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v2.8.7.0-1 Change
Summary
This optional update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar, images.jar,
txiki-lib.jar, and languages.jar files
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory, along with the vs-updater.properties file
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
This size of this optional update is ~1MB
v2.8.7.0-1 New Features, Enhancement or
Bug Fix Details
- (Enhancement - DropBox
v0.6.0) Added Automatic Tickler Creation:
When somebody uses the DropBox applet to securely send a VaultletMail
message, the recipient will automatically receive a tickler
at their external account if they've signed up to receive them.
That means that the lesser-used VS2Go system accounts (like
"Bugs", "General Inquiries", etc.) will
be automatically notified when somebody attempts to contact
them.
- (Enhancement - SpecialDelivery
v1.3) Now Available in Spanish: Not only does
the SpecialDelivery client automatically configure itself according
to a user's locale, but it also allows them to toggle between
English and Spanish. This update also includes everything we
need to easily translate it to other languages in the future.
- (Enhancement - SpecialDelivery
v1.3) Now Available as a Java Web Start Application:
Since Firefox's Java Applet support on OS X and Linux leaves
a bit to be desired, we've decided to automatically offer and
run the Web Start version whenever the SD Applet finds itself
running in Firefox on OS or Linux.
- (Enhancement - DropBox
v0.6.0) Now Available in Spanish:
Offers the same advantages as the SpecialDelivery client (above).
- (Enhancement - DropBox
v0.6.0) Now Available as a Java Web
Start Application: Offers the same advantages as the
SpecialDelivery client (above).
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Simplified Mail Folder Order and Icons: This
latest version now groups the most commonly used folders first.
As a result, the "Inbox", "Sent" and "Trash"
folders are displayed before the "Receipts", "Unopened
by recipient" and "Unknown sender" folders.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added Simple Message Deletion Shortcut: As
most users would expect, hitting the delete key (when displaying
messages in the mailbox list) causes the highlighted message(s)
to be moved to the trashbin.
- (Enhancement -VaultletMail)
Added Transparent Folder Rendering: Now the
tree labels in the VaultletSuite 2 Go use transparent rendering.
As a result, users with large PasswordValet document list will
have a beautiful overlay of file names painted transparently
over top of the application icon in the lower left hand corner.
- (Enhancement -VaultletMail)
Greatly Simplified the Attachment "Save" Process:
The attachment save process was a bit baroque in previous versions.
Now users are greeted with a simple and more familiar file save
dialog and process that works just like any other application.
As it should be! Special tip o' the sombrero to SH for this
one.
- (Enhancement -VaultletSuite)
Added "Growable" User Input Dialogs:
Accompanying the internationalization of software comes the
conundrum of how much space to allocate for the proper rendering
and display of a given message. Since languages differ in how
many words and much space they need to get their message across,
we've added a neat feature that allows the user input dialogs
(like the "SpecialDelivery Secret Code" dialog) to
grow to the correct proportions for the text they're supposed
to display. In doing so it also "shakes" itself a
bit, drawing the user's attention to the popup. We'll be including
this feature in the rest of the VaultletSuite2Go's different
kinds of popups in coming versions.
- (Enhancement -VaultletSuite)
Added Improved DiskLocator Icons: These icons
now offer greater contrast and are more consistent with the
application's color scheme. A small thing, but now it's far
more visually obvious that "Roaming without a USB drive"
is what its name implies.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
v2.9 ALPHA) Added
the First Implementation of the "Chrono" Folder Display:
Alpha testers will be able to take their first look at this
unique and very handy way of storing, displaying, and organizing
email folders: by the date and time a message was sent or received.
This approach will also make it easy to implement a filter system
that allows users to look for messages based upon email addresses
(sender/receiver) and timestamp ranges.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
v2.9 ALPHA) Performed
Code Reorganization to Facilitate the Upcoming Move to the "Chrono"
File System: Before we could undertake the move to
v2.9's new underpinnings, a significant amount of cleanup, consolidation,
documentation and new support process had to be added. This
will ultimately help to make it easier for everybody to make
the transition from the pre-v2.9 file storage system to the
new and greatly improved one.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Fixed Missing "Attachment File Overwrite?" Prompt:
When saving an attachment, if a file with the same name as the
attachment already existed, the prompt to confirm the overwrite
was missing the proper translation tags and as a result did
not save the attachment nor overwrite the pre-existing file.
