I am happy to announce that the first release candidate of Hastymail2 is now available for download. As always a big thanks to everyone who has been testing and providing feedback and bug reports.  This will be the first of 3 or 4 release candidates  as we finalize the code for the first stable release of Hastymail2. There are quite a few fixes and updates since the Beta 3 release and I encourage everyone to upgrade and let us know what you think. The following are the change log entries since the last news update:

    It was a busy week in Hastymail development with 40 SVN commits since our last update on the 12th. Thanks to some great testing and feedback we were able to identify and fix a few bugs and we also knocked out several of the remaining items that need to be in place before putting together an official beta release. Here is the full list:

    Development picked up this past week, with 19 SVN commits containing quite a few fixes. There are some new features as well, and a few updates based on feedback. Thanks to everyone who has been kind enough to test out the new code and provide suggestions, we appreciate it. Here is whats new this week:

    The past week was not the most productive for Hastymail development, but definitely an improvement over the last few. There are a handful of fixes in various places as well as continued work on the new configuration and plugin systems. Considering how much Hastymail2 can already do, I am pleased with how compact the codebase is. The overall organization of the code uses a system I have been developing for a long time. A primary focus is limiting php include size, both through re-usable and efficient code but also by excluding files from being included when not required by the page request. For example if $_POST is empty a 1500 line include file that contains methods for dealing with submitted forms is not included.

    It has been hard to find time to work on Hastymail but both development and testing have been going well. The result is a handful of updates to SVN. The next release should be right around the corner and I think this time I am going to change from beta releases to stable release candidates. Thanks to everyone who has posted in the forums or reported problems. Here is what's new since the third beta release:

    Update time again. There have been a handful of fixes as well as some more testing and feedback since the last news update. Enough to warrant a snapshot release on the Download page. Unless something unusual happens I expect this snapshot to be very similar to the next official release. Speaking of which I think it is about time to switch from beta releases to release candidates, and I hope to get an RC-1 out within the next week or two. Thanks again to everyone who has been checking out Hastymail and providing feedback. As of now all reported bugs are fixed and my list of to-do items is primarily housekeeping.

    Its been a while since I last updated. Development has slowed a bit but testing and feedback have been great, several bugs have been fixed, and others reported that will be addressed soon. Once I get through the next round of issues and finish some things I have in the works the third beta release will be ready to go. Thanks to everyone who submitted a bug report or posted in the forums. Here is whats been going on since the last update

     It's been about a month since the first beta release of the new Hastymail code and I am happy to announce the second beta version is ready for download. I had hoped to have some more plugin development done by this point but if nothing else, thanks to all the helpful feedback from testers, many issues reported after the first beta release are corrected.