proton-bridge/release-notes/bridge_stable.md

v3.3.0

• 2023-06-20

New

• Reduced the number of occasions when email clients ask for Bridge credentials
• Added new Bridge notifications to help users to configure and troubleshoot their email clients
• To avoid the need to reconfigure email clients, Bridge remembers the old account password when an account is re-added (removed and added again)
• Further improved logging to support troubleshooting
• 2 factor authentication (2FA) is submitted automatically after entering a code
• Removed the requirement of having an administrator account on macOS to install Bridge

Fixed

• Fixed numerous crashes
• Fixed the case when an email could not be sent if a PDF was attached to the email
• Added varioius bugfixes and security improvemenets
• Reduced the Bridge cache size by cleaning up temporary emails that were saved during failed initial synchronizations
• Further reduced the chance of desyncronization between the email client and Bridge

v3.2.0

• 2023-05-26

New

• Enhanced Proton infrastructure protection
• Enhanced the integration with the operating system by replacing status windows with native tray icon context menu
• Switched to two columns layout on the account details page to make the informaion easier to access
• Improved logs to support troubleshooting
• Added optional usage sharing to support user experience improvements. Additional information about data sharing can be found on our support page.
• Implemented smart picking of default IMAP and SMTP ports
• Added various security and performance improvements

Fixed

• Replaced invalid email addresses with empty field for new drafts so it can be syncronized across Proton clients
• Improved crash handling
• Fixed label / unlabel performance when applied on large amount of emails
• Fixed "reply to" related issues
• Updated build instructions
• Announced IMAP ID capability to email clients

v3.1.3

• 2023-05-10

Fixed

• Added a missing error handler that can make the initial synchronization to stuck

v3.1.2

• 2023-04-27

New

• Significantly reduced memory consumption both during synchronization and communication with email clients
• Added synchronization indicator to the graphical user interface (GUI)
• Added "Close window" and "Quit Bridge" buttons to the main window
• Added command line switches to control GUI rendering
• Switched to software rendering on Windows to support old graphics cards
• Added support for Proton's Scheduled send feature
• Avoided making email clients to ask for Bridge credentials when they started faster than Bridge at startup
• Added a notification when a user is signed out from Bridge in the background
• Improved desynchronization avoidence by setting UIDValidity from the current time
• Started updating emails in the email clients frequently when Bridge is started after not being online for longer period of time
• Improved error detection and handling
• Optimized Recovered Messages folder size by not adding a message to the folder if that message has been added to it before (deduplication)

Fixed

• Fixed transparent window with old graphics cards or virtual machines on Windows
• Reduced notifications that does not require user actions
• Improved exception / crash handling
• Improved handling complex MIME types
• Reduced the source of errors that can lead to gRPC related error messages
• Fixed sub-folder rename issues
• Fixed various bugs related to secure vault handling, network communication errors, Proton server communication, operating system integration.

v3.0.21

• 2023-03-23

New

• Extended the migration from the previous major Bridge version with certificates
• Improved error detection

Fixed

• Fixed the misplaced .desktop file on Linux
• Fixed DBUS secret service integration (e.g., KWallet, KeePass)
• Made Bridge more resilient against Proton server outages

v3.0.20

• 2023-03-09

New

• Added better explanation when an email cannot be sent because of non-existing email addresses
• Added a dialog to Bridge where users can repair the application when it encounters an internal error
• Improved error detection

Fixed

• Reduced the cases when Bridge could not restart automatically
• Fixed the bug that could cause email states (e.g., read, unread, answered) to come out of sync with the web application. NOTE: This fix is only applied to new emails. In order to fix older emails in Bridge, the account in Bridge needs to be removed and added back.
• Fixed incorrect subject parsing caused by double quotes

v3.0.19

• 2023-03-01

New

• Improved inter-process communication error detection
• Improved exceptions related error detection

Fixed

• Fixed numerous sources of errors leading to logout (internal errors)
• Fixed inter-process communication related startup issues (e.g., gRPC, service configuration file exchange)

v3.0.18

• 2023-02-24

New

• Improved event processing related error handling

Fixed

• Fixed manual update errors on Windows by ensuring that all new files are deployed by the Bridge installer

v3.0.17

• 2023-02-22

New

• Rewrote a significant part of Bridge to improve overall Bridge stability and performance
• Open sourced and integrated a new IMAP library, Gluon (https://github.com/ProtonMail/gluon)
• Open sourced and integrated a new Proton API library, Go Proton API (GPA) (https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-proton-api)
• Significantly improved error detection and unexpected error handling
• Improved email sending performance
• Improved synchronization performance
• Added new command line argument for software rendering
• Extended the coverage of the Bridge data that is encrypted on the users' computers
• Added an option to the graphical user interface to export TLS certificates
• Reimplemented the user interface (upgraded to the Qt 6 user interface library)
• Added native Apple Silicon macOS support
• Added an option to change IMAP connection mode
• Added subfolder support
• Added a new icon for the .dmg installer
• Increased automated test coverage