Now works like it should.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Fixed Broken "Empty Window" Display: For
some reason, Java on OSX doesn't like it when you attempt to
display and empty, although syntactically correct, html document.
This goofy little bug was making it impossible for people to
delete all of their locally archived files on OSX. Now that
this one is out of the way, they can delete to their heart's
content.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Enforced Maximum Subject Length in Outgoing Messages:
Settled on a maximum number of 128 letters in an outgoing message.
This serves two purposes: 1) Limits problems w/ other email
clients who may implement other arbitrary limits, and 2) Keeps
the VaultletMail database from complaining when excessively
long subject lines are too big to add to the database.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Enforced Maximum Account Name Length: While internet
email standards allow for insanely long (320 character) email
addresses, we're limiting them to 32 characters for the account
name, plus whatever the domain name length comes to. How did
we arrive at the maximum of 32 letters? Turns out that research
has shown that ~99% of all email addresses are 32 characters
or less in length, and that actually counts the domain name
characters too.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Disabled Use of Keyboard Shortcuts in Russian Version:
For whatever the reason, Java on Russian operating systems doesn't
want to honor the keyboard mnemonic suggestions, while they
work perfectly fine for other European languages. These Russian
mnemonics will stay disabled until a satisfactory explanation
and solution is found.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Disabled Double Clicks on the Delete Button: Don't
know why, but Java on OS X is allowing the message "Delete"
button to receive double clicks. Perhaps some users have a special
"Double click" funtion added to their multi-button
mice? A simple workaround was to temporarily disable this button
until the delete process was properly initiated.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Newly Sent Messages Are Properly Listed in the "Unopened"
and "Sent" Folders: For those who actually
notice these things, both of these folders now correctly update
the stats information, along with inserting the newly added
message into their respective lists.
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v2.8.5/6 Change
Summary
This optional update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar, txiki-lib.jar, and
languages.jar files in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory, along with the vs-updater.properties file
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
This size of this optional update is ~0.5MB
v2.8.5/6 New Features, Enhancement or Bug
Fix Details
- (Enhancement) More
Reliable Messaging (Fine Grained VaultletMail Availability Monitor):
This new module continually watches all incoming and out going
mail queues, internal VaultletMail process, server "ping-ability"
and "find-ability" and automatically alerts VaultletSoft
when something's not working as well as it should.
Now VaultletSoft will know long before anyone else that our
VaultletMail system needs to be attended to. That means that
you'll get more available and reliable secure email messaging
with fewer hiccups.
- (Enhancement) Easier
VaultletMail Viewing: We've added an expected behavior
on Windows: hitting the "Enter" key while viewing
an email list will automatically display the message selected.
Thanks to ToV for pointing this out.
- (Enhancement) Renamed
VaultletMail Folders: Our "Undelivered" mail
folder took too much time to explain, so we changed the name
to "Unopened by recipient".
Now you'll be able to see if somebody's actually opened your
VaultletMail message to them. And if you want documentation,
then just choose "Request receipt" when you composed
your messages to them.
The former "SpamChallenged" folder has also been renamed
to "Not in AddressBook" to more accurately reflect
the contents of this folder too.
- (Enhancement) Improved
VaultletMail Folder Tooltips: All of the VaultletMail
folders now have tooltips in Spanish and English that help you
to better understand just what's in each folder. Other languages
coming soon.
- (Enhancement)
Easier "Forgotten Password" Help (VaultletSuite
Login Screen): We put a "I forgot my password!"
link right where you'd need it most if you forgot your password:
right there on the login screen.
- (Security) Updated
Java Runtime Bundled with VS2Go: Version 1.6.0_15 includes
numerous
bug fixes that don't directly affect VS2Go users (as it's
installed for the VS2Go's exclusive use, instead of system-wide
use), but has been included for the sake of being thorough.
