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v2.9.8.4 Change
Summary
This required update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar file in your in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory. It will also update the vs-updater.properties
file in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
The size of this required update is ~0.4MB.
v2.9.8.4 New Features, Enhancements &
Bug Fix Details
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added Header to Folder View Table: Now displays the
name of the currently selected mail tree folder.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added "Countdown Relief" to Auto-Delete Process:
The number of remaining avisory notifications before automatic
deletion is increased by one if a user deletes or archives some
messages on the server. This effectively grants a user a small
reprieve from automatic deletion when they exceed system resource
limits for their account and they attempt to take action.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
Server) Added Automatic Account Auditing, Reporting &
Deletion Grace Period: Now, when the VaultletMail server
reviews each user's account for compliance with system resource
quotas, that user is notified via email. Also currently grants
these same users a 72 hour grace period after email notification
before their messages and attachments are automatically deleted.
If a given user exceeds their resource limits and does not
have a valid external email address, then a message is
sent to their VaultletMail address.
- (Quality Control
- VaultletMail) Fixed Non-Appearing AddressBook:
Address a short-lived bug introduced in v2.9.8.x that prevented
it from being displayed when the AddressBook button was clicked.
- (Quality Control
- VaultletMail Server)
Improved Excess Message Deletion Accuracy: Previous
implementation of "deleteExcessMessagesBySize" would
not delete all of the messages on the server that contributed
to their exceeding system resource limits. Current version is
now is more strict about meeting space limits.
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v2.9.8.0-3
Change Summary
This required update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar, languages.jar, txiki-lib.jar
and images.jar files in your in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory. It will also update the vs-updater.properties
file in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
The size of this required update is ~1.3MB.
v2.9.8.0-3 New Features, Enhancements &
Bug Fix Details
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added Folder View Table: Now displays the currently
selected mail folder's children (other mail folders) in the
VaultletMail table. This view functions in a way that is consistent
with how most operating systems display a tree view's currently
selected folder. Big thanks to WB
for this great suggestion, and patience in waiting for this
to be implemented - 'turned out to be easily and cleanly implementable!
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added Easy Archiving and Deletion (Per Month) via Right Click
Popup Menus: Now displays the appropriative options
per monthly mail folder selected: "Archive all messages"
and "Delete all messages". This makes it much easier
for users to comply with their account's storage quotas.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
Composer and SpecialDelivery Viewer) Added Background
Generation and Caching of Transient Attachment KeyPairs:
This performance enhancement can reduce the amount of time a
sender has to wait while their message's attachments are prepared
for transmission (encrypted) by anywhere from 2 to 30 seconds.
In v2.9.9, will also be used to speed up the HTML + SSL version
of the Webmail Plugin for Firefox.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
Server) Added Automatic Account Auditing & Reporting:
Server reviews each user's account for compliance with system
storage time, size occupied, and message quantity quotas. Currently
notifies system administrator that which users are exceeding
their limits, in v2.9.9, users will be notified once via email,
thereafter, their messages will be deleted, oldest first, until
they are compliant with quotas.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
Server) Added Orphaned Attachment
Cleanup: Periodically reviews all attachments stored
on server's file system for appropriate representation in the
VS2Go database.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
Server) Added Ability to
Delete Excess Messages by Size: Now capable of deleting
a given user's excess messages, oldest first, when they've exceed
their maximum storage space quota.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added Automatic Prompt to Upgrade Based on Storage Volume Quotas:
Now checks for compliance with maximum storage space quota per
account type (Basic, Blue, Gold). This is in addition to the
message quantity and age check that was added in v2.9.7.
- (Enhancement - VaultletSuite)
Added Maximum Session Length Enforcement: Now checks
for, and enforces, maximum session length (login time), which
is currently set to 24hrs. This allows the automatic server
based system quota auditor to remove excess messages on the
server w/o creating a possible out-of-synch condition between
the VM client and server components.
- (Quality Control
- SpecialDelivery Webmail Plugin for Firefox) Removed
Incompatible Plugin Update Check: Removed all code
that referenced a now out of date FF library. Result: users's
don't automatically see a useless Plugin update dialog every
time they start FF.
- (Quality Control
- All VaultletSuite Apps) Removed Infrequently Used "Tips"
Option from all Help Menus: As this feature was infrequently
used, removing it from the Help menus reduced clutter.
- (Quality Control
- VaultletSuite) Cleaned
up Dead Code: Removed unused/old source code that's
no long used in production. Also refactored some of the VaultletMail
and VaultletMail Composer client's code into separate VaultletMail
Library code modules. This helps to prepare for the upcoming
development of v3.0 of the VaultletSuite 2 Go.
- (Quality Control
- VaultletMail Server)
Added Better Borked Image Compression Fallback: Added
a more junk tolerant version of image compression strategy for
incoming plaintext messages that have incorrectl Base64 encoding.
Having to do this is largely the result of some users receiving
excessive amounts of poorly(!) constructed Spam.
- (Quality Control - VaultletMail
Client) Added Improved "Valid Email Address"
Check: The old version didn't check for doubled "@"
signs w/in a user's typed in email address. Now properly check
for more than one "@" sign in an email address, and
notifies user before aborting message sending. That means that
an address such as "you@somewhere@another.com"
will now be considered invalid.
