not displayed in the New Account Wizard when you click the Test Now Button
- Message List cannot be sorted by column "Tags"
- Fixed an error that could happen when there were no free space left on disk
- Can't change language from HTML editor status bar
The Bat! Professional 8.0.8 (64-bit)
- Opening addressbook entry having multiple mail adresses breaks stored adresses
The Bat! Professional 8.0.6 (64-bit)
- Fixed an access violation error at startup
The Bat! Professional 7.4.16 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.14 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.12 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.10 (64-bit)
- Removed the MD5 hash from the S/MIME preferences
- Import S/MIME certificates(s) from a signed message didn't always work
- When non-OpenPGP mode is selected, the PGP menu items in the message editor are hidden
- Malformed account transport settings on high resolution monitors
- Untranslatable tooltips in the print preview
- Fixed several memory leaks: when deleting messages, when working with the text editor and the spell checker
- Unable to start The Bat! if on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) setup has been cancelled
- Better error handling of The Bat! version checking via DNS, sometimes invalid responses could cause an Access Violation error
- Opening mail shows error popup "TMailMessage.FindIdx --- ALREADY DESTROYED!" (Fixed "ALREADY DESTROYED!" or "METHOD CALLED ON FREED OBJECT!" errors when selecting different folders on IMAP while The Bat! filters messages on IMAP)
- Fixed an Access Violation error at start related to Quick Reply, also fixed the "ClassName: EComponentError / Message: A component named __ already exists" error related to quick reply
- Messages arrived to an IMAP folder aren't filtered if they arrive while other messages are filtered (definitely fixed)
- If an IMAP filter has multiple actions, sometime only some of them are executed
- Minor speed increase when working with internal hash structures
- The Bat! didn't highlight addresses with equal sign ("=") in the local-part. If such addresses were displayed in the headers, there were no menu to do operations with them like add to the address book.
- The Bat! didn't properly support character encodings when working with HunSpell dictionaries, e.g. the Latvian special symbols are replaced with Cyrillic symbols in the Spell Checker
- Filtering on IMAP stops with an Access Violation error while setting color group
- Drop-downs on the main toolbar have areas with no reaction to mouse clicks
- Editor text color and search highlight text colors were hardcoded as "black" and "white", while they had to take colors from Windows system colors (Themes)
- There was an error when trying to run The Bat! while another The Bat! process didn't exit for some reason
- Automatic filters stop working altogether for certain IMAP folders, restarting doesn't help, newly arrived messages not filtered also
- Wrong size of fonts in print preview and the printed message (in tags like "small")
- Print preview looks OK but the final print is not formatted properly
- The HTML is viewed OK but in print or print preview, margins are incorrectly calculated and the text is trimmed at the right
- There were redundant right and bottom margins on printed pages
- Searching for messages using the mid: links in other folders didn't work since 5.0.36.2 released on 02-Mar-2012.
- [#0001139] If there were national characters in mailto url and The Bat! was set as a default mailto handler, these national characters were replaced to question marks. As a result, description of web-pages with national characters sent from browsers appears as question marks in Subject.
- Filling the background color of table cells fails
- "Minus" closing buttons in the message finder didn't scale on high-definition monitor; besides that, these buttons were two pixels higher than needed
- OpenPGP Error Window does not show national characters
- PGP 10.4 was not supported
- Truncated text field in QR-Code Generator (German GUI)
- Decryption of an email with large attachment takes much time if internal OpenPGP implementation is used
- Support for modern GnuPG 2.1
- Welcome message (in the Inbox) is no longer used for IMAP accounts
- Increased speed of entering a folder or sorting messages in the list by From/To/Subject columns when there were only latin characters. The speed increase is mostly noticeable in folders with more than 100 thousand messages
- If you collapse an account in the folder tree and restart The Bat!, this account again becomes open, if you click the folder tabs before
- The Bat! didn't start on single-processor single-core computers, it gave an Access Violation error
- The Bat! can log Simple MAPI calls. To enable logging, do the following. Uder "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWARERITThe Bat!" add DWORD value named "LogMapiCalls", value "1". Then, restart The Bat!. After that, The Bat! will create mapi_log.txt file in the %EMAIL% directory and will append lines to it every time an application like MS Word or MSIE wants to send a message or do any other MAPI function.
- Fixed an access violation error on exit that could prevent from saving toolbar configuration data
The Bat! Professional 7.4.8 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.6 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.4 (64-bit)
- HTML background images are not shown or shown distorted
- Access Violation while exiting and background download tasks are not yet finished
- Fixed the about box on high definition monitors
- HTML/CSS values were improperly converted from inches, centimeters and other length units to physical pixels
- Scrolling large images in an internal image viewer was slow
- If images had size "100%", they were much smaller than their proper size
- URLs which contained a mixture of national characters and percent-encoded characters were incorrectly encoded
- URLs in the HTML editor are no longer percent-encoded when saving a message; national characters and " < > & are replaced to htlm-entities. Plus and space are left intact.
- Images in some HTML messages are not displayed properly if internal HTML viewer is used
- Truncated text field in account properties
- URLs with Russian characters are corrupted in Quick Templates
- Widened buttons to restore templates in the account properties
- Sometimes image size is improperly calculated, the last (bottom right) line of the image is tiled from the first (left top), this is visible when zooming the about box
- The max-width attribute wasn't supported, thus some HTML newsletter weren't centered
- Default font in HTML viewer was too large under high definition monitors: twice as large at 200% DPI, thrice as large under 300%, and so on
- Fixed toolbar and popup menu display
- Font size drop-downs in the HTML-editor are too small on high DPI
- Color tool palette dropdown in the HTML-editor had too small bricks on high DPI
- The drop-down for "Style" in HTML-editor is to small on high DPI
- Missing left edge line in menus
- Menu navigator in other windows than the main did activate the main window instead
- Tab set height didn't adjust to used font size
- Toolbar grippers too small on high DPI
- Close button for floating toolbars was too small on high DPI
- Better algorithm for removing duplicate messages. You can also run The Bat! with various command line options to ignore several message attributes while comparing messages: /DEDUPIGNOREMSGID (ignore Message-ID), /DEDUPIGNORETO (ignore To), /DEDUPIGNOREDATE (ignore Date), /DEDUPIGNORETOMSGID (ignore To and Message ID - this command line option is reserved for past compatibility). You can combine multiple command line options mentioned.
- Toolbar chevrons didn't scale under high resolution DPI
The Bat! Professional 7.4.2 (64-bit)
- Smilies are not scaled on high DPI
- There were no "Synchronize" pop-up menu item for Google address books
- Print Pictures from internal viewer: aspect ratio is not maintained with large pictures
- Print Pictures from internal viewer: large pictures are printed twice
- 7.2 (64-bit) Some graphics appear extraordinarily large in the preview pane
- In message preview pane the PNG of a HTML message has black background
- Fixed access violation when viewing HTML messages with images (can be reproduced when changing message zoom back and forth by scrolling the mouse wheel), introduced in 7.3.12.29.
- Downloaded images into message body are not scaled
- 7.2 (64-bit) GIF break in Preview pane
- Animated GIFs didn't work in version 7.4
The Bat! Professional 7.4 (64-bit)
New features:
- Improved speed, reduced CPU use and decreased GUI latency on receiving messages via POP3 and sending via SMTP
- /BENCHMARK_STARTUP_TIME displays time passed to start The Bat!, in milliseconds
Improvements:
- Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
- Improved speed of checking for new message via MAPI in large folders
- Splash screen now uses default UI font
- Changed CSS length values for "ex" (was 1/1.3 of "em", now 1/2 of "em") and for cm&mm (was 1/2.52 of inch, now 1/2.54 of inch) - in accordance with https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units
- If a tbuser.def file is larger than 500K, it is not loaded but renamed to .bak instead
- Plugins are now loaded at startup from a separate thread. In The Bat! version 5.0, has performed time-consuming startup routines (like loading of plug-ins, parsing of interface definition files) in parallel threads. The performance boost was noticeable even on old single-core CPUs, because disk and processor operations were running simultaneously; while on multi-core CPUs and multiprocessor systems the boost was even higher because computations could run in parallel, without one affecting another. In version 6.0, plugins weren’t loaded from a separate thread, but from the main thread. This is now fixed and plugin loading is now the same as it was in 5.0.
- Optimized IMAP work with multiple connections. When there are several idle connections, and there were need to work with another folder, The Bat! could use a connection that had INBOX selected; now connection with INBOX will only be used if no other connections are available
- dlNSpellLanguages is displayed when the user have selected too many languages for spell checking, in this case, the status bar didn't manage to display all the languages and there were a bug that other status bar items were hidden
Fixes:
- "Message filtered counter" window element partially hidden in Filter Mail
- Wrong wrapping in the message boxes
- For HTML/plain text and HTML only editor modes after paste a link an unexpected space is added
- For Plain Text (Windows) editor mode after paste a link a selection remains
- MAPI tasks could give access violations on errors or if the user cancels them
- Photo area is too small in address book contact's properties
- Fixed "Thread Error: The handle is invalid" on HTML spell checkers
- Fixed a bug in spellchecker introduced in version 6.8.0.5 (05-May-2015)
- Selected color for even rows was incorrect
- Buttons' height in HTML didn't scale
- Incorrectly underlined text in the internal HTML viewer
- Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
- Truncated line in "OptionsPreferencesMessage List"
- Fixed a vertical scroll bar in Preferences | Message List
- Items in User Preferences and Address Entry Editor dialog were misaligned
- CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) characters were too big and didn't fit the interface sometimes, didn't look good
- Fixed the "Address Book photo width/height is mis-sized" error while adding new image for address book on high-resolution monitor
- Controls in the Account Properties form were misaligned
- Photos in the address book didn't scale properly
- The Bat! didn't delete TMP files older than 1 months (since version 5)
- If there were more than 2GB of total mail on the server during POP3 retrieval, total received size was displayed incorrect (negative) in the connection center; the word "bytes" was used twice there.
- Some dialog elements in the Account Properties, Folder Properties, Address Entry weren't properly aligned or sized with high-DPI settings in various dialogs (on high-definition displays)
- The pie chart didn't paint correctly in the connection center
- In URLs, the ampersand parameter delimiter gets percent-encoded as %26, rather than encoded as an HTML entity
- URLs with ampersands are incorrectly opened in the HTML editor after you reopen it
- Message list column width and attachments' icon too small (on high-definition displays)
- Small check boxes and overlapping buttons in text search (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Not enough room for headers fields on the header pane (on high-definition displays)
- Message list nodes are too small (on high-definition displays)
- Address book icons truncated on 4K monitors (on high-definition displays)
- Toolbar buttons do not scale according to higher DPI setting (on high-definition displays)
- The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
- Account/folder nodes and the respective lines are barely seen (on high-definition displays)
- Truncated font size drop-down menu in the HTML editor (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny icons in the message editor window (on high-definition displays)
- Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action doesn't look good (on high-definition displays)
- Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny font in the account information tab (on high-definition displays)
- Attachment panel is too narrow on high-resolution monitors, the icons don't fit, a scroll bar appears
- Editor/Viewer header layout uses an old font by default when you run fresh install of The Bat! under modern OS. For example, if you run The Bat! first time under Windows 10, it will set Tahoma 8, but should have set Segoe UI 9 or similar
- Issues with QR-Code Generator (on high-definition displays)
- Disappearing buttons in dialog Edit Event | Categories on high-definition display (on high-definition displays)
- The color of the even row of the quoted text is not purple as it used to be in The Bat! version 1 (purple)
- The font didn't get updated in the address headers in the message preview and the open message editor, after the user have changed the font in the Preferences dialog.
