Evolution 0.4.1 "aLeWifE" is released

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore helixcode com>]

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),
        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/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 Red Hat 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 configuration 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.

Enjoy,
  The Evolution team.