- (Quality Control - VaultletMail)
Added Improved Plaintext Message Printing: The old
version improperly included embedded HTML source code w/in printed
plaintext messages. Now is legible and sometimes uses up to
90% less paper to print a given message. Many thanks to H
for sending in a verbatim copy of a source code infested printout!
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v2.9.6-7 Change
Summary
This required update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar, languages.jar, txiki-lib.jar
and images.jar files in your in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory. It will also update the vs-updater.properties
file in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
The size of this required update is ~1.3MB.
v2.9.6-7 New Features, Enhancements &
Bug Fix Details
- (Enhancement - SpecialDelivery
Viewer) Added Large Secure SpecialDelivery Attachments:
Recipients of SpecialDelivery messages can now respond to their
senders and include large attachments.
- (Enhancement - SpecialDelivery
Viewer) Added Viewable HalfLife and ScopeControl for
SpecialDelivery Attachments: Senders of SpecialDelivery
messages can now limit the propagation of attachments, while
recipients can view them securely, without being able to print,
archive and/or forward them.
- (Enhancement - SpecialDelivery)
Added Expiration Dates for SpecialDelivery Attachments:
Previously, recipients of SpecialDelivery messages were leaving
their encrypted attachments laying around on the server for
months on end. They are now notified that their attachments
will be automatically deleted from the server after 30 days.
This frees up server storage space for paying VaultletMail users
in addition to allowing us to support more users of our secure
messaging service at the same cost to us.
- (Enhancement - Ultralite
SpecialDelivery Viewer) Released First Full ALPHA SD
Viewer: Now VaultletMail users can send secure SpecialDelivery
messages to webmail users (Gmail for example) who don't have
Java installed on their computer. This first full ALPHA
version allows recipients to view and respond to their messages,
in addition to securely downloading and uploading attachments.
This Ultralite version is best suited for organizations or individuals
who can't be assured that their recipients have the correct
version(s) of Java installed, or for recipients whose computers
may be old or under-resourced with respect to RAM or processor
speed necessary to run Java applets or applications.
- (Enhancement - Firefox
Webmail Plugin for SpecialDelivery) Enabled Ultralite
ALPHA SD Viewer: Just in time to complement the first
full ALPHA release of the Ultralite SpecialDelivery viewer,
comes the ability to toggle both BETA and ALPHA SDV features.
And each comes with the appropriate warnings and disclaimers
pertinent to using ALPHA or BETA software.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
Composer) Added Sender's Copy Options for Senders of
ScopeControl or HalfLife'd Messages: Not everybody
wants to, or should, keep a copy of an outgoing ScopeControl'ed
or HalfLife'd message. Now senders can now make that decision
themselves. Currently defaults to "Keep sender's copy".
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
Composer) Added Large Attachment Optimization Message:
Since large attachments are by definition large, storing the
"Sender's Copy" on their computer's hard drive instead
of on the VaultletMail server can save senders up to 50% of
the time necessary to upload their attachments. With this optimization,
they are now notified that their copy, along with its large
attachments has been stored locally. This option is not available
when in roaming mode w/o an external storage device.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added Excess System Time and Quantity Notification:
Due to the popularity and growing usage of the VaultletMail
system, all users, from Basic
to Gold,
will be notified when they exceed system resource limits. This
advisory capacity is also coupled with a "grace period"
for manually archiving their messages, and will be followed
up by automatic deletion of excess messages, oldest first.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Made Missing Attachment Signature Notification Optional
for All but Control Accounts: Only control oriented
accounts will be notified when an incoming attachment is missing
a digital signature for attachments.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Made Outgoing Message Character Set UTF-8 Implicit for
All but Control Accounts: Only control oriented accounts
will be notified when an outgoing messages need to be UTF-8
encoded.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added Days in Trash Tracking and Autopurge Prompt:
As a result of many people leaving old messages in their trashbin
for months, startup performance was being seriously impacted.
Users are now prompted at the end of every session to clean
out their Trashbins, in addition to having their old trash automatically
deleted after 14 days.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added Autopurge Prompt Options When Exiting: While
the default is for users to be prompted at the end of their
VaultletMail session if they want to empty their Trashbin, they
can always opt to "Never prompt", "Always prompt",
or "Purge automatically" when exiting a VaultletMail
session
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added "Quick Delete" for Messages: Now that
many people are using the VaultletMail service as their main
email address, they are dealing with copious quantities of incoming
messages. Whereas previously a group of messages was deleted
one at a time from the server (which resulted in one call across
the internet to delete one message), deletes are now batched:
deleting 10 messages only results in one call to the server.
When you add this to our fast Trashbin purge, it makes eliminating
excess messages quick and painless.
