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:

    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.

    We are happy to announce the second release candidate of Hastymail2. The changes since RC 1 are all over, and while mostly fixes some are "missing" features that did not require major code changes to implement. New development has shifted to plugins as we try to solidify the core code as we near our first stable release. This release has 3 new plugins worth checking out:

    I am happy to announce that the third release candidate of Hastymail2 is now available. The rewrite of Hastymail began at the beginning of this year with the first SVN check-in date of January 9th 2008. I had hoped to have a stable release by the end of the year but we are not quite there yet. We have made significant progress however and I am really pleased with how things are going. Testing and feedback have been great and I think this is the best version of Hastymail yet! Thanks to everyone who has supported the project. Here are the changes since RC 2 followed by a link to download Hastymail2 at Sourceforge.