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Jul 23, 2025: Released C++ SMTP Client Library version 1.1.11
- New features
  - Adjust the line length of the MIME attachments to 76 (excluding CRLF) to comply with RFC 2045.
  - Add a log level to the multiple clients. The log level is for the level of details of the communication log between the client and the server. Choices are : None, ExcludeAttachmentsBytes and Full. Default is ExcludeAttachmentsBytes.
  - Add the Date header field in outgoing emails to comply with RFC 2822. This is a required field and it was missing in the previous versions.
- Bug fixes
  - Fix the error 554 5.0.0 (“failed to create parser: unexpected EOF”) when sending multipart messages via ProtonMail Bridge due to missing closing MIME boundary (–sep–).
  - Prevented catastrophic backtracking in isEmailAddressValid() regex that caused crashes when validating complex email addresses (e.g., from mailersend.com). Updated regex to avoid unescaped dots and added a more robust pattern.
Jul 6, 2025: Released The Warrior version 0.3.3.
- Map Editor
  - Changes
    - Move the editor configuration file into the folder “Jed# Software/The Warrior - Map Editor” instead of “The Warrior - Map Editor”
    - Only the tiles that are visible on the screen are now displayes. This result in lower CPU usage.
  - New features
    - Persist the position status of toolbars.
    - Persist the visibility status of toolbars.
    - Persist the visiblity status of the display grid menu item.
    - Add a shortcut to move the map -> Alt + Click.
    - Enable the zoom feature with the mouse wheel.
    - Implement the undo/redo actions.
    - Add a Picker tool to get a texture an object from a tile.
    - Add support to change multi-selection tile properties.
    - Add bottom tabs to change the map view (ex: CanStep, MonsterZone, BlockedBorder etc).
    - Persist the “Use only one monster zone for all the map” field in the GameMap class.
    - Add a MonsterZone selection component in the Tile Property panel.
    - Disable the MonsterZone combobox in tile props component when “Use only one monster zone for all the map” is selected.
    - Implement the copy/paste of tiles feature.
  - Bug fixes
    - Solved Issue #6: Application crash when you multiselect a zone that ends outside of the GLComponent.
    - Solved Issue #14: When creating the first monster zone, it is assigned automatically to the selected tiles.
    - Solved Issue #15: Undo history is not update when we change tile value via the Tile Property panel.
    - Solved Issue #13: Application crash when you apply texture on map then same on another file.
    - Solved Issue #9: Unable to select a tile when the map is moved in the lower right corner.
- Item Editor
  - Changes
    - Move the editor configuration file into the folder “Jed# Software/The Warrior - Item Editor” instead of “The Warrior - Item Editor”
- Monster Editor
  - Changes
    - Move the editor configuration file into the folder “Jed# Software/The Warrior - Monster Editor” instead of “The Warrior - Monster Editor”
May 23, 2025: C++ SMTP Client Library is now on Conan!
Apr 19, 2025: Released C++ SMTP Client Library version 1.1.10
- New features
  - Add support for macOS.
- Bug fixes
  - Fix the install/uninstall process of the library.
  - Solve the issue #38 where STARTTLS is not recognized if it is returned as the last response from the mail server.
Mar 30, 2025: Released C++ SMTP Client Library version 1.1.9
- New features
  - Rework the build system to support static build and to generate correct release version.
  - The build configuration now works with multi-config generators like Visual Studio.
  - The default build configurations in Visual Studio has been changed to :
    - x64-Debug
    - x64-Debug-Static
    - x64-Debug-WithUnitTests
    - x64-Release
    - x64-Release-Static
    - x64-Release-WithUnitTests
Jun 8, 2024: Released C++ SMTP Client Library version 1.1.8
- New features
  - Some SMTP server send their list of supported extensions in multiple buffers like Zoho Mail. The EHLO command when in uncrypted mode, now supports receiving multiple buffers. In return, a delay of one second must be added for each segment sent by the SMTP server. For SMTP servers that send the list of supported extensions in a single segment like Gmail and Live, no additional delay is added for the EHLO command. This doesn’t affect the other commands.