- (Enhancement - VaultletFiler)
Added "Quick Delete" for Encrypted Files:
Wiping large files from a hard drive can be painfully slow,
and even slower on USB drives. In order to facilitate some of
our user's need for speed, they may now choose to skip file
wiping when deleting previously encrypted files.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added Confirmation Prompts When Closing VaultletMail, Logging
out or Exiting VaultletSuite 2 Go: Despite the fact
that most people almost never quit the VaultletSuite 2 Go while
in the middle of editing a message, it was possible
to throw away multiple unsent messages without being asked for
confirmation. This little life saver ("Do you want to abandon
editing this message?") is worth its weight in gold for
those of us who accidentally hit the quit or logout button accidentally.
- (Quality Control
- VaultletMail) Added More Precise Cache Loading Calculation:
Not all locally cached Trashbin messages were being counted
when initializing the VaultletMail client. As a result some
messages that were already cached were being downloaded anyway,
wasting user's time and bandwidth. That's now been remedied.
- (Quality Control
- VaultletMail i18n) Added More Precise Default Language
Calculation and Sanity Check: As the server generated
messages have yet to be translated into Arabic, while the VS2Go
is most of the way there, the server would occasionally choke
on the lack of Arabic templates. Now users of any language other
than English, Spanish, Russian and French will receive their
auto-generated server messages in English, the server's current
default language.
- (Quality Control
- SpecialDelivery Viewer Updater and Launcher) Fixed
Write Permissions: The UnL used to update and launch
the local SpecialDelivery Viewer didn't have the rights it needed
to write recently downloaded jar files to the SDV library folder.
As a result, updates were being run every time the local application
was run. New version updates itself as expected.
- (Quality Control
- SpecialDelivery Viewer) Fixed "Float to Front"
on OS X: Due to differences in implementation of Java
Runtime Environments (JRE), the local version of the SDV on
OS X required a special workaround to bring it back to the front
when requested to decrypt and display another SpecialDelivery
message.
- (Quality Control
- VaultletMail) Fixed Missing Attachment Deletion:
The VaultletMail server would occasionally try to delete an
attachment that was no longer stored on the server. Now checks
for existence before attempting to delete it.
- (Quality Control
- VaultletMail) Corrected Numerous Small Spelling Errors:
The Spanish version of VaultletMail contained a half dozen small
typos, which have since been corrected.
- (Quality Control
- VaultletMail) Decreased Verbosity of Session Debugging
Logs: As more people have adopted VaultletMail as their
main email address, so too has the size of the session debugging
logs grown. As a result of this growth, some people's compressed(!)
logs exceeded maximum VaultletMail message size when attempting
to autopost bug reports. Log analysis was used to decrease quantity
of text produced by ~30%.
- (Quality Control
- VaultletSuite 2 Go) Incremented Maximum Encryptable
Bytes: Servers now allow keypairs to be used for encrypting
up to 1TB of data before being retired.
- (Quality Control - VaultletSuite
2 Go) Increased Accuracy When Upgrading Accounts to Gold:
Previously, upgrades from Blue
to Gold accounts
were added on to the end of the user's Blue
account subscription, essentially giving them another free Gold
year. Now, Blue
to Gold upgrades
first convert current Blue
accounts to Gold
at the current exchange rate of 4 years to 1, and then the new
Gold subscription
period is added on to that.
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v2.9.5 Change
Summary
This required update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar, languages.jar, txiki-lib.jar,
images.jar, updater.jar files
in your in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory. It will also update the vs-updater.properties
file in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
The size of this required update is ~1.3MB and incorporates
the results of a thorough review of all bug reports auto posted
by v2.9.4.
v2.9.5 New Features, Enhancements &
Bug Fix Details
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
SpecialDelivery) Added Large Secure SpecialDelivery Attachments:
Gold account
holders can now send large attachments (10MB) with their SpecialDelivery
messages. Blue account holders can send attachments up to 2MB.
- (Enhancement - SpecialDelivery
Viewer) Added Large Secure SpecialDelivery Attachments:
Recipients can now receive and save large attachments (10MB)
to the local storage device.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Added Free Two Minute Withdrawable Messages: Blue
account holders can now retract an unopened VaultletMail or
SpecialDelivery messages up to two minutes after sending them.
After that, you'll need a Gold
account to take them back anytime, right up to the second
before any one of your recipients opens the message.
- (Quality Control
- SpecialDelivery Viewer) Added Outdated Build Detection
and Optional Auto Exit: In order to keep the ever evolving
SDV up to date, using the SpecialDeliveryViewerUnL is now the
preferred method of starting the application. Users who use
the advanced technique of starting the SDV from the "bin"
directory will receive this prompt.
- (Quality Control
- VaultletSuite 2 Go) Added Outdated Build Detection
and Optional Auto Exit: In order to keep VS2Go up to
date and enforce important security updates, using the VaultletSuite2GoUnL
is now the preferred method of starting the application. Using
the advanced technique of starting VS2Go from the "bin"
directory will trigger a prompt to manually update out of date
installations (if encountered). In the case of a serious security
bug, VS2Go will inform and exit w/o the possibility of continuing
without updating.
- (Bug Fix
- SpecialDelivery Viewer) Improved Message Rendering:
Versions 1.5.x didn't properly format line returns, bunching
all message text into one paragraph. Now correctly formatted.
- (Bug Fix - Tell a Friend)
Improved Credit for Gold Accounts: Previous versions
gave Gold
account holders a full year for using the this feature. Now
they get a proportional update exchange rate, which is currently
4 Blue years
to 1 Gold
year (1/4 year).
