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Version 0.8
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Shell:

  - Added a `--no-splash' option.  (Ettore)

  - Plugged a number of memory leaks.  (Federico)

  - Added interfaces to display an arbitrary string associated with a
    folder, and highlight it on demand.  (Ettore, Dan)

  - Changed the Storage IDLs so that you can associate a physical URI
    to the toplevel node as well.  (Ettore)

  - If a shell is already running, `evolution' will just make it
    create a new view instead of creating a new shell.  (Ettore)

Mail:

  Display:

  - The folder tree now shows unread message counts for mail
    folders. For local folders, this updates in real time.  For IMAP, it
    only updates when you "Get Mail".  To be continued.  (Dan)

  - New "important" column in the message list.  User-settable.  (Dan)

  - The message list "Size" column now displays more prettily and
    sorts correctly.  (Jeff)

  - New command to view the raw source to a message.  (Jeff)

  - More reliable MIME icon code in the mailer and the composer.
    (Dan, Iain)

  - Lots of internationalization fixes.  (Dan, Kjartan)

  Composer / Outgoing mail

  - Various fixes to use the best charset and MIME encoding for
    outgoing messages.  (Michael, Jeff)

  - You can now forward messages inline, instead of attaching them.
    Forwarding multiple messages now results in a multipart/digest
    attachment.  (Jeff)

  - Replies are now preceded by "On DATE, PERSON wrote:" (Jeff)

  - HTML signature support.  (Radek)

  - Inline image support.  (Radek)

  - Fixes for addresses with commas.  (Jeff, Michael)

  - Fix to not allow attaching directories, devices, etc.
    (Jeff)

  - Fixed the sign of the GMT offset in generated Date headers. 
    (Michael)

  - Fixed a bug in base64 encoding.  (Michael)

  - Fixed a problem in connecting to non-ESMTP SMTP servers.  (Jeff)

  Miscellaneous Commands / Features:

  - The mailer will now remember your passwords, if you configure
    that option for a service.  (Dan)

  - New "Apply Filters" command to apply filter rules to selected
    messages.  (Jeff)

  - No more "No new mail" dialog.  (Jeff)

  - Individual messages can now be saved to disk.  (Jeff)

  - Synced the Message menu with the right-click menu.  (Jeff)

  - Mailer now uses the same search bar as the addressbook.  (Anna,
    Chris, Jeff)

  Filters:

  - Now supports filtering on system flags (ie Answered, Seen,
    Unseen).  (Jeff)

  - Regular expression searches are now moved to their own Option
    menu.  (Jeff)

  - Allows regex searching on the entire message header.  (Jeff)

  - Now has soundex filters (x sounds like y).  (Jeff)

  IMAP:

  - "Get Mail" now scans all folders.  (Dan)

  - IMAP password dialog no longer pops up at startup: click on the
    server in the folder tree to connect.  (Dan)

  - Folder subscription support.  (Chris Toshok, Dan)

  - Various IMAP folder naming fixes. (May fix Cyrus support) (Dan)

  - Seen/deleted flags are preserved across "Get Mail".  (Jeff)

  - Fixed a bug that could cause messages to be marked as seen
    even when the UI thought they weren't.  (Dan)

  - Fixes for IMAP folders with spaces in their names (again).
    (Jeff)

  - IMAP Kerberos 4 authentication support.  (Dan)

  POP3:

  - Fixed a bunch of error cases in POP3 connection.  (Dan)

  - Fixed POP3 to more reliably delete messages when it was supposed
    to be doing so.  (Dan)

  Local mail:

  - Major local mail rewrite that fixed memory leaks, reduced
    memory consumption, improved efficiency, etc.  (Michael)

  - Maildir support.  (Michael)

  - Local mail folders are now locked (via dot locking and/or
    fcntl/flock) while Evolution is modifying them, and it will
    notice if they've changed while it's not looking. (Michael)

Calendar:

  - To-do and calendar conduits working except for extended
    character support (ie accented chars) (JP)

  - Updated wombat implementation of change reporting (JP)

  - Majorly kick-ass new recurrence page in the event editor with an
    easy UI, a preview of what will happen, and lots of love. (Anna)

  - Imported a new libical with the APIs we require for alarms, the
    start of the timezone code.  This may be the last Evolution
    release that uses a CVS-imported libical; in the future we should
    depend on official tarballs. (Federico)

  - Event editor now deals gracefully with iCalendar recurrences we
    cannot edit. (Federico)

  - Plenty of fixes to the ETable calendar model for the task list
    (Damon).

