Hello All,
I know, that there are a lot of complaints about 3.51 beta serie.
Now I'll describe some reasons why we release it.
Let's start from history and look for the citate from my little
roadmap:
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Currently main directions of TB! development are:
- IMAP
- Unicode support
- HTML editor improvements
- Customization
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Let's look more detailed - IMAP and Unicode support need a lot of
architectural changes. They are not possible to be finished in one
beta serie. So... On the one way we have 3.5.30 available for
download, on the other way we have a lot of time + possibility to
make deep changes. 3.51 is more stable than 3.5.30 and releasing it
will give us possibility to go further, we can't do anything now
without making serious changes. It is just the foundation we need to
continue work and have good enough version available for
downloading.
Most interesting question for you is perhaps why we don't make just
bug-fix release? Quite simple - there will be a lot of changes in
core, so there is no sence in double work in fixing bugs, after that
change big parts of core and fix new bugs while previous fixes will
be dropped with old code.
I'm open for other questions ;-)
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9Val
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