- The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
- Changes in look and feel of the nodes and lines in the message list and folder tree
- The text in the splash screen was truncated under 300% DPI or more (on high-definition displays)
- High-contrast themes with large dpi (300% or more) didn't draw enlarged tree node glyph (plus/minus sign in a square), it was very small and not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters didn't use system-defined colors, used a fixed color instead that ignored color schemes
- For certain widths of the header columns, in the message list, the ellipses became visible (mostly on high-definition monitors)
- Tiny and overlapping "next" and "last" buttons below the message body (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny "first/last" and "next/previous" buttons for the message list tabs (on high-definition displays)
- Account/folder tree tabs are tiny and overlap (on high-definition displays)
- Mouse cursor shows the "forbidden" sign if the user opens contact properties using double-click
- The Bat! could not complete the "Exit" command (the main window became inoperable after you close it) after you have created an account and tested connectivity to SMTP in the new account wizard
- Images are printed with the template
- SmartBat: Printed Text uses print templates for mails when printing via Print Preview
- If Quick Reply is enabled in the Message Finder, the Results tab becomes empty
- Tiny progress bar in Message Finder (F7) (on high-definition displays)
- Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action was displayed incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny close buttons in the message list tabs incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
- Quick Reply pane is small (on high-definition displays)
- Grayed out items (like IMAP messages that weren't loaded) in the message list didn't scale
- Buttons didn't scale in the address grid of the message editor (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny contents of the OAUTH window (on high-definition displays)
- Internal HTML viewer didn’t scale logical pixels properly to physical pixels (on high-definition displays)
- The letter "g" does not fit on the search pane in the separate message viewer and in message finder (F7)
- Attachments' size turns 0 bytes after editing an email for the second time
- The mail ticker didn't scale (on high-definition displays)
- When resolution and display scaling is increased, the text gets unreadable in the address book (on high-definition displays)
- Selection color becomes invalid in the message list and in the Connection Center
- The widths of the status bar elements in the Message Finder and in the Connection Center didn't scale on high-definition monitors
- Sorting Office columns too narrow (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny conditions' drop-down arrows in Sorting Office (on high-definition displays)
- Filter text in Sorting Office always black
- AV errors on exit if an image was opened in an IMAP account
- Sorting office - filters that set colour groups always use blue text
- Spell-checker-specific underline (red) are not scaled for high resolution
- Check boxes were truncated at the bottom when UI font 9pt was used in the Message List Tabs editor dialog
- The radio buttons did overlap in the print preview window
- Access Violation error after compacting address books
- The Bat! could only allow compressing an address book when there were at least 1% of free space; the user could not compress the address book when there were less free space, e.g. only one entry deleted, which is not good from the security or privacy point of view
- Errors on compressing address books while On-The-Fly encryption was on
- Memory corruption on compacting address books with photos or certificates
- Message header names were top-aligned in the Message Editor
- Numbered list - Description is missing
- Removed import/export address entries from Google and Synchronize popup item from Google address books created earlier
- Print Preview: Two groups of option boxes did exclude each other
- URLs are not displayed as hyperlinks in Windows Editor
- Access Violation while starting The Bat (related to quick reply)
- "List index out of bounds" error message in the HTML-editor
- Clicking anywhere in the message body opens mail.ru sign-in page
- Access violation when working with 64-bit plugins, for example when clicking learn spam/learn ham plugin on the toolbar
- The main menu command Folder|Check for viruses was removed in 6.3.0.5 - now put back
- Cleanup for possible multiple "List index out of bounds" error messages while editing/moving/undo/redo and tracking mouse in editor
- Fixed an Access Violation when running The Bat! for the first time and creating an account with empty account password
- An IMAP connection went to Inbox between other commands, when it was not needed. A connection should only go to Inbox when there are no pending tasks at all, so all the connections are idle. There were a bug in determining whether a connection is idle, so it went to INBOX over and over again between executing other commands. You could observe it in the IMAP protocol log
- The Bat! didn't exit properly if the user had tags configured
- The Bat! didn't support "Priority: non-urgent" (see RFC-4021 section 2.1.54)
- Connection center labels were occasionally deleted in The Bat! 5.0.18.12 (23-Jul-2011) - now restored
The Bat! Professional 7.3.12 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.3.8 (64-bit)
- Friendly error messages when The Bat! is unable to open an URL
- Changed file name for the Image Download Rules configuration file. It is now ImgDlRules.TXT
- Umlauts in URLs are encoded wrong with Quoted-Printable in HTML messages
- Address Book did not synchronize with iCloud
- MAPI: Cyrillic characters in file names are turned into question marks in the Subject filed of the message when sent from MS Word 2013
- Messages about unknown errors were too confusing
- Incomplete Hint is shown in Inbox Analyzer Window
- Umlauts in URLs are encoded wrong with Quoted-Printable in HTML messages
- New account window didn't have focus on first run
- Image Download Manager rules are not restored from backup
- IMAP had low performance when browsing messages one-by-one in a folder, when multiple connections were active - it did UNSELECT the folder after getting a message and then SELECT again for next message
- Cropped smiley in internal HTML mail viewer
- When forwarding several mails to one recipient with the dialog box, the inline graphics arrive as attachments if at all
- Image Viewer is very slow on large images, consumes lot of CPU
- MAPI connections to Exchange might not work sometimes under 64-bits because pointers might have been truncated to 32 bits
The Bat! Professional 7.3.6 (64-bit)
- The Bat! was unstable when using animated GIF files as smiles (consumption of GDI objects was too high)
- Increased higher limit of available smilies for custom collections (from 299 to 999)
- Better display of error messages during SMTP STATTLS. For example, if a server did silently close the connection during SMTP STATTLS, The Bat! didn't report it to the log file.
- The Bat! did send TLS 1.2 cipher suites with SHA-256 and SHA-384 during a TLS 1.1 handshake, which is discouraged.
- Errors in Simple MAPI handling (for example, it was impossible to organize sending messages from Microsoft Word via the "Mailings" feature)
The Bat! Professional 7.3.4 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.3.2 (64-bit)
New features:
- Perfect Forward Secrecy TLS/SSL algorithms support
- Elliptic Curve certificates support on TLS/SSL
Added support for the following cryptographic algorithm suites:
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
Fixes:
- Unneeded folders in RSS Subscriptions
- PNG image had no transparency in XHTML messages
- Some HTML messages were not rendered correctly in the Windows OS HTML viewer
- Error while displaying HTML when switched on Windows OS HTML viewer
- Contents of a folder of a password protected account could be accessed without the password
- Some graphics appeared extraordinarily large in the preview pane
- Some inline GIF files were truncated
- Certain GIF files were incorrectly rendered
- Images came in correctly but when replied or forwarded, they were compressed horizontally
- Templates were not respected when forwarding multiple messages
- It was impossible to sync all contacts if message base encryption was used
The Bat! Professional 7.2 (64-bit)
New features:
- A warning dialog is now displayed when a second copy of the program is running
- Email body in XHTML format is now displayed
- Option to "Save HTML with default font" (see "OptionsPreferencesViewer/EditorEditor Preferences")
- Content-Type: text/calendar is now associated with vCalendar
- If Internet Explorer 8 is available, the layout engine is calculating document pixels as 96 dpi
- A warning is displayed if images used in templates were moved or renamed
Improvements:
- The internal messages queue has been redesigned resulting in significant speed improvements when receiving a large number of small messages via very fast connection to a POP3 or EWS server, the user interface became much more responsive
- The creation time of a message is displayed in case a message’s receipt time is much earlier than its creation time
- X-Priority header line is only included into the new messages with low and high priority. For normal-priority messages, this header line is no longer used, thus the "X-Priority: 3 (Normal)" will not be specified from now on
- Faster mail retrieval in large MAPI accounts
- Selection moves to the top of the list after deleting a contact in the address book
- EWS: reduced memory usage
Fixes:
- Example email address in the default address book has been changed from [email protected] to [email protected]
- Cannot pin the Mail Ticker on secondary monitor positioned vertically
- Not enough space for "Input OpenPGP key pass phrase" and "Please input the master password"
- The window when compacting a folder had no title
- Out of memory or Access Violation error message when opening a corrupted folder file has been fixed
- Quick templates inserted in HTML mode were losing hyperlinks formatting
- Domain for punycode was case sensitive
- An extra line appeared while inserting HTML quick templates in the plain text editor
- Hyperlinks were not created in the HTML editor while inserting plain text quick templates with hyperlinks
- Extra blanks were applied to standard signature template
- Fixes in message body tags while generating HTML messages
- Font size of non-hypertext fragments of inserted plain text quick template is now the same as default settings
- The issue with the flickering black message editor window on Windows XP has been eliminated
- Font size was not applied to hyperlinks in the templates signature
- Replies were losing multiple levels of quotes
- A workaround for bad implementations of the Authority Key Identifier decoding, which finally turned out to negatively affect proper implementations - some parent certificates couldn't be found, has been removed
- EWS: cannot send email with large attachments when using on-the-fly message base encryption
- EWS: messages could not be moved or deleted while using the on-the-fly message base encryption
- EWS: received messages had wrong creation date - Jan 1, 1980
- A part of Facebook notification messages was displayed two times
- Access violation error when editing several contacts in the address book at once
- "Select the Account" window appears behind the web-browser
- Exceptions.log contains NULL bytes
- Tags are not displayed on the header pane
- Tags in Cyrillic turn into garbage and get multiplied
- An issue with extra double apostrophes in the names of senders/recipients has been eliminated
- When account password was empty, sometimes the password dialog stayed in the background and was invisible
- In case an HTML template contained a table, it was impossible to place the cursor to the required field
- An Access Violation error message which appeared while trying to edit an HTML template with a table has been fixed
- An Access Violation on address search termination in the address book has been fixed
- RSS feed Links containing Cyrillic characters were displayed incorrectly
- Images with Cyrillic in file names inserted into HTML do not disappear anymore
- Invalid pointer operation error message caused by the spell checker locking the clipboard
- No more freezes when scrolling large RSS documents on the Entire text tab
- Files attached to messages get multiplied
- Some RSS feeds displayed wrong creation date
- When forwarding mail with external graphics links, the links are not carried into the email
- Fixed an access violation when moving between IMAP folders
- Short strings in the "OptionsPreferences..." window in Russian
- Truncated text in folder maintenance start window
- Passphrase dialog has not enough size and can’t be resized
- Reply to HTML mail has no quotes
- The Bat! could not display transparent 8-Bit PNG files
- 8bit PNG pictures (indexed color table, with transparency) always showed black background
- Images are not displayed if The Bat! HTML Viewer is used
- Image Viewer is very slow on large images, consumes lot of CPU
- Some inline GIF files were truncated
- Certain HTML messages were not rendered correctly when using the internal HTML viewer
- Certain PNG (indexed palette) pictures were displayed black
- HTML Links were not clickable
- Hyperlinks in the HTML Editor opened wrong web-pages
- Formatting of the quick templates was lost if inserted in HTML messages
- While forwarding multiple messages the respective Forward-templates were not used
- Images are compressed horizontally when replying or forwarding the email
- It's not possible to save changes in the "Insert Hyperlink" window
- Some fixes of the Unicode password handling in the GUI- Fixed an access violation error at startup
更新時間：2018-01-23
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
The Bat! Professional 8.2.4 (64-bit)
New features:
- Improved speed of the IDEA encryption algorithm
- Improved speed of the RC4 encryption algorithm
- Libiconv version updated to version 1.15. Added ISO-2022-JP-MS converter. Updated the CP1255 converter to map one more character
Improvements:
- Improved speed of the UTF-8 encoder and decoder
- Some internal optimizations in the interface element dynamic layouts
Fixes:
- Scrolling in address book moves selection bar instead of address list
- CardDAV-Syncronization transfers Home Location Street address correctly, but deletes it afterwards (tested with mailbox.org)
- The Bat! v7.4.16 (64 Bit) - cannot print multiple mails
- Issue with OAUTH for Mail.Ru while creating a new account
- Misleading "Authentication failed" message while creating a new account for Mail.Ru and Gmail and using OAUTH
- It's possible to overcome the mandatory "Unique ID" handle while creating a color group
- Previously created templates (text format) were not usable if switching to HTML editor
- The Message Dispatcher does not remember the position of the header auto-view splitter
- The MailTicker was sometimes improperly updated or not updated or caused Access Violation errors
The Bat! Professional 8.2 (64-bit)
Improvements:
- New context-aware message header decoder to address the Mailsploit issues. Besides making the header line decoder context aware, we have also made the following checks in the display name part of an address: if it contains an "@" character or any control character (with code less than code of a space character), then such a name part is discarded
- Some improvements in multi-threaded locking mechanism (32-bit only)
- Some improvements in handling AVX-512 instructions (64-bit only)
Fixes:
- Macros did not work in HTML templates (for folder, account, etc) - fixed %- in html template and trailing spaces in HTML
- Image compression routine was called twice -- Unnecessary delays when saving html message with images to "Outbox"
- "Tab" in HTML editor deletes the highlighted text
- CardDAV-Syncronization did not transfer Birthday
- CardDAV-Syncronization was duplicating email addresses when entry contains more than one email address (tested with mailbox.org)
- Issues synchronizing CardDAV. Server reports error: "HTTP/1.1 501 Request Failed"
- Synchronization log window of Address book always showed in modal state
The Bat! Professional 8.0.18 (64-bit)
Improvements:
- The Download Manager writes additional information to the ex_log.txt file whenever there is an exception inside a WinInet API function call
- Added some root certificates used by Google mail servers
- Better description for the registration key validity version
- More debug messages will be added to the ex_log.txt with /startup_timing_log command line option to figure out why The Bat! hangs at startup
Fixes:
- Fixed a "stack overflow" error which could occur when a message got loaded, e.g. on IMAP
- Fixed an access violation at startup
- Some normal connection state changes were written to the ex_log.txt file
- The MailTicker was sometimes grey and didn't move
- Column "Tags" in message list cannot be size-adjusted by double click
- Copying of Sorting Office filters with hot keys is incomplete
- MailTicker goes to background even of the "Always on top" option is enabled
- Double-clicking a word with national characters doesn't select it
- Table paste not keeping columns widths
- Attachments' names in national characters are converted to underscore
- Shift+Arrows or Ctrl+Arrows don't work as expected in HTML message preview
- Names of the attachments are displayed incorrectly
- %CURSOR is ignored in Quick Template
- On 4K monitors, the mail ticker is too slow
- POP3 Message Dispatcher hangs with an error message
- Quick Template is not inserted into Quick Reply
- UI elements misplaced in filter conditions
- Quick search filter doesn't clear filter on empty filter text
- No caption "paste as text" while pasting smiles in the HTML editor
- Multiple quotes are rendered too wide
- Empty brackets for quick templates in the drop-down menus
- Needles confirmation on closing editor window after saving the message via Ctrl+S
- Access Violation on pasting smilies
- "Undo" and "Redo" work erratically
- "Paste as plain text" does not replace the highlighted text
The Bat! Professional 8.0.14 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 8.0.12 (64-bit)
- Truncated/disappeared buttons in status bar of Editor window when switching text format to HTML mode
- Added the insert/overwrite mode for all message editors, not just MicroEd
- Pasting text to Quick Search was troublesome because when the user selects some text, e.g. an email address, in an outside application, that application often copies text to the clipboard with a trailing space character and when the user pastes it to Quick Search, the user don't see this trailing blank, but The Bat! doesn't find the address in the message list so the user becomes very perplexed.
- The log box in the "Message Base Maintenance Center" window doesn't scroll properly (as in the Connection Center)
- HTML Table editor is unavailable
- Quick Search in Message List does not use focused tab for a refined search
- Untranslatable string in the Connection Center
The Bat! Professional 8.0.10 (64-bit)
New features:
- 32-bit version of The Bat! now works even under very old computers with CPUs that don’t support MMX instruction set. In this case, FPU is used to copy data.
