Ximian Evolution Beta 1.1.2 Release Notes

Ximian is proud to announce the second in a short series of beta releases leading up to the Evolution 1.2 release. Evolution 1.2 will have a number of exciting new features and improvements over the 1.0 release. This release, Evolution 1.1.2, will demonstrate these features and serve as a stress-test before we declare the final 1.2 release ready for launch

Upgrading: Process and Caveats

Evolution 1.2 Beta 2 is supported on the following operating systems:

• Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 for x86
• Solaris 8 for UltraSPARC
• Linux Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 for x86
• SuSE 7.3 and 8.0 for x86
• Yellow Dog Linux 2.2

WARNING

EVOLUTION 1.1.2 IS A BETA QUALITY RELEASE. THIS MEANS THAT IT HAS BUGS, AND MAY EVEN HAVE DESTRUCTIVE BUGS THAT CAN CAUSE VALUABLE DATA TO BE LOST.

For this reason, please make sure you back up your mail and your calendar/addressbook information before using Evolution 1.2.2 on them. In particular, you are strongly advised to back up the 'evolution/' directory in your home directory if you are upgrading from a 1.0.x version of Evolution to Evolution 1.1.2.

Upgrading from 1.0.x

The format of certain configuration files has changed in this version of Evolution. When you start Evolution 1.1.2 for the first time, it will automatically migrate your configuration so that it will work as expected with this version.

IMPORTANT: After you have installed Evolution 1.1.2, quit Evolution and type the command `killev' on the command-line (without quotes) before launching the new version of Evolution.

Returning to 1.0.x

If you want to return to a 1.0.x version after trying 1.1.2, you will to restore the original configuration files. To do so, quit Evolution and run the following commands at the command line:

killev
cd ~/evolution
mv filters.xml.bak-1.0 filters.xml
mv vfolders.xml.bak-1.0 vfolders.xml
mv shortcuts.xml.bak-1.0 shortcuts.xml
mv mail/imap.bak-1.0 mail/imap

Note that any changes to filters, vFolders or shortcuts made with 1.1.2 will be lost after this operation.

Also note that the upgrade mechanism runs automatically only the first time you run 1.1.2. For this reason, if you run Evolution 1.1.2, then go back to 1.0 using the aforementioned procedure, and then go back to using 1.1.2 again, the settings will not be upgraded.

To force the upgrade to happen again in this case, use the following command to start Evolution 1.1.2:

evolution --force-upgrade

Significant Changes

When you specify multiple words in search "contains" criterion, Evolution will now search the mail messages that contain all the words specified, in any order. (The 1.0.x behavior was to look for the whole string in "subject contains" matches, and matched no messages in the case of body searches.)

This applies to the search bar, the filter rules and the vFolder rules. Filter rules and vFolder rules might need to be re-adjusted after you upgrade to version 1.1.2.

IMAP Folder Name Changes (I18N)

If you created any folder names using non-ASCII characters using prior versions of Evolution, you will find they may not be displayed properly anymore. This is because previous versions did not implement IMAP I18N folder names correctly as specified in RFC 2060.

The upgrade script will try to rectify any filters or vFolders using any such names. However, as it does not know the character set used by the server, non ISO-8859-1 (latin-1) characters will not be properly converted. You may need to reverify the filter and vFolder rules in this case.

Also note that if such folder names do not display properly that it is purely cosmetic and may be fixed by renaming the folder(s) in question.

PalmOS Synchronization Changes

If you wish to synchronize Evolution 1.1.2 with a PalmOS device, you will need to install the additional packages "evolution-pilot" and "gnome-pilot-applet."

Known Bugs

The summary doesn't always display the right tasks of the day if you change your default folders.