  - Now when we send an email to multiple recipients (to or cc), the recipients appears as a single mail header instead of multiple headers. The old method was not RFC 5322 compliant.
Jan 3, 2024: Released C++ SMTP Client Library version 1.1.7
- New features
  - Added support for the XOAUTH2 authentication method.
  - Added a new flag in the different SMTP client classes to indicate whether we want to send emails in batch (getBatchMode/setBatchMode). In this mode the connection to an SMTP server will only be made once when the first email is sent and will remain open until the client instance is destroy.
  - Added the authentication feature on the SMTPClient class.
  - Added a new flag on the ForcedSecureSMTPClient and OpportunisticSecureSMTPClient to indicate whether we accept self signed certificate (getAcceptSelfSignedCert/setAcceptSelfSignedCert).
Nov 10, 2023: Released The Warrior version 0.3.2.
- Map Editor
  - New features
    - Updated the upper toolbar to make the selected action visually marked as selected.
    - It is now possible to move the differents toolbar to the left and the right of the screen. You can also close them and made them floatable. The menu View > Toolbar has been added to toggle toolbars visibility.
    - Added a debugging info toolbar that is hidden by default. You can open it through the View > Toolbar menu.
    - The map section of the editor is supporting dynamic size.
    - Added the zoom feature to the map.
    - Removed the NPC component that was unused for now.
    - Relocated MainForm components as real QWidget independant components.
    - Implemented the Double click and Del key press in the Texture List Component.
    - Implemented the Double click and Del key press in the Tile Properties Component for the Event list.
    - Enhanced the current texture edit form by using the common ui texture edit form controller.
  - Bug fixes
    - Solved Issue #10: When you unselect a tile the tiles details stays in the Tile Properties Component.
Oct 11, 2023: Released The Warrior version 0.3.1.
- Map Editor
  - New features
    - Added the assign/clear monster zones to the map feature.
  - Bug fixes
    - When selecting multiple tiles (e.g. with a texture assigned), the resulting selection could be incorrect if you stop on the edge of a tile.
- Monster Editor
  - New features
    - Implemented the CLI program options to be able to load a monster store directly from the CLI.
    - Draw the tiles zones in the Add & Edit Texture form.
- Item Editor
  - New features
    - Implemented the CLI program options to be able to load a monster store directly from the CLI.
    - Draw the tiles zones in the Add & Edit Texture form.
Sep 23, 2023: Released The Warrior version 0.3.0.
- Game
  - New features
    - Add gold stats in the Character window
- Map Editor
  - New features
    - Added a setting form to manage item stores.
    - Added a setting form to manage monster stores.
    - Added the Monster zones component in the main form.
- Monster Editor
  - Create the Monster Editor to manage monsters with their stats.
Sep 3, 2023: Released C++ SMTP Client Library version 1.1.6
- New features
  - Added support in the attachment class for Content-ID. It will be really useful to uniquely identify and reference resources to embed in the message.
Jan 22, 2023: Completed the Double Linked List in the Study the RoadMap of Computer Science (Challenge 2023). See my github repo for more details.
Jan 15, 2023: Completed the Single Linked List in the Study the RoadMap of Computer Science (Challenge 2023). See my github repo for more details.
Dec 31, 2022: Released C++ SMTP Client Library version 1.1.5
- New features
  - Added OpenSSL variables in CMakeLists to be able to specify include, library path and library files.
  - A set of new classes has been added to the jed_utils::cpp namespace to provide a pure C++ way to consume the library. This is the new standard from version 1.1.5. See the new class documentation in the wiki.
- Updated
  - Changed the ErrorResolver field mErrorMessage from an std::string to an char * to keep a Plain C Interface.
  - Code formatting applied throughout the project using cpplint and following Google’s C++ style guide.
  - Configured Linux Socket connect function to non-blocking mode to make the SmtpClientBase timeout working as expected.
  - Added WSACleanup error return code to the communication log.
- Bug fixes
  - Changed the size of the communication log buffer from static (4096 bytes) to an auto-growing dynamic buffer.
- Security fixes
  - Replaced all insecure strcpy by functions that support length arguments like strncpy.