- Upgraded the HTML editor. Text formatting has improved (the components render bi-directional text and “exotic” scripts reliably; "justify" alignment and custom character spacing now can be applied to bi-directional text; new paragraph alignment type: "distribute"; distributed paragraphs are similar to justified paragraphs, but space is added between all characters, not between words; this type of alignment is common for Far East languages; customized alignment for the last line of justified and distributed paragraphs; special options for vertical text in table cells - automatic application of vertical fonts and switching column order from right-to-left to left-to-right). There were also visual improvements: the users can define a customized degree of transparency for backgrounds of paragraphs, tables, table cells, text boxes; user interface is compatible with high-DPI display modes
- AVX/AVX2/AVX-512 use: if the CPU supports AVX or AVX2 instruction set, 64-bit version of The Bat! will use large, 32-byte YMM registers for faster memory copy and fill, and if the CPU supports AVX-512 instruction set, The Bat! will use even larger, 64-byte ZMM registers for even faster memory copy and fill. These instruction sets are not used by 32-bit version of The Bat!
- The Bat! now uses improved multi-threading locking mechanism as a part of the improved memory manager - FastMM4-AVX. The new locking mechanism is much better than the mechanism implemented in the default memory manager which is used by the Delphi compiler
- If the CPU supports Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB (ERMS), The Bat! uses this feature for faster memory copy or fill
- Faster overall program work gained by removing the "lock" prefix from many instructions that were supposed to provide multi-thread handling. On practice, adding "lock" prefix to an instruction slows it down significantly, and, in most cases, was not needed, e.g. increasing reference counters when assigning strings
- Internal program code rewrite regarding to HTML editors that was used in the message editor and HTML template editors
- AVX-512 Instruction Set is used, if available, for faster memory copy and fill operations. In order for The Bat! to make use it, a CPU with AVX-512 instruction set is required, for example Intel's Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) and Skylake-X Core i7 and i9 models. Besides that the operating system should also support AVX-512 registers. It is Windows 10 latest update and Windows Server 2016 that support AVX-512
- Version 8 Splash Screen
Improvements:
- Better thread handling - the program works faster and generates lower number of the Page Faults
- Auto-configuration of display fonts on The Bat! first run. On Windows 7 and later, if the fonts are configured in Windows settings to be displayed as Cleartype or if the screen resolution (pixels per inch) is 150% of base DPI or higher, then, on The Bat! first run for this Windows user account after the new installation, the new fonts are automatically configured be used (instead of previously hard-coded values): Consolas and Calibri are now used instead of the old Courier New and Arial. Besides that, during that first run, the default editor font size now accommodates to the screen resolution (pixels per inch): if the current DPI is below 150% of the base DPI (96), the default editor font size is 9pt as before, but for 150%<200% - 10pt, 200%<300% - 11pt, 300% and higher - 12pt.
- Auto-substitution of the Courier New on 4K monitors when viewing HTML messages. The details are the following. On Windows 7 and later, with ultra-high-definition (4K) monitors with DPI of 192 and more (>200% of base DPI), if an HTML email arrives with Courier New font defined, and the characters have font size of or between 5 and 28 points, the font is automatically displayed as Consolas. This behavior of substation of Courier New to Consolas is hardcoded and you cannot change it. This only affects screen, not the printer. On printer, when printing HTML with Courier New, this font is always used if defined so in the HTML
- Updated Root CA certificates
- Improved speed of CRC-32 calculation when the processor does not support CRC32 instruction, but if it does, the speed has increased even more. The Bat! uses CRC-32 algorithm internally in many cases, so the overall program speed has increased as a result
- Non-exceptional (normal) situations like IMAP server responses "NO" and "BAD" were added to the exceptions log
- Improvements on multi-threaded operation: The Bat! often worked poorly on multi-core processors or multi-CPU computers. The thread operation wasn’t very good thought out in some places. As a result, there were various errors like Access Violation
- The Bat! MSI installation package no longer include EWS DLL files. As a result, The Bat! would not support Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol until you manually download a DLL and store it un the same directory where thebat32.exe/thebat64.exe resides.
Fixes:
- 64-bit Simple MAPI handler DLL gave access violation errors
- When a QR Code window was already open and then the user has put another window to front and chose to generate a QR code from the menu, the old QR Code window remained in the background so the user had no idea what happened, as if nothing happened. Now the QR Code window will be brought to front in such cases
- The QR Code generator didn't save a generated code to file properly. It asked for a list of graphic formats, but in fact only supported BMP. So if you chose, for example, PNG, it saved a BMP into the file with .PNG extension which was incorrect. Now it only offers to save to PNG
- If you save generated QR code to file or copy it to clipboard, it didn't scale to the fixed number of times, which might result uneven scaling
- If a QR Code window was called from the main window and was open, and you close The Bat!, there was an Access Violation error
- If there were a message source view window open and you closed The Bat!, there were an access violation error
- The Bat! couldn't gracefully handle improperly specified "charset=unicode", especially in malformed HTML messages
- Screen reader did not read the contents of the status bar
- Screen reader did not read the text of the tabs
- Attributes of messages in threaded message lists were not read
- The option "Complete address automatically from" in the message editor did not work
- The auto-complete did not offer a suggestion right away as only the suggestion list with no selection appears
- The Bat! gave an access violation error on exit when NVDA (www.nvaccess.org) was active on The Bat!
- The Bat! crashed upon invoking the address book if JAWS is running
- Invalid key handling in the Message Editor address grid (arrows)
- The cursor jumped between From/To/CC/BCC/Subject fields using the arrow keys whereas only the Tab key should be applied
- The screen reader did not notice that a list of addresses appears in the message editor window
- Screen reader improperly read RSS item list
- Accessibility Feature: Label for fields in the message creation window was not read properly
- Screen reader did not read the names of folders in the "Manage IMAP folders" window
- JAWS was speaking after each character when auto-completion in the "To" field was in the "on" state
- Screen reader did not read the names of contacts in the Address Book
- The Bat! could not down load HTML images under 32-bit if there were a message with many images with the same URL
- Space bar sets/removes the check-box on the selected folder and jumps into the search field in Watch for virtual folders
- The Up key does not return to the To, CC or BCC field in the message editor
- Change of the checkboxes in the Options tab of the Sorting Office did not immediately affect the checkboxes in the left tree
- The Bat! crashed while returning to the terminal session
- The Bat! hangs on testing outgoing connection in the Create New Account wizard
- A screen reader did not speak the check-marks and selected/not selected in the Sorting Office
- Embedded images in messages bodies grow in size on each reply on high-DPI (4K) monitors
- URLs were incorrectly displayed in the plain text part of messages
- Images in HTML templates are resized under high DPI (4K) monitors
- "List index out of bounds" error appeared while trying to assign an URL to an image in the HTML template
- Sometimes, very rarely, due to a bug, Message Headers got multiplied everywhere - in the Preferences, in the Message Editor, in the viewers. Other configuration items like color groups, etc., could also have been duplicated
- The program became faster as a whole because of significant improvements to internal algorithms related to data storage and retrieval (data containers)
- The algorithms to process, load and store configuration items, e.g. mail folders, message headers, color groups, etc. (data containers) contain flaws that could lead to data loss
- When The Bat! saves images, for example when you edit and HTML message where you have inserted inline images from clipboard, or you have added a photo to an address book entry - The Bat! chooses between the two file formats - PNG and JPG, compressing to both formats and seeing which of the files are smaller. For PNG, compression level from 1 to 9 is selected, based on the dimensions of the image: larger images take faster compression levels, to not produce interface freezes when saving message; for JPG, quality of 85 is always chosen. Previously, The Bat! did always save in JPG with 100 level, which did produce very big files. For photos, JPG process smaller files than PNG, while PNG makes smaller files when there are flat images with just a few colors, like a simple screenshot
- Not enough room for "User / Server" localization in the Connection Center window
- Truncated options' names on the "Options" tab of the customizer (select the menu item "WorkspaceToolbarsCustomize" and then go to the "Options" tab)
- When the Sorting Office window was opened, but The Bat! was in foreground, the Sorting Office window was trying to check the clipboard data used by other programs, which gave errors under Windows 10
- The server-side "Sent" folder is lost and re-downloaded on each program start for hotmail.com accounts. Although this was not related solely for Hotmail. The bug was the following: if we had a local folder in the IMAP account with a particular name, and then we've got an IMAP folder with the same name from the server, The Bat! couldn't handle such situations properly, it didn't permanently store the TBB cache file, but instead created a new TBB on each restart of The Bat!, but the old TBB file was abandoned and no longer used, thus occupying the disk space in vain
- The Bat! didn't always set the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY for temporary files; setting this attribute increases speed of working with temporary files
- The default string encoding in anti-spam plugin changed from Windows-default-for-non-Unicode-programs to UTF-8
- Miscellaneous HTML-editor-related fixes
- Modal dialog boxes with modal window frame have an icon that overlaps text on Windows XP computers
- Fixed html editor dialog translations
- A division by zero error in the MicroEd
- Editing links in HTML-editor is faulty – the lings got truncated, e.g., after a particular character in the link
- Wrong icons in the title bars
- Truncated Quick Search options
- Column width is not remembered in "Manage IMAP folders"
- Untranslatable Quick Search options in the Message Viewer
- Macro %QUOTES sets HTML message quotes to uppercase
- All caracters of the quoted text are put into the uppercase while replying
- The Bat! crashes on selecting an HTML message if the internal HTML viewer is used
- Embedded images are rendered too big
- If there is not enough free space, no warning appears during the compacting process
- A 32-bit version of The Bat! did release memory right when it started (to release memory used by startup data and startup code that was no longer needed) and when was minimized, but the 64-bit version didn't do that properly - vice versa - it tried to reserve 4GB for itself instead. Now the 64-bit version is also doing things properly - it doesn't try to reserve 4GB, but releases memory just when started (once) and each time you minimize it
- Message List Tabs cannot be scrolled to the right on high DPI
- No confirmation popup for changed mail after closing window
- Wrong display of the sender in Address History
- The Sorting Office conditions are not vertically aligned (edit/text)
- Fixed a EStringListError "List index out of bounds (0)" error in the image download manager
- Fixed an access violation error related to IMAP which could happen in many cases, e.g. after sending out a message, etc.
- SMTP log does not auto-scroll in the Connection Center
- The Bat! does not remember column width in the "Select Quick Template" window
- The window "The Bat! Master Password" gets hidden behind other windows
- The default fonts in the message editor (The default font Courier New 9 pt is small and pale)
- Importing messages from Outlook 2016 fails to include senders' email addresses
- Access Violation popups if inspecting message source on IMAP account
- Image viewer does not display a PNG file although it is displayed in the preview tab
- Ctrl+A doesn't work in Memo in the address book properties
- Quick Search tabs do not display separate message lists
- Sorting office column widths (in the filters tree - left part of the windows) are not saved
- Sorting office default column widths are not proportional to the text
- Tip of the day image is not rescaled to accommodate higher resolution
- It is not obvious that in the Address Entry, the list of addresses should be separated by CR, not comma
- Some HTML messages were incorrectly displayed by The Bat! internal HTML viewer. Element positions were incorrect. Elements were doubled up in some of the messages
- Fixed the selection of items (in check/uncheck items in the selection tree view) in some dialogs. For example, the behaviour of these items was OK in the Message Finder (F7) dialog, but wasn't OK in the other dialogs like the "Manage IMAP Folders" dialog. If you open this dialog to manage IMAP folders and try to select/unselect a folder with subfolders, or an account node, the expected behaviour was that the sub-items would also be selected/unselected (checked/unchecked). But his didn't happen - this was especially illogical for the account root nodes - checking/unchecking this node didn't have actually any effect - the account node was checked/unchecked, but the account folders weren't affected at all, so in fact there was absolutely no practical meaning in checking/unchecking the account node of the tree view control in the Manage IMAP folders dialogs. The only exception (that worked correctly) was the Message Finder (F7). Now, behaviour of all this places is identical to the correct behaviour used in the Message Finder
- Shortcut editor (when you configure shortcuts for a particular toolbar button) hotkey edit field is not zoomed on 4K
- The code was optimized - some generic classes were removed in favour of old-fashioned container classes that didn't use generic source code constructs. The rationale behind this optimization was that the compiler didn't automatically eliminate the duplicated binary code when generics were used to created containers for different classes in such places where the classes were very similar and there was no reason for the compiler to create multiple instances of the binary code that implements the containers like "lists" (TList<> vs Classes.TList). This explosion of the binary code was not cache-friendly, especially not L0/L1 friendly - the program worked slower because of this code size explosion that had no rationale
- Fixed a bug that might cause "Access Violation" error in filters when there were multiple connections already working with the filters, for example, when moving sent message from Outbox to Sent folder
- Fixed an error when cancelling a folder compression task on exit
- Fixed issue with wrong font family in preferencessource viewer
- In some dialog windows of The Bat!, font face of some GUI elements was hard-coded (e.g. to Tahoma). Now this hardcoding is removed and the font face of these elements is also dynamic as for all other GUI elements, so it matches exactly the font face of the surrounding GUI elements (controls)
- The captions of the "processing folders" status display window were too narrow
- There were some bugs in the "View message source" where first or last character of second and subsequent lines was corrupted, which also led to incorrect cursor placement
- Image detection for the internal image viewer was incorrect: every type of image was detected as "JPEG". As a result, other images, like "PNG" could not be displayed in the internal image viewer
- The "Illegal instruction" error on viewing some JPG files under 32-bit version of The Bat!