• General
  • The toolbar now includes a "New" dropdown menu/button from which you can create messages, appointments, etc. from within any folder.
  • A new, integrated configuration dialog for all of Evolution is now provided.
  • When you use the folder selection dialog, you can now jump to a folder just by typing its name and hitting Enter (instead of using the arrows or the mouse).
  • You can now specify your default mail, calendar, tasks and contacts folders. The shortcuts in the shortcut bar will always point to the default folder; so for example if you have an IMAP account you can specify that the INBOX on the IMAP account is default and clicking on the Inbox icon on the shortcut bar will take you to the INBOX on the IMAP account.
  • Fonts for displaying of HTML mail can now be configured from within Evolution (instead of having to use GNOME Control Center).
  • You can now make Evolution play a sound, beep, or display a message when new mail arrives. It is also possible to trigger these actions based on a filter rule.
  • The behavior of the search bar has been improved, and the UI has been integrated better with the menu bar and the rest of the system.
  • For the table-based views, you can now define, save and reuse view settings using the "View" menu.
  • The Send/Receive button is now always accessible from any folder.
  • You now can drop objects (eg. mail messages, appointments) directly to the folders on the shortcut bar (in 1.0.x, you could only drop them in the folder folder bar).
• Calendar
  • Loading speed has been improved.
  • When you receive an appointment through email, you can choose which calendar to update, and if it's for an existing appointment the folder is automatically detected
  • Calendar importer now supports importing to remote folders.
  • Calendar GUI and alarm daemon now use listeners for the configuration.
  • Show status messages for all long calendar operations.
  • Included timezone information on vCalendars used in copy/paste.
  • Meeting scheduling improvements; sends replies when you update your attendance status, warnings if the user changes a meeting they didn't create.
  • Deleting a meeting with a right click will now offer to send a cancellation notice.
  • Can accept meeting replies from non-attendees (they become attendees).
  • Fixed task view to update completion status the same as the editor. - Set meetings to recur on "last day of the month" or "last Tuesday of the month," etc... .
• Contacts
  • It is now possible to specify which folders are used for autocompletion globally.
  • Improved address selection dialog (for sending mail and meeting requests).
  • Improved feedback for search results for all backends and the UI.
  • SSL/STARTTLS support for LDAP has been added.
  • Various performance improvements
  • Fixed crashes dealing with autocompletion; it should be much more stable now.
  • Added support for categories searches on categories in LDAP
  • Much improved LDAP backend responsiveness and performance.
• Mail
  • New, much faster indexing engine. This results in faster mail incorporation, faster mail display, and faster searches. Overall, the new engine should work much better for larger folders, and take considerably less space on the disk.
  • If you type multiple words in the search bar for the "... Contains" rules, Evolution will search messages that contain all of the words you specified, in any order.
  • More consistent search results for indexed, non-indexed and remote folders.
  • Better UTF8 (Unicode) support. Searches, folder names
  • It is now possible to mark messages for follow-up and other flags. It is also possible to change the color in which a specific message is displayed in the mail list.
  • When the message list is sorted by a certain field, it is possible to jump to the first item in the list that matches a certain string by just typing the first few characters.
  • You can now specify which folders get synced when switching to IMAP/offline mode.
  • All previously read messages are automatically downloaded for IMAP/offline use.
  • STARTTLS support for POP, SMTP and IMAP has been added.
  • You can have all of your mail Auto-Cc:ed or auto-Bcc:ed to a specified set of recipients.
  • SMTP error reporting has been improved.
  • Vastly improving body search vFolder performance with IMAP sources.
  • vFolders can now have an additional column which shows the original location of the message.
• Mail Composer
  • You can now edit a set of signatures within Evolution, and pick which signature you want when composing a message.
  • Handling of replies has been improved; in particular, you can now paste any text as a quotation, and quotation formatting is preserved when switching between HTML and non-HTML mode.
  • Evolution can now generate graphical smileys automatically as you type.
  • Quotation logic has been improved, rewrapping long lines in replies now preserves quotation marks.
  • Multiple simultaneous language support in the spell checker.
  • Cut & Paste support for HTML between netscape/mozilla/evolution.
  • Optimized rendering of long messages.
  • Improved HTML rendering, including support for the clear attribute in elements.
• Summary
  • Can have non-local mail folders displayed on the summary.
  • Improved Calendar and Tasks displayed. Displays overdue and today's tasks in colors.
  • Better folder selector.
  • Better Weather/News Feed selector.
  • Can delete user added news feeds.