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Improved
Bug Post Data: Added more debugging information support
for malformed incoming multipart/alternative messages.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Improved
Session Timestamp Resynchronization: This release adds
a subtle change to the strategy used to keep the VS2Go's internal
time clock synchronized with the server. This should result
in fewer failed large attachment uploads and subsequent obligatory
retries.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Demoted
a Number of Non-Bugs: This update also demotes a number
of other non-issue bug reports to NON-FATAL-ERRORS.
- (Bug Fix
-VaultletMail/OSX Quirks)
Improved Message Rendering on OSX: Updated message
rendering strategy to remedy low-level OS X specific errors
and subsequent bug reporting messages.
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v2.9.4 Change
Summary
This required update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the vs.jar, languages.jar, txiki-lib.jar,
updater.jar, and updater2.jar
files in your in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory. It will also update the vs-updater.properties
file in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
The size of this required update is ~.7MB and incorporates
the results of a thorough review of all bug reports auto posted
by v2.9.3.
v2.9.4 New Features, Enhancements &
Bug Fix Details
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
SpecialDelivery) Added Withdrawable SpecialDelivery Messages:
Gold account
holders can now send withdrawable ScopeControlled or HalfLife'd
messages and then withdraw them before they are read for the
first time.
- (Enhancement - SpecialDelivery
Viewer ) Added Automatic SpecialDelivery Viewer Updates
(BETA): Using an improved VS2Go updater module, the
new updater now keeps the SpecialDelivery Viewer up-to-date.
This is a BETA feature that will used by the SpecialDelivery
Webmail extension for Firefox (and eventually IE and Outlook).
This always up-to-date viewer will allow recipients of SpecialDelivery
messages to view their webmail messages without depending upon
using or having Java applets enabled in their browser.
- (Bug Fix
- Withdrawable SpecialDelivery Messages) Improved Consistency:
In certain contexts, some constrained SD messages weren't being
withdrawn correctly. v2.9.4.1 now works as you would expect
it to.
- (Bug Fix
- SpecialDelivery Viewer) Improved Menu Placement on
OS X: Newer versions of Java on OS X didn't always
place the SDV's menus in the right place, keeping them attached
to the SDV's window, instead of the topmost menu bar.
- (Bug Fix
- New User Wizard) Improved Referrer Detection:
Previous versions allowed some users to serve as referrers for
their own account creation. This has been remedied.
- (Bug Fix
- Autoposted Bug Report)
Improved Bug Post Filtering: Previous versions often
reported minor issues as bugs. This update now filters for "NON-FATAL-ERRORS"
before deciding to autopost a new bug report. This should help
to reduce the "drinking from a firehose" bug report
effect.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Improved
Corrupted Message File Handling: This update makes
the handling a bit less verbose than before.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Demoted
a Number of Non-Bugs: This update also demotes a number
of non-issue bug reports to NON-FATAL-ERRORS.
- (Bug Fix
- OSX Quirks) Improved
Detection of Java Quirks on OSX: This update now attempts
to prevent a number of minor (non-fatal) errors from happening
and being reported.
- (Bug Fix
- AddressBook) Improved
Handling of Out-of-Synch Condition: The user's and
server's copies of AddressBooks can occasionally become desynchronized.
Code for handling this condition how flushes a desynchronized
local AddressBook cache upon exiting the VaultletMail client.
- (Bug Fix
- Timed Confirmation Dialogs)
Improved Handling of "No" Defaults: Previous
versions had a bias for default answers of "Yes".
Now that "No" is also being used as a default answer,
those biases had to be adjusted.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail Client Search-by-Typing
) Disabled Overly Verbose Debugging Information Defaults:
Since this was clogging up session logs, the volume had to be
turned down a bit.
- (Bug Fix
- VS2Go Installer)
Improved Handling on Arabic Versions of Vista and Windows 7:
Previous versions would occasionally hang during the installation
process, forcing users to install the zipped up portable version
instead.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Improved
Handling of Malformed Incoming Messages Generated by Outlook:
Previous versions would occasionally choke on syntactically
invalid email generated by Outlook. While this update actually
allows the message to be viewed in its raw, unformatted format,
future updates should include workarounds for this rare problem.
- (Bug Fix
- SpecialDelivery Viewer)
Added Missing SDV Launcher to Portable Versions: While
the viewer was included by the standard installer, the portable
versions omitted it.
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v2.9.3.0-3 Change
Summary
This required update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
all the .jar files in your in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory. It will also update the vs-updater.properties
file in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
The size of this required update is ~3.6MB and incorporates
the results of a thorough review of all bug reports auto posted
by v2.9.2.
v2.9.3.0-3 New Features, Enhancements &
Bug Fix Details
- (Network Enhancement -
VaultletMail SpecialDelivery) Added Remote Enforcement
of ScopeControl Constraints: While this is another
"behind the magic curtain" infrastructure piece, it
does have the important and distinct advantage of allowing all
VaultletMail users to communicate securely via SpecialDelivery
(from any VaultletMail server on the Internet) with anybody
in the world. This update also allows them to have their ScopeControlled
messages"live" and be managed from within the legal
jurisdiction served by the physical server that corresponds
to their VaultletMail address.