- Removed duplicate code from HTML templates handling
- Paste image into HTML mail from clipboard fails
- Pasting copied file in HTML mail fails with exception
- An Access Violation error on exit, related to virtual folders
- An invalid pointer operation error when dealing with mail messages (copy, move, process by a filter, etc)
- Pasting copied file in HTML mail fails with exception
- Paste image into HTML mail from clipboard fails
- If the user creates a tag with a duplicate name, The Bat! did not start with "Config:1 EStringListError String list does not allow duplicates"-error messages in ex_log.txt during program startup
- Embedded images are too narrow in the internal HTML viewer
- Phantom window of the action "Add addresses to Address Book" appears in the preview of windows on the task bar
- Tip of The Day displays national characters incorrectly. For example, if the "Language for non-Unicode programs" configured in Windows is different from The Bat! interface language, the national characters were incorrectly displayed in the "Tip of The Day"
- Fixed an access-violation on exit when the messages were loading via IMAP in progress and the user exits The Bat! at this moment
- Impossible to insert smiles to the message
- Inserting smileys with ">" or "<" in the plain text editors inserts HTML-code instead
- Some fixes of Access Violation errors on IMAP
- Long labels didn't wrap in progress dialogues
- Program size decreased slightly
- Addresses are not added into address book automatically in IMAP accounts
- "Insert Hyperlink" interprets command-line arguments as named HTML characters, and thus falsified the HREF
- Image files attached to messages are not printed correctly if image width is larger than height but paper (page) width is smaller than its height. If the width of an image is larger than the size of the page, then the right part of the image gets cut while printing/in print preview
- External image download control for the system's HTML viewer does not work if set according to The Bat! rules
- Sorting Office does not trigger on tags
- External image download control for the system's HTML viewer does not work if set according to The Bat! rules
- Scheduler did sometimes lose its settings
- If the user interface was in such a language to which the website www.ritlabs.com was not translated and the user pressed "Help" button of F1 key, and there were no CHM file of this language present, The Bat! gave an obscure error "Missing context help indxed ...". Now it opens the online help in English
- Option "Headers | Show" in Message body is checked, even Header pane is disabled
- v6.3.2: Message List for normal email folder shown in the "Summary View"
- The log box in the "Account Log" window doesn't scroll properly (as in the Connection Center)
- Email is not validated in redesigned "New Account" wizard
- Logs are incorrectly scrolled in the message re-filter dialog
- IMAP positive test results are not displayed in the New Account Wizard when you click the Test Now Button
- Message List cannot be sorted by column "Tags"
- Fixed an error that could happen when there were no free space left on disk
- Can't change language from HTML editor status bar
The Bat! Professional 8.0.8 (64-bit)
- Opening addressbook entry having multiple mail adresses breaks stored adresses
The Bat! Professional 8.0.6 (64-bit)
- Fixed an access violation error at startup
The Bat! Professional 7.4.16 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.14 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.12 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.10 (64-bit)
- Removed the MD5 hash from the S/MIME preferences
- Import S/MIME certificates(s) from a signed message didn't always work
- When non-OpenPGP mode is selected, the PGP menu items in the message editor are hidden
- Malformed account transport settings on high resolution monitors
- Untranslatable tooltips in the print preview
- Fixed several memory leaks: when deleting messages, when working with the text editor and the spell checker
- Unable to start The Bat! if on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) setup has been cancelled
- Better error handling of The Bat! version checking via DNS, sometimes invalid responses could cause an Access Violation error
- Opening mail shows error popup "TMailMessage.FindIdx --- ALREADY DESTROYED!" (Fixed "ALREADY DESTROYED!" or "METHOD CALLED ON FREED OBJECT!" errors when selecting different folders on IMAP while The Bat! filters messages on IMAP)
- Fixed an Access Violation error at start related to Quick Reply, also fixed the "ClassName: EComponentError / Message: A component named __ already exists" error related to quick reply
- Messages arrived to an IMAP folder aren't filtered if they arrive while other messages are filtered (definitely fixed)
- If an IMAP filter has multiple actions, sometime only some of them are executed
- Minor speed increase when working with internal hash structures
- The Bat! didn't highlight addresses with equal sign ("=") in the local-part. If such addresses were displayed in the headers, there were no menu to do operations with them like add to the address book.
- The Bat! didn't properly support character encodings when working with HunSpell dictionaries, e.g. the Latvian special symbols are replaced with Cyrillic symbols in the Spell Checker
- Filtering on IMAP stops with an Access Violation error while setting color group
- Drop-downs on the main toolbar have areas with no reaction to mouse clicks
- Editor text color and search highlight text colors were hardcoded as "black" and "white", while they had to take colors from Windows system colors (Themes)
- There was an error when trying to run The Bat! while another The Bat! process didn't exit for some reason
- Automatic filters stop working altogether for certain IMAP folders, restarting doesn't help, newly arrived messages not filtered also
- Wrong size of fonts in print preview and the printed message (in tags like "small")
- Print preview looks OK but the final print is not formatted properly
- The HTML is viewed OK but in print or print preview, margins are incorrectly calculated and the text is trimmed at the right
- There were redundant right and bottom margins on printed pages
- Searching for messages using the mid: links in other folders didn't work since 5.0.36.2 released on 02-Mar-2012.
- [#0001139] If there were national characters in mailto url and The Bat! was set as a default mailto handler, these national characters were replaced to question marks. As a result, description of web-pages with national characters sent from browsers appears as question marks in Subject.
- Filling the background color of table cells fails
- "Minus" closing buttons in the message finder didn't scale on high-definition monitor; besides that, these buttons were two pixels higher than needed
- OpenPGP Error Window does not show national characters
- PGP 10.4 was not supported
- Truncated text field in QR-Code Generator (German GUI)
- Decryption of an email with large attachment takes much time if internal OpenPGP implementation is used
- Support for modern GnuPG 2.1
- Welcome message (in the Inbox) is no longer used for IMAP accounts
- Increased speed of entering a folder or sorting messages in the list by From/To/Subject columns when there were only latin characters. The speed increase is mostly noticeable in folders with more than 100 thousand messages
- If you collapse an account in the folder tree and restart The Bat!, this account again becomes open, if you click the folder tabs before
- The Bat! didn't start on single-processor single-core computers, it gave an Access Violation error
- The Bat! can log Simple MAPI calls. To enable logging, do the following. Uder "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWARERITThe Bat!" add DWORD value named "LogMapiCalls", value "1". Then, restart The Bat!. After that, The Bat! will create mapi_log.txt file in the %EMAIL% directory and will append lines to it every time an application like MS Word or MSIE wants to send a message or do any other MAPI function.
- Fixed an access violation error on exit that could prevent from saving toolbar configuration data
The Bat! Professional 7.4.8 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.6 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.4 (64-bit)
- HTML background images are not shown or shown distorted
- Access Violation while exiting and background download tasks are not yet finished
- Fixed the about box on high definition monitors
- HTML/CSS values were improperly converted from inches, centimeters and other length units to physical pixels
- Scrolling large images in an internal image viewer was slow
- If images had size "100%", they were much smaller than their proper size
- URLs which contained a mixture of national characters and percent-encoded characters were incorrectly encoded
- URLs in the HTML editor are no longer percent-encoded when saving a message; national characters and " < > & are replaced to htlm-entities. Plus and space are left intact.
- Images in some HTML messages are not displayed properly if internal HTML viewer is used
- Truncated text field in account properties
- URLs with Russian characters are corrupted in Quick Templates
- Widened buttons to restore templates in the account properties
- Sometimes image size is improperly calculated, the last (bottom right) line of the image is tiled from the first (left top), this is visible when zooming the about box
- The max-width attribute wasn't supported, thus some HTML newsletter weren't centered
- Default font in HTML viewer was too large under high definition monitors: twice as large at 200% DPI, thrice as large under 300%, and so on
- Fixed toolbar and popup menu display
- Font size drop-downs in the HTML-editor are too small on high DPI
- Color tool palette dropdown in the HTML-editor had too small bricks on high DPI
- The drop-down for "Style" in HTML-editor is to small on high DPI
- Missing left edge line in menus
- Menu navigator in other windows than the main did activate the main window instead
- Tab set height didn't adjust to used font size
- Toolbar grippers too small on high DPI
- Close button for floating toolbars was too small on high DPI
- Better algorithm for removing duplicate messages. You can also run The Bat! with various command line options to ignore several message attributes while comparing messages: /DEDUPIGNOREMSGID (ignore Message-ID), /DEDUPIGNORETO (ignore To), /DEDUPIGNOREDATE (ignore Date), /DEDUPIGNORETOMSGID (ignore To and Message ID - this command line option is reserved for past compatibility). You can combine multiple command line options mentioned.
- Toolbar chevrons didn't scale under high resolution DPI
The Bat! Professional 7.4.2 (64-bit)
- Smilies are not scaled on high DPI
- There were no "Synchronize" pop-up menu item for Google address books
- Print Pictures from internal viewer: aspect ratio is not maintained with large pictures
- Print Pictures from internal viewer: large pictures are printed twice
- 7.2 (64-bit) Some graphics appear extraordinarily large in the preview pane
- In message preview pane the PNG of a HTML message has black background
- Fixed access violation when viewing HTML messages with images (can be reproduced when changing message zoom back and forth by scrolling the mouse wheel), introduced in 7.3.12.29.
- Downloaded images into message body are not scaled
- 7.2 (64-bit) GIF break in Preview pane
- Animated GIFs didn't work in version 7.4
The Bat! Professional 7.4 (64-bit)
New features:
- Improved speed, reduced CPU use and decreased GUI latency on receiving messages via POP3 and sending via SMTP
- /BENCHMARK_STARTUP_TIME displays time passed to start The Bat!, in milliseconds
Improvements:
- Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
- Improved speed of checking for new message via MAPI in large folders
- Splash screen now uses default UI font
- Changed CSS length values for "ex" (was 1/1.3 of "em", now 1/2 of "em") and for cm&mm (was 1/2.52 of inch, now 1/2.54 of inch) - in accordance with https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units
- If a tbuser.def file is larger than 500K, it is not loaded but renamed to .bak instead
- Plugins are now loaded at startup from a separate thread. In The Bat! version 5.0, has performed time-consuming startup routines (like loading of plug-ins, parsing of interface definition files) in parallel threads. The performance boost was noticeable even on old single-core CPUs, because disk and processor operations were running simultaneously; while on multi-core CPUs and multiprocessor systems the boost was even higher because computations could run in parallel, without one affecting another. In version 6.0, plugins weren’t loaded from a separate thread, but from the main thread. This is now fixed and plugin loading is now the same as it was in 5.0.
- Optimized IMAP work with multiple connections. When there are several idle connections, and there were need to work with another folder, The Bat! could use a connection that had INBOX selected; now connection with INBOX will only be used if no other connections are available
- dlNSpellLanguages is displayed when the user have selected too many languages for spell checking, in this case, the status bar didn't manage to display all the languages and there were a bug that other status bar items were hidden
Fixes:
- "Message filtered counter" window element partially hidden in Filter Mail
- Wrong wrapping in the message boxes
- For HTML/plain text and HTML only editor modes after paste a link an unexpected space is added
- For Plain Text (Windows) editor mode after paste a link a selection remains
- MAPI tasks could give access violations on errors or if the user cancels them
- Photo area is too small in address book contact's properties
- Fixed "Thread Error: The handle is invalid" on HTML spell checkers
- Fixed a bug in spellchecker introduced in version 6.8.0.5 (05-May-2015)
- Selected color for even rows was incorrect
- Buttons' height in HTML didn't scale
- Incorrectly underlined text in the internal HTML viewer
- Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
- Truncated line in "OptionsPreferencesMessage List"
- Fixed a vertical scroll bar in Preferences | Message List
- Items in User Preferences and Address Entry Editor dialog were misaligned
- CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) characters were too big and didn't fit the interface sometimes, didn't look good
- Fixed the "Address Book photo width/height is mis-sized" error while adding new image for address book on high-resolution monitor
- Controls in the Account Properties form were misaligned
- Photos in the address book didn't scale properly
- The Bat! didn't delete TMP files older than 1 months (since version 5)
- If there were more than 2GB of total mail on the server during POP3 retrieval, total received size was displayed incorrect (negative) in the connection center; the word "bytes" was used twice there.
- Some dialog elements in the Account Properties, Folder Properties, Address Entry weren't properly aligned or sized with high-DPI settings in various dialogs (on high-definition displays)
- The pie chart didn't paint correctly in the connection center
- In URLs, the ampersand parameter delimiter gets percent-encoded as %26, rather than encoded as an HTML entity
- URLs with ampersands are incorrectly opened in the HTML editor after you reopen it
- Message list column width and attachments' icon too small (on high-definition displays)
- Small check boxes and overlapping buttons in text search (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Not enough room for headers fields on the header pane (on high-definition displays)
- Message list nodes are too small (on high-definition displays)
- Address book icons truncated on 4K monitors (on high-definition displays)
- Toolbar buttons do not scale according to higher DPI setting (on high-definition displays)
- The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
- Account/folder nodes and the respective lines are barely seen (on high-definition displays)
- Truncated font size drop-down menu in the HTML editor (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny icons in the message editor window (on high-definition displays)
- Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action doesn't look good (on high-definition displays)
- Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny font in the account information tab (on high-definition displays)
- Attachment panel is too narrow on high-resolution monitors, the icons don't fit, a scroll bar appears
- Editor/Viewer header layout uses an old font by default when you run fresh install of The Bat! under modern OS. For example, if you run The Bat! first time under Windows 10, it will set Tahoma 8, but should have set Segoe UI 9 or similar
- Issues with QR-Code Generator (on high-definition displays)
- Disappearing buttons in dialog Edit Event | Categories on high-definition display (on high-definition displays)
- The color of the even row of the quoted text is not purple as it used to be in The Bat! version 1 (purple)
- The font didn't get updated in the address headers in the message preview and the open message editor, after the user have changed the font in the Preferences dialog.