  - The task list now saves its state, selected columns and sort order
    (Damon).

  - Lots of love to the iTIP engine and user interface.  Scheduling
    appointments via email should be working fine, and they should
    also work when you receive them. (Jesse)

  - Lots of work on the calendar preferences code. (Damon)

  - Many functional and cosmetic fixes to the day and week
    views. (Damon)

  - Event and task editors now ask if you try to close them without
    saving changes. (Damon)

  - You are now prompted if you are sure that you want to delete an
    appointment. (Federico)

  - Plenty of memory leaks fixed. (JP, Federico)

  - Prettified the event editor a bit by making widget spacings
    consistent. (Federico)

  - Fixed semantics for handling exception dates (Federico)

  - Some fixes to the recurrence instance generation engine. (Damon)

  - Fixed insertion of new objects via notification into the task
    list.  (JP, Federico)

  - Misc. polishing for the event editor's innards. (Damon, Federico)

  - Misc. cruft removal from old Gnomecal code (Federico, Miguel)

  - Prettier icons for the task list. (Federico)

Addressbook:

  - Addressbook conduit now working, experimentally, except for
    extended character support (ie accented chars.) (JP)

  - Extended wombat functionality with getChanges call. (JP)

  - Full name and address dialogs in contact editor fixed. (Chris)

Executive Summary: (iain)

  - Now compiled by default.

  - Prettier default dialogs.

  - Customisable background.

  - RDF Summary, and Mail Summary components.

  - Fixes and optimisations.

  - Can restore state.

Version 0.7, "Loch Ness Monster", ????
--------------------------------------

There have been no verified sightings of this release.


Version 0.6, "Procompsognathus", 2000-10-19
-------------------------------------------

General:

  - Split out lots of functionality to gal.  Evolution now depends on
    gal. (Chris Lahey, Gal Team)

Shell:

  - Added a cute splash screen.  (Ettore, TigerT)

  - Improved the way `~/evolution' is initialized the first time.
    (Iain)

  - Fixed the problem with the folder bar disappearing too son when
    clicking on the scrollbar.  (Ettore)

  - Updated to use the new toolbar and UI merging code from Bonobo.
    (Michael Meeks, Ettore)

Mail:

  - Numerous i18n encoding, decoding, and display fixes. Non-ASCII
    text should be displayed correctly in most context in the mailer
    now. The composer no longer sends undeclared 8bit data. (Jeff)

  - The IMAP provider now caches summary info between sessions, so
    startup should be much faster for large folders. (Dan)

  - Subscribe/unsubscribe UI for newsgroups. (IMAP subscriptions will
    be supported in a later release.) NNTP authentication support.
    Various other NNTP fixes. (Chris Toshok)

  - New "full search" button to do more complicated searches. (NotZed)

  - Composer attachment bar improvements. You can now drag files to
    the composer window to attach them to the message. (Iain)

  - Message list state (columns selected, sorting, etc) is now saved
    between sessions. (NotZed)

  - "Get Mail" now works for IMAP. IMAP mail no longer arrives
    asynchronously (although if you delete mail from another client,
    it will be deleted asynchronously). (Dan)

  - Image attachments now use thumbnail images rather than a generic
    image icon. (Iain)

  - Various IMAP provider bugs (Dan, Jeff)

  - Filter code cleanup/improvements. (NotZed) Filtering can read and
    write message scores. (Jeff) On-demand filters no longer expunge
    the source folder, and don't filter deleted messages. (Jeff)
    Filters now log their actions. (Jeff)

  - Drafts, Outbox, and Sent folders now default to showing "To"
    instead of "From" in the header list. Messages output to the Sent
    folder are marked as "Seen". "Send later" on a reply will mark the
    message as having been replied to. (Jeff)

  - Message list "attachment" column is now functional. The
    read/unread state of a fake thread header now matches the state of
    the thread. (NotZed) Message list sorting is more clever (Jeff)

