Evolution 2.22 Release Notes

The Evolution Team is pleased to announce the release of Evolution 2.22 and Evolution-Data-Server 2.22.

What's New in Evolution 2.22?

Spam Improvements

• Bogofilter as default spam filter
• White list support
• Junk detection based on server side spam headers (Faster as messages won't be downloaded)
• Junk/NotJunk flags stored on the IMAP Server (Second instance of Evolution detects spam automatically)

UI Improvements

• New look Tango icons
• Non intrusive error reporting and logging framework
• Message tagging (Custom labels)

New Backends

• Google calendar support

Memory Improvements

• Major design change in memory handling in libical. EDS should take/have very less memory
• Loads of valgrind/memory leak fixes

GtkHTML Improvements

• Frame/IFrame Anchor support
• Saving embedded html image

General Improvements

• Improved MIME parsing (Evoluton parses much more than Thunderbird)
• Crash detection (Helps to disable preview pane, if the previous crash was due to last rendered email)
• Experimental External Editor plugin
• Plugin configuration support
• Clean up of new mail notification configuration to plugin configuration
• Password improvements (Now passwords are forgotten only for invalid credentials and not for all errors)

Bug Fixes

• Nearly 50 crash fixes
• Some very important bug fixes
  • VFolder/trash/junk crashes
  • Itip-viewer crashes
  • Calendar/libical crashes
  • Summary/Folder mismatch
  • Exchange filtering crashes
  • Exchange connection lost fixes
  • GtkHTML rendering crash fixes

and nearly 450 bug fixes

Reporting Bugs

If you have problems with Evolution 2.22, please take the time to submit the bug using Bug Buddy or at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/. Try to fill in as much detail as you can regarding the circumstances that lead to the problem.

Kindly check if your bug has been reported before by using the search functionality of Bugzilla.