Fixed

• Desynchronization while creating a draft email
• Fixed sub-folder creation issues
• User name and password validation messages are shown only when the Sign in button is pressed
• Improved handling SMTP send deduplication
• Improved robustness of Bridge restart
• Fixed the user notification for occupied Bridge ports
• Fixed vulnerabilities of golang.org/x/crypto
• Added the missing Library on Fedora/Gnome for 2.3 to 2.4 update
• Added digital-signature for DLLs (to avoid the Windows Security alert, and to show if Bridge is coming from a trusted publisher)
• Fixed many Qt 6 related Linux and Windows update process issues
• Changed the default location of the database and storage files to avoid conflicts with cache cleaner applications

v2.3.0

• 2022-09-08

New

• Feature to hide All Mail from IMAP client
• Enable automatic configuration on macOS Ventura
• Improved the scope of local logs

Fixed

• Visibility of Dependencies in Bridge GUI
• Potential crashes on parallel LIST command

v2.2.2

• 2022-08-03

New

• Updated GUI colours to reflect new Proton's colours theme
• Renamed ProtonMail Bridge to Proton Mail Bridge - installers, keychain etc.
• New Bridge systray icons for all OSes
• New Bridge application icons for all OSes
• Visual update of macOS and Windows installers
• Add label/folder filtering to pmapi
• Use one buffered event for internet status changes - to eliminate false-positive connection errors
• Added a modal to prompt the user to reconfigure the account once a new PM address is added
• Added a link to dependencies' licences to the help section footer

Fixed

• Updated crypto-libraries to gopenpgp v2.4.7 and go-srp v0.0.5
• Convert charset only for text/* MIME types - to ensure no attachment corruption when sending with some email clients
• Reduce unnecessary shell executions
• Syncing issues for when a new PM address is added
• Changed the wording of 'delete this account' dialog
• Improved manual update process (GUI changes)
• Improvements to manual update process

v2.1.3

• 2022-04-27

New

• Added keybase/go-keychain/secretservice as a new keychain helper
• GUI changes to 'report a problem'
• Added another proxy provider
• Improved UX for working with keychain on macOS

Fixed

• Manual update mechanism
• Windows clipboard issues (copying account details)
• Random logouts on macOS
• Error for corrupted keychain
• Bug reporting (emails send from custom domain)

v2.1.1

• 2022-02-09

New

• Improved Sentry reporting

Fixed

• Ensure messageID is properly removed from DB when it is no longer present on the API

v2.1.0

• 2022-01-31

New

New Bridge GUI

• Added a Status View in addition to the Main Bridge Window
• Added storage information per signed in account
• Refactor of sign in flows
• Refactor of Helps and Settings section
• Refactor of bug reports
• Refactor of Bridge update flows for beta and stable channels
• Introduced Reset Bridge feature - to clear all the local preferences and settings
• Introduce local cache configuration
• Dark Mode for Bridge, including autodetect mechanism for system colour scheme
• GUI element for changing keychain (Linux)

New local cache

• Refactor of local store (caching of size, headers and bodystructure)
• Allow to store full encrypted message bodies on a disk

Other

• Update to goopenpgp 2.4.1
• Optimising sentry reporting

Fixed

• Improved retry mechanism for connecting to Proton servers
• OpenGL issue during startup for specific GPUs
• Blurry system icons with multiple monitor setup
• Bridge crashes related to unlocking local cache
• Bug with sending to 'non-encrypted' recipients
• Cosmetic GUI changes

v1.8.12

• 2021-12-06

New

• Bridge to only be checking and trying to unclock active keys, both user and address

Fixed

• Updated bbold to v1.3.6 - including Unix fixes
• Ensure 'delete' on 'All Mail' is not allowed
• Fixed behaviour for 'append' of external messages to Archive
• Fixed behaviour for 'append' of internal messages to All Mail
• Ensure 'move' to All Mail returns an error
• Fixed behaviour for moving/removing message to/from Spam

v1.8.10

• 2021-10-13

Fixed

• Updated crypto-libraries to gopenpgp v2.2.2 and go-srp v0.0.1
• Ensuring proper handling of updates when the user downloads the newest version manually
• Better handling of an error for importing too large messages via Bridge
• Ensuring message packages are fully built when the list of recipients includes internal addresses (for the users using active domain with Microsoft exchange)
• Fixed Uninstalling on Windows to properly clear updates
• Improvements to reusing connections - performance

v1.8.9

• 2021-09-01

Fixed

• Fixed an issues with incorrect handling of 401 server error leading to random Bridge logouts
• Changed encoding of message/rfc822 - to better handle sending of the .msg files
• Fixed crash within RFC822 builder for invalid or empty headers
• Fixed crash within RFC822 builder for header with key length > 76 chars

v1.8.7

• 2021-06-24

New

• Updated golang Secure Remote Password Protocol
• Updated crypto-libraries to gopenpgp/v2 v2.1.10
• Implemented new message parser (for imports from external accounts)