  - The "Print" toolbar button now opens a Print dialog rather than a
    Print Preview window. (Miguel)

  - New "Select All" command. "Mark all messages as seen" became "Mark
    (selected) messages seen". (Jeff)

Calendar:

  - Improved todo list and calendar view gui (Damon)

  - Printing works again (Federico)

  - Config dialog improvement and implementation (Damon)

  - Todo and calendar conduits working, except for archiving (JP)

Addressbook:

  - Lots of internal refactoring of addressbook, including changes due
    to gal. (Chris, Chris)

  - Lots of bug fixes. (Chris, Chris, Matt Bissiri, Iain, Dan)

  - Added a working field to save whether the contact wants
    HTML. (Chris Lahey)

  - Added "Stop" and "View All" toolbar buttons. (Chris Lahey)

  - Lots of work on modifiable LDAP. (Chris Toshok)

  - Recognizes a lot more Prefixes and Suffixes when parsing names. (Nat)

  - The card view doesn't write out cards unless they've changed. (Chris Lahey)

  - New layout of address editor dialog. (Anna, Chris Lahey)

Version 0.5.1, "Salamended", 2000-09-15
---------------------------------------

General:

  - Fixed a font-handling problem that would cause Evolution to crash
    at startup with certain Gtk themes. (Chris)

  - Fixed some build problems. (Chris)

  - We no longer ship an out-of-date Red Hat-only RPM spec file.

Shell:

  - The shell now installs the `Sent' folder at startup if it doesn't
    exist yet.  (Ettore)

  - If a component crashes unexpectedly, the shell displays a dialog
    box informing the user of that.  (Ettore)

  - Fixed a bug in the folder selector dialog that would result in
    crashes while trying to move messages in the mailer. (Dan)

Addressbook:

  - Fixed a bug that would cause the addressbook to crash when
    embedded in the composer. (Dan)

Mail:

  - Fixed a display problem caused by expunging an IMAP folder. (Dan)

  - Fixed POP mail so that "keep on server" is obeyed correctly. (Dan,
    Jeff)

  - Fixed replies so that replying to a message twice doesn't turn off
    the "replied" flag. (Dan)

  - Fixed a bug that prevented "Send later" from working. (Dan)


Version 0.5, "Salamander", 2000-09-13
-------------------------------------

Shell:

  - Switched to using ETree for the folder view.  (Chris Toshok,
    Ettore)

  - Added interfaces to change the string displayed in the tree view
    as the name of the folder.  (Ettore)

Calendar:

  - Uses only the new iCalendar standard internally; this means future
    interoperability with new calendaring programs.  (JP, Federico)

  - New ultra-cool date range selector, aka little calendar.  (Damon)

  - Plenty of internal refactoring.  (JP, Damon, Federico)

  - Pilot synch work, mostly on pcs infrastructure and some todo work (JP)
    <EXPERIMENTAL>

  - Pilot synch work, mostly on pcs infrastructure and some todo work (JP)
    <EXPERIMENTAL>

Addressbook:

  - New advanced search dialog.  (Michael Zucchi, Chris Lahey)

  - Added parsing of addresses.  (Jesse Pavel)

  - Converted most of addressbook to UTF8.  (Lauris)

Mailer:

  - Filters (but not vfolders) are now more powerful: they can check
    any message header, and can do regexp searches on the headers and
    body.  (Jeff)

  - A first draft of an automated mailing list recognizer
    has been added.  (It will need more/better rules.)  (Ettore)

  - Attachments are handled differently now.  All attachments always
    have an icon and a header, and you can right-click on the icon to
    view/hide, save, or launch an external viewer.  (Dan)

  - It is no longer necessary to quit and restart after adding a new
    IMAP server.  (Peter)

  - Lots of i18n/charset fixing.  (Lauris)

  - Shiny new toolbar icons.  (Tuomas)

  - Giant menu reorganization. Most message operations are now in the
    "Message" menu, and folder operations in the "Folder" menu.
    (Ettore, Dan, Peter)

  - "Mark as seen" timeout is now configurable. Mail view remembers
    the location of the message list/message display split.  (Richard
    Hult)

