Evolution 1.2.3 Release Notes

Ximian Evolution 1.2.3 is now available. This update includes bug fixes as a result of community and customer feedback received since version 1.2.2.

Upgrading: Process and Caveats

Supported Systems

Evolution 1.2 is supported on the following operating systems:

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

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.

Upgrading from 1.0.x

The format of certain configuration files has changed in the 1.2 series of Evolution. If you are installing Evolution 1.2.x for the first time, it will automatically migrate your configuration so that it will work as expected with this version.

Bugs Fixed Since 1.2.2

Mail

• 35123 The new/post button chooses a different default account to the new message menu. (Leon Zhang)
• 33267 Filters on source account always match all messages when applied to a local folder. (Michael)
• 38418 Set the local provider name to non-NULL to prevent a crash on Solaris. (Jeff)
• 38499 Header display should not collapse whitespace. (Jeff)
• 37854 Re-Allow users to send to address-lists. (Jeff)
• 36453 Text render bug in PGP passphrase prompt. (Jeff)
• 39138 GPG signed part of message has extra blank line after signing when sent via sendmail. (Jeff)
• 38073 Unimplemented option in Advanced Search dialog. (Jeff)

Other Fixes

Addressbook

• support icsCalendar property and corrected a problem with fetching card properties via select names

Calendar

• Various changes to allow the backend to alter the GUI and to handle RECURRENCE-IDS in events

Mail

• Fixed a memory leak when using Mark All As Read. (Jeff)
• Make the inline uuencode handler more robust. (Jeff)
• Make the content-id parser more strict to prevent malicious messages from being able to bypass the user's "load http images" preference. (Jeff)
• Strip all Bcc headers before passing the message to the local sendmail. (Jeff)
• Fixed a type-o in the IPv6 support code. (Jeff)

Shell

• Fixed IDL #includes. (Rodney)

Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange 2000

• Works with Evolution 1.2.3
• Fixed crash when using the Global Address List as a composer completion source [37029]
• Fixed a crash in the message appending code [38006]
• Added way to specify that Public Folders are kept on a different Exchange server from your own mailbox

Other

• Backported XML hash utilities.

Updated Translations

• cs (Michal Bukovjan)
• es (Francisco Javier Fernandez)
• fr (Christophe Merlet)
• it (Marco Ciampa)
• pt_BR (Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira)
• ru (Russian translation team)
• sv (Christian Rose)