- (New - VaultletMail Composer
) Added Email Address "SuperSearch" to the
Composer: The new search-by-typing algorithm now matches
all search text anywhere inside the entire "
Name
<you@vaultletsoft.com>" email address. That
means that you could type in "soft" in the email address
field to see who in your AddressBook has an address that contains
the word "soft". This is a great time saver, especially
when a person's name and their email addresses aren't at all
similar. This is a distinct improvement over earlier versions
of the simplistic "starts-with" type of searching.
And it's better than Gmail's search by typing too!
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
Composer ) Added Network Security Icons to Every Email
Address Displayed by "SuperSearch": Every
email address displayed by SuperSearch is also accompanied by
an icon that describes the security path that a message sent
to them by you would take. Very handy for people who are meticulous
about security.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
Composer ) Added Font Bolding and Underlining to Every
Matched Email Address Displayed by "SuperSearch":
Every matched email address displayed by SuperSearch is also
enhanced by additional formatting that makes it obvious which
part of the "
Name <you@vaultletsoft.com>"
address matches your search criteria. Very handy!
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
Composer ) Added AutoSensing SpecialDelivery for Every
Email Addressee's Domain: For every recipient in a
VaultletMail message that you compose and send, the SpecialDelivery
option is automatically selected if their email address corresponds
to an email server's address that is SpecialDelivery enabled.
That means you'll always send secure email to people whose email
servers are set up to handle SpecialDelivery messages. Conversely,
it also means that you'll never send insecure messages to people
whose organizations use SpecialDelivery enabled email servers.
- (New - VaultletMail Filter)
Added Email Address "SuperSearch" to the Message Filter:
The new SuperSearch is available to all Gold
account holders and makes using filters to find messages easier
and faster. That's another reason to go
Gold.
- (Network Enhancement -
VaultletMail SpecialDelivery) Added Automatic SpecialDelivery
Sender Key Verification: Recipients using VaultletMail
can now have the contents of their SpecialDelivery automatically
verified, even when these messages originate from outside their
VaultletMail server's domain.
- (Security - VS2Go)
Digitally Re-signed All Java Jar Files Used by the VaultletSuite
2 Go (VS2Go): VaultletSoft's digital code signing certificate
expired recently, so everything needed to be resigned with the
new certificate issued by GoDaddy.
- (Bug Fix
- VS2Go Account Mgr) Enabled All Communications Options:
Users can now unsubscribe themselves from the "VaultletSuite
2 Go System Availability" mailing list.
- (Bug Fix
- VS2Go Account Mgr) Improved Layout of Options:
Options are not as cramped as they used to be, and read easier
as a result.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail Server)
Improved Message Tickler Creation: Previous versions
choked on subjects with "$" characters in them. The
improved version now correctly treats this "magic"
programming character as just another letter.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail Server)
Improved Message Subject Length: Previous versions
had an implicit message subject length that wasn't consistently
implemented for incoming messages. Now limits incoming and outgoing
subject lengths to 256 characters.
- (Bug Fix - VS2Go)
Improved "Indeterminate" Progress Meters:
Previous versions caused a low-level (almost a non-event) bug
message to be generated and automatically posted. Now the "cylon-ing"
progress meters do the right thing.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Improved
Cache Loading: Previous releases posted "FileNotFound"
messages to the bug reports when this is really not a problem.
New version downgrades this to a simple status line in the log,
instead of a bug.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail Composer)
Improved AddressBook Updates and Inserts: Previous
versions had problems reconciling out-of-synch certain user's
local and server AddressBooks. Now does the right thing in these
situations, and doesn't complain about it.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Improved
Dynamic Cache Management: Previous releases occasionally
had problems when they couldn't find certain cached messages
and required user intervention. This update now handles such
cases automatically without complaining or requiring user intervention.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Improved
Dynamic Popup Window Generation: Previous versions
would sometimes have a hard ascertaining what their background
color should be and would fail to display themselves as a result.
As this is basically a non-issue, the way this condition is
handled now allows "the show to go on" without causing
any further problems.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Improved
Handling of Corrupt Local Message Files: Previous versions
didn't know what to do when encountering a corrupted message
file on Windows. As a result, it would simply quit loading all
other locally archived messages. Now notifies the user and asks
them if they'd like to delete the corrupt file and continue
loading the rest.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Improved
Handling of Spam FlashFry Method: Due to low-level
threading issues previous versions would sometimes become de-synched
while flash frying the contents of the Spam folder. Now attempts
to prevent and recover from this rare case.
- (Bug Fix
- VS2Go) Various:
Now deletes old version 3 AddressBook; Fixed "null"
error when using "Alt + Enter" on Linux to view a
message while the "Get messages" button has the focus;
Improved mail table deletion and synchronization; Fixed hangs
on Linux when the VaultletFiler was the first application opened
in a session; Fixed broken support forum URLs (after it was
relocated at support.vaultletsoft.com); Resigned PDF license
file; Fixed Obscure disabling of VS2Go after dismissal of progress
meter on Linux; Fixed constrained msg rendering for locally
generated msgs; And finally, last but not least, 2 big bug fixes:
- (Bug Fix
- VS2Go) Improved Window
Restacking & Flashing on Windows: This long running
Java bug was fixed once the new code base was re-compiled as
Java 1.5 and an obscure, but crucial, Java window management
method was made available to the VS2Go.