- The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
- Changes in look and feel of the nodes and lines in the message list and folder tree
- The text in the splash screen was truncated under 300% DPI or more (on high-definition displays)
- High-contrast themes with large dpi (300% or more) didn't draw enlarged tree node glyph (plus/minus sign in a square), it was very small and not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters didn't use system-defined colors, used a fixed color instead that ignored color schemes
- For certain widths of the header columns, in the message list, the ellipses became visible (mostly on high-definition monitors)
- Tiny and overlapping "next" and "last" buttons below the message body (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny "first/last" and "next/previous" buttons for the message list tabs (on high-definition displays)
- Account/folder tree tabs are tiny and overlap (on high-definition displays)
- Mouse cursor shows the "forbidden" sign if the user opens contact properties using double-click
- The Bat! could not complete the "Exit" command (the main window became inoperable after you close it) after you have created an account and tested connectivity to SMTP in the new account wizard
- Images are printed with the template
- SmartBat: Printed Text uses print templates for mails when printing via Print Preview
- If Quick Reply is enabled in the Message Finder, the Results tab becomes empty
- Tiny progress bar in Message Finder (F7) (on high-definition displays)
- Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action was displayed incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny close buttons in the message list tabs incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
- Quick Reply pane is small (on high-definition displays)
- Grayed out items (like IMAP messages that weren't loaded) in the message list didn't scale
- Buttons didn't scale in the address grid of the message editor (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny contents of the OAUTH window (on high-definition displays)
- Internal HTML viewer didn’t scale logical pixels properly to physical pixels (on high-definition displays)
- The letter "g" does not fit on the search pane in the separate message viewer and in message finder (F7)
- Attachments' size turns 0 bytes after editing an email for the second time
- The mail ticker didn't scale (on high-definition displays)
- When resolution and display scaling is increased, the text gets unreadable in the address book (on high-definition displays)
- Selection color becomes invalid in the message list and in the Connection Center
- The widths of the status bar elements in the Message Finder and in the Connection Center didn't scale on high-definition monitors
- Sorting Office columns too narrow (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny conditions' drop-down arrows in Sorting Office (on high-definition displays)
- Filter text in Sorting Office always black
- AV errors on exit if an image was opened in an IMAP account
- Sorting office - filters that set colour groups always use blue text
- Spell-checker-specific underline (red) are not scaled for high resolution
- Check boxes were truncated at the bottom when UI font 9pt was used in the Message List Tabs editor dialog
- The radio buttons did overlap in the print preview window
- Access Violation error after compacting address books
- The Bat! could only allow compressing an address book when there were at least 1% of free space; the user could not compress the address book when there were less free space, e.g. only one entry deleted, which is not good from the security or privacy point of view
- Errors on compressing address books while On-The-Fly encryption was on
- Memory corruption on compacting address books with photos or certificates
- Message header names were top-aligned in the Message Editor
- Numbered list - Description is missing
- Removed import/export address entries from Google and Synchronize popup item from Google address books created earlier
- Print Preview: Two groups of option boxes did exclude each other
- URLs are not displayed as hyperlinks in Windows Editor
- Access Violation while starting The Bat (related to quick reply)
- "List index out of bounds" error message in the HTML-editor
- Clicking anywhere in the message body opens mail.ru sign-in page
- Access violation when working with 64-bit plugins, for example when clicking learn spam/learn ham plugin on the toolbar
- The main menu command Folder|Check for viruses was removed in 6.3.0.5 - now put back
- Cleanup for possible multiple "List index out of bounds" error messages while editing/moving/undo/redo and tracking mouse in editor
- Fixed an Access Violation when running The Bat! for the first time and creating an account with empty account password
- An IMAP connection went to Inbox between other commands, when it was not needed. A connection should only go to Inbox when there are no pending tasks at all, so all the connections are idle. There were a bug in determining whether a connection is idle, so it went to INBOX over and over again between executing other commands. You could observe it in the IMAP protocol log
- The Bat! didn't exit properly if the user had tags configured
- The Bat! didn't support "Priority: non-urgent" (see RFC-4021 section 2.1.54)
- Connection center labels were occasionally deleted in The Bat! 5.0.18.12 (23-Jul-2011) - now restored
The Bat! Professional 7.3.12 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.3.8 (64-bit)
- Friendly error messages when The Bat! is unable to open an URL
- Changed file name for the Image Download Rules configuration file. It is now ImgDlRules.TXT
- Umlauts in URLs are encoded wrong with Quoted-Printable in HTML messages
- Address Book did not synchronize with iCloud
- MAPI: Cyrillic characters in file names are turned into question marks in the Subject filed of the message when sent from MS Word 2013
- Messages about unknown errors were too confusing
- Incomplete Hint is shown in Inbox Analyzer Window
- Umlauts in URLs are encoded wrong with Quoted-Printable in HTML messages
- New account window didn't have focus on first run
- Image Download Manager rules are not restored from backup
- IMAP had low performance when browsing messages one-by-one in a folder, when multiple connections were active - it did UNSELECT the folder after getting a message and then SELECT again for next message
- Cropped smiley in internal HTML mail viewer
- When forwarding several mails to one recipient with the dialog box, the inline graphics arrive as attachments if at all
- Image Viewer is very slow on large images, consumes lot of CPU
- MAPI connections to Exchange might not work sometimes under 64-bits because pointers might have been truncated to 32 bits
The Bat! Professional 7.3.6 (64-bit)
- The Bat! was unstable when using animated GIF files as smiles (consumption of GDI objects was too high)
- Increased higher limit of available smilies for custom collections (from 299 to 999)
- Better display of error messages during SMTP STATTLS. For example, if a server did silently close the connection during SMTP STATTLS, The Bat! didn't report it to the log file.
- The Bat! did send TLS 1.2 cipher suites with SHA-256 and SHA-384 during a TLS 1.1 handshake, which is discouraged.
- Errors in Simple MAPI handling (for example, it was impossible to organize sending messages from Microsoft Word via the "Mailings" feature)
The Bat! Professional 7.3.4 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.3.2 (64-bit)
New features:
- Perfect Forward Secrecy TLS/SSL algorithms support
- Elliptic Curve certificates support on TLS/SSL
Added support for the following cryptographic algorithm suites:
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
Fixes:
- Unneeded folders in RSS Subscriptions
- PNG image had no transparency in XHTML messages
- Some HTML messages were not rendered correctly in the Windows OS HTML viewer
- Error while displaying HTML when switched on Windows OS HTML viewer
- Contents of a folder of a password protected account could be accessed without the password
- Some graphics appeared extraordinarily large in the preview pane
- Some inline GIF files were truncated
- Certain GIF files were incorrectly rendered
- Images came in correctly but when replied or forwarded, they were compressed horizontally
- Templates were not respected when forwarding multiple messages
- It was impossible to sync all contacts if message base encryption was used
The Bat! Professional 7.2 (64-bit)
New features:
- A warning dialog is now displayed when a second copy of the program is running
- Email body in XHTML format is now displayed
- Option to "Save HTML with default font" (see "OptionsPreferencesViewer/EditorEditor Preferences")
- Content-Type: text/calendar is now associated with vCalendar
- If Internet Explorer 8 is available, the layout engine is calculating document pixels as 96 dpi
- A warning is displayed if images used in templates were moved or renamed
Improvements:
- The internal messages queue has been redesigned resulting in significant speed improvements when receiving a large number of small messages via very fast connection to a POP3 or EWS server, the user interface became much more responsive
- The creation time of a message is displayed in case a message’s receipt time is much earlier than its creation time
- X-Priority header line is only included into the new messages with low and high priority. For normal-priority messages, this header line is no longer used, thus the "X-Priority: 3 (Normal)" will not be specified from now on
- Faster mail retrieval in large MAPI accounts
- Selection moves to the top of the list after deleting a contact in the address book
- EWS: reduced memory usage
Fixes:
- Example email address in the default address book has been changed from [email protected] to [email protected]
- Cannot pin the Mail Ticker on secondary monitor positioned vertically
- Not enough space for "Input OpenPGP key pass phrase" and "Please input the master password"
- The window when compacting a folder had no title
- Out of memory or Access Violation error message when opening a corrupted folder file has been fixed
- Quick templates inserted in HTML mode were losing hyperlinks formatting
- Domain for punycode was case sensitive
- An extra line appeared while inserting HTML quick templates in the plain text editor
- Hyperlinks were not created in the HTML editor while inserting plain text quick templates with hyperlinks
- Extra blanks were applied to standard signature template
- Fixes in message body tags while generating HTML messages
- Font size of non-hypertext fragments of inserted plain text quick template is now the same as default settings
- The issue with the flickering black message editor window on Windows XP has been eliminated
- Font size was not applied to hyperlinks in the templates signature
- Replies were losing multiple levels of quotes
- A workaround for bad implementations of the Authority Key Identifier decoding, which finally turned out to negatively affect proper implementations - some parent certificates couldn't be found, has been removed
- EWS: cannot send email with large attachments when using on-the-fly message base encryption
- EWS: messages could not be moved or deleted while using the on-the-fly message base encryption
- EWS: received messages had wrong creation date - Jan 1, 1980
- A part of Facebook notification messages was displayed two times
- Access violation error when editing several contacts in the address book at once
- "Select the Account" window appears behind the web-browser
- Exceptions.log contains NULL bytes
- Tags are not displayed on the header pane
- Tags in Cyrillic turn into garbage and get multiplied
- An issue with extra double apostrophes in the names of senders/recipients has been eliminated
- When account password was empty, sometimes the password dialog stayed in the background and was invisible
- In case an HTML template contained a table, it was impossible to place the cursor to the required field
- An Access Violation error message which appeared while trying to edit an HTML template with a table has been fixed
- An Access Violation on address search termination in the address book has been fixed
- RSS feed Links containing Cyrillic characters were displayed incorrectly
- Images with Cyrillic in file names inserted into HTML do not disappear anymore
- Invalid pointer operation error message caused by the spell checker locking the clipboard
- No more freezes when scrolling large RSS documents on the Entire text tab
- Files attached to messages get multiplied
- Some RSS feeds displayed wrong creation date
- When forwarding mail with external graphics links, the links are not carried into the email
- Fixed an access violation when moving between IMAP folders
- Short strings in the "OptionsPreferences..." window in Russian
- Truncated text in folder maintenance start window
- Passphrase dialog has not enough size and can’t be resized
- Reply to HTML mail has no quotes
- The Bat! could not display transparent 8-Bit PNG files
- 8bit PNG pictures (indexed color table, with transparency) always showed black background
- Images are not displayed if The Bat! HTML Viewer is used
- Image Viewer is very slow on large images, consumes lot of CPU
- Some inline GIF files were truncated
- Certain HTML messages were not rendered correctly when using the internal HTML viewer
- Certain PNG (indexed palette) pictures were displayed black
- HTML Links were not clickable
- Hyperlinks in the HTML Editor opened wrong web-pages
- Formatting of the quick templates was lost if inserted in HTML messages
- While forwarding multiple messages the respective Forward-templates were not used
- Images are compressed horizontally when replying or forwarding the email
- It's not possible to save changes in the "Insert Hyperlink" window
- Some fixes of the Unicode password handling in the GUI- Fixed an access violation error at startup
更新時間：2017-12-27
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
The Bat! Professional 8.0.18 (64-bit)
Improvements:
- The Download Manager writes additional information to the ex_log.txt file whenever there is an exception inside a WinInet API function call
- Added some root certificates used by Google mail servers
- Better description for the registration key validity version
- More debug messages will be added to the ex_log.txt with /startup_timing_log command line option to figure out why The Bat! hangs at startup
Fixes:
- Fixed a "stack overflow" error which could occur when a message got loaded, e.g. on IMAP
- Fixed an access violation at startup
- Some normal connection state changes were written to the ex_log.txt file
- The MailTicker was sometimes grey and didn't move
- Column "Tags" in message list cannot be size-adjusted by double click
- Copying of Sorting Office filters with hot keys is incomplete
- MailTicker goes to background even of the "Always on top" option is enabled
- Double-clicking a word with national characters doesn't select it
- Table paste not keeping columns widths
- Attachments' names in national characters are converted to underscore
- Shift+Arrows or Ctrl+Arrows don't work as expected in HTML message preview
- Names of the attachments are displayed incorrectly
- %CURSOR is ignored in Quick Template
- On 4K monitors, the mail ticker is too slow
- POP3 Message Dispatcher hangs with an error message
- Quick Template is not inserted into Quick Reply
- UI elements misplaced in filter conditions
- Quick search filter doesn't clear filter on empty filter text
- No caption "paste as text" while pasting smiles in the HTML editor
- Multiple quotes are rendered too wide
- Empty brackets for quick templates in the drop-down menus
- Needles confirmation on closing editor window after saving the message via Ctrl+S
- Access Violation on pasting smilies
- "Undo" and "Redo" work erratically
- "Paste as plain text" does not replace the highlighted text
The Bat! Professional 8.0.14 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 8.0.12 (64-bit)
- Truncated/disappeared buttons in status bar of Editor window when switching text format to HTML mode
- Added the insert/overwrite mode for all message editors, not just MicroEd
- Pasting text to Quick Search was troublesome because when the user selects some text, e.g. an email address, in an outside application, that application often copies text to the clipboard with a trailing space character and when the user pastes it to Quick Search, the user don't see this trailing blank, but The Bat! doesn't find the address in the message list so the user becomes very perplexed.
