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BarnOwl 1.9 released

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Mon Dec 2 03:43:35 2013

Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 03:43:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: barnowl-users@mit.edu

The BarnOwl developers are pleased to announce the release of BarnOwl=20
version 1.9.

It has been installed in the barnowl Athena locker for squeeze, wheezy,=20
lucid, and precise.  You also can download it from the website [1] or get=
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the source from GitHub [2].  BarnOwl 1.9 contains various bug fixes and=20
new features, including:

=E2=80=A2 Facebook module.

=E2=80=A2 The default config file has been renamed to ~/.owl/init.pl.  (The=
 old=20
names ~/.barnowlconf and ~/.owlconf are still supported.)

=E2=80=A2 The terminal cursor is hidden when BarnOwl is not expecting textu=
al=20
input.

=E2=80=A2 zsender has been fixed to work correctly with cross-realm classes=
=2E

=E2=80=A2 Outgoing zephyrs are now explicitly marked as UTF-8.

=E2=80=A2 The Zephyr default format has been replaced with a short pointer =
to=20
http://mit.edu/df/.

=E2=80=A2 :info now correctly displays multiline Zephyr fields and time zon=
es.

=E2=80=A2 zcrypt startup speed has been improved.

=E2=80=A2 A crash on failure to launch zcrypt has been fixed.

The full Changelog is available online [3].

Thank you for using BarnOwl, and we hope you enjoy the new release.  As=20
usual, any bug reports, questions, or feature requests can be directed to=
=20
the developers at <barnowl@mit.edu>.

Anders Kaseorg
for the BarnOwl developers

[1] https://barnowl.mit.edu/dist/
[2] https://github.com/barnowl/barnowl/
[3] https://github.com/barnowl/barnowl/blob/barnowl-1.9/ChangeLog

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