GMime 2.99.0 released

After a long hiatus, I am pleased to announce the release of GMime 2.99.0!

See below for a list of new features and bug fixes.

About GMime

GMime is a C library which may be used for the creation and parsing of messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME), as defined by numerous IETF specifications.

GMime features an extremely robust high-performance parser designed to be able to preserve byte-for-byte information allowing developers to re-seralize the parsed messages back to a stream exactly as the parser found them. It also features integrated GnuPG and S/MIME v3.2 support.

Built on top of GObject (the object system used by the GNOME desktop), many developers should find its API design and memory management very familiar.

Noteworthy changes in version 2.99.0

• Overhauled the GnuPG support to use GPGME under the hood rather than a custom wrapper.
• Added S/MIME support, also thanks to GPGME.
• Added International Domain Name support via GNU's libidn.
• Improved the GMimeMessage APIs for accessing the common address headers. They now all return an InternetAddressList.
• g_mime_init() no longer takes any flag arguments and the g_mime_set_user_charsets() API has also been dropped. Instead, GMimeParserOptions and GMimeFormatOptions have taken the place of these APIs to allow customization of various parser and formatting options in a much cleaner way. To facilitate this, many parsing functions and formatting functions have changed to now take these options arguments.
• InternetAddress now has a 'charset' property that can be set to override GMime's auto-detection of the best charset to use when encoding names.
• GMimeHeaderIter has been dropped in favor of a much simpler index-based API on GMimeHeaderList.
• GMimeHeaderList no longer caches the raw message/mime headers in a stream. Instead, each GMimeHeader now has its own cache. This means that changing the GMimeHeaderList or any of its GMimeHeaders no longer invalidates the entire cache.
• GMimeParser has been fixed to preserve (munged or otherwise) From-lines that sometimes appear at the start of the content of message/rfc822 parts.
• GMimeParser now also scans for encapsulated PGP blocks within MIME parts as it is parsing them and sets a flag on each GMimePart that contains one of these blocks.
• GMimePart now has APIs for dealing with said encapsulated PGP blocks.

Developers interested in migrating to the upcoming GMime 3.0 API (of which GMime 2.99.0 is a preview) should take a look at the PORTING document included with the source code as it contains a fairly comprehensive list of the API changes that they will need to be aware of.

Getting the Source Code

You can download official public release tarballs of GMime at https://download.gnome.org/sources/gmime/ or ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/.

If you would like to contribute to the GMime project, it is recommended that you grab the source code from the official GitHub repository at https://github.com/jstedfast/gmime. Cloning this repository can be done using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/jstedfast/gmime.git

Documentation

API reference documentation can be found at https://developer.gnome.org/gmime/2.99/.

Documentation for getting started can be found in the README.md.