- (Security Bug Fix)
Disabled Overly Verbose Multipart Message Handling in VaultletMail
Client: Our Multipart handler was dumping too much
of a multipart recipient's message body to the current session's
bug tracking log. Now only the metadata is logged for debugging
purposes.
- (Bug Fix) Fixed
VaultletMail Dynamic Font Resizing Menus: Implemented
better enabling/disabling logic for the display of the "Increase/Reset/Decrease"
options on both the popup and regular VaultletMail menus. A
big t'anks to HRO for this one.
- (Bug Fix) Disabled
VaultletMail Composer "Anonymous" Sender Option:
There are two main reasons that we disabled the ability to send
messages as "anonymous@vaultletsoft.com": 1) In legal
terms, delivering anonymous message is a hard position to defend
(as history
has shown), and 2) It was never "truly" anonymous
(merely pseudo anonymous) as it did not protect users
from high-level "Traffic
Analysis" attacks.
This has been replaced by an exclusively VaultletMail to VaultletMail
"Sender.Name.Witheld" option, which clearly identifies
its lack of protection from Traffic Analysis attacks, while
prompting recipients for explicit permission to receive messages
from senders who withhold their names and identifying information
from their VaultletMail messages.
This change should address issues of liability and transparency.
- (Bug Fix) Fixed
Local Message Deletion for VaultletMail: Our obfuscation
library was breaking valid Java classes and causing the deletion
routine to go into a race condition and create outrageously
large bug log files.
- (Bug Fix) Added
Plaintext Email Import Throttling to the VaultletMail Server:
Importing thousands of plaintext messages after a temporary
outage would cause a low-level Denial of Service (DoS) on the
VaultletMail server, whilst also causing the server's batch
processing of too many messages to timeout. To remedy this,
we've added a maximum number of plaintext messages that be imported
at one time when running in batch mode.
- (Bug Fix) Fixed
"Document Not Found" Message for Users of Non-i18n
Languages: The internationalization routine (i18n)
for dynamically building URLs for displaying documents within
the VaultletSuite was incorrectly generating URLs for documents
when a user was from a language group outside the currently
supported language groups (English, Spanish, French, Russian
and Arabic). Now defaults to English if they're not in the group
of the 5 supported languages.
- (Bug Fix) Fixed
VaultletMail Folder Overloading: We're having our first
experience with users who are managing thousands of messages.
In some cases, the current implementation was attempting to
download too many messages at a time and failing, leaving some
users with partially populated inboxes.
The fix involves two steps: 1) Establish a maximum number of
messages that a Blue
account user can manage per folder (256) and per account (512),
2) Add the capacity for Gold
account holders to download and populate their inboxes incrementally
with no limit to the number of messages that they can manage
with the VaultletMail client. Step 1 has already been implemented,
while step 2 will be included in v2.9 when it's released.
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v2.8.4 Change
Summary
This optional update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar, images.jar, txiki-lib.jar,
languages.jar, languages_ru.jar,
and languages_fr.jar files in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory, along with the vs-updater.properties file
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
This size of this optional update is ~1.0MB
v2.8.4 New Feature or Enhancement Details
- SpecialDelivery Viewer (SDV) Automatic Bug Poster:
This nifty new module should help to dramatically increase the
quality of user experience with an applet that's deployed on
so many different platforms. Thanks to all who took the time
to manually document the bugs and oddities that they were seeing
before this enhancement was implemented.
- SpecialDelivery Extension for Webmail (Firefox):
Added an optimization to the automatic check for updates. Now
only checks for a new version the first time Firefox is run
in any given web browsing session.
- VaultletMail AddressBook Autoadd: Added the
ability for users to turn off this convenience feature, so that
incoming and outgoing message's senders and recipients are no
longer added to the AddressBook. Thanks to HRO for this suggestion.
- DropBox "Contact Me" Button Customization:
Added the ability for users to easily and automatically generate
customized HTML that allows them to add pre-addressed DropBox
popup and embedded applets to their web pages. Props to Taco
for the suggestion
- VaultletMail Composer Optimization: Added
a very space efficient way to send the same message to more
than four recipients. While previous implementation took up
too much space when sending to multiple recipients, this improvement
allows any number of recipients to be displayed in the amount
of space that it takes to display four recipient's addresses.