Jul 15, 2022: Released The Warrior version 0.2.0.
- Game
  - New features
    - Added GLTextBox support to display messages in the game.
    - Added a message pipeline in the game.
    - Added GLPopupWindow support to display inventory, character infos etc.
    - Added the Main menu when in game map mode.
    - Added the inventory window mode when in game map mode. You can equip, move and drop items.
    - Added the character window mode when in game map mode.
    - Added a mechanism to make sure we cannot open the chest multiple times.
    - Added joystick support for the different windows.
  - Bug fixes
    - Fix joystick player movement issue and start working on the InputDevicesState class.
- Item Editor
  - Create the Item Editor to manage items, stats items, weapons and armors.
- Map Editor
  - New features
    - Added the X and Y coordinates of the selected tile.
    - Added a flag to indicate if an object texture needs to appear in front or behind the player.
    - Added tile’s trigger and action feature.
    - Added icons in the toolbar.
    - Added the Edit, View and Clear Blocked Border Mode features.
  - Bug fixes
    - Fix an issue where the initShader method of the GLTextService and GLTileService was not returning any value on success.
Mar 9, 2022: Released BeaverTodos version 0.2.2.
- Fix an issuse where you couldn’t close a todo if a completed todo had the same id.
Mar 2, 2022: Released BeaverTodos version 0.2.1.
- Fix a bug where the text color is not reset for next line.
Mar 1, 2022: Released BeaverTodos version 0.2.0.
- Added the Remove a todo feature.
- Added the Edit a todo feature.
- Added the Purge the todo list feature.
- You can now get the next todo to work on
- Added the Fetch the details of a todo feature.
- Added the usage when no command is supplied
Feb 6, 2022: Released C++ SMTP Client Library version 1.1.4.
- Added the BUILD_TESTING flag in the CMake project so the unit tests are not build by default and Google Test is no longer required.
- Added a new uninstall target in the CMake project.
- Added a new ErrorResolver class to get a string representation (error message) of a return code obtained by the sendMail method from the different classes of SMTP clients.
- Two new methods has been added to the SMTPClientBase class : getErrorMessage and getErrorMessage_r. Those two methods can be used to get a string representation (error message) of a return code obtained by the sendMail method from the different classes of SMTP clients.
- The Google Test dependency branch has been switched from master to main.
- Code: The using namespace std; has been removed as it is considered bad practice.
- The Windows documentation has been updated to explain how to use OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR variable.
- Added documentation in all headers files for public methods.
- The exception classes AttachmentError and CommunicationError has been removed.
Aug 1, 2021: Released C++ SMTP Client Library version 1.1.3.
- Renamed the class SSLSmtpClient to OpportunisticSecureSMTPClient but added a typedef and kept the sslsmtpclient.h for backward compatibility.
- Added support for forced ssl connection (SMTP port 465) via the ForcedSecureSMTPClient class
- Added the new base class SecureSMTPClientBase to centralize the common code of the classes ForcedSecureSMTPClient and OpportunisticSecureSMTPClient.
May 27, 2021: Released C++ SMTP Client Library version 1.1.2.
- Refactored the code of the SmtpClient class to inherit the SmtpClientBase class.
- You must now call the method getCommunicationLog() instead of getServerReply().
May 6, 2021: Released C++ SMTP Client Library version 1.1.1.
- Added support for the cc and bcc field in the sendMail method
Mar 28, 2021: Released TeacherHelper version 1.1.0.
- The referential integrity constraint in the different tables has been enforced.
- Added a version table and class to be able to implement the in-software database upgrade.
- Added the first report Class Assessments Summary Report.
- Class form : Ensure the member list resize with the window.
- Assessment Form: Let the user choose the max result of the assessment. Not necessarily 100.
- Fixed compilation warnings in Windows ans OS X.
Jan 16, 2021: Released The Warrior version 0.1.0.
- Game
  - First steps in the game application.
  - Displayed the map using modern OpenGL.
  - Displayed the player on the map.
  - Added the window resize feature.
  - Added an option to display the FPS.
- Map Editor
  - Added the map resize feature
  - Added a tool to configure the cannot step-on tile.