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+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. \ No newline at end of file