A big "eskerrik asko" goes out to my very own IKRA
and IAA who pointed out how nice it would be to have this.
v2.8.4 Bug Fix Details
- SpecialDelivery Viewer (SDV): Now correctly
enforces maximum views assigned by sender.
- SDV "Null" bug: Fixed current crop
of "Null" bugs by rewriting code for switching between
editor and message display mode.
- SDV Responding with Expired Key Pair: Fixed
inappropriate use of an expired keypair when responding to a
message signed with a now-expired keypair. Now correctly uses
the recipient's latest valid keypair.
- SDV Posting Progress and Finalization Bug:
Fixed doubling of popup dialogs (progress and "Finished!").
Now correctly displays one at a time.
- VaultletSuite 2 Go: Updated Russian and Spanish
translations.
- VaultletSuite Installer: Further cleanup
of Russian and Spanish translations.
- VaultletMail Composer (VMC): Fixed collapsed
and illegible SpecialDelivery "secret code" dialog.
Now correctly displays entire contents in Russian.
- VMC Search-by-typing Addressing to Recipients:
Fixed broken search-by-typing due to Java Runtime security upgrades,
and also added a nice "select the first item in the list"
approach that saves the sender one keystroke when choosing a
matching recipient address from the popup recipient list.
- VaultletSuite 2 Go: Added size "suggestion"
parameters to popup dialogs displaying large amounts of text.
Now allows for more appropriate resizing of dialog to accommodate
the text content to display.
- VaultletMail (VM) "View Externally" (Russian
and Arabic): Temporarily disabled the ability to view
VM messages in default browser until a better "best guess"
for local default character set can be implemented. It turns
out that defaulting to UTF-8 isn't always the best approach
for the Russian version.
- VaultletSuite 2 Go Internationalization (i18n):
Fixed broken Russian SpecialDelivery message templates whose
content was being improperly serialized and then displayed illegibly.
- VaultletSuite 2 Go Startup:
Removed inappropriate local search for expired keypairs when
user was in roaming mode w/o an external storage device.
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v2.8.3 Change
Summary
This optional update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar, updater.jar, images.jar,
txiki-lib.jar, languages.jar,
languages_ru.jar, and languages_fr.jar
files in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory, along with the vs-updater.properties file
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
This size of this optional update is ~1.1MB
v2.8.3 New Feature or Enhancement Details
- Reduced Installer Size: The new installers
are anywhere from 1.8 MB to 3.4 MB smaller than the installers
created for v2.8.2. That saves everybody time and bandwidth.
- Minimalist Installer (no JRE) for Windows and Linux:
As a nod to our control-oriented, advanced users, we've just
added two new installers to our build collection, which weigh
in at 4.8 MB - 4.1 MB, respectively. These installers are small
because they don't bundle Sun's JRE with them. This saves advanced
users significant download bandwidth and time. On the other
hand...
Note: These installers are
designed for advanced users who are willing and able to
install and maintain a separate system JRE. The work associated
with saving considerable bandwidth (in this case) is not
for the faint of heart.
Note 2: This means that advanced users
may see subtle differences in behavior of the VaultletSuite
2 Go, as they may be using non-standard JREs with different
bugs or behaviors than the JREs that are used to build and
test the current production version.
Note 3: The minimum required installed
JRE version for these minimalist builds is version 1.6.0_10.
- (i18n) French Translation Finalized: v2.8.0
is now fully supported with the inclusion of the final version
of the French UI translation. A big tip o' the old sombrero
to "A" and "PC" up North for this one!
- (i18n) Russian Translation Finalized: v2.8.0
is now fully supported with the inclusion of the final version
of the Russian UI translation. A big tip o' the old sombrero
to "HRO" for the good questions, bugs found (and reported),
and a fine eye for detail and consistency!
