Evolution 0.6 "Procompsognathus" is out

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore helixcode com>]

Hello lovers of beautifully named groupware suites,

the happy monkeys at Helix Code have made it again: Evolution 0.6,
code name "Procompsognathus", is out.

Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, and addressbook application.

* Availability

        You can get the Evolution 0.6 tarball here:

        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/evolution

        Evolution also requires Gal (0.2.1), GtkHTML (0.7), Bonobo
        (0.24), OAF (0.6), GNOME VFS (0.3), libunicode (0.4.gnome),
        GNOME Print (0.24) and ORBit (0.5.3).

                ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gal
                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/libunicode
                ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-print
                ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/ORBit

        Notice that Bonobo releases past 0.23 won't work with
        Evolution.

        Helix GNOME users can also install the packages by the usual
        means, by using Helix Update (or apt-get on Debian).

* Changes since version 0.5.1

        General:

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

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

        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)

        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.
            (Michael Zucchi)

          - 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.  (Michael Zucchi)

          - "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.  (Michael Zucchi)

          - 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.  (Michael Zucchi)

          - 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.
            Please backup your PalmOS device before using this
            feature, as it's still experimental.  (JP)

        Addressbook:

          - Lots of internal refactoring, 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)