- The log box in the "Message Base Maintenance Center" window doesn't scroll properly (as in the Connection Center)
- HTML Table editor is unavailable
- Quick Search in Message List does not use focused tab for a refined search
- Untranslatable string in the Connection Center
The Bat! Professional 8.0.10 (64-bit)
New features:
- 32-bit version of The Bat! now works even under very old computers with CPUs that don’t support MMX instruction set. In this case, FPU is used to copy data.
- Upgraded the HTML editor. Text formatting has improved (the components render bi-directional text and “exotic” scripts reliably; "justify" alignment and custom character spacing now can be applied to bi-directional text; new paragraph alignment type: "distribute"; distributed paragraphs are similar to justified paragraphs, but space is added between all characters, not between words; this type of alignment is common for Far East languages; customized alignment for the last line of justified and distributed paragraphs; special options for vertical text in table cells - automatic application of vertical fonts and switching column order from right-to-left to left-to-right). There were also visual improvements: the users can define a customized degree of transparency for backgrounds of paragraphs, tables, table cells, text boxes; user interface is compatible with high-DPI display modes
- AVX/AVX2/AVX-512 use: if the CPU supports AVX or AVX2 instruction set, 64-bit version of The Bat! will use large, 32-byte YMM registers for faster memory copy and fill, and if the CPU supports AVX-512 instruction set, The Bat! will use even larger, 64-byte ZMM registers for even faster memory copy and fill. These instruction sets are not used by 32-bit version of The Bat!
- The Bat! now uses improved multi-threading locking mechanism as a part of the improved memory manager - FastMM4-AVX. The new locking mechanism is much better than the mechanism implemented in the default memory manager which is used by the Delphi compiler
- If the CPU supports Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB (ERMS), The Bat! uses this feature for faster memory copy or fill
- Faster overall program work gained by removing the "lock" prefix from many instructions that were supposed to provide multi-thread handling. On practice, adding "lock" prefix to an instruction slows it down significantly, and, in most cases, was not needed, e.g. increasing reference counters when assigning strings
- Internal program code rewrite regarding to HTML editors that was used in the message editor and HTML template editors
- AVX-512 Instruction Set is used, if available, for faster memory copy and fill operations. In order for The Bat! to make use it, a CPU with AVX-512 instruction set is required, for example Intel's Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) and Skylake-X Core i7 and i9 models. Besides that the operating system should also support AVX-512 registers. It is Windows 10 latest update and Windows Server 2016 that support AVX-512
- Version 8 Splash Screen
Improvements:
- Better thread handling - the program works faster and generates lower number of the Page Faults
- Auto-configuration of display fonts on The Bat! first run. On Windows 7 and later, if the fonts are configured in Windows settings to be displayed as Cleartype or if the screen resolution (pixels per inch) is 150% of base DPI or higher, then, on The Bat! first run for this Windows user account after the new installation, the new fonts are automatically configured be used (instead of previously hard-coded values): Consolas and Calibri are now used instead of the old Courier New and Arial. Besides that, during that first run, the default editor font size now accommodates to the screen resolution (pixels per inch): if the current DPI is below 150% of the base DPI (96), the default editor font size is 9pt as before, but for 150%<200% - 10pt, 200%<300% - 11pt, 300% and higher - 12pt.
- Auto-substitution of the Courier New on 4K monitors when viewing HTML messages. The details are the following. On Windows 7 and later, with ultra-high-definition (4K) monitors with DPI of 192 and more (>200% of base DPI), if an HTML email arrives with Courier New font defined, and the characters have font size of or between 5 and 28 points, the font is automatically displayed as Consolas. This behavior of substation of Courier New to Consolas is hardcoded and you cannot change it. This only affects screen, not the printer. On printer, when printing HTML with Courier New, this font is always used if defined so in the HTML
- Updated Root CA certificates
- Improved speed of CRC-32 calculation when the processor does not support CRC32 instruction, but if it does, the speed has increased even more. The Bat! uses CRC-32 algorithm internally in many cases, so the overall program speed has increased as a result
- Non-exceptional (normal) situations like IMAP server responses "NO" and "BAD" were added to the exceptions log
- Improvements on multi-threaded operation: The Bat! often worked poorly on multi-core processors or multi-CPU computers. The thread operation wasn’t very good thought out in some places. As a result, there were various errors like Access Violation
- The Bat! MSI installation package no longer include EWS DLL files. As a result, The Bat! would not support Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol until you manually download a DLL and store it un the same directory where thebat32.exe/thebat64.exe resides.
Fixes:
- 64-bit Simple MAPI handler DLL gave access violation errors
- When a QR Code window was already open and then the user has put another window to front and chose to generate a QR code from the menu, the old QR Code window remained in the background so the user had no idea what happened, as if nothing happened. Now the QR Code window will be brought to front in such cases
- The QR Code generator didn't save a generated code to file properly. It asked for a list of graphic formats, but in fact only supported BMP. So if you chose, for example, PNG, it saved a BMP into the file with .PNG extension which was incorrect. Now it only offers to save to PNG
- If you save generated QR code to file or copy it to clipboard, it didn't scale to the fixed number of times, which might result uneven scaling
- If a QR Code window was called from the main window and was open, and you close The Bat!, there was an Access Violation error
- If there were a message source view window open and you closed The Bat!, there were an access violation error
- The Bat! couldn't gracefully handle improperly specified "charset=unicode", especially in malformed HTML messages
- Screen reader did not read the contents of the status bar
- Screen reader did not read the text of the tabs
- Attributes of messages in threaded message lists were not read
- The option "Complete address automatically from" in the message editor did not work
- The auto-complete did not offer a suggestion right away as only the suggestion list with no selection appears
- The Bat! gave an access violation error on exit when NVDA (www.nvaccess.org) was active on The Bat!
- The Bat! crashed upon invoking the address book if JAWS is running
- Invalid key handling in the Message Editor address grid (arrows)
- The cursor jumped between From/To/CC/BCC/Subject fields using the arrow keys whereas only the Tab key should be applied
- The screen reader did not notice that a list of addresses appears in the message editor window
- Screen reader improperly read RSS item list
- Accessibility Feature: Label for fields in the message creation window was not read properly
- Screen reader did not read the names of folders in the "Manage IMAP folders" window
- JAWS was speaking after each character when auto-completion in the "To" field was in the "on" state
- Screen reader did not read the names of contacts in the Address Book
- The Bat! could not down load HTML images under 32-bit if there were a message with many images with the same URL
- Space bar sets/removes the check-box on the selected folder and jumps into the search field in Watch for virtual folders
- The Up key does not return to the To, CC or BCC field in the message editor
- Change of the checkboxes in the Options tab of the Sorting Office did not immediately affect the checkboxes in the left tree
- The Bat! crashed while returning to the terminal session
- The Bat! hangs on testing outgoing connection in the Create New Account wizard
- A screen reader did not speak the check-marks and selected/not selected in the Sorting Office
- Embedded images in messages bodies grow in size on each reply on high-DPI (4K) monitors
- URLs were incorrectly displayed in the plain text part of messages
- Images in HTML templates are resized under high DPI (4K) monitors
- "List index out of bounds" error appeared while trying to assign an URL to an image in the HTML template
- Sometimes, very rarely, due to a bug, Message Headers got multiplied everywhere - in the Preferences, in the Message Editor, in the viewers. Other configuration items like color groups, etc., could also have been duplicated
- The program became faster as a whole because of significant improvements to internal algorithms related to data storage and retrieval (data containers)
- The algorithms to process, load and store configuration items, e.g. mail folders, message headers, color groups, etc. (data containers) contain flaws that could lead to data loss
- When The Bat! saves images, for example when you edit and HTML message where you have inserted inline images from clipboard, or you have added a photo to an address book entry - The Bat! chooses between the two file formats - PNG and JPG, compressing to both formats and seeing which of the files are smaller. For PNG, compression level from 1 to 9 is selected, based on the dimensions of the image: larger images take faster compression levels, to not produce interface freezes when saving message; for JPG, quality of 85 is always chosen. Previously, The Bat! did always save in JPG with 100 level, which did produce very big files. For photos, JPG process smaller files than PNG, while PNG makes smaller files when there are flat images with just a few colors, like a simple screenshot
- Not enough room for "User / Server" localization in the Connection Center window
- Truncated options' names on the "Options" tab of the customizer (select the menu item "WorkspaceToolbarsCustomize" and then go to the "Options" tab)
- When the Sorting Office window was opened, but The Bat! was in foreground, the Sorting Office window was trying to check the clipboard data used by other programs, which gave errors under Windows 10
- The server-side "Sent" folder is lost and re-downloaded on each program start for hotmail.com accounts. Although this was not related solely for Hotmail. The bug was the following: if we had a local folder in the IMAP account with a particular name, and then we've got an IMAP folder with the same name from the server, The Bat! couldn't handle such situations properly, it didn't permanently store the TBB cache file, but instead created a new TBB on each restart of The Bat!, but the old TBB file was abandoned and no longer used, thus occupying the disk space in vain
- The Bat! didn't always set the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY for temporary files; setting this attribute increases speed of working with temporary files
- The default string encoding in anti-spam plugin changed from Windows-default-for-non-Unicode-programs to UTF-8
- Miscellaneous HTML-editor-related fixes
- Modal dialog boxes with modal window frame have an icon that overlaps text on Windows XP computers
- Fixed html editor dialog translations
- A division by zero error in the MicroEd
- Editing links in HTML-editor is faulty – the lings got truncated, e.g., after a particular character in the link
- Wrong icons in the title bars
- Truncated Quick Search options
- Column width is not remembered in "Manage IMAP folders"
- Untranslatable Quick Search options in the Message Viewer
- Macro %QUOTES sets HTML message quotes to uppercase
- All caracters of the quoted text are put into the uppercase while replying
- The Bat! crashes on selecting an HTML message if the internal HTML viewer is used
- Embedded images are rendered too big
- If there is not enough free space, no warning appears during the compacting process
- A 32-bit version of The Bat! did release memory right when it started (to release memory used by startup data and startup code that was no longer needed) and when was minimized, but the 64-bit version didn't do that properly - vice versa - it tried to reserve 4GB for itself instead. Now the 64-bit version is also doing things properly - it doesn't try to reserve 4GB, but releases memory just when started (once) and each time you minimize it
- Message List Tabs cannot be scrolled to the right on high DPI
- No confirmation popup for changed mail after closing window
- Wrong display of the sender in Address History
- The Sorting Office conditions are not vertically aligned (edit/text)
- Fixed a EStringListError "List index out of bounds (0)" error in the image download manager
- Fixed an access violation error related to IMAP which could happen in many cases, e.g. after sending out a message, etc.
- SMTP log does not auto-scroll in the Connection Center
- The Bat! does not remember column width in the "Select Quick Template" window
- The window "The Bat! Master Password" gets hidden behind other windows
- The default fonts in the message editor (The default font Courier New 9 pt is small and pale)
- Importing messages from Outlook 2016 fails to include senders' email addresses
- Access Violation popups if inspecting message source on IMAP account
- Image viewer does not display a PNG file although it is displayed in the preview tab
- Ctrl+A doesn't work in Memo in the address book properties
- Quick Search tabs do not display separate message lists
- Sorting office column widths (in the filters tree - left part of the windows) are not saved
- Sorting office default column widths are not proportional to the text
- Tip of the day image is not rescaled to accommodate higher resolution
- It is not obvious that in the Address Entry, the list of addresses should be separated by CR, not comma
- Some HTML messages were incorrectly displayed by The Bat! internal HTML viewer. Element positions were incorrect. Elements were doubled up in some of the messages
- Fixed the selection of items (in check/uncheck items in the selection tree view) in some dialogs. For example, the behaviour of these items was OK in the Message Finder (F7) dialog, but wasn't OK in the other dialogs like the "Manage IMAP Folders" dialog. If you open this dialog to manage IMAP folders and try to select/unselect a folder with subfolders, or an account node, the expected behaviour was that the sub-items would also be selected/unselected (checked/unchecked). But his didn't happen - this was especially illogical for the account root nodes - checking/unchecking this node didn't have actually any effect - the account node was checked/unchecked, but the account folders weren't affected at all, so in fact there was absolutely no practical meaning in checking/unchecking the account node of the tree view control in the Manage IMAP folders dialogs. The only exception (that worked correctly) was the Message Finder (F7). Now, behaviour of all this places is identical to the correct behaviour used in the Message Finder
- Shortcut editor (when you configure shortcuts for a particular toolbar button) hotkey edit field is not zoomed on 4K
- The code was optimized - some generic classes were removed in favour of old-fashioned container classes that didn't use generic source code constructs. The rationale behind this optimization was that the compiler didn't automatically eliminate the duplicated binary code when generics were used to created containers for different classes in such places where the classes were very similar and there was no reason for the compiler to create multiple instances of the binary code that implements the containers like "lists" (TList<> vs Classes.TList). This explosion of the binary code was not cache-friendly, especially not L0/L1 friendly - the program worked slower because of this code size explosion that had no rationale
- Fixed a bug that might cause "Access Violation" error in filters when there were multiple connections already working with the filters, for example, when moving sent message from Outbox to Sent folder
- Fixed an error when cancelling a folder compression task on exit
- Fixed issue with wrong font family in preferencessource viewer
- In some dialog windows of The Bat!, font face of some GUI elements was hard-coded (e.g. to Tahoma). Now this hardcoding is removed and the font face of these elements is also dynamic as for all other GUI elements, so it matches exactly the font face of the surrounding GUI elements (controls)
- The captions of the "processing folders" status display window were too narrow
- There were some bugs in the "View message source" where first or last character of second and subsequent lines was corrupted, which also led to incorrect cursor placement
- Image detection for the internal image viewer was incorrect: every type of image was detected as "JPEG". As a result, other images, like "PNG" could not be displayed in the internal image viewer
- The "Illegal instruction" error on viewing some JPG files under 32-bit version of The Bat!