- VaultletMail Composer (VMC) Font Zooming:
Added dynamic font resizing for the message editor window. Very
handy on tiny computer screens or OS's with microscopic default
font sizes! The last font size used is restored upon starting
a new session. This functionality is accessible via the "Tools"
menu, keyboard shortcuts, and by right clicking on the message
display pane. Thanks to "Leonid" and "HRO"
for the suggestion.
- Added "Select All" to Cut/Copy/Paste Popup
Menus: Added right-click editing menus to VaultletMail,
the VaultletMail Composer, AddressBook and PasswordValet. Thanks
to CL for the original tap on the shoulder.
- PasswordValet (PV) File Sorting: Improved
the utility of the PV file list by sorting them according to
their name.
- PV New File Creation: Made it easier and
faster to create new PV's, and also added a
nice "best guess" approach as to where you would want
the new PV posted: to your local storage, or
VaultletSoft's servers.
- PV Font Zooming: Added dynamic font resizing
for the PV editor window too, along with the
same shortcuts as in the VM and VMC.
- Security in-a-box Tutorials: Added new links
to the latest SecBox online publication - one to the high level
"tools and tactics", and another pointing to the their
VaultletSuite2Go tutorial. Currently available in the English
and Spanish versions, will be available RealSoonNow™ in
French and Russian.
- VaultletMail (VM) AlertBar: Finalized full
notification and attention getting flashing of alerts for: ScopeControlled
messages, in addition to the already present, HalfLife'd by
views and time, along with ReceiptRequested and SpecialDelivery
notification.
- VaultletMail (VM) ScopeControl: Added background
and border highlighting for ScopeControlled documents, making
it more obvious that the recipient was viewing a constrained
document.
- SpecialDelivery (SD) AlertBar: Added the
full complement of flashing alerts for constrained messages,
along with using the VM's display colors for
constrained messages.
- VM Performance Enhancements: Improved statistics
generation time by a factor of 50x! Not only is it
faster for system administrators, but it also frees up a considerable
amount of server CPU time for simultaneously handling user requests.
v2.8.3 Bug Fix Details
- Updater and Launcher (UnL) UI: Removed an
overly broad "mnemonics/shortcut remover" which was
originally designed for use on OS X, and ended up being used
on Windows too.
- UnL i18n Omission: Fixed missing translation
keys for the UnL's Connectivity tab. Thanks to "HRO"
for this one.
- New User Wizard (NUW) i18n: Added missing
visual feedback concerning a new account's password length.
Thanks to "HRO" for this one.
- NUW: Consistently implemented the orange
"Label Hovering" effect for user choices while creating
a new account.
- NUW Missing Status: Added missing status
information back into the account creation process. Thanks to
"HRO" for this one.
- NUW Improved i18n Layout: Added more horizontal
space for languages that are more verbose than English. Now
everything is much more legible. Again, thanks go to "HRO"
for this one.
- NUW Missing Status: Added missing status
information back into the account creation process. Thanks to
"HRO" for this one.
- PasswordValet (PV) SmartWindows: Fixed Java's
broken over-reporting of window resizing events. As a result,
the proper size and location are once again stored and restored
upon ending and initiating a new session.
- PV "Save" Button Keyboard Shortcut:
Enabled the previously disabled "Cntl+S" keyboard
shortcut for saving edited PV files.
- VaultletMail New User Welcome (i18n):
Fixed garbled Russian text in "Welcome" message subject,
along with system generated "Tickler" messages and
"DropBox" URLs in Russian version. Once again, thanks
go to "HRO" for reporting this one.
- VaultletMail Composer (VMC):
Fixed Russian "Micro Fonts" bug that assigned a 9
point font to the VMC. Same solution applied
to PV editor.
- VaultletSuite Installer:
Fixed agrammatical Russian translations in installer utility.
Once again, thanks go to you know who reporting and
fixing this.
- VaultletSuite Splash Screen:
Fixed out-of-date copyright notice. Chalk up another one for
HRO, MVP of this release ;-)
- VaultletSuite Windows Flashing on Windows:
Attenuated/fixed (~90%) a Java window management bug on Windows
that caused the underlying desktop and other visibly running
programs to flash and be briefly painted over the VaultletMail
window when it finished some long running task. A definitive
fix for this should appear when v3.0 is released.