- (Bug Fix
- PasswordValet) Added
Workaround for Broken ScrollBars: The latest version
of Java (v1.6.0_18) introduces a bug that effects the proper
display of scrollbars, effectively hiding PV entries displayed
"below" the viewable section of the PV tree. Now displays
all PV files properly, complete with vertical scrollbars. Special
thanks to wmwhk for reporting and following up on this one!
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v2.9.2 Change
Summary
This required update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the following files in your in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory: vs.jar, images.jar,
and txiki-lib.jar along with languages.jar.
It will also update the vs-updater.properties file
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
This size of this required update is ~1.0MB
v2.9.2 New Features, Enhancements &
Bug Fix Details
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
SpecialDelivery) Added First Use of International/Global
Key Store: Added a simple public key store for use
by all VaultletMail servers worldwide. While this is largely
a "behind the magic curtain" infrastructure piece,
it does have the distinct advantage of allowing VaultletMail
users on two different email domain names (or servers) to communicate
securely via SpecialDelivery for the first time.
- (Enhancement - VaultletSuite)
Re-enabled "Tell a Friend" Service: Now prompts
users to spread the word if they haven't yet been prompted.
While previous versions had access to this service via the mail
toolbar's "Help" menu, it required users to look for
and pursue this, as opposed to simply reacting positively to
a popup prompt. Result? Improved subscription signup rates and
more free Blue
years for most users
- (Security - VS2Go)
Updated Bundled Java Runtime (JRE): Version 1.6.0_18
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.
The current release of the JRE also contains numerous stability
and performance improvements.
- (Bug Fix
- VS2Go) Fixed Broken Invalid SSL Certificate Dialog:
Now presents user with *all* of a given invalid SSL certificate's
information, including "wildcard" and certificate
chains, such as those used on multiple VaultletSoft web servers.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail Composer)
Improved Image Compression Error Handling: Previous
versions quit processing of without warning when they encountered
Java "OutOfMemoryErrors". The new version attempts
to point out the problem, along with remedy (downloading and
installing the latest version, v2.9.2, which addresses this
problem).
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail Composer)
Improved Server Timestamp Handling: Previous versions
often waited until *after* they failed processing uploading
large files to re-synch the VaultletSuite and server clocks.
This improved version now preemptively re-synchs the clocks
before attempting large attachment file uploads.
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v2.9.1 Change
Summary
This required update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the following files in your in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory: vs.jar, images.jar,
updater.jar along with the following language
jars: languages.jar, languages_ru.jar.
It will also update the vs-updater.properties file
in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf" directory.
This size of this required update is ~1.1MB
v2.9.1 New Features, Enhancements &
Bug Fix Details
- (Enhancement - VaultletSuite)
Added Simple Sale Dialog: Added a simple Gold
account sale window that supports the current, and future, limited-time
offers. The way it's currently implemented, users should only
see this window once per sale. That means they won't see it
again until the next sale is run when v3.0 is released.
- (Bug Fix
- VS2Go) Fixed Numerous Deletion/Purge Bugs:
Analyzed and fixed a dozen small multithreading issues related
to deleting, purging, and permanent deletion of multiple messages.
Many of the bugs were small, non-destructive and non-problematic
for end-users, but the did generate copious bug reports, which
flooded the bug tracking system. Now that these bugs have been
remedied, a second pass at bug analysis can take place on other
less common bugs in the 2.9.x codebase to be addressed in v2.9.2
w/in the next couple of weeks.
- (Bug Fix
- VaultletMail) Restored Keyboard Navigation:
Restored keyboard navigation to the now numerous and dynamically
created and sometimes disabled message folders. This will be
quite a relief for those drive the VS2Go primarily with their
keyboard. A big tip o' the sombrero to HRO.
- (Bug Fix
- VS2Go) Updated Russian
GUI Translation: Put the polished Russian text into
production, replacing the previous draft version.
- (Bug Fix
- SpecialDelivery Viewer)
Updated Russian GUI Translation: Put the polished Russian
text into production, replacing the previous draft version.
- (Bug Fix
- DropBox) Updated
Russian GUI Translation: Put the polished Russian text
into production, replacing the previous draft version.
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v2.9 Change Summary
This required update is considered
small by the Launcher module and will overwrite
the following files in your in your "VaultletSuite2Go/lib/vaultletsuite"
directory: vs.jar, txiki-lib.jar,
images.jar, bc.jar, and updater.jar
along with all of the language jars: languages.jar,
languages_ru.jar, languages_fr.jar
and languages_ar.jar. It will also update the
vs-updater.properties file in your "VaultletSuite2Go/conf"
directory.
This size of this required update is ~1.5MB
v2.9 New Features, Enhancements & Bug
Fix Details
- (New! VaultletMail)
Chronologically Ordered Message Folders: Instead of
cramming hundreds of messages into one folder, we're now distributing
them into sub folders ordered by year and month, with the current
year and month at the top of the list.
