Download The Bat! 10.0

Version 10.0 of the more than twenty-year-old email client The Bat! it came out. The new director of the Moldovan company Ritlabs, Stefan Tanurkov, is fully committed to modernizing his program. For example, Chromium’s HTML rendering engine has replaced the outdated internal engine and that of Internet Explorer and there is now also a dark mode. The program has also undergone several changes in the interface and really looks much fresher than before. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features

• Calendar functionality
• Completely redesigned Address Book
• New component-based update system that allows installing updated components without the need of downloading entire installation packages
• Birthday event is added to the calendar after setting new birth date for a contact
• /OFFLINE and /ONLINE command line parameters to start/switch The Bat! into offline/online mode on start or while it’s running
• Read/Unread label in the Summary column

Improvements

• User pictures are now round instead of rectangle in the Summary View
• Summary Column layout changed
• CEF was updated to v99.2.14
• Ctrl+Y now works as Redo in both HTML and MicroEd editors

Fixes

• Customized toolbars and menus could misplace buttons
• Archive password was shown in the scheduler’s backup action listing
• Automatic list generation in HTML is now switched off (will be made optional in the future)
• Automatic switching into HTML editor by using text formatting was working incorrectly when multiple paragraphs were selected