- VaultletSuite SSL and Java Security Update:
Added VaultletSoft's top level CA certificate used to sign the
testing website and server' SSL certificate. This means that
the VS2Go client can be pointed to a server that hasn't payed
the excessive SSL certificate toll and still get all the SSL
bit protecting goodness it, and you, deserve.
- VaultletSuite Toolbar & Auto Zoom Collision:
Fixed negative interaction between the "AutoZoom"
and the new subscription status information. Now they co-exist
quite nicely.
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v2.8.2 Change
Summary
This optional update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar, txiki-lib.jar, languages.jar,
languages_ru.jar, and languages_fr.jar
files in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory, along with the vs-updater.properties file
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
v2.8.2 New Feature or Enhancement Details
- (i18n) French translation updated: v2.8.0
is now fully supported with the inclusion of the current French
draft translation. A big tip o' the old sombrero to "A"
up North for this one!
- VaultletMail (VM) Font Zooming: Added dynamic
font resizing for the message display window. Very handy on
tiny computer screens or OS's with microscopic default font
sizes! The last font size used is restored upon starting a new
session. This functionality is accessible via the "Tools"
menu, keyboard shortcuts, and by right clicking on the message
display pane. Thanks to Leonid for the suggestion.
- Cut/Copy/Paste Popup Menus: Added right-click
editing menus to VaultletMail, the VaultletMail Composer, AddressBook
and PasswordValet. Thanks to CL for the tap on the shoulder.
- PasswordValet (PV) Viewability: Vastly improved
the visibility and contrast of displayed content when in "View"
mode. Thanks to AA for pointing this out!
- Simple Subscription Status Bar and Account Updating:
Added a really nice, yet unobtrusive, way to let everybody know
the status of their subscription, and how to easily update or
extend it. Also very handy for running "Seven Day"
subscription sales :-)
- New Feature and Pricing Compliance: Began
implementing some of the time, size and space constraints referenced
in the new client licensing matrix. Go here
to find out what's coming in v2.9-v3.1.
v2.8.2 Bug Fix Details
- VaultletSuite "SmartWindows": Neither
the default size nor previous size were being properly restored
for the VaultletMail window. By limiting Java's over-reporting
of resizing events, this windows last position and size is now
properly restored upon initiating a new session.
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v2.8.1.1-2 Change
Summary
This optional update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar file in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory, along with the vs-updater.properties file
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
v2.8.1.1-2 Bug Fix Details
- VaultletSuite Startup: Fixed a bug in the
Anti Alias (AA) text rendering library that was breaking startup
on Ubuntu 8.04. Since Linux and OS X already have pretty good
AA support, the only operating systems that get it are Windows
2000, XP and Vista.
- Updater and Launcher (UnL):
Added same fix to UnL application.
- UnL Configuration Editor:
Same as above.
- Native Look and Feel (LnF):
Reverted to Metal LnF on Windows 2000, Sun's native Win2K LnF
was unacceptable.
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v2.8.1 Change
Summary
This optional update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar, updater.jar, languages.jar,
languages_ru.jar, and images.jar
files in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory, along with the vs-updater.properties file
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
v2.8.1 New Feature or Enhancement Details
- (i18n) Russian translation updated: v2.8.0
is now fully supported with the inclusion of the current Russian
draft translation.
v2.8.1 Bug Fix Details
- VaultletMail Composer (VMC): Fixed extremely
annoying To/Cc/Bcc "Search by typing" bug on OS X
that was created by the latest Java updates on OS X.
- VMC: Fixed interface hang caused by automatic
spelling checking when responding to or forwarding long messages.
- SpecialDelivery Viewer (SDV): Removed doubled
menu bar on OS X.
- (i18n) New User Wizard: Fixed broken layout
for Russian Yes/No choice when viewing EULA screen.
- (i18n) Updater and Launcher
(UnL) Configuration Editor:
Improved layout for Russian GUI translation.
