What's new in Sparrow 1.6.4 Build 1176
Sep 11, 2012
New in Sparrow 1.6.3 Build 1164 (Jul 16, 2012)
- improved performance when loading huge conversations
- URL in subject can be clicked
- date / subject in headers can be selected
- improved avatar in message cells
- IMAP compatibility issues
- brazilian localization
- fixed progress indicator in message view
- fixed crash when loading some HTML messages
- crash when reimporting POP fixed
New in Sparrow 1.6.2 Build 1144 Beta (Jul 3, 2012)
- New features:
- Mountain Lion and Notification Center support
- Retina Display support
- Send & Archive in Quick reply
- Always expand messages option
- Always show the 'i' section
- fixed close/minimize/zoom button behavior
- enabling always show info will show info of the opened messages
- enabling always expand all will expand all messages
- HTML signature
- Bug fix:
- Growl Notification with Growl 1.3
- Growl Notification for POP accounts
- Memory consumption improvement
- Fixed syncing of flags
New in Sparrow 1.6.2 Build 1134 Beta (Jul 2, 2012)
- New features:
- Mountain Lion and Notification Center support
- Retina Display support
- Send & Archive in Quick reply
- Always expand messages option
- Always show the 'i' section
- fixed close/minimize/zoom button behavior
- enabling always show info will show info of the opened messages
- enabling always expand all will expand all messages
- Bug fix:
- Growl Notification with Growl 1.3
- Growl Notification for POP accounts
- Memory consumption improvement
New in Sparrow 1.6.1 Build 1081.51 (Jun 5, 2012)
- Bug fix:
- Fixed keychain issue
- Fixed forwarding of emails with attachments on POP accounts
- copy-paste of images in the message composer now generates PNG instead of TIFF files
- Fixed gmail group sync
- POP account folders management issues
- POP account management
- Fixed chinese localization
- Performance issue
New in Sparrow 1.6.1 Build 1081.38 (May 22, 2012)
- Bug fix:
- Fixed keychain issue
- Fixed forwarding of emails with attachments on POP accounts
- copy-paste of images in the message composer now generates PNG instead of TIFF files
- Fixed gmail group sync
- POP account folders management issues
- POP account restoration
- Fixed chinese localization
New in Sparrow 1.6.1 Build 1081.32 (May 19, 2012)
- Bug fix:
- Fixed keychain issue
- POP account folders management issues
- POP account restoration
- copy-paste of images in the message composer now generates PNG instead of TIFF files
New in Sparrow 1.6 Build 1081.26 (May 15, 2012)
- Bug fix:
- Fixed Chinese localization.
New in Sparrow 1.6 Build 1081.24 (May 15, 2012)
- New features:
- POP support
- Esc on Quick Reply saves as draft
- Empty spam
- Unified inbox shows starred, sent, drafts, etc.
- Inbox zero message
- Composer: tab toggle now works for selecting the sending account
- Pull to refresh updates list of starred messages / unread messages / priority messages
- Shift-cmd-option-M toggles Extended Sidebar
- App startup time improvement
- Preferences to open link in background
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed avatar behavior (thanks to Ellis Hamburger)
- Improved charset decoding
- Remove flickering when message list is empty
- Fixed scrollers behavior in sidebar
- Random scroll in the list when switching folder
- Parsing issue with Asana mail
- Periodical log clean up
- Remove flickering when message list is empty
- Improved contacts synchronization from Gmail
- Draft icon aligment in conversation view
- Refresh folders list periodically
- Fixed Asana emails parsing issue
- Avoid marking conversations as read automatically when it was previously selected and mailbox is empty
- Handle additional international subject reply and forward prefix
- Gmail shortcut 'g' will allow to select a label
New in Sparrow 1.5 Build 1043 (Dec 1, 2011)
- First, Dropbox:
- Drag, drop, send (and sync). Sending a mail with attachment has never been simpler. And without even noticing it, you are syncing your files in the cloud making sure you never lose them.
- Second, block remote images:
- Keep control of the images displayed in your mail: once or always.
- Third, search:
- With it’s new smart search & Gmail-like tokens, find the mail you’re looking for in a matter of seconds.
New in Sparrow 1.5 Build 1032 (Nov 30, 2011)
- New features:
- Dropbox integration: drag, drop, send (& sync). Attaching files has never been easier.
- Search has been dramatically improved. Search suggestions lets you find the message you're looking for in a matter of seconds.
- Block remote images: keep control of the images displayed in your mail. Turn it on in Sparrow's Preferences.
- Bug fixes:
- Font always go back in Helvetica 13
- Encoding problems in Chinese, Korean, Russian & Thai
- Crash when opening emails from a certain sender
- Crash when opening a protected PDF
- CPU usage is too high
- iCloud messages deleted on iPhone still appear on Sparrow
- Unread counter does not always reflect the number of unread messages
- and many more...
New in Sparrow 1.4 (Oct 5, 2011)
- New features:
- GetCloudApp integration: directly upload your attachments to the cloud. Drag, Drop, it's in the cloud. Share file fast.