- Removed duplicate code from HTML templates handling
- Paste image into HTML mail from clipboard fails
- Pasting copied file in HTML mail fails with exception
- An Access Violation error on exit, related to virtual folders
- An invalid pointer operation error when dealing with mail messages (copy, move, process by a filter, etc)
- Pasting copied file in HTML mail fails with exception
- Paste image into HTML mail from clipboard fails
- If the user creates a tag with a duplicate name, The Bat! did not start with "Config:1 EStringListError String list does not allow duplicates"-error messages in ex_log.txt during program startup
- Embedded images are too narrow in the internal HTML viewer
- Phantom window of the action "Add addresses to Address Book" appears in the preview of windows on the task bar
- Tip of The Day displays national characters incorrectly. For example, if the "Language for non-Unicode programs" configured in Windows is different from The Bat! interface language, the national characters were incorrectly displayed in the "Tip of The Day"
- Fixed an access-violation on exit when the messages were loading via IMAP in progress and the user exits The Bat! at this moment
- Impossible to insert smiles to the message
- Inserting smileys with ">" or "<" in the plain text editors inserts HTML-code instead
- Some fixes of Access Violation errors on IMAP
- Long labels didn't wrap in progress dialogues
- Program size decreased slightly
- Addresses are not added into address book automatically in IMAP accounts
- "Insert Hyperlink" interprets command-line arguments as named HTML characters, and thus falsified the HREF
- Image files attached to messages are not printed correctly if image width is larger than height but paper (page) width is smaller than its height. If the width of an image is larger than the size of the page, then the right part of the image gets cut while printing/in print preview
- External image download control for the system's HTML viewer does not work if set according to The Bat! rules
- Sorting Office does not trigger on tags
- External image download control for the system's HTML viewer does not work if set according to The Bat! rules
- Scheduler did sometimes lose its settings
- If the user interface was in such a language to which the website www.ritlabs.com was not translated and the user pressed "Help" button of F1 key, and there were no CHM file of this language present, The Bat! gave an obscure error "Missing context help indxed ...". Now it opens the online help in English
- Option "Headers | Show" in Message body is checked, even Header pane is disabled
- v6.3.2: Message List for normal email folder shown in the "Summary View"
- The log box in the "Account Log" window doesn't scroll properly (as in the Connection Center)
- Email is not validated in redesigned "New Account" wizard
- Logs are incorrectly scrolled in the message re-filter dialog
- IMAP positive test results are not displayed in the New Account Wizard when you click the Test Now Button
- Message List cannot be sorted by column "Tags"
- Fixed an error that could happen when there were no free space left on disk
- Can't change language from HTML editor status bar
The Bat! Professional 8.0.8 (64-bit)
- Opening addressbook entry having multiple mail adresses breaks stored adresses
The Bat! Professional 8.0.6 (64-bit)
- Fixed an access violation error at startup
The Bat! Professional 7.4.16 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.14 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.12 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.10 (64-bit)
- Removed the MD5 hash from the S/MIME preferences
- Import S/MIME certificates(s) from a signed message didn't always work
- When non-OpenPGP mode is selected, the PGP menu items in the message editor are hidden
- Malformed account transport settings on high resolution monitors
- Untranslatable tooltips in the print preview
- Fixed several memory leaks: when deleting messages, when working with the text editor and the spell checker
- Unable to start The Bat! if on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) setup has been cancelled
- Better error handling of The Bat! version checking via DNS, sometimes invalid responses could cause an Access Violation error
- Opening mail shows error popup "TMailMessage.FindIdx --- ALREADY DESTROYED!" (Fixed "ALREADY DESTROYED!" or "METHOD CALLED ON FREED OBJECT!" errors when selecting different folders on IMAP while The Bat! filters messages on IMAP)
- Fixed an Access Violation error at start related to Quick Reply, also fixed the "ClassName: EComponentError / Message: A component named __ already exists" error related to quick reply
- Messages arrived to an IMAP folder aren't filtered if they arrive while other messages are filtered (definitely fixed)
- If an IMAP filter has multiple actions, sometime only some of them are executed
- Minor speed increase when working with internal hash structures
- The Bat! didn't highlight addresses with equal sign ("=") in the local-part. If such addresses were displayed in the headers, there were no menu to do operations with them like add to the address book.
- The Bat! didn't properly support character encodings when working with HunSpell dictionaries, e.g. the Latvian special symbols are replaced with Cyrillic symbols in the Spell Checker
- Filtering on IMAP stops with an Access Violation error while setting color group
- Drop-downs on the main toolbar have areas with no reaction to mouse clicks
- Editor text color and search highlight text colors were hardcoded as "black" and "white", while they had to take colors from Windows system colors (Themes)
- There was an error when trying to run The Bat! while another The Bat! process didn't exit for some reason
- Automatic filters stop working altogether for certain IMAP folders, restarting doesn't help, newly arrived messages not filtered also
- Wrong size of fonts in print preview and the printed message (in tags like "small")
- Print preview looks OK but the final print is not formatted properly
- The HTML is viewed OK but in print or print preview, margins are incorrectly calculated and the text is trimmed at the right
- There were redundant right and bottom margins on printed pages
- Searching for messages using the mid: links in other folders didn't work since 5.0.36.2 released on 02-Mar-2012.
- [#0001139] If there were national characters in mailto url and The Bat! was set as a default mailto handler, these national characters were replaced to question marks. As a result, description of web-pages with national characters sent from browsers appears as question marks in Subject.
- Filling the background color of table cells fails
- "Minus" closing buttons in the message finder didn't scale on high-definition monitor; besides that, these buttons were two pixels higher than needed
- OpenPGP Error Window does not show national characters
- PGP 10.4 was not supported
- Truncated text field in QR-Code Generator (German GUI)
- Decryption of an email with large attachment takes much time if internal OpenPGP implementation is used
- Support for modern GnuPG 2.1
- Welcome message (in the Inbox) is no longer used for IMAP accounts
- Increased speed of entering a folder or sorting messages in the list by From/To/Subject columns when there were only latin characters. The speed increase is mostly noticeable in folders with more than 100 thousand messages
- If you collapse an account in the folder tree and restart The Bat!, this account again becomes open, if you click the folder tabs before
- The Bat! didn't start on single-processor single-core computers, it gave an Access Violation error
- The Bat! can log Simple MAPI calls. To enable logging, do the following. Uder "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWARERITThe Bat!" add DWORD value named "LogMapiCalls", value "1". Then, restart The Bat!. After that, The Bat! will create mapi_log.txt file in the %EMAIL% directory and will append lines to it every time an application like MS Word or MSIE wants to send a message or do any other MAPI function.
- Fixed an access violation error on exit that could prevent from saving toolbar configuration data
The Bat! Professional 7.4.8 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.6 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.4.4 (64-bit)
- HTML background images are not shown or shown distorted
- Access Violation while exiting and background download tasks are not yet finished
- Fixed the about box on high definition monitors
- HTML/CSS values were improperly converted from inches, centimeters and other length units to physical pixels
- Scrolling large images in an internal image viewer was slow
- If images had size "100%", they were much smaller than their proper size
- URLs which contained a mixture of national characters and percent-encoded characters were incorrectly encoded
- URLs in the HTML editor are no longer percent-encoded when saving a message; national characters and " < > & are replaced to htlm-entities. Plus and space are left intact.
- Images in some HTML messages are not displayed properly if internal HTML viewer is used
- Truncated text field in account properties
- URLs with Russian characters are corrupted in Quick Templates
- Widened buttons to restore templates in the account properties
- Sometimes image size is improperly calculated, the last (bottom right) line of the image is tiled from the first (left top), this is visible when zooming the about box
- The max-width attribute wasn't supported, thus some HTML newsletter weren't centered
- Default font in HTML viewer was too large under high definition monitors: twice as large at 200% DPI, thrice as large under 300%, and so on
- Fixed toolbar and popup menu display
- Font size drop-downs in the HTML-editor are too small on high DPI
- Color tool palette dropdown in the HTML-editor had too small bricks on high DPI
- The drop-down for "Style" in HTML-editor is to small on high DPI
- Missing left edge line in menus
- Menu navigator in other windows than the main did activate the main window instead
- Tab set height didn't adjust to used font size
- Toolbar grippers too small on high DPI
- Close button for floating toolbars was too small on high DPI
- Better algorithm for removing duplicate messages. You can also run The Bat! with various command line options to ignore several message attributes while comparing messages: /DEDUPIGNOREMSGID (ignore Message-ID), /DEDUPIGNORETO (ignore To), /DEDUPIGNOREDATE (ignore Date), /DEDUPIGNORETOMSGID (ignore To and Message ID - this command line option is reserved for past compatibility). You can combine multiple command line options mentioned.
- Toolbar chevrons didn't scale under high resolution DPI
The Bat! Professional 7.4.2 (64-bit)
- Smilies are not scaled on high DPI
- There were no "Synchronize" pop-up menu item for Google address books
- Print Pictures from internal viewer: aspect ratio is not maintained with large pictures
- Print Pictures from internal viewer: large pictures are printed twice
- 7.2 (64-bit) Some graphics appear extraordinarily large in the preview pane
- In message preview pane the PNG of a HTML message has black background
- Fixed access violation when viewing HTML messages with images (can be reproduced when changing message zoom back and forth by scrolling the mouse wheel), introduced in 7.3.12.29.
- Downloaded images into message body are not scaled
- 7.2 (64-bit) GIF break in Preview pane
- Animated GIFs didn't work in version 7.4
The Bat! Professional 7.4 (64-bit)
New features:
- Improved speed, reduced CPU use and decreased GUI latency on receiving messages via POP3 and sending via SMTP
- /BENCHMARK_STARTUP_TIME displays time passed to start The Bat!, in milliseconds
Improvements:
- Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
- Improved speed of checking for new message via MAPI in large folders
- Splash screen now uses default UI font
- Changed CSS length values for "ex" (was 1/1.3 of "em", now 1/2 of "em") and for cm&mm (was 1/2.52 of inch, now 1/2.54 of inch) - in accordance with https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units
- If a tbuser.def file is larger than 500K, it is not loaded but renamed to .bak instead
- Plugins are now loaded at startup from a separate thread. In The Bat! version 5.0, has performed time-consuming startup routines (like loading of plug-ins, parsing of interface definition files) in parallel threads. The performance boost was noticeable even on old single-core CPUs, because disk and processor operations were running simultaneously; while on multi-core CPUs and multiprocessor systems the boost was even higher because computations could run in parallel, without one affecting another. In version 6.0, plugins weren’t loaded from a separate thread, but from the main thread. This is now fixed and plugin loading is now the same as it was in 5.0.
- Optimized IMAP work with multiple connections. When there are several idle connections, and there were need to work with another folder, The Bat! could use a connection that had INBOX selected; now connection with INBOX will only be used if no other connections are available
- dlNSpellLanguages is displayed when the user have selected too many languages for spell checking, in this case, the status bar didn't manage to display all the languages and there were a bug that other status bar items were hidden
Fixes:
- "Message filtered counter" window element partially hidden in Filter Mail
- Wrong wrapping in the message boxes
- For HTML/plain text and HTML only editor modes after paste a link an unexpected space is added
- For Plain Text (Windows) editor mode after paste a link a selection remains
- MAPI tasks could give access violations on errors or if the user cancels them
- Photo area is too small in address book contact's properties
- Fixed "Thread Error: The handle is invalid" on HTML spell checkers
- Fixed a bug in spellchecker introduced in version 6.8.0.5 (05-May-2015)
- Selected color for even rows was incorrect
- Buttons' height in HTML didn't scale
- Incorrectly underlined text in the internal HTML viewer
- Improved speed of folder checking on MAPI
- Truncated line in "OptionsPreferencesMessage List"
- Fixed a vertical scroll bar in Preferences | Message List
- Items in User Preferences and Address Entry Editor dialog were misaligned
- CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) characters were too big and didn't fit the interface sometimes, didn't look good
- Fixed the "Address Book photo width/height is mis-sized" error while adding new image for address book on high-resolution monitor
- Controls in the Account Properties form were misaligned
- Photos in the address book didn't scale properly
- The Bat! didn't delete TMP files older than 1 months (since version 5)
- If there were more than 2GB of total mail on the server during POP3 retrieval, total received size was displayed incorrect (negative) in the connection center; the word "bytes" was used twice there.
- Some dialog elements in the Account Properties, Folder Properties, Address Entry weren't properly aligned or sized with high-DPI settings in various dialogs (on high-definition displays)
- The pie chart didn't paint correctly in the connection center
- In URLs, the ampersand parameter delimiter gets percent-encoded as %26, rather than encoded as an HTML entity
- URLs with ampersands are incorrectly opened in the HTML editor after you reopen it
- Message list column width and attachments' icon too small (on high-definition displays)
- Small check boxes and overlapping buttons in text search (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Not enough room for headers fields on the header pane (on high-definition displays)
- Message list nodes are too small (on high-definition displays)
- Address book icons truncated on 4K monitors (on high-definition displays)
- Toolbar buttons do not scale according to higher DPI setting (on high-definition displays)
- The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
- Account/folder nodes and the respective lines are barely seen (on high-definition displays)
- Truncated font size drop-down menu in the HTML editor (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny icons in the message editor window (on high-definition displays)
- Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action doesn't look good (on high-definition displays)
- Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters are not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny font in the account information tab (on high-definition displays)
- Attachment panel is too narrow on high-resolution monitors, the icons don't fit, a scroll bar appears
- Editor/Viewer header layout uses an old font by default when you run fresh install of The Bat! under modern OS. For example, if you run The Bat! first time under Windows 10, it will set Tahoma 8, but should have set Segoe UI 9 or similar
- Issues with QR-Code Generator (on high-definition displays)
- Disappearing buttons in dialog Edit Event | Categories on high-definition display (on high-definition displays)
- The color of the even row of the quoted text is not purple as it used to be in The Bat! version 1 (purple)
- The font didn't get updated in the address headers in the message preview and the open message editor, after the user have changed the font in the Preferences dialog.