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v2.8.0.2 Change Summary
This required update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will only overwrite
the vs.jar and updater.jar files in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory, along with the vs-updater.properties file
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
v2.8.0.2 Bug Fix Details
- VaultletSuite Updater and
Launcher (UnL):
Login dialog was attempting to authenticate users against the
beta testing version of the VaultletSuite 2 Go. Now, users are
authenticated against the production server.
- SpecialDelivery Viewer: Changed default preference
from logging in to the beta server to the production server.
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v2.8.0 Change
Summary
This required update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
all of the jars files in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory, along with the vs-updater.properties file
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
Note: Updating all of the
Vaultletsuite 2 Go's jar files is required, as the digital certificate
used to sign them recently expired. This certificate was subsequently
renewed and used to re-sign all the *.jar files that the VaultletSuite
2 Go uses.
v2.8.0 New Feature or Enhancement Details
- Java Runtime Environment (JRE): The VaultletSuite
2 Go now uses Sun's latest and greatest JRE (v1.6), which brings
you better performance, stability and a greatly enhanced Native
Look and Feel (next).
- VaultletSuite Native Look and Feel (LnF):
The VaultletSuite 2 Go now uses the host Operating System's
native desktop LnF on Windows XP, Vista, 2000, OSX and Gnome.
This means that users now get GUI widgets that more closely
resemble the widgets they've been working with all along. The
result? Fewer aesthetic and cognitive distractions for new,
infrequent or less experienced users.
- VaultletSuite 2 Go Buttons: The VaultletSuite
2 Go's main toolbars now sport a vertical layout which takes
up less horizontal space. This allows the Spanish, French, Russian
and Arabic GUI translations to better lay themselves out. This
is important, as English is fairly telegraphic, while these
other languages generally take more space to render their text.
- SpecialDelivery Viewer
Application BETA (SDV Application):
Added a new standalone application to the standard VaultletSuite
2 Go installation (v2.8.0.2). This application can be run on
your computer without using your browser or having to enable
Java Applets in your browser.
- SDV Applet
and Application BETA:
Added "Respond to all" functionality. Now you can
have secure, ScopeControlled and HalfLife'd email conversations
with multiple recipients at just about any email address.
- SDV Applet
and Application BETA:
Added "SmartAlert" notification for HalfLife'd messages,
the beginnings of language preferences, and better "invalid
account/password" feedback, similar to the VS2Go's login
screen.
- SDV Applet
and Application BETA:
Respondent's responses inherit the constraints placed upon them
by the original sender, just like the VaultletMail Composer
does.
- SDV Applet
and Application BETA:
Added separate "Options" and "Message" menu,
similar to the rest of the VS2Go.
- SpecialDelivery Webmail Viewer Extension
for Firefox BETA: One right click on
a SpecialDelivery message received at a webmail account decrypts
and displays the contents of the message. User can choose between
using the SDV Applet or local Application BETA to securely view
and respond to SpecialDelivery messages.
- Internationalized (i18n) and Differentiated SpecialDelivery
Messages:
First time and experienced recipients now receive different
instructions (detailed and brief), in the language of their
choice: Languages currently include English
and Spanish, French and Russian.
- (i18n) System Messages:
User's "You've Got VaultletMail" and "Welcome
to the VaultletSuite 2 Go" messages, along with DropBox
URLs are encoded in the recipient's language of choice: Languages
currently include English and Spanish; French and Russian to
come within days of putting v2.8 into production.
- (i18n) New User Wizard: The EULA and the
"Control vs. Simplicity" table seen in the New User
Wizard now are viewable in English, Spanish, French and Russian.
The EULAs also include a translated "Simple Summary"
section for non-native speakers of English.
- (i18n) Installer: The EULA's translated summary
is now displayed according to the GUI language chosen upon starting
the installer application. Currently available in English, Spanish,
French and Russian.
- Updater and Launcher (UnL): Added a "Skip
all updates except for security and compatibility updates"
option to both the partial and End of Life (EOL) sections, along
with improving the descriptions accompanying the four categories
of update types.
