Hello,
In honor of last week's conference and expo: a new development snapshot
release of the Evolution groupware suite (0.4.1, code name "aLeWifE") is
out.
Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, and addressbook application.
* Availability
You can get the Evolution 0.4.1 tarball here:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/evolution
Evolution also requires the latest versions of GtkHTML
(0.6.1), Bonobo (0.18), OAF (0.5.1), GNOME VFS (0.3.1), GConf
(0.8), libunicode (0.4), GNOME Print (0.20) and ORBit (0.5.3).
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gtkhtml
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/bonobo
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/oaf
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gnome-vfs
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/GConf
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/libunicode
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-print
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/ORBit
You can also get Evolution 0.4.1 for Redhat through Helix
Update, or Evolution 0.4.1 for debian through the Helix GNOME
debian distribution. Support for other distributions will be
coming later this week.
* Changes since version 0.3
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 0.4.1
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).
* Mailing lists
You can subscribe to the Evolution developers list or the
Evolution users list by going to the Evolution home page on
http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3
Please note that this is still software in development and should not
be used for production work. We appreciate testers and contributors,
but please remember that Evolution will still be buggy, incomplete,
and temperamental.
Thanks to the many people who have sent in suggestions and fixes.
(And of course, this announcement was sent with Evolution. :-))
Enjoy,
The Evolution team.