- The status bar gripper is too small (on high-definition displays)
- Changes in look and feel of the nodes and lines in the message list and folder tree
- The text in the splash screen was truncated under 300% DPI or more (on high-definition displays)
- High-contrast themes with large dpi (300% or more) didn't draw enlarged tree node glyph (plus/minus sign in a square), it was very small and not scaled (on high-definition displays)
- Narrow default column width in the Maintenance Center (on high-definition displays)
- Splitters didn't use system-defined colors, used a fixed color instead that ignored color schemes
- For certain widths of the header columns, in the message list, the ellipses became visible (mostly on high-definition monitors)
- Tiny and overlapping "next" and "last" buttons below the message body (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny "first/last" and "next/previous" buttons for the message list tabs (on high-definition displays)
- Account/folder tree tabs are tiny and overlap (on high-definition displays)
- Mouse cursor shows the "forbidden" sign if the user opens contact properties using double-click
- The Bat! could not complete the "Exit" command (the main window became inoperable after you close it) after you have created an account and tested connectivity to SMTP in the new account wizard
- Images are printed with the template
- SmartBat: Printed Text uses print templates for mails when printing via Print Preview
- If Quick Reply is enabled in the Message Finder, the Results tab becomes empty
- Tiny progress bar in Message Finder (F7) (on high-definition displays)
- Scheduler Event via Sorting Office action was displayed incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny close buttons in the message list tabs incorrectly (on high-definition displays)
- Quick Reply pane is small (on high-definition displays)
- Grayed out items (like IMAP messages that weren't loaded) in the message list didn't scale
- Buttons didn't scale in the address grid of the message editor (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny contents of the OAUTH window (on high-definition displays)
- Internal HTML viewer didn’t scale logical pixels properly to physical pixels (on high-definition displays)
- The letter "g" does not fit on the search pane in the separate message viewer and in message finder (F7)
- Attachments' size turns 0 bytes after editing an email for the second time
- The mail ticker didn't scale (on high-definition displays)
- When resolution and display scaling is increased, the text gets unreadable in the address book (on high-definition displays)
- Selection color becomes invalid in the message list and in the Connection Center
- The widths of the status bar elements in the Message Finder and in the Connection Center didn't scale on high-definition monitors
- Sorting Office columns too narrow (on high-definition displays)
- Tiny conditions' drop-down arrows in Sorting Office (on high-definition displays)
- Filter text in Sorting Office always black
- AV errors on exit if an image was opened in an IMAP account
- Sorting office - filters that set colour groups always use blue text
- Spell-checker-specific underline (red) are not scaled for high resolution
- Check boxes were truncated at the bottom when UI font 9pt was used in the Message List Tabs editor dialog
- The radio buttons did overlap in the print preview window
- Access Violation error after compacting address books
- The Bat! could only allow compressing an address book when there were at least 1% of free space; the user could not compress the address book when there were less free space, e.g. only one entry deleted, which is not good from the security or privacy point of view
- Errors on compressing address books while On-The-Fly encryption was on
- Memory corruption on compacting address books with photos or certificates
- Message header names were top-aligned in the Message Editor
- Numbered list - Description is missing
- Removed import/export address entries from Google and Synchronize popup item from Google address books created earlier
- Print Preview: Two groups of option boxes did exclude each other
- URLs are not displayed as hyperlinks in Windows Editor
- Access Violation while starting The Bat (related to quick reply)
- "List index out of bounds" error message in the HTML-editor
- Clicking anywhere in the message body opens mail.ru sign-in page
- Access violation when working with 64-bit plugins, for example when clicking learn spam/learn ham plugin on the toolbar
- The main menu command Folder|Check for viruses was removed in 6.3.0.5 - now put back
- Cleanup for possible multiple "List index out of bounds" error messages while editing/moving/undo/redo and tracking mouse in editor
- Fixed an Access Violation when running The Bat! for the first time and creating an account with empty account password
- An IMAP connection went to Inbox between other commands, when it was not needed. A connection should only go to Inbox when there are no pending tasks at all, so all the connections are idle. There were a bug in determining whether a connection is idle, so it went to INBOX over and over again between executing other commands. You could observe it in the IMAP protocol log
- The Bat! didn't exit properly if the user had tags configured
- The Bat! didn't support "Priority: non-urgent" (see RFC-4021 section 2.1.54)
- Connection center labels were occasionally deleted in The Bat! 5.0.18.12 (23-Jul-2011) - now restored
The Bat! Professional 7.3.12 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.3.8 (64-bit)
- Friendly error messages when The Bat! is unable to open an URL
- Changed file name for the Image Download Rules configuration file. It is now ImgDlRules.TXT
- Umlauts in URLs are encoded wrong with Quoted-Printable in HTML messages
- Address Book did not synchronize with iCloud
- MAPI: Cyrillic characters in file names are turned into question marks in the Subject filed of the message when sent from MS Word 2013
- Messages about unknown errors were too confusing
- Incomplete Hint is shown in Inbox Analyzer Window
- Umlauts in URLs are encoded wrong with Quoted-Printable in HTML messages
- New account window didn't have focus on first run
- Image Download Manager rules are not restored from backup
- IMAP had low performance when browsing messages one-by-one in a folder, when multiple connections were active - it did UNSELECT the folder after getting a message and then SELECT again for next message
- Cropped smiley in internal HTML mail viewer
- When forwarding several mails to one recipient with the dialog box, the inline graphics arrive as attachments if at all
- Image Viewer is very slow on large images, consumes lot of CPU
- MAPI connections to Exchange might not work sometimes under 64-bits because pointers might have been truncated to 32 bits
The Bat! Professional 7.3.6 (64-bit)
- The Bat! was unstable when using animated GIF files as smiles (consumption of GDI objects was too high)
- Increased higher limit of available smilies for custom collections (from 299 to 999)
- Better display of error messages during SMTP STATTLS. For example, if a server did silently close the connection during SMTP STATTLS, The Bat! didn't report it to the log file.
- The Bat! did send TLS 1.2 cipher suites with SHA-256 and SHA-384 during a TLS 1.1 handshake, which is discouraged.
- Errors in Simple MAPI handling (for example, it was impossible to organize sending messages from Microsoft Word via the "Mailings" feature)
The Bat! Professional 7.3.4 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version
The Bat! Professional 7.3.2 (64-bit)
New features:
- Perfect Forward Secrecy TLS/SSL algorithms support
- Elliptic Curve certificates support on TLS/SSL
Added support for the following cryptographic algorithm suites:
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
Fixes:
- Unneeded folders in RSS Subscriptions
- PNG image had no transparency in XHTML messages
- Some HTML messages were not rendered correctly in the Windows OS HTML viewer
- Error while displaying HTML when switched on Windows OS HTML viewer
- Contents of a folder of a password protected account could be accessed without the password
- Some graphics appeared extraordinarily large in the preview pane
- Some inline GIF files were truncated
- Certain GIF files were incorrectly rendered
- Images came in correctly but when replied or forwarded, they were compressed horizontally
- Templates were not respected when forwarding multiple messages
- It was impossible to sync all contacts if message base encryption was used
The Bat! Professional 7.2 (64-bit)
New features:
- A warning dialog is now displayed when a second copy of the program is running
- Email body in XHTML format is now displayed
- Option to "Save HTML with default font" (see "OptionsPreferencesViewer/EditorEditor Preferences")
- Content-Type: text/calendar is now associated with vCalendar
- If Internet Explorer 8 is available, the layout engine is calculating document pixels as 96 dpi
- A warning is displayed if images used in templates were moved or renamed
Improvements:
- The internal messages queue has been redesigned resulting in significant speed improvements when receiving a large number of small messages via very fast connection to a POP3 or EWS server, the user interface became much more responsive
- The creation time of a message is displayed in case a message’s receipt time is much earlier than its creation time
- X-Priority header line is only included into the new messages with low and high priority. For normal-priority messages, this header line is no longer used, thus the "X-Priority: 3 (Normal)" will not be specified from now on
- Faster mail retrieval in large MAPI accounts
- Selection moves to the top of the list after deleting a contact in the address book
- EWS: reduced memory usage
Fixes:
- Example email address in the default address book has been changed from [email protected] to [email protected]
- Cannot pin the Mail Ticker on secondary monitor positioned vertically
- Not enough space for "Input OpenPGP key pass phrase" and "Please input the master password"
- The window when compacting a folder had no title
- Out of memory or Access Violation error message when opening a corrupted folder file has been fixed
- Quick templates inserted in HTML mode were losing hyperlinks formatting
- Domain for punycode was case sensitive
- An extra line appeared while inserting HTML quick templates in the plain text editor
- Hyperlinks were not created in the HTML editor while inserting plain text quick templates with hyperlinks
- Extra blanks were applied to standard signature template
- Fixes in message body tags while generating HTML messages
- Font size of non-hypertext fragments of inserted plain text quick template is now the same as default settings
- The issue with the flickering black message editor window on Windows XP has been eliminated
- Font size was not applied to hyperlinks in the templates signature
- Replies were losing multiple levels of quotes
- A workaround for bad implementations of the Authority Key Identifier decoding, which finally turned out to negatively affect proper implementations - some parent certificates couldn't be found, has been removed
- EWS: cannot send email with large attachments when using on-the-fly message base encryption
- EWS: messages could not be moved or deleted while using the on-the-fly message base encryption
- EWS: received messages had wrong creation date - Jan 1, 1980
- A part of Facebook notification messages was displayed two times
- Access violation error when editing several contacts in the address book at once
- "Select the Account" window appears behind the web-browser
- Exceptions.log contains NULL bytes
- Tags are not displayed on the header pane
- Tags in Cyrillic turn into garbage and get multiplied
- An issue with extra double apostrophes in the names of senders/recipients has been eliminated
- When account password was empty, sometimes the password dialog stayed in the background and was invisible
- In case an HTML template contained a table, it was impossible to place the cursor to the required field
- An Access Violation error message which appeared while trying to edit an HTML template with a table has been fixed
- An Access Violation on address search termination in the address book has been fixed
- RSS feed Links containing Cyrillic characters were displayed incorrectly
- Images with Cyrillic in file names inserted into HTML do not disappear anymore
- Invalid pointer operation error message caused by the spell checker locking the clipboard
- No more freezes when scrolling large RSS documents on the Entire text tab
- Files attached to messages get multiplied
- Some RSS feeds displayed wrong creation date
- When forwarding mail with external graphics links, the links are not carried into the email
- Fixed an access violation when moving between IMAP folders
- Short strings in the "OptionsPreferences..." window in Russian
- Truncated text in folder maintenance start window
- Passphrase dialog has not enough size and can’t be resized
- Reply to HTML mail has no quotes
- The Bat! could not display transparent 8-Bit PNG files
- 8bit PNG pictures (indexed color table, with transparency) always showed black background
- Images are not displayed if The Bat! HTML Viewer is used
- Image Viewer is very slow on large images, consumes lot of CPU
- Some inline GIF files were truncated
- Certain HTML messages were not rendered correctly when using the internal HTML viewer
- Certain PNG (indexed palette) pictures were displayed black
- HTML Links were not clickable
- Hyperlinks in the HTML Editor opened wrong web-pages
- Formatting of the quick templates was lost if inserted in HTML messages
- While forwarding multiple messages the respective Forward-templates were not used
- Images are compressed horizontally when replying or forwarding the email
- It's not possible to save changes in the "Insert Hyperlink" window
- Some fixes of the Unicode password handling in the GUI- Fixed an access violation error at startup
更新時間：2017-12-19
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
Corona Native builds are now supported on Windows:
- Starting with this build, Windows developers can now use Android Studio to build native based apps including building plugins, linking to native Android libraries similar to the way Mac based users have been able to do for some time.
- You will find a new “Native” folder in Corona’s Start menu folder, which has our standard “App” template in it. Copy that folder to your project directory and use “Open an Existing Android Studio project” option with Android Studio.
New Welcome Window:
- When you first start Corona you’re presented with a Welcome Window with a list of recent projects, icons to start new projects and open existing projects. This window has been redesigned with a more modern look.
Windows Live Server now supports both Bonjour v2 and v3:
- Bonjour is Apple’s library that lets Corona Live Server work on Windows. Until recently, Bonjour v3 was included with the installation of iTunes. However, Apple no longer includes Bonjour with iTunes. The standalone version of Bonjour is version 2. Live Server now can use either v2 or v3 of Bonjour.
Gradient paint now supports arbitrary directions:
- Previously you could only set directions like 0, 45, 90 and 180 when constructing a gradient fill using the fill.rotation value. It can now take a number allowing you to have gradients at other angles.
Windows text renderer is rewritten:
- Windows text renderer was rewritten to better match other platforms behavior, fixing number of bugs.
Google’s ContentProvider path traversal vulnerability warning:
- This public build also contains an update that addresses Corona made apps that get flagged in Google Play with the “ContentProvider path traversal vulnerability” warning. If you’re getting this warning in Google Play, simply rebuild with this version of Corona.
Corona can now use the latest Java:
- Corona has been updated to use 64 bit Java installations. You no longer need to install a specific version of Java, just have the latest version installed.