  - New filter category: "On-demand", for filters to be applied
    at arbitrary times rather than during mail incorporation.  (Peter)

  - POP/IMAP config pages allow you to specify a port... this may
    go away in a later release when we support ssl/ssh tunneling
    directly.  (Peter)

  - Reply To All will now remove your own addresses from the recipient
    lists.  (Jesse Pavel)

  - Folders are synced when you switch to another folder now.  (Dan)

  - An IMAP bug that caused all messages to be marked as read before
    they were read has been fixed.  (Dan)

  - The IMAP provider is now more robust about dealing with other
    concurrent IMAP clients.  (Jeff)

  - POP and IMAP are better about when they do and don't try to
    reconnect.  This was part of Camel operation cancellation support,
    which unfortunately didn't make it into 0.5.  (Peter)

  - Sent and Outbox folders are now functional.  You now have 2
    options when sending a message - "Send Now" which will send the
    message imediately and "Send Later" which will queue the message in
    Outbox for later sending.  When a message is successfully sent, it
    is copied to the Sent folder for your records.  (Jeff)

ETable:

  - ETree fixes.  (Chris Toshok)

  - Lots of small usability fixes.  (Chris Lahey)

  - Lots of grouping bug fixes.  Specifically, fixed crashes when
    grouping in trees and made ETable not go crazy when you change
    data and the table is grouped.  (Chris Lahey)

  - Improved table printing when grouped.  (Chris Lahey)

  - Converted most of ETable to UTF8.  (Lauris)


Version 0.4, "Alewife", 2000-08-14
----------------------------------

Shell:

  - Added interfaces to display messages and a progress bar when the
    component is busy.  (Ettore)

  - Changed the shell BonoboUIHandler code to allow placing menu items
    such as "Print" in the right places.  (Ettore)

  - Added code to check if an existing `~/evolution' directory
    actually has the content we expect and, if not, complain to the
    user.  (Dan)

  - Fixed some Bonobo-related refcounting problems.  (Michael Meeks)

  - Removed the GConf dependency.  (JP)

  - Improved the API for the folder selection dialog.  (Ettore)

  - Memory leak fixes.  (Peter)

Calendar:

  The calendar is in the middle of major rewrite. Evolution 0.4
  ships with essentially the same calendar component as 0.3 did.

Addressbook:

  - More work on the Palm Pilot conduits.  (Chris Toshok)

  - Fixed some LDAP-related crashes.  (Chris Toshok)

  - Added support for displaying embedded vCards through a Bonobo
    component.  (Chris Lahey)

  - Added support for generic fields.  (Chris Lahey)

  - Fixed the navigation order for the Tab key in the contact editor
    window.  (Chris Lahey)

  - Fixed some Bonobo-related bugs and crashes.  (Chris Lahey, Michael
    Meeks)

  - Only display entries that have an email address in the address
    selector dialog.  (Chris Lahey)

  - Added an utility program to import vCards from Gnomecard.  (Chris
    Lahey)

Mailer:

 Generic

  - Long mailer operations (such as fetching new mail) now run
    asynchronously rather than blocking the UI. This involved
    a major rewrite of much of the Camel and mailer code.  (Peter)

  - GPG/PGP message decryption support (Nathan Thompson-Amato, Dan)

  - Unfinished messages in the composer can be saved to the "Drafts"
    folder and finished later.  (Jeff)

  - Double-clicking on a message in the message view now opens it in a
    separate window.  (Jeff)

  - vCards attached to messages now bring up a minicard view with a
    button to add the vCard to the addressbook (Chris Lahey, Dan)

  - Inline uuencoded/binhexed "attachment" support (Dan)

  - "Mark All Messages Seen" command.  (Cody Russell)

 Filters / VFolders

  - Major filter/vfolder dialog rewrite (Michael Zucchi) VFolders can
    now search any (searchable) folder, not just Inbox.

  - Auto-filter/auto-vfolder code (right click on a message in the
    list and pick one of the options at the bottom of the menu to
    create a filter/vfolder rule for similar messages).  (Michael)

  - You can now set the color of messages in the message list, based
    on filter rules.  (Local stores can also now store arbitrary user
    flags, although there is not yet UI code to set/view them.)
    (Michael)

  - Added "Save" button to the quicksearch bar to save a search as a
    vfolder.  (Michael)

 Configuration

  - Major mail config dialog rewrite (JP).