• Addressbook
  • 17336 -- Evolution mixes up First and Last names sometimes. (Toshok)
  • 27521 -- Crash: exiting from evolution after adding to address book. (Toshok)
  • 28165 -- Contacts crashed when selecting offline IMAP folders. (Toshok)
  • 28392 -- Crash when adding a new contact. (Toshok)
  • 30208 -- LDAP authentication issues. (Toshok)
  • 30481 -- Select contacts dialog not using default contact folder. (Toshok)
  • 30483 -- LDAP folders do not work as an autocompletion folder. (Toshok)
  • 31321 -- Missing VERSION property in exported vCards. (Toshok)
  • 31434 -- Only sends email to first three addresses on contact list. (Toshok)
  • 29171 -- Crash after selecting other user's folder for Offline. (Toshok)
  • 30250 -- Addressbook crashes or hangs after selecting LDAP folder. (Toshok)
• Calendar
  • 14111 -- Gives "are you sure you want to" prompt when no such action has occurred. (JP)
  • 15710 -- Automatically-created reminder always says "Untitled Appointment". (Rodrigo)
  • 15892 -- Running out of disk space can cause loss of calender entries and tasks. (Rodrigo)
  • 18162 -- Double-click on calendar week/month view shouldn't do all-day event. (JP)
  • 19159 -- evolution-alarm-notify crash. (Rodrigo)
  • 24210 -- Calendar is slow. (Rodrigo)
  • 27961 -- vcalendar LAST-MODIFIED field not updated on change. (Rodrigo)
  • 28310 -- Calendar re-runs alarms. (Rodrigo)
  • 28853 -- Crash when deleting tasks in task editor. (Mike)
  • 29983 -- New appointments use 25 hour day. (JP)
  • 30057 -- Calendar GUI does not allow for read-only folders. (Rodrigo)
  • 30290 -- Importer Not Ready when importing .ics Ical file. (Rodrigo)
  • 30381 -- Calendar recurrences "off-by-one". (JP)
  • 31774 -- Reselecting options for reminder crashes calendar. (Rodrigo)
• Conduits
  • 21631 -- Palm calendar event with no time should appear as "All day event". (JP)
  • 23763 -- Problem with appointments that cross a day boundary and pilot sync. (JP)
• Mail
  • 4224 -- camel-imap-cache needs better error checking. (Jeff)
  • 20849 -- Folder Properties should be on right click menu. (Michael)
  • 21027 -- Accept broken content-ids. (Jeff)
  • 22496 -- Evolution does not appear to support ALERT messages. (Michael)
  • 24179 -- Character set conversion problem under tr_TR locale. (Radek)
  • 24732 -- Importing mailman mbox files doesn't work. (Ettore)
  • 27391 -- New Message Count not updated in vFolders. (Michael)
  • 28453 -- Forwarding PGP-signed message inline should discard signature. (Jeff)
  • 28209 -- Error messages for Offline folder operations misleading. (Michael)
  • 28834 -- Threaded + hide deleted messes up clear search. (Michael)
  • 29293 -- Back button on final page of new account doesn't work. (Michael)
  • 29625 -- Cannot clear a saved search. (Michael)
  • 29731 -- Crash in libsoup. (Michael)
  • 29808 -- Control-K to mark read broken when preview not shown. (Michael)
  • 29933 -- Mail component forgets pane size sometimes. (Dan)
  • 29965 -- Crash. (Jeff)
  • 30183 -- Advanced search broken. (Jeff)
  • 30269 -- Crash appending to an mbox that is too large (>2GB). (Jeff)
  • 30399 -- vFolders of imap do not update. (Michael)
  • 30580 -- Closing drafts message asks to save again. (Jeff)
  • 30731 -- "automatically detect links" checkbox doesn't work. (Jeff)
  • 30827 -- Delete on Deleted Message Does not move to next. (Jeff)
  • 30877 -- Improper IMAP folder behavior. (Michael)
  • 30873 -- Cannot display many mails in zh_CN.GB2312">2312. (Jeff)
  • 30876 -- Drag and drop a mail from Trash duplicates it. (Jeff)
  • 30915 -- Crash when upgrading from 1.0.x to 1.1.1. (Jeff)
  • 31000 -- evolution-mail random core dumps. (Michael)
  • 31031 -- Random crashes -- possible memory corruption bug on SMP box. (Michael)
