Software Update: The Bat! 9.1

Ritlabs has released version 9.1 of its email program The Bat. The program supports several pop3 and imap4 accounts, and has a Bayesian spam filter and extensive search and filtering capabilities. Furthermore, there is support for pgp, end-to-end encryption and the e-mails can be stored encrypted on the hard disk. Furthermore, there are no minimum system requirements. It runs on the oldest hardware, but can also handle the AVX-512 instruction set, which can be found in Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 Knights Landing. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New features

• TLS AEAD AES-GCM cipher suites: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
• Added icons for the commands (menu items, toolbar buttons) that did not have icons
• Added SHA-384 cipher suites for TLS: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384 & TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
• “/CRC32_CCITT_BENCHMARK” and “/CRC32_CASTAGNOLI_BENCHMARK” command-line parameters to calculate performance of CRC32 implementation used by The Bat!

Improvements

• Enabled the following ciphers suite for TLS: TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 cipher suite (it was disabled because it had largest AES key size, but DHE which is slower than ECDHE)

Fixes

• ECDHE TLS ciphers didn’t work on TLS version 1.0 (but did work on TLS version 1.1 and later)
• Added Shortcuts Customization (it was missing since version 9.0)
• MailTicker font style was incorrectly saved
• Added correct categories in menu customization
• Fixed Favorites Menu (there was an issue since version 9.0)
• A memory leak is fixed (the TGoogleAuthTask object was not released)
• Fixed AV in customizing menus (64bit-only)
• (#0000329) Link to folder missing from the “Information” tab
• (#0001736) Message Dispatcher is not terminated
• (#0001811) The Sorting Office option “Do not preserve header of the original messages” is always applied regardless of the settings
• (#0001873) Can’t change font styles or selected text
• (#0001874) Editor: Menu-Item “Format” contains an unnecessary item divider (it was an issue since version 9.0)
• (#0001896) “Esc” does not close the “Address Book”, “View Message Source”, “Print Preview” and “Enter Registration Key” windows
• (#0001917) “Cannot remove shell notification icon” error popup during shutdown
• (#0001923) After language change, a button was missing (it was an issue since version 9.0)
• (#0001930) Clicking an URL in HTML message opens two browsers
• (#0001936) Access Violation on “OK” in the Print Setup Dialog
• (#0001937) The items in the main menu “Workspace -> Show Connection Centre” are not mutually exclusive (it was an issue since version 9.0)
• (#0001941) Access Violation errors in print setup dialog and canceling password dialog
• (#0001953) Message tags are not displayed in the column “Tags”