  - The mailer now remembers your threaded/unthreaded message view
    setting between sessions.  (Jeremy Wise).

  - Support for multiple identities (JP, Jeff), sources (JP, Peter), and
    IMAP servers (JP, Dan)

 Providers

  - You can now leave POP mail on the server. (This will [currently]
    only work right with POP servers that support the UIDL command.
    On other servers, it will never download some messages unless you
    never delete mail.)

  - There is now an MH-like local store available, and code to convert
    a folder from one type to the other.  (Michael)

  - The mbox provider now writes out "From " lines that are more
    compatible with other mailers (like Mutt) that are picky about
    their exact format.  (Michael)

  - The IMAP provider now supports searching (Jeff). Also various
    other speed/efficiency/robustness improvements (Jeff), and support
    for old IMAP4 servers as well as IMAP4rev1 (Jon K Hellan).


Version 0.3, "Jellyfish", 2000-07-21
------------------------------------

Shell:

  - Pop-up folder selection.  (Ettore)

  - Added support for multiple views.  (Ettore)

  - Added support for saving component-specific settings, and
    some initial code to save the view's configuration.
    (Ettore)

  - Fixed the Bonobo menu code so that it works with all the
    locales.  (Ettore)

Mailer:

   - Lots of IMAP fixes.  (Jeff) 

   - You can use an external setuid/setgid movemail program
    (although we don't ship our own yet). If you have one
    installed with emacs, the configure script will find
    that. Otherwise, you can specify --with-movemail=/path.
    (Dan)

  - You can toggle HTML/plain text for an individual message
    in the composer now.  (Ettore)

  - Bonobo embedding sort of works again, but there are
    problems with size allocation somewhere. Attachments can now
    also be handled by external applications.  (Dan)

  - text/plain mail is now line-wrapped in the mail display,
    to deal with people who don't put newlines in their mail.
    (Dan)

  - Allow user to specify IMAP namespace in the mail config
    dialog.  (Dan, Jeff)

  - Quoted-printable encoder fixes.  (Michael Zucchi)

  - Various NNTP fixes, include a news pane in the config
    dialog.  (Chris Toshok)

  - Some memory corruption fixes.  (Peter Williams)

  - Fix for message not being re-drawn as deleted.  (Peter
    Williams, Jeff)

  - Moving a message to another folder copies the flags now
    (Jeff)

  - Close signature in HTML mail with </PRE>, not <PRE>, and
    default to ~/.signature.  (Michael Meeks)

  - Fixed some confusing behavior in the message threading
    algorithm.  (Dan)

  - Improvements to the item selection code.  (Chris Lahey)

Calendar:

  - Added support for a bunch of previously unsupported iCalendar
    properties.  (Federico)

  - Conduit for synchronizing the calendar with gnome-pilot
    (requires gnome-pilot from CVS).  (Seth)

  - ETable-based to-do list view ("taskpad"), for your viewing
    pleasure.

Addressbook:

  - Conduit for synchronizing the addressbook with gnome-pilot
    (requires gnome-pilot from CVS).  (Chris Toshok)

  - Conduit for synchronizing the addressbook with gnome-pilot
    (requires gnome-pilot from CVS).  (Chris Toshok)

  - Fixed some random crashes.  (Chris Lahey)

  - Implemented a vCard Bonobo control so that we can support
    inline vCard viewing in the mailer.  (Chris Lahey)

  - Quick search looks at both the name and the company name now.
    (Chris Lahey)

  - Added more functionality to the contact editor's toolbar.  (Chris
    Lahey)

  - Support for printing single cards.  (Chris Lahey)

Version 0.2, "Saccharomyces", 2000-07-11
----------------------------------------

Shell:

  * Folder selection dialog (Ettore).

  * Folder creation dialog (Ettore).

Addressbook:

  * LDAP server configuration dialog (Chris Toshok).
  
  * Integration of LDAP servers in the shell's tree view (Chris Toshok).
  
  * ETable-based view (Chris Lahey).
  
