As much as I wanted to get RC6 out this past week it just did not come together. Development has been busy though, including a few additional bug fixes as well as some updates to the theme system. A generous poster in the forums put together a nice new interface design in a PSD file, and implementing the layout has illuminated some shortcomings of themes that are in the process of being improved. You can check out a screenshot of the current state of this new theme at the bottom of this post. Unless some new issues come to light I hope to have an initial version of this new theme done this week and RC6 out by early next week. In the meantime here is what is new in SVN since the last news post:

 - Fixed a bug with the IMAP debug option that caused debug information to be lost after a POST form submission

- Fixed a bug causing theme sub-templates to be ignored and the default used instead

- Fixed several bugs with the advanced search feature that caused the search to fail

- Expanded themes in several ways to allow greater modifications of the interface

- Improved the rounded borders in the theme css

- Fixed a bug that broke images and image thumbnails when not using session cookies

As always thanks to everyone who has stopped by the forums or posted a report in the tracker. I'm excited about the state of things. Continued feedback has really helped to identify and correct several bugs in what is already a pretty stable codebase. If things keep up we can get our first stable release code out the door within the next few months.