[Geary] Announcing Geary 0.8.3 and 0.9.0 pre-release

[Jim Nelson <jim yorba org>]

We're pleased to announce the release of two new Geary tarballs.  Version 0.8.3 is stable and features a set of small but crucial stability and security changes.  It's recommended all users upgrade.  Changes include:

  * Prevent race condition causing Geary window not to open (#737811)

  * Compile with Vala 0.28 (#741077)

  * Updated SSLv3 POODLE fallback (#741132)

  * Fixed connection state handler to return to IDLE

  * Removed unnecessary assertion causing crashes for intl users (#739316)

  * Updated German help translations

  * Updated translations

The Geary 0.8.3 tarball can be downloaded at https://download.gnome.org/sources/geary/0.8/geary-0.8.3.tar.xz

Ubuntu users running Trusty (14.04) or Utopic (14.10) can also subscribe to Yorba's PPA to install version 0.8.3: https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ubuntu/ppa


Geary 0.9.0 is an *unstable* pre-release in anticipation of the upcoming 0.10 release.  Note that this update will upgrade your Geary database in such a way you can *not* return to using earlier versions of Geary.  Backing up your Geary data directory is highly recommended before upgrading.

On top of the changes listed above, 0.9.0's updates include:

  * Improved full-text search experience (#720361)

  * Periodic database & attachments garbage collection (#714134)

  * Remove minimum width for sidebar/folder list (#713882)

  * Use GtkHeaderBar for dialogs (#741240)

  * Can now specify Reply-To when composing (#714588)

  * Fix signed int32 UID/UIDVALIDITY bug (#737642)

  * Composer shortcuts now listed in online help (#741573)

  * Updated translations

The Geary 0.9.0 tarball can be downloaded at https://download.gnome.org/sources/geary/0.9/geary-0.9.0.tar.xz

-- Jim