Fixed

• Fixed IMAP/SMTP restart in Bridge to mitigate connection issues
• Fixed unknown charset error for 'combined' messages
• Implemented a long-term fix for 'invalid or missing message signature' error
• Bridge not to strip PGP signatures of incoming clear text messages
• Import of messages with malformed MIME header
• Improved parsing of message headers
• Fetching bodies of non-multipart messages
• Sync and performance improvements

v1.8.3

• 2021-05-27

Fixed

• A bug with sending encrypted emails to external contacts

v1.8.2

• 2021-05-21

Fixed

• Hotfix for error during bug reporting

v1.8.1

• 2021-05-19

Fixed

• Hotfix for crash when listing empty folder

v1.8.0

• 2021-05-17

New

• Refactor of message builder to achieve greater RFC compliance
• Implemented connection manager to improve performance during weak connection, better handling of connection loss and other connectivity issues
• Increased the number of message fetchers to allow more parallel requests - performance improvement
• Log changes for easier debugging (update-related)
• Prompt profile installation during Apple Mail auto-configuration on MacOS Big Sur

Fixed

• Bugs with building of message bodies/headers
• Incorrect naming format of some of the attachments
• Removed html-wrappig of non-decriptable messages - to facilitate decryption outside Bridge and/or allow to store such messages as they are
• Tray icon issues with multiple displays on MacOS

v1.6.9

• 2021-04-01

New

• Revise storage locations for the config files, preferences and cache
• Log improvements for easier debugging (sync issues)
• Added relevant metadata to Windows builds

Fixed

• Fixed the way Bridge interacts with Windows Firewall and Defender
• Fixed potential security vulnerability related to rpath
• Improved parsing of embedded messages
• GUI bug fixes

v1.6.6

• 2021-03-04

New

• Allow to choose which keychain is used by Bridge on Linux
• Added automatic update CLI commands
• Improved performance during slow connection
• Added IMAP requests to the logs for easier debugging

Fixed

• Fixed update notifications
• Fixed GUI freeze while switching to early update channel
• Fixed Bridge autostart
• Improved signing of update packages
• NoGUI build
• Background of GUI welcome message
• Incorrect total mailbox size displayed in Apple Mail

v1.6.3

• 2021-02-16

New

• Added desktop files and icon in Bridge repo
• Better detection of MacOS version to improve automatic AppleMail configuration
• Clearing cache after switching early access off

Fixed

• Better poor connection handling - added retries for starting IMAP server after the connection was down
• Excluding updates from 'clearing cache'
• Not allowing copying from Inbox to Sent and vice versa
• Improvements to moving messages (unlabelling folders)
• Fixed the separation of release notes for 'early' and 'stable' channels

v1.6.2

• 2021-02-02

New

Introducing silent updates

• Introducing 'early' and 'stable' updates channels
• Allowing users to enable early access from within the GUI
• Adding and option to disable silent updates in settings

Changing the distribution of release notes

Performance and stability

• Implement support of UID EXPUNGE - to avoid avoid unnecessary resync
• Improve memory usage - gopenpgp dependency updated to v2.1.3
• Reducing network traffic by caching message size and body structure

Adding a scroll bar to the settings tab

Fixed

• Fetch errors - introducing a stop to the imap server once there is no internet connection
• Setting up flags to avoid messages misplacement
• Inline messages incorrectly changed to attachments
• Reporting bug from accounts with empty account name
• Panic when stopping import progress during loading mailboxes info
• Panic when modifying addresses during changing address mode
• Panic when trying to parse a multipart/alternative section that has no child sections
• Prevent potential loss of messages when moving to local folder and back

v1.5.7

• 2021-01-21

New

• Improvements to message parsing
• Better error handling
• Ensured better message flow by refactoring both address and date parsing
• Improved secure connectivity checks
• Better deb packaging
• More robust error handling
• Improved package creation logic
• Refactor of sending functions to simplify code maintenance
• Added tests for package creation
• Support read confirmations
• Adding GPLv3 licence button to the GUI
• Improved testing

Fixed

• AppleMail crashes (related to timestamps)
• Sending messages from aliases in combined inbox mode
• Fedora font issues
• Ensured that conversations are properly threaded
• Fixed Linux font issues (Fedora)
• Better handling of Mime encrypted messages
• Bridge crashes related to labels handling
• GUI popup related to TLS connection error
• An issue where a random session key is included in the data payload
• Error handling (including improved detection)
• Encoding errors
• Installation issues on linux