We’re happy to present the Mailfence Release Notes for December 2023 with several improvements and fixes.
Release Notes: New Features
- Mailfence iOS and Android apps are released (read more):
- Users can also Sign Up using the app,
- Password reset option is available in the app,
- Push notifications are supported for new email messages.
- Custom domain adding wizard is revamped: DNS entries validation criterion, error-reporting and visualization are upgraded. You can now set catchall without contacting support.
- Users can now replace primary address with an alias address.
Improvements
The Mailfence Release Notes for December 2023 include the following improvements:
- Messages:
- Handling of Reply-To address while replying to a message is improved.
- Unread messages banner message tooltip is now correctly formatted.
- Calendar:
- Auto-detection of URL’s in location and description is improved.
- Others:
- Both global and tool-specific search query coverage and reporting is improved. Deployment is being rolled out.
- Faulty actions (move, edit) from search results are now fixed.
- Various security improvements have been made.
Mobile app
Regarding the Mobile app, the Mailfence Release Notes include the following bug fixes and improvements:
- Fixed the issue where, upon opening a notification, the app wouldn’t automatically navigate to the related message, even if the app was completely closed.
- Resolved the display issue of the ‘Decrypt Message’ button in light mode.
- Fixed a bug where users sometimes received an error message while trying to decrypt a message.
- Corrected the issue preventing proper copying of calendar attachments to the device.
- Eliminated unnecessary syncing of the user’s device notification token with the back-end.
- Addressed the issue where deleting all messages in a folder did not trigger a proper fetch of subsequent messages.
- iOS: Implemented a tentative fix for the issue where an empty space appears in the list after deleting a message with a swipe motion.
- Android: Resolved the problem where opening the app via a notification sometimes displayed an error message.
- Android: Fixed the layout issue in the search function.
- Android: Corrected the issue with the app’s icon not being properly displayed in notifications.
- Default sender address is now automatically selected.
- OpenPGP key passphrases will be stored in memory (as long as the app is open) if user has not enabled any type of biometry.
- Display of messages in the “Sent” and “Drafts” folders is improved.
- Improvements to the “Reply”, “Reply all”, and “Reply with template” actions for “Sent” messages are made.
- Miscellaneous improvements are made to visuals and translations.
Extra comments regarding Mailfence Release Notes December 2023
- To avoid inconsistencies – users managed through admin console are no longer able to self-upgrade their account, they should contact customer admin. Moreover, non-admin users are prevented from creating/deleting aliases based on a custom domain that they do not own.
- To prevent abuses and spams, incoming emails from MTAs with no DNS PTR record are rejected and blacklisted.
- An old contact check/validation function is deprecated, following reception of security bugs reported by Husnain Iqbal, we thank the reporter for notifying us.
Version
- Backend release 4.9.003a.
- Frontend release 2.8.016.
- Mobile App release 1.1.0.
Check our previous Mailfence Release Notes and feel free to report any found bugs/queries/suggestions, related to our release notes December 2023, to support[at]mailfence[dot]com.
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