Re: [Evolution] Evolution 0.14 (Beta 4) is out!

["Ujwal S. Sathyam" <ujwal netbrowser com>]

I tried to grab the latest and greatest, but sigh... /pub/evolution does not exist on ftp.ximian.com...

Ujwal

On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 21:46, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> The hacking monkeys at Ximian are proud to announce the availability
> of the Beta 4 (aka 0.14) release of Evolution.
>
> Now is the time for Evolution to be stress-tested and bug reports to
> be submitted.  Remember, prizes will be awarded to those reporting the
> nastiest, thorniest, and the most total bugs.  To report a bug, visit
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com or use the GNOME Bug Report tool, bug-buddy.
>
> Every Thursday, between 9 A.M. and 9 P.M. Eastern Standard Time (US),
> developers and users of Evolution gather to find, isolate, and destroy
> bugs.  To participate, open your IRC client and visit the #evobugs
> channel, located on the irc.gnome.org server.
>
> Beta 4 continues where Beta 3 left off.  Binary packages have LDAP,
> PalmOS, and SSL support built in.  It also has lots of bug fixes,
> stability improvements, and speed increases.  In fact, there have been
> 550 bugs closed in the period between beta 3 and beta 4.  As always,
> please report any bugs you find, to help make Ximian Evolution 1.0 the
> best release possible.
>
>
> AVAILABILITY
> ------------
>
> If you use Ximian GNOME, you can install this version by subscribing
> to the Ximian GNOME channel in Red Carpet (System -> Get Software).
> (Not all the packages for all the distributions have been pushed at
> the time of writing though.)
>
> If you do not have Ximian GNOME installed, you can download Evolution
> binaries from our FTP server at
>
>         ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/evolution
>
> or compile the source tarballs at
>
>         ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/source/evolution
>
> For more information, the main Evolution web page is located at
>
>         http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/
>
> The Evolution development page is located at
>
>         http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/evolution-devel.html
>
>
> CHANGES SINCE BETA 3 (0.13)
> ---------------------------
>
> General:
>
>   - Lots of i18n fixes.  (Zbigniew Chyla and others)
>
>   - Made the splash screen use BackingStore.  (Ettore)
>
>   - Added a quit dialog box.  (Ettore)
>
>   - Fixed a shell crash that could happen when launching Evolution
>     before a previously launched instance was done initializing itself.
>     (Ettore)
>
>   - Fixed other random shell crashes.  (Ettore)
>
>   - Got the shell to remember window geometries on exit.  (Ettore)
>
>   - Fixed some things for Automake 1.5 (unfinished).  (Richard
>     Boulton)
>
>   - Add nice highlighting to DnD operations in the folder tree.
>     (Ettore, Clahey)
>
>   - Fixed several leaks.  (Dan)
>
>   - Fixed some problems with folder creation and deletion.  (Toshok)
>
>   - Made the Summary the default folder.  (Ettore)
>
>   - Made the title bar display the unread message count again.
>     (Ettore)
>
> Mail:
>
>   - Check for valid addresses before sending. (Trow)
>
>   - Use contact preferences when deciding whether or not to put the
>     composer into HTML mode by default. (Trow)
>
>   - Properly address mail from "hidden" contact lists. (Trow)
>
>   - Redid folder unread counts/folder tree backend code
>     completely. (Michael)
>
>   - Implemented/fixed getfolderinfo in maildir/spool/local
>     folder/vfolder, required to make unread counts work. (Michael)
>
>   - Redid 'local folder' handling code completely. (Michael, Peter)
>     Also fixed the properties dialogue to get the list of supported
>     types dynamically, and set the right one at startup. (Michael)
>
>   - Redid vfolder code in evolution-mail completely.  Main visible
>     change is they open at startup, and the vfolder editor works
>     much better.  (Michael)
>
>   - Made it so fcntl(2) locking failures on filesystems (e.g. NFS)
>     that dont support locking are treated as success. (Michael)
>
>   - Fix imap inbox filtering, then moved it to CamelFolder, and
>     partly implemented it for spool and maildir mailboxes.  (Michael)
>
>   - Made the vfolder UNMATCHED folder's name translatable.  (Michael)
>
>   - Change the way the 'not body contains' filter rule works, so that
>     it runs much more efficiently, particularly on IMAP.  (Michael)
>
>   - Camel will not try and convert charsets of data that contain
>     invalid charset data, thus data will not be tainted by