  • 31060 -- Advanced Search no longer works. (Michael)
  • 31087 -- Mailing list filters fail for yahoogroups.com. (Michael)
  • 31331 -- Crash upon opening a mail message. (Michael)
  • 31365 -- Enter password dialog not displaying extended ASCII chars correctly. (Michael)
  • 31379 -- Can't see encrypted mail to myself (and maybe others?) (Jeff)
  • 31456 -- Evolution does not see IMAP mailboxes. (Jeff)
  • 31547 -- Quote the decrypted text when replying to encrypted messages. (Jeff)
  • 31553 -- Next button disabled in Identity window of setup assistant. (Jeff)
  • 31554 -- Cannot run evolution if Reply-to: is set to an invalid address. (Jeff)
  • 31555 -- Account editor mangling reply-to: extended ASCII characters. (Jeff)
  • 31559 -- Evolution crashes when going to Tools -> Preferences. (Jeff)
  • 31655 -- Do not strip 8bit characters from text attachments. (Jeff)
  • 31681 -- Mail filter problem in 1.1.1.99. (Jeff)
  • 31693 -- Try harder to pick the correct From-account to use when replying. (Jeff)
  • 31572 -- valgrind detects a deadlock. (Michael)
  • 31752 -- No EHLO to re-check AUTH capabilities after a STARTTLS has been issued. (Jeff)
• Shell
  • 11645 -- Shortcuts are not updated when a folder is moved. (Ettore)
  • 14019 -- Cannot access the conduit settings directly from Evolution. (Ettore)
  • 16556 -- Start-up wizard doesn't prompt for IMAP password. (Ettore)
  • 19899 -- First-run code uses free() instead of g_free(). (Ettore)
  • 24062 -- When removing a folder with unread messages, sometimes its parent folder stays highlighted even when it shouldn't be. (Ettore)
  • 27662 -- Unread count in shortcut bar doesn't update properly. (Ettore)
  • 27855 -- Send/Receive should be disabled when offline. (Ettore)
  • 24879 -- Crash on folder change. (Mike)
  • 28232 -- Default type for the folder creation dialog is sometimes "Contacts" instead of "mail". (Ettore)
  • 28317 -- File->Close doesn't work. (Ettore)
  • 28451 -- Renaming causes incorrect sorting in the folder tree. (Ettore)
  • 28495 -- Settings dialog resizes when you switch pages. (Ettore)
  • 28591 -- Crash on startup w/ connector installed. (Mike)
  • 29293 -- Back button on final page of new account doesn't work. (Michael)
  • 30248 -- Folder selection dialog crash. (Mike)
  • 30533 -- The folder creation dialog changes the parent folder selection if you specify a name that already exists. (Ettore)
  • 31360 -- Crash when using the folder selection button. (Dan)
  • 31690 -- Importer crash. (Ettore)
• Summary
  • 15101 -- "My Weather" section shows up when it shouldn't. (Ettore)
  • 20737 -- Israel missing from the weather station list. (Sam Popper)
  • 28481 -- Crash during start-up. (Ettore)
  • 28903 -- Unread message counts not reported correctly. (Ettore)
  Other Fixes

  Addressbook

  • Fixed some memory leaks. (Toshok)

  Calendar

  • Do not allow empty attendee addresses for meetings. (JP)
  • Better alarm daemon activation. (Rodrigo)
  • Notification of calendar query errors. (Rodrigo)
  • Added status messages for all operations. (Rodrigo)

  Conduits

  • Fixed linking issues. (JP)

  Shell

  • Some strings that were not translated properly before now are. (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Sensitivity problem when using the folder selector. (Toshok)
  • Changed the way shared folders work with Connector. (Dan)
  • Allow accessing local folders even if some folders with unknown/corrupted metadata type are found in ~/evolution/local. (Ettore)
  • Importer dialog browse entry now has history dropdown. (Rodrigo)
  • We no longer allow selecting a folder of a non-allowed type with a double-click in the folder selection dialog. (Dan)

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