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Old News

2001-10-31
balsa-1.2.2 is released. Few bugs has been fixed, rough UI edges polished and translation updated. (see NEWS or Changelog).
2001-10-20
balsa-1.2.1 is released, This release includes a load of new features, including new message forwarding functions, handling format=flowed, extended D&D support, new toolbar items, and many, many more (see NEWS or Changelog).
2001-09-19
Secretly. Silently. Certainly. Yes, it is time for balsa-1.2.0 release. There are no major changes compared to 1.2.pre3 but we have armoured the code against the unexpected.
2001-08-31
balsa-1.2.pre3 includes many fixes and has been tested on a larger variety of platforms. This is most likely last release between 1.2.0. Anyway, if you had some problems with 1.2.pre2 (or older), you should try this one to make sure that your problem has been solved.
2001-08-23
balsa-1.2.pre1 turned out to be pretty stable but we managed to nail down some extra problems and annoyances. Download balsa-1.2.pre2 from the usual place.
2001-08-08
it is time for a prerelease to next major version. You can get balsa-1.2.pre1 in the usual place.
2001-10-20
Balsa-1.2.1 is released, This release includes a load of new features, including new message forwarding functions, handling format=flowed, extended D&D support, new toolbar items, and many, many more (see NEWS or Changelog).
2001-09-19
Secretly. Silently. Certainly. Yes, it is time for Balsa-1.2.0 release. There are no major changes compared to 1.2.pre3 but we have armoured the code against the unexpected.
2001-08-31
Balsa-1.2.pre3 includes many fixes and has been tested on a larger variety of platforms. This is most likely last release between 1.2.0. Anyway, if you had some problems with 1.2.pre2 (or older), you should try this one to make sure that your problem has been solved.
2001-08-23
Balsa-1.2.pre1 turned out to be pretty stable but we managed to nail down some extra problems and annoyances. Download Balsa-1.2.pre2 from the usual place.
2001-08-08
it is time for a prerelease to next major version. You can get Balsa-1.2.pre1 in the usual place.
2001-07-13
development balsa 1.1.7 released. This is most likely last 1.1.x development release, we intend to start soon preparation for 1.2.0 release. Several improvements in IMAP folder handling has been done, new command line options have been added and other UI improvements have been implemented.
2001-06-20
development balsa 1.1.6 released. The libESMTP code has been tested, we added multiple identity code, improved usability of large mailboxes and mailbox folders.
2001-05-22
development balsa 1.1.5 released. This is again quite stable release, but brings some new solutions and requires one extra package to install so please, make sure you have read the instructions on the download page and the README file.
2001-04-20
development balsa 1.1.4 released. This is actually quite stable one, with many bugs that were in 1.1.3 fixed - thanks to Bugzilla which helps us to organize stuff.
2001-03-29
development balsa 1.1.3 released. This is mostly a bug fix release, including temporary file creation fix.
2001-03-02
development balsa 1.1.2 released. The IMAP support is further improved in terms of stability. Multithreaded mailbox opening has been implemented.
2001-02-06
development balsa 1.1.1 released! We spent much time on improving IMAP support which should be rock solid now. You can also try IMAP folders to save your time defining folders on your IMAP server (this is still a bit experimental, comments are welcome).
2001-01-22
development balsa 1.1.0 released! This one comes with rewrited mail alias support and is worth to get just for this reason.
2000-12-18
development balsa 1.0.1 released! This is just to make some bug fixes available as well as new threaded message index.
2000-11-11
Balsa 1.0 released! Download it and enjoy!
2000-11-03
fifth and last 1.0 prerelease - Balsa 1.0.pre5. The final 1.0.0 release is going to appear within 7 days and translations are the only part to be updated in this time. Also, read README, we discovered that Balsa is sensitive to bugs in gnome libraries (and we want it to be this way).
2000-10-23
fourth prerelease - Balsa 1.0.pre4. pre3 wasn't really lucky, this one should be much better. Read README, we discovered that Balsa is sensitive to bugs in gnome libraries (and we want it to be this way).
2000-10-18
third pre-release - Balsa 1.0.pre3. Only minor fixes came in. It is worth to upgrade in case you have problems with pre2.
2000-10-06
second pre-release - Balsa 1.0.pre2. It has several bug fixes, most of them minor but still useful to have. It is worth to upgrade in any case.
2000-09-29
first pre-release - Balsa 1.0.pre1. The version number has no particular meaning apart from 0.9+0.1=1.0. This release is supposed to be stable code usable in the production environment (I use it every day).
2000-09-18
not-quite experimental Balsa 0.9.5 - we are in feature-freeze state now.
2000-09-05
experimental Balsa 0.9.4 - some bug fixes, new IMAP code with GSS and CRAM-MD5 authorization.
2000-08-28
experimental Balsa 0.9.3 - APOP authorisation, threading and - finally! - POP fixes.
2000-08-15
experimental Balsa 0.9.2 is released! - mostly code cleanup and some bug fixes.
2000-08-06
experimental Balsa 0.9.1 is released! - gtkhtml experimental support, alias expansion.
2000-07-03
experimental Balsa 0.9.0 is released! - this is almost everything we have now in CVS.
2000-06-20
Balsa 0.8.1 is released! - this is a bug fix release.
2000-06-06
We have links to Slackware and Debian packages on the download page.
2000-05-21
Balsa 0.8.0 is released!
2000-04-18
Balsa 0.8.0-pre1 is available! And in honor thereof, bug reporting instructions.
2000-04-04
Balsa 0.8 is coming soon!
1999-12-21
Balsa 0.6.0 released!
1999-10-14
Updated screenshots
1999-10-13
Balsa development resumed!