We are happy to announce that the fifth release candidate of Hastymail2 is now available. This version has a lot of great updates since the last release. As always thanks to everyone supporting the project with suggestions and feedback. Here is the change log for RC5:

- Added a new theme called "aqua"

- Added a PHP CLI script to convert profiles and some settings from Hastymail 1.x format to Hastymail2

- Added support to the hastymail2.conf file for a custom logout URL to redirect users to after they logout.

- Updated the defaults in the ldap addressbook plugin and added an authentication related option to the settings file

- Added an option to force HTML formatted message parts to be displayed in an HTML iframe within the hastymail interface

- Added HTTP basic authentication support

- Fixed several layout issues with different browsers, greatly  increasing compatibility

- Added the ability to forward a message as an attachment

- Fixed a bug that caused the clock to not update consistently

- Re-factored the AJAX update mechanism cutting down on javascript and reducing requests by 70%

- Fixed a bug that incorrectly set the SMTP authentication type

- More layout tweaking, fixed a problem with textareas overflowing the interface with smaller window widths

- Added IMAP-UTF7 folder name support controlled by a config file option called utf7_folders. This requires MB (multi-byte) support in PHP

- Reorganized the codebase to reduce server side memory usage from 1 to 3 MB depending on the page and user action

- Cleaned up the theme css and template to be more IE6 friendly

- Cleaned up some interface strings missing from the translation files and made the "INBOX" string translatable

- Improved message attachment filename determination

- Added an option to the hastymail2.conf file to set the "persistent" flag for the PEAR database connection

- Update the Dutch interface translation thanks to Wim Paulussen

- Cleaned up the notices, filters, and news plugins to be W3C valid

- Added the news source with a link to the news feed for each item in the "All News" merged list of the news plugin

- Added support for using "%d" to substitue the domain the user logged in from with the default email and append login domain options in the hastymail2.conf file

- Added a German interface translation thanks to Joerg Gronmayer