- VaultletMail (VM): Simplified the presentation
of each message's metadata (ScopeControl, HalfLife, etc) by
adding "SmartAlerts" that function like Firefox's
notification bar. The end result? Less cluttered message presentation,
notification of message constraints that save space, plus, they're
hard to miss too!
- VaultletMail Composer Spelling Checker (VMC):
Added Spanish spelling checker for Gold
accounts, along with the ability to choose between English and
Spanish while in the middle of composing a message.
- VMC Spelling Checker: Added common technical
terms and abbreviations to both the English and Spanish spelling
checker for Gold
accounts.
- VMC SpecialDelivery: Added a new prompt for
outgoing plaintext messages that allows users to choose between
sending them insecurely, or via SpecialDelivery. Currently defaults
to "Send insecurely", but once the SpecialDelivery
Webmail Extension for Firefox exits beta testing, we'll set
the default to use SpecialDelivery.
- VMC SpecialDelivery Options: Added menu options
to set preferences for how outgoing (non-VaultletMail) should
be handled by default, in addition to whether users should always
be prompted or their preferred default should be applied automatically.
- VaultletSuite Options: Promoted all of the
VaultletSuite 2 Go's application "Options" menus from
being nestled inside of the "Tools" menus to between
the "Tools" and the "Help" menus.
- VaultletSuite Options: Organized and bundled
separate but related options into groups so that they're more
easily understood and accessed.
- VaultletSuite Tech Support Forms: Added a
"Help" menu entry to all applications that points
the user's browser to the new Tech Support Forums. Browser access
to these forums is always protected via SSL.
- PasswordValet: Added "New", "Save"
and "Print" shortcut keys.
- Anonymity: Removed all IP information from
the VaultletSuite 2 Go's access logs.
- System Administration: Reformatted the statistics
summary pages, so that they are more legible and meaningful.
v2.8.0 Bug Fix Details
- SDV Applet and Application:
Fixed uncommon cases where expiration date would not be enforced.
- SpecialDelivery Viewer (SDV): Changed default
preference from logging in to the beta server to the production
server.
- Installer: Fixed broken "Run VaultletSuite
2 Go" checkbox language that appeared at the end of a successful
installation.
- System Administration: Removed overly verbose
debugging output from the production server.
- VaultletMail Composer (VMC): Fixed "Null
Pointer Exception" thrown when auto-adding an email address
before responding to a message whose sender's name was null.
- VMC: Fixed broken "un quoting"
when toggling between no quoting and traditional (">
") quoting for responses and forwarded messages.
- VMC: Fixed missing "Maximize" button
on Windows.
- VMC: Fixed layout of "To/Cc/Bcc"
and "+/-" button on Windows.
- VMC and SDV: Both now clone a HalfLife'd
message before responding to it. This will help to
avoid having the message being responded to disappearing while
in the middle of a response. This error was never seen or reported
in the wild, but, since it was possible, it should be prevented.
- SDV: Removed display of internal recipients
(you@vaultletsoft.com) from login dialog for SDV,as they're
not a relevant choice for SD recipients.
- SDV: Reordered authentication via sender's
"Secret Code" so that it happens before a
first time recipient creates a new account for themselves. This
will help to avoid possible Man
in the Middle (MitM) attacks on new SD accounts.
- SDV: Fixed overly sensitive "Invalid
Message Format" algorithm so it displays a more innocuous
"No Message Found" alert, along with simplified instructions
for proceeding.
- SpecialDelivery SSL Viewer (SDV SSL): Fixed
broken redirection for alpha version of flyweight (non-java)
SpecialDelivery viewer.
- VaultletSuite "About": Fixed broken
resize and layout on Windows.
- HalfLife SmartAlert for VM and SDV: Fixed
"null:09" time remaining notification for HL'd messages
that were sent with a 10 second self-destruct time. Now correctly
displays "00:09".
- Beta v2.8 Bugs: Also fixed 20+ bugs uncovered
during beta testing, thanks to our tester's good eyes and insight.
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A high level summary of the most visible changes
included in v2.8 can be found here.
To see update details for the previous release, v2.7, please
go here.
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