0.4.0-beta1

[coatimundiapps]

coati-nuntia (0.4.0-beta1) unstable; urgency=medium

• Phishing detection overhaul

  • Contacts in the address book are fully exempted when SPF/DKIM/DMARC
    pass. Legitimate mail from friends no longer triggers alerts.
  • New three-level classification (legit / suspicious / phishing) via
    overall_level(), replacing the previous binary high/medium/low logic.
  • Banners and sounds are now driven by overall_level(); a single low
    signal no longer shows a banner or plays a sound.
  • free_sender_impersonation only triggers on a real link to the brand
    or a combined bait + urgency signal.
  • brand_typosquat thresholds tightened (length >= 5, distance <= 1,
    trusted domains excluded). "mail.com" no longer matches "free".
  • New random_subdomain_hosting rule: detects random subdomains on
    free hosting platforms (godaddysites.com, wixsite.com, etc.).
  • URL normalization (href_for_parse) catches links inserted without
    a scheme (e.g. "example.com" instead of "http://example.com").

• Performance

  • Instant startup: the window is shown immediately, Inbox is built
    500 ms later in a background pass, mail cache loads after 2 s.
  • Sidebar IMAP folder listing moved to a background thread. This was
    the real cause of the ~4 s freeze after the sync popup closed.
  • Composer window opens in ~22 ms instead of ~1050 ms: the
    RichTextEditor (WebKit) is now created lazily 100 ms after the
    window is mapped.
  • Mail list build batched (20 rows per cycle) with
    freeze_child_notify() to avoid layout thrash. The 50 most recent
    threads are rendered by default.
  • Reduced redundant queue_resize()/queue_draw() calls in the mail
    list, removing a second major source of UI freezes.

• User interface

  • "What's New" window: compact, resizable-free, closing via the
    title-bar X now properly marks the version as seen.
  • "Insert link" is now a Gtk.Popover attached to the toolbar button
    instead of a Gtk.Dialog (cleaner, native-looking, Enter validates).
  • Text color picker replaced with a native Gtk.ColorButton: full
    color palette instead of a hard-coded blue.
  • Sidebar: "Refresh" context menu item is now available on every
    folder (Archive, custom folders), which removes the empty white
    rectangle that previously appeared when right-clicking.
  • Sidebar labels: counter and trash icon are now grouped in a
    horizontal box, so the count is aligned and displayed before the
    trash icon.
  • Window size is now persisted across restarts (written on
    delete-event, restored at startup).
  • "Deleted Messages" (iCloud) is correctly recognized as the Trash
    folder and offers "Empty folder (permanent deletion)".
  • Folder icons: custom folders and Archive now show a proper
    folder-symbolic icon instead of a broken empty square.
  • Settings window, About, Filters and Contacts are now built lazily
    on first visit instead of at startup, saving several hundred
    milliseconds.
  • Interface sounds are now controlled by a dedicated preference
    ("Enable interface sounds" in Settings > Interface), with distinct
    cues for sent mail, incoming phishing alerts, going offline, and
    emptying the trash. ← NEW

• Filters

  • New Thunderbird-style filter editor: name, account selector,
    "when to apply" checkboxes, ET/OU logic (match all / match any),
    dynamic condition rows, dynamic action rows.
  • New condition fields: To, Cc, Body, X-Spam-Status, X-Spam-Score.
  • New operators: not_contains, not_equals.
  • New actions: Move to, Copy to, Label, Mark as read.
  • "Run on existing messages when saved" checkbox: applies the filter
    to already-cached mail (inbox, sent, drafts, junk, archive) when
    creating or editing a filter.
  • Filter editor state (ET/OU, when-to-apply checkboxes) is now
    correctly saved, restored, and applied by the filter engine.

• Composer

  • Per-account signature is correctly swapped when the "From" account
    changes (signature is now wrapped in a
    
    and replaced reliably).
  • Cci (Bcc) field now actually appears when the Cci button is
    toggled.
  • Fixed duplicate call to sidebar.set_size_request(260, -1) left
    over from a previous merge.

• Internationalization

  • 7 languages fully covered (fr, en, de, es, ja, pt, th, zh).
  • New fix_sidebar_keys.py helper restores sidebar keys lost when
    running extract_i18n.py.
  • i18n.install_translation(_LANG_PREF) is now actually called at
    module level, so changing the language in Settings takes effect
    after the automatic restart.

• Bug fixes from user reports (0.3.0-beta2 -> 0.4.0-beta1)

  • WebKit2 4.0 -> 4.0/4.1 fallback added to pages.py (deepin 25 and
    any distribution shipping only WebKitGTK 4.1).
  • CREATE INDEX on email_labels moved after CREATE TABLE email_labels
    in store.py, fixing init_db() on fresh installs.
  • GitHub URLs corrected everywhere (ZengDevapps -> coatimundiapps).

-- David Tavares davidtavares@ik.me Tue, 10 Nov 2026 18:00:00 +0100

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This discussion was created from the release 0.4.0-beta1.