- Reversed threads (à la Gmail): simply reverse the order of messages in the conversation view from Sparrow Preferences
- Pull-to-refresh
- Cmd-A now works to select all text in the conversation view
- UI:
- Default image in conversation view when no message or multiple message are selected
- Default compose window size is kept
- Message list keeps its default size when resizing the window
- Sidebar animations when showing/hiding
- Under the hood:
- Sending performance
- New draft management system
- Bad network/offline behavior
- Improvement on mail database
- Synchronization performance
- Bug fixes:
- Zoho compatibility
- Lotus Domino compatibility
- Free compatibility
- Dovecot server
- Crash on Send & Archive and various crashes
- Animation bug when un-minimizing Sparrow from the Menu bar icon
- Hanging issue on Lion
- Erased space in signature
- 'Not Spam' option in the Spam folder
New in Sparrow 1.3.2 (Aug 2, 2011)
- Features:
- Drag and drop mails in your folders / labels in extended sidebar
- Character counter in compose window for Shortmail accounts
- Focus on Compose window in full screen mode
- UI:
- New conversation view design
- New quick reply design
- Top bar gradient re-design
- New default avatars for incoming mails
- Bug fix:
- Transparent text issue in message composer
- Window and sidebar size memory issue
- Alt-L Polish character issue
- Fixed Esc key behavior in fullscreen
- Deminimized animation fixed
- Shift-Cmd-2 in Extended sidebar Unified Inbox
- Copy and paste issue in compose window
- Inline attachments resize issue
- Improved memory usage
- Fixed various crashes
New in Sparrow 1.3.1 (Jul 18, 2011)
New in Sparrow 1.3 (Jul 18, 2011)
- New features:
- Extended Sidebar: directly access all your label & folders in the sidebar
- Send & Archive: one of the coolest Gmail feature now available for all IMAP accounts
- Drag and Drop: select any message and simply drag and drop it to other apps and your desktop
- Hide sidebar: keep it minimal and hide your sidebar for a streamlined experience. ⇧-⌘M or a lateral three finger swipe in the sidebar will do the trick.
- 'Empty trash' button
- View mail source
- Improvements:
- All animations have been rewritten from the ground up.
- Sidebar animations: account and category switching is faster and smoother
- Message list: we made the scroll more fluid and natural
- Window animations: we killed all window animations to make Sparrow faster and simpler
- Sidebar scrollbar: it was always possible to scroll the sidebar but we made this obvious by adding a scrollbar when you can actually scroll.
- Priority inbox behavior: now shows all Priority mails of the inbox regardless of the fact that they've been read
- Compatibility:
- Omnifocus: drag a mail in the app to create a new task
- Things: drag a mail on the dock icon to create a new task
- Back-end:
- Yahoo compatibility
- DAV Mail compatibility
- MBox mail compatibility
New in Sparrow 1.2.2 (Jun 30, 2011)
- Avatar show the picture of last sender
- Fix message threading issue
- Various bug fix
- Improved search performance
New in Sparrow 1.2.1 (Jun 15, 2011)
- Facebook wall post is unchecked by default
- Expand/collapse all messages (Alt-Click)
- Fixed various crashes
New in Sparrow 1.2 (May 26, 2011)
- New Features:
- Facebook friends profile pictures integration
- Add Facebook friends directly from Sparrow
- Unified Inbox
- Gravatar support
- Threading by subject
- New interface design
- Dock icon: compose new message on right click
- Free resizing of the message list
- Font preferences in compose window
- Preference to hide Inbox selection bar
- Account names appear faster on hover
- Localization in 8 languages:
- French
- Chinese
- Italian
- Spanish
- Russian
- Dutch
- German
- Japanese
- Bug fix:
- Icon bounce
- various calendar invite fix
- Text expander issue fix
- Fix for folder mapping
- Greek, Korean, Swedish text encoding
- Fix connection issue with Zoho
- Multiple copies of sent mail issue
- Hidden at start up fix
- Growl picture is now sender avatar
- Connection doctor
New in Sparrow 1.1.2 (Apr 21, 2011)
- Fixed duplication in Sent mailbox on Exchange servers
- Fixed selection in folder mapping
- Fixed crash on sync
- Fixed keychain conflict
- "New message" option has been added to right-click on Dock icon
New in Sparrow 1.1.1 (Apr 4, 2011)
- New features:
- Folder mapping
- Custom SMTP alias support
- Bug fix:
- Spell-check bug
- Mobile Me blank messages
- Yahoo account refresh issue
- Allows SMTP connection withtout authentication
- Text expander support
- Japanese input
- Fixes issues in mail database
- Fixes remote server issues
- Fixes crash when database is corrupted
New in Sparrow 1.1 (Mar 22, 2011)
- General imap support: Mobile Me, Yahoo, AOL and any custom IMAP account are now supported
- Formatting bar: Sparrow now makes it easy to change fonts, font size, add bulleted or numbered list.
- Priority Inbox: one of the most awaited feature of Sparrow users is now integrated.
- Unread section: see your unread mail and only your unread mail
- Minimal mode: hide message previews and see more mail in a glimpse.
- Multitouch gestures: Sparrow takes advantage of the power of multitouch gestures on the desktop and a lot more.
New in Sparrow 1.0.1 (Feb 18, 2011)
- Improved sending speed
- Improved thread/conversation refresh
- Basic Apple script support
- ‘Menur bar only’ mode
- Various bug fixes