Evolution 1.4.3 Release Notes

Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 is now available. This update includes bug fixes as a result of community and customer feedback received since version 1.4.0.

Ximian Evolution 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 were not publicly released due to issues that have since been fixed.

Supported Systems

Evolution 1.4.3 is supported on the following operating systems:

• Mandrake Linux 9.1
• Red Hat Linux 7.3, 8.0 and 9
• Suse Linux 8.2

Support for Solaris 8 will be released shortly.

Known Issues

• LDAP support is not currently functional under SuSE 8.2. An updated package to fix this problem will be available in the near future.

Bugs fixed since 1.4.0 Release

Addressbook

• - Focus the first minicard when focusing the view for the first time (gilbert.fang@sun.com)
• - Contact editor will not save Web Page address (Toshok)
• - Make sure the master category list is upgraded (Toshok)

Calendar

• - Display incorrect after switching between week and day view (Rodrigo)
• - Ugly tasks printout (Hans Petter)
• - Tab through events in day view (Bolian Yin)
• - Shift+F10 to activate Popup menu in ToDo List (Bolian Yin)
• - Provide shortcuts for "Go to today" and "Go to date" (Bolian Yin)
• - Alarm Notify window is not sticky anymore (Rodrigo)
• - Alarm Notify - Displays _originally entered_ summary (Rodrigo)
• - Use the key "Esc" to escape editing current event and give focus to day/week view (Bolian Yin)

Mail

• - Creating a folder in the vFolder store fails with a meaningless message (Michael)
• - Cannot view mails under '#mh' namespace. Temporary workaround, strip #'s (Michael)
• - Message remains displayed after last message removed from list (Michael)
• - Broken POP3 server causing evolution to hang/crash (Jeff)
• - collapsed thread always shows as unread (Jeff)
• - ECharsetPicker doesn't save user-specified charset strings properly (Jeff)
• - Invert selection doesn't work (Jeff)
• - Cannot retrieve "Local Delivery" mail (Michael)
• - Invalid multipart/signed message showing empty (Michael)
• - Composer spacing is not HIG compliant (Jeff)
• - Evolution crash with weird IMAP foldername (Michael)
• - Dont use quoted-printable encoding on anything but text/* parts, interoperation with Lookout and others (Jeff)
• - Crash viewing video content as inline-text (Jeff)
• - Popup message view redraws when new mail arrives (Michael)
• - HIG issue with vFolder properties editor (Michael)
• - Cannot send mail in GB-2312 (Jeff)
• - GB18030 BIG5HKSCS and EUC-TW charsets not supported in evolution mail (suresh.chandrasekharan@sun.com)
• - Message display refreshes when new mail arrives, introduced by #33593 (Michael)
• - Warnings when sending mail (Michael)
• - Crash when closing the folder browser

Summary

• - Crash on exit (Ettore)
• - Crash when closing print preview dialog (Ettore)

All

• - Build, make clean doesn't rebuild bonobo-activation .server files (Michael)
• - Tarball contains generated files (Frederic Crozat)

gal-1.99.8 2003-06-25

• - shortcut bar scroll arrow buttons too big. (Mike)
• - Crash on etree search without a cursor. (Mike)
• - Crash on startup in etree. (Mike)
• - libtool version check failure. (Elijah Newren)
• - Block the disabled columns in Define Views. (Mike)
• - alternate row color was sorta purplish. (Mike)

Other bugs

Addressbook

• Fixed a race condition that could cause a crash on exit and some memory leaks. (Dan)

Calendar

• Fix invalid shared use of list of calendar factories (Rodrigo)
• Make the calendar editor window title reflect the summary contents (Rodrigo)
• Make all dialogs be centered on the Evolution window (Rodrigo)
• Make it compile against GTK 2.0 again. (Rodrigo)

Mail

• Fix bug in indexer string normalization (they weren't) (Larry)
• Major memory leak in message-threading (Larry)
• Only try to snoop a content-type if its application/octet-stream when displaying mail parts (Jeff)
• Major memory leak in filter-file based filters (Jeff)
• Try to make asynchronous dns lookup more asynchronously cancellable (Michael)
• Fix a degenerate algorithm case in vFolder shutdown which could cause excessive exit cpu usage (Michael)
• Fixed a charset handling problem in the message composer, which was introduced in 1.4.1.

Shell

• Wrong version number used for configuration upgrade (Michael)

gal

• Leak fixes (Larry)

gtkhtml

• Lots of leak fixes (Larry)
• Printing now uses the same fonts as display (Larry)

All

• Lots of miscellaneous memory leaks

Updated translations:

• cs (Miloslav Trmac, Stanislav Brabec)
• da (Ole Larson)
• fi (Pauli Virtanen)
• el (Kostas Papadimas)
• es (Gerardo J Seguin, Giraldez & Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
• hu (Andras Timar)
• it (Marco Ciampa)
• ko (Kan Jeong-Hee)
• mk (Ivan Stojmirov)
• nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
• no (Kjarten Maraas)
• pt_BR (Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira)
• sr, sr@Latn (prevod.org)
• sv (Christian Rose)
• ta (Abel Cheung)
• tr (Gorkem Cetin)
• zh_CN (Wang Li, Funda Wang)
• zh_TW (Abel Cheung)