That's an easy, at-a-glance way to manage your messages!
- (New!
VaultletMail) Easy to Use Message Filtering:
We've added an easy way to find and filter your messages based
upon their address (sender or recipient), along by date range
too. The combination of these two enhancements means that you
can now easily and securely manage thousands of messages.
For Gold
account subscribers only.
- (New! VaultletMail)
Unlimited Storage: We've finalized our support for
power users and businesses who need to manage thousands of messages,
breaking the previous system limit of 1024 messages in v2.8.
For Gold
account subscribers only. 256MB storage limit still applies.
- (New! VaultletMail)
Automagic Image Attachment Compression: All incoming
and outgoing image attachments from the VaultletMail system
are now automagically compressed, saving everybody
incredible amounts of time and bandwidth. As a result, even
large r image attachments can be ScopeControl and HalfLife constrained.
For Basic
account subscribers: Images are automatically compressed
to 640 by 640 pixels.
For Blue
account subscribers: Images are automatically compressed
to 800 x 800 pixels.
For Gold
account subscribers: Image compression is user selectable.
- (New!
VaultletMail) Optimizable Bandwidth Strategies:
Since every user's connectivity is different, we've added the
ability to fine tune how VaultletMail behaves: you can now configure
it to make the best of your internet connection, be it dialup,
ADSL, or high-bandwidth connectivity.
- (New! Performance)
Faster VaultletMail Startup: This version also
includes a huge performance boost for users with thousands of
messages to manage. Startup times are now 2 to 11 times
faster than v2.8!
- (New! Performance)
Faster VaultletFiler Encryption: Users with
large compressed files to encrypt rejoice: Files that are already
compressed can now be encrypted (unsigned) up to 5x faster
and decrypted up to 2x faster than v2.8!
- (New! VaultletMail)
"Security Status" Icons: Not all of your
messages are to (or from) other VaultletMail accounts. Now we've
made it easy for you to tell at-a-glance which messages are
secure point-to-point VaultletMail messages, which ones are
secured via DropBox or SpecialDelivery, and which ones are insecure
plaintext messages.
- (Enhancement - VS2Go)
Simplified Login Screen: Believe it or not, sometimes
two choices is one too many. Now the login screen sports one
(and only one), button that says "Login". The
"Create new account" has been converted into a URL
style link, just like the "I forgot my password!"
link. This is a example of KISS
oriented design.
- (Enhancement - VS2Go)
Simplified "Options" Menus: The most commonly
used and easier to understand options are now grouped together
and represented with icons in each application's "Options"
menu. More KISS
in action.
- (Enhancement - VS2Go)
Support for Windows 7 and Snow Leopard (OS X): Installs,
plays nicely, and looks right at home on both of these new operating
systems.
- (Enhancement
- VS2Go) New VaultletSuite Icons for Windows XP and Vista:
Both operating systems now get updated and better looking desktop
icons.
- (Enhancement
- VS2Go) New VaultletSuite Window and Task Switching
Icons for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and Linux: All of these
operating systems now sport their own visually identifying icons
both in their window frames and within the task switcher contexts.
- (Enhancement
- VS2Go) New "Growable Popups" for the VaultletSuite:
Since not all languages require the same amount of visual space
to display the same idea, we've added a neat feature that allows
VaultletSuite 2 Go popups to grow to the size necessary to display
their content.
- (Enhancement
- VS2Go) Anti Aliased Text Support for Windows 2000:
Improved the consistency of presentation on this minority platform
and dropped use of 3rd party AA support for obsolete Java 1.4.2
runtimes.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail
Composer) Dynamic Button Bar Resizing: Added
on-the-fly "right-sizing" layout for the two button
bars. Now, even though the VS2Go is designed for 1024 x 768
(or larger) resolution computer monitors, users with netbooks
and other constrained devices get a smaller, less space-intensive
layout. Also added more descriptive (literally!) "more"
& "less" toggle buttons.
- (Enhancement - VS2Go)
Added Smoother Progress Dialogs: The new progress bars
now flow more smoothly and more accurately reflect progress.
- (Enhancement
- VS2Go) Added Multi-User Installation: The
new installer now allows users with administrator rights to
install the VS2Go for use by all accounts on their computer.
Compared to v2.8's "Single-User" installation model,
this is a great time and bandwidth saver. And you can still
choose to install on a per user basis too.
- (Enhancement - System
Administration) Improved Bounced System Msg Management:
This enhancement to the system administrator's module means
that we can spend more time adding the features you want, instead
of spending it on VS2Go system broadcast mail queue administration.
- (Enhancement - VaultletMail)
Simplified Ex-"SpamChallenger" Options: Our
recently renamed and easier to use "Unknown Senders"
feature includes fewer options and more explicit descriptions
of them.
