Evolution 1.1.90 Release Notes

Ximian is proud to announce Release Candidate One for Ximian Evolution 1.2. The next major revision of the award-winning groupware suite, Evolution 1.2 will have a number of exciting new features and improvements over the 1.0 release. This release 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

Supported Systems

Evolution 1.1.90 is supported on the following operating systems:

• Red Hat 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3
• Red Hat 8.0 (New!)
• SuSE 8.0
• SuSE 8.1 (New!)
• Mandrake 8.2
• Mandrake 9.0 (New!)
• Solaris 8 for UltraSPARC
• Yellow Dog Linux 2.2 for PPC
• Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) for x86 (New!)

Note: Ximian Desktop and Ximian Evolution 1.0.x are not currently supported for SuSE 8.1, Red Hat 8.0, Mandrake 9.0, and Debian Woody.

Known Issues

Instead of opening to today's date, the Exchange Calendar view may open to 1970 in either day view or in the monthly chicklets. The date can be refreshed by moving to another week, month or day view.

On Mandrake, to install the package libgtkhtml-1.1-3-devel, you must first remove the package libgtkhtml-1.1-1-devel package. This will be fixed in the final version

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

Search Criteria 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."

New Features in the 1.2 Series

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 (e.g. 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 VCALENDAR objects 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.
• You can now 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 wombat/addressbook 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, re-wrapping 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 <br> elements.

Summary

• Can have non-local (IMAP) mail folders displayed on the summary.
• Improved Calendar and Tasks displayed. Displays overdue and todays tasks in colors.
• Better folder selector.
• Better Weather/News Feed selector.
• Can delete user added news feeds.

Bugs Fixed Since 1.1.2

The following bugs have been resolved since version 1.1.2:

Addressbook

• 25477 Crash. (Toshok)
• 29067 Editing an address entry causes it to disappear. (Toshok)
• 29144 Selection problem in directory servers page of preferences dialog. (Toshok)
• 32144 Incorrect filename when saving contact with 8-bit ascii characters. (Toshok)

Calendar

• 11434 Closing event/task editor & committing fields. (Rodrigo)
• 16036 The work week view goes stupid whrn you scroll through the months. (JP)
• 19159 Application "evolution-alarm-notify" has crashed. (Rodrigo)
• 25153 Crash on iCalendar entry. (Rodrigo)
• 28951 CDO doesn't understand UNTIL=date in RRULE. (JP)
• 31774 Reselecting options for reminder crashes calendar. (Rodrigo)
• 31812 "Day begins" in Settings should respect 12/24 time pref. (JP)
• 32613 "New Appointment" uses local calendar instead of default calendar. (Rodrigo)
• 32276 My custom task view crashes task and calender views every time. (JP)
• 32371 Crash on close/save on calender. (Rodrigo)

Mail

• 5529 Omit signature when quoting. (Jeff)
• 15966 Visual bug in moving a message to a folder. (Michael)
• 28735 Reply to list isn't looking in Cc: for recipients. (Jeff)
• 30045 Possible man-in-the-middle attack when using SSL - assuming that the forged certificate had an identical md5sum of the real certificate. (Michael)
• 31456 Evolution doesn't see certain IMAP mailboxes. (Michael)
• 31647 Subscribe dialog is broken. (Michael)
• 31667 IMAP filtering can drop out before completion or run multiple times. (Michael)
• 31788 Redundant string in translation. (Jeff)
• 31789 Redundant string in translation. (Jeff)
• 31891 Setup Assistant looses account name if you go back. (Jeff)
• 32002 Crash when creating folder. (Jeff)
• 32229 Mail quits when attempting to open a PGP icon in the message. (Jeff)
• 32230 Preferences crashes the mail component. (Jeff)
• 32268 Filters on source account fail. (Jeff)
• 32270 Passwords are lost when pressing "cancel all" on send/receive. (Jeff)
• 32293 Can't select PGP; it keeps reverting to GPG. (Jeff)
• 32328 New email message sound notification poblem. (Jeff)

Shell

• 25891 Crash when notifying a CORBA exception. (Ettore)
• 27735 Missing Cancel button in "Open Other User's Folder" dialog. (Ettore)
• 30950 Crash when trying to delete a toplevel folder bar node. (Ettore)
• 31303 X locked when opening a folder bar node that requires a password. (Ettore)
• 31564 8-bit characters not respected in the "Open Other User's Folder" dialog. (Ettore)
• 32032 Autocompletion folder list doesn't respect 8-bit characters. (Ettore)

Summary

• 31581 Gnotices news feed doesn't work. (Ettore)
• 31607 Appointments and tasks not listed. (Ettore)
• 31616 Appointments and tasks not listed. (Ettore)
• 31639 Crash when changing preferences. (Ettore)

Other Fixes

• The "Select Names" dialog in the Addressbook remembers what folder you were in between uses now, which is useful for people who normally select names out of an LDAP directory. (Dan)
• Make sure Calendar configuration info can be applied in units changed for task hide option. (JP)
• In the shell, fix settings dialog size for smaller fonts. (Ettore)