Versie 10.4 van de ruim twintig jaar oude e-mailclient The Bat! is uitgekomen. De nieuwe directeur van het Moldavische bedrijf Ritlabs, Stefan Tanurkov, heeft vol ingezet op modernisering van zijn programma. Zo heeft de HTML-rendering-engine van Chromium de achterhaalde interne engine en die van Internet Explorer vervangen en is er nu ook een donkere modus. Het programma heeft verder diverse wijzigingen in de interface ondergaan en ziet er echt veel frisser uit dan voorheen. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
New featuresImprovements
- Calendar Manager
- Synchronization with Google Calendar
- List of recently created/modified files and source folders in the drop-down of the "Attach a file" button in the message editor window
Fixes
- /NoDirectX command line parameter to disable the usage of DirectX in PureHTML editor
- In certain cases, the new interface toolbars were not saved on exiting the program
- The font size is now preserved when replying to an HTML-message
- Pressing the Tab key in the message text area now works as expected
- Replying to an email using the PureHTML format caused infinite Access Violation error messages
- Wrong email addresses were inserted as additional emails in a contact's properties
- It was impossible to delete secondary email address in a contact's properties
- In was not possible to overwrite any email address in a contact's properties
- The sorting of contacts in the new address book interface was wrong
- Zoom in/out buttons in plain text switched the message format to PureHTML
- "Zoom in" in the message editor did not enlarge the row height
- The path for the Synchronize operation required a trailing backslash for the operation to start
- Issues with Calculate command in HTML editors were fixed
- Some iCalendar files could cause AV errors
- Alt+Insert (Paste as quotation) was not working properly in both HTML editors
- Weekly/daily repeating events were starting one day later
- Time zone issues when importing from iCalendar files
- Images copied from MS Word were not pasted properly in HTML editors
- Automatic replies were losing the original HTML formatting
- It was impossible to deselect text in the PureHTML editor
- The issue which caused the Access Violation and "A component named FolderEditor already exists" error messages on opening folder properties has been resolved
- Missing indication on the current message format - plain text or HTML
- "Paste as plain text" doesn't work both in RichText and in PureHTML
- "Invalid image. Error" upon replying to messages with certain image files
- RichText includes the background color in HTML-messages depending on the interface theme