  * Printing support for the ETable-based view (Chris Lahey).
  
  * Address selection dialog integrated with the message composer (Chris
    Lahey).
  
  * Many miscellaneous bugs fixed (everyone).

Calendar:

  * Printing support (Michael, Federico).
  
  * Many, many behavior fixes and polishing to the day/week/month view
    widgets (Damon).
  
  * New glade-based event editor.  This is unfinished but usable (Seth,
    Federico).
  
  * Mouse wheel scrolling support (Anders).
  
  * We have an awesome new engine for computing recurring events
    (Damon).  This will be plugged in to the new iCalendar code.
  
  * Internal and public API fixes (Federico, Seth).
  
  * Shell-related changes (Ettore).
  
  * Data model for ETable; this is not used yet (Federico).
  
  * New iCalendar support; this is not used yet (Federico).
  
  * Pilot syncing updates; this is not used yet (Seth).
  
  * Many miscellaneous bugs fixed (everyone).


Mailer:

  Major features:

  * Basic IMAP support (Jeff)

  * Threaded message view (Michael, Chris Toshok)

  * Filters now work (original work by Michael, bugfixes by Dan)


  Smaller features:

  * Implemented moving messages between folders (Dan)

  * Very basic printing support (Dan, but it was only like 5 lines
    of code, because gnome-print kicks ass)

  * "Delete", "Forward", and "Refile" operations now work on
    multiple messages. (Chris Lahey, Peter Williams, Dan)

  * Toggle read/unread flag when the user clicks on the envelope
    icon (Chris Lahey, Dan).

  * The "New folder" menu item now works (Ettore, Dan).

  * The filter/vfolder druid now uses the new shell folder selection
    UI (Michael)

  * Added "Cc" to the set of filter/vfolderable headers and make the
    filter/vfolder "messages to address" rule work with to or cc.
    (Dan)

  * New key bindings: "Delete" deletes the current message and jumps
    to the next undeleted message. "N" and "P" go to next/previous
    unread message. (Dan)

  * Keep asking for POP/IMAP password until the user gets it correct
    or hits Cancel, and remember the result until the user exits (or
    chooses "Forget Passwords"). (Dan, Jeff)

  * Kludge Camel to output ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8, since
    neither GtkHTML nor ETable supports UTF-8 still. (Dan)

  * Use the gnome-vfs "sniff buffer" interface to try to identify
    the MIME type of attachments without useful type information
    (Dan)

  * Allow saving drafts in the composer (Ettore)

  * Added "Received date" header to the set of possible message list
    headers. (Dan)

  * Partial gladification of the config dialog (JP Rosevear)


  Bug fixes:

  * Message read/unread/deleted flags should now be saved reliably
    when you exit, and summary should not be rebuilt when a rebuild
    isn't needed. Expunging should work reliably (Dan, Ettore,
    Jeff).

  * Fix disappearing toolbar bug (Dan).

  * Fixed a bug that made downloading of very large messages over
    POP incredibly slow, and various other smaller POP bugs. (Dan)

  * Fixed bugs that made large attachments sometimes get dropped and
    small ones sometimes get truncated. (Dan)

  * Fixed filter/vfolder "messages to address" rule to correctly
    match "to" rather than "from". (Michael)

  * Fix some text/plain formatting bugs in the composer. (Dan,
    Ettore)

  * Turn off search mode when getting new mail (to avoid corrupting
    the display). Make "get mail" always put unfiltered mail into
    Inbox rather than the current folder. (Dan)

  * Fixed a bug that caused "Re:" to be prepended even to subjects
    that started with "Re:" when replying. Added a default subject
    to forwarded messages. (Dan)

  * Make the "Attach" dialog in the composer remember the last
    directory it was in. (Dan)

  * Code to parse invalid date formats since some mailers generate
    them... (Jeff)

  * Fixed various small SMTP bugs (Jeff, Chris Lahey)

  * Fixed some memory leaks (Peter, Jeff)

  * Make replies use the text/plain part of a multipart/alternative
    if the user configured plain text rather than HTML mail sending.
    (Dan)

  * Various config dialog fixes (Jeff)

  * Partial filter/vfolder GUI facelift (Jacob)