>     a failed conversion process. (Michael)
>
>   - A few threading scheduling changes to try to optimise the user
>     experience.  Also changed the way threads are terminated,
>     avoiding some possible libpthread bugs.  (Michael)
>
>   - Changed vfolder uri's to not include the query, set it separately.
>
>   - Removed a lot of special case code for vfolder/file uri's, other
>     dead or newly redundant code, cleanups, etc.  (Michael)
>
>   - Fixed a bug in libibex that would overallocate block data and
>     corrupt it and crash, also fail-back and reset the index in
>     more cases.  (Michael)
>
>   - Fix filtering on score so the _expression_ compiles. (Michael)
>
>   - Removed X-Evolution headers before sending messages.  (Jeff)
>
>   - When configuring a new default account, make sure to set it as the
>     default.  (Jeff)
>
>   - Convert all textual parts to 8bit before saving them, this makes
>     saved messages more human readable.  (Jeff)
>
>   - Don't cache PGP passphrases unless the user requests to do so.
>     (Jeff)
>
>   - Unsubscribe from folders before deleting them.  (Jeff)
>
>   - Fixed a number of race conditions in the subscribe dialog.  (Jeff)
>
>   - Save transport (SMTP) passwords if the user has asked us to.  (Jeff)
>
>   - Hide the S/MIME frame in the account editor, we won't be
>     supporting it for 1.0.  (Jeff)
>
>   - Fixed it so that icons are displayed for PGP messages.  (Jeff)
>
>   - Give a description for each of the Source and Transport types when
>     configuring an account. This makes a few things less confusing.
>     (Jeff)
>
>   - When performing a Send & Receive on a disconnected IMAP server, if
>     the user provides a password, connect tot he IMAP server and display
>     its folders too.  (Jeff)
>
>   - Return a folder info for each IMAP folder created when the user
>     creates a recursive directory structure.  (Jeff)
>
>   - Added support for more charset conversions (including all
>     Windows-cp125x charsets).  (Jeff)
>
>   - When the disk is full, warn the user and don't crash.  (Jeff)
>
>   - Handle POP servers that don't support the UIDL extension.  (Jeff)
>
>   - Several PGP fixes.  (Jeff)
>
> Addressbook:
>
>   - Miscellaneous bug fixes. (Trow, Toshok, Clahey, Ettore, Iain, 
>     Zbigniew Chyla, Jacob Berkman)
>
>   - Fixed race conditions associated with adding/removing contacts.
>     The addressbook should be much more stable now.  (Trow)
>
>   - Fixed reference counting bugs in addressbook & wombat.  (Trow)
>
>   - Made address lookup smarter; cut & paste of address now mostly works.
>     (Trow)
>
>   - Plugged Trow's memory leaks.  (Larry)
>
>   - Name completion now works with one-word names, so it is now much
>     easier to send mail to Cher.  (Trow)
>
>   - Better handling of contact lists in the composer entries.  (Trow,
>     Toshok)
>
>   - SelectNames dialog fixes.  (Trow)
>
>   - Better handling of contact lists in the pilot conduits.  (JP)
>
>   - Added Free busy URL and Calendar URI info to contact editor and
>     ECard.  (JP)
>
>   - Made it so you can select uneditable text in Contact Editor.
>     (Toshok)
>
>   - Worked on LDAP dialog.  (Toshok)
>
>   - General LDAP work.  (Toshok)
>
>   - Fixed charset handling within VCard handling.  (Clahey)
>
>   - Reworked Drag & Drop for card view.  (Toshok)
>
> Calendar & Tasks:
>
>   - Free/Busy changes.  (JP, Rodrigo)
>
>   - iTIP fixes. (JP)
>
>   - i18n fixes, particularly for printing.  (Zbigniew Chyla)
>
>   - Added option to confirm deletions.  (Federico)
>
>   - Improved alarm system.  (Federico)
>
>   - Fixed crashing bug when deleting a folder.  (Federico)
>
>   - Added option to hide completed tasks.  (Damon)
>
>   - Timezone changes for interoperability with Outlook.  (Damon)
>
>   - Fixed problems displaying/parsing times in locales which don't specify
>     'am' and 'pm' strings. (Damon)
>
>   - Added toolbar button to delete the selected calendar event.  (Damon)
>
>   - Meeting selector integrated.  (JP)
>
> Summary:
>
>   - Fixed bugs and leaks.  (Iain)
>
>   - Fixed bug with handling of the Slashot RDF files.  (Iain)
>
>   - Made the Addressbook and Tasks links open the editor for
>     them.  (Iain)
>
>   - Mail summary doesn't force all folders to be opened.  (Iain)
>
>   - Calendar summary shows if an alarm is set for an appointment.  (Iain)
>
>   - Timezone fixes.  (Iain, Damon)
>
> Importers:
>
>   - Fixed more bugs.  (Iain)
>
>   - Netscape importer shouldn't crash on Movemail users anymore.
>     (Iain)
>
>   - Pine importer should import addressbooks better.  (Iain)
>
>   - VCard importer will actually import things now.  (Iain)
>
>
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