- (Bug Fix
- VS2Go) Recompiled VaultletSuite 2 Go for Java 1.5:
By moving and recompiling the entirety of the VS2Go's source
code base from Java 1.4.2 to 1.5 (including the SpecialDelivery
Viewer and the DropBox), you'll see drastically improved and
predictable Applet behavior on Linux and OS X, especially when
dealing with popup dialogs and editable text fields.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Code Cleanup for Previous Local Deletion Bug: v2.8.7's
bug fix has since been cleaned up, standardized and reformatted
to make this fix permanent.
- (Bug Fix - VS2Go)
Standardized Fonts on All Growable Popups: Look and
feel (LnF) is now consistent across dialogs.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Use System Time for Incoming Email:
All versions prior to v2.9 allowed senders of email arriving
from the "outside world" to set the time of publication,
which led to some messages arriving to the present from the
distant future (as in the year 3009). Now, no matter what the
external message's origin, it receives the VM server's local
time upon import.
- (Bug Fix- VaultletMail)
Dialed Back Subject Line Dump in Debugging Mode: When
debugging a production mode message, the subject was being dumped
to the log. Since this information is not critical for debugging
purposes, it has since been excluded from capture when in production
mode.
- (Bug Fix - VS2Go)
Polished and Standardized Tree Rendering: v2.9 now
contains improved tree drawing code that handles custom rendering
of all hierarchical views of data. What's this mean to you?
Prettier and more consistent tree rendering.
- (Bug Fix - PasswordValet)
Polished Background Image Rendering: The PasswordValet
image was not always redrawn in the proper location when the
window was resized, now it is.
- (Bug Fix - SpecialDelivery)
Replaced Missing Message Border on OS X: The message
pane's border went missing a while ago, now it's back where
it should be.
- (Bug Fix - SpecialDelivery)
Fixed Premature "Options" Rendering: The
"Options" menu was being redrawn before users were
finished logging in. This spoiled the beautifully rendered transparent
cloud overlay. What's this mean to you? SpecialDelivery: Now
more Aesthetically Wonderful™.
- (Bug Fix - SpecialDelivery)
Fixed Missing "Message Sending... Done!" Content:
The missing localized text for this message has been restored.
- (Bug Fix - VS2Go)
Polished Keyboard Navigation w/in System Dialogs: Older
versions didn't always shift the focus to where you would expect
it to go when using the "Tab" and "Shift + Tab"
key combinations. Now it works like you would expect.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Reformatted Presentation of SpecialDelivery and Constraints
Dialogs : Older versions contained lower utility HTML:
Now it's more Aesthetically Wonderful™ and easier to understand
too.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail
Composer) Implemented Saner Window Sizing: Older
versions didn't quite layout the VMC as well as they could have,
now they're sized according to the Golden Ratio. Additionally,
if you were working on a resolution than 1024 x 768, you were
constantly bumping into this hard coded minimum layout assumption.
Now it's not only more Aesthetically Wonderful™ but it's
more usable on low(er) resolution netbooks.
- (Bug Fix - VS2Go)
Implemented Consistent Use of "Condición Inesperada"
in Error/Problem Dialogs: The Spanish version used
two different ways of saying the same thing, now it's consistent
across the VS2Go.
- (Bug Fix - VS2Go)
Implemented Consistent Layout of Toolbars: Older versions
used a different layout strategy, which resulted in "radio
buttons" whose toggleability wasn't readily intuited (A
good example would be the SpecialDelivery, Receipt, ScopeControl
and HalfLife radio buttons in the v2.8's VaultletMail Composer).
The new layout is not only more Aesthetically Wonderful™
on all platforms, but it's much easier to interpret a given
toggle/radio button's selection state.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Smoothed out Incoming SpecialDelivery Rendering: The
progress bars in older versions weren't as informative as they
could be when rendering SpecialDelivery messages. Now it's smoother
and more... you guessed it, Aesthetically Wonderful™ too!
- (Bug Fix - VS2Go)
Fixed Packaging and Obfuscation: Older versions used
a less efficient obfuscation strategy, while the latest version
does a better job of "trimming the fat" from the deployed
and occasionally updated system jar files. What's in it for
you? We just gave you back a few seconds of your life to do
with as you please while performing online updates.
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Implemented Consistent Mail Deletion, Undeletion, Purge and
Table Display Strategies: Older versions contained
more decentralized code to manage all these processes: Now it's
centralized, easier to understand, and better prepared for the
upcoming v3.0's major update and announcements... (but you'll
have to wait until then to find out what they are)
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail
& Composer) Fixed "Local Attachment Optimization/File
Not Found" Bug: Older versions couldn't find the
"large" attachments that had been automatically archived
to their local storage device due to their size (a time saving
optimization). The problem was that while the attachment was
indeed saved locally, its name began with the recipient's msg
id, instead of its sender's msg id. Usually it was off by 1,
which is just enough to tickle this bug. Special tip o' the
sombrero to GT for describing this bug so well!
- (Bug Fix - VaultletMail)
Fixed "Save Attachment As...File Not Found" Bug:
Older versions couldn't find locally archived "large"
attachments when the sender used a "save as" file
name that was different from the attachment's original file
name. Not at all common, but really annoying when it
popped up. Special tip o' the sombrero to GT for describing
this bug so well!
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A high level summary of the most visible changes
included in v2.9 can be found here.
To see update details for the previous release, v2.8, please
go here.
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