Gmail Herald Changelog

What's new in Gmail Herald 0.4

Jul 12, 2013
  • New features:
  • Added ability to manually iterate (back and forth) over the multiple messages in
  • notification window
  • Added ability to mark email messages as read from the notification window. This
  • feature requires enabling IMAP support for Gmail account
  • Added ability to check for application updates
  • Extended tray icon with notification capabilities: show warnings and tool tips,
  • Refactored version control code
  • Change the application settings file location - now it stored in the user
  • preferences system directory
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed notification window behavior: it does not freeze the whole GUI anymore
  • Improved notification window layout
  • Now changing application settings take effect immediately and not after restarting the application
  • Fixed spelling errors in localization texts
  • Multiple small fixes and improvements

New in Gmail Herald 0.3 (Sep 27, 2011)

  • Fixed wrong separators usage issue in GMail Herald executable path when save it into the Windows registry for starting the application on system start up. This prevented to GMail Herald start as expected. Now the native separators used instead
  • Improved version control system
  • Implemented the new installer script for new NSIS based package generation. The new install package includes SSL related libraries missed in previous packages as well Microsoft run times
  • Removed dependency from QCA libraries and use Qt based functions instead
  • Added icon for the Gmail Herald executable file (Windows)

New in Gmail Herald 0.2.226 Beta (Aug 16, 2010)

  • Show received email date and time on notification window.
  • Cosmetic improvements on notification window.
  • Changed notification window icon.
  • Added button to notification window to hide it with mouse click.
  • Play sound on new email arrival.
  • Improved Options dialog with sound file settings.
  • Added new icons for menu items.
  • Added "View Inbox" menu item to open Gmail inbox in browser window.
  • Improved application version maintanence.
  • Gmail Herald checks for updates on startup and allow to download new versions from
  • About window.
  • Implement localization support with translatable string constants.
  • Add support for Russian language.