Category Archives: Announcements

Announcements, Geary

Geary 0.2 released

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We’re pleased to announce the release of Geary 0.2, Yorba’s lightweight email client.  Geary organizes your email by conversations rather than threads and offers full HTML composition, attachments, and more.  Geary is compatible with Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and most IMAP servers.  It’s written in Vala and features a fully-asynchronous engine for sending and receiving email.

Features and improvements for this release include:

* Support for sending and receiving attachments
* Address autocompletion when composing a message
* New mail notification for GNOME Shell and Unity
* Outbox for scheduled delivery of messages
* Better visual presentation of conversations
* Full SSL and STARTTLS support
* Fine-grained control of account information for connecting to Dovecot and generic IMAP servers
* Database optimizations
* Composer window redesign and bug fixes
* Numerous bug and stability fixes

The Geary 0.2 tarball is available for download.  See Yorba’s wiki for information on building, running, and contributing to Geary.  Report bugs and feature requests at Yorba’s Redmine server.  (You must create an account before adding or modifying tickets there.)

Ubuntu users can also find a version for Precise Pangolin (12.04) on Yorba’s PPA.  Adventurous users may also wish to subscribe to Yorba’s Daily PPA.

Announcements

gexiv2 0.5.0 released

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Good afternoon,

We’re pleased to announce to all of you
A fresh stable version of gexiv2.

As before, we’ve made it with care and affection,
And now, GObject introspection.

And in case it kept you up ’til mornings,
You’ll like the reduced spurious warnings.

Some minor makefile stuff was fixed,
And ‘configure’s perms bug has been nixed.

We think it should help greatly in your hackage,
So please hop on over and download the package.

Announcements, Shotwell, Yorba

Shotwell 0.13.0 Released!

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Yorba has just released Shotwell Thirteen,
And in so doing, has hopefully made
An already venerable product sheen,
And with the users, helped make the grade.

Among the fixes, enhancements plenty:
Now hide details from who shouldn’t see ’em,
Post photos to Tumblr, share them with many,
Visibly straighten’d, no need to degree ’em.

Thumbnails, once lost, return upon startup,
Picasa logins are more secure now.
Rework’d old dates helps you sort your art up
From early last cent’ry up to here/now.

There’s much more, yes, but for brevity’s sake
It’s unspoken here, and left to enjoy.
The code is now posted; please stop and take,
And for your images, Shotwell, employ.

Getting Shotwell:
* http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/ (tarball and instructions for building from source)
* https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa (Ubuntu Precise Pangolin PPA)
* Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal users should receive this through their OS vendor’s daily update mechanism shortly.

Announcements, Geary, GNOME, Yorba

Yorba at GUADEC, A Coruña

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Five of the Yorba crew will be attending GUADEC in A Coruña this year: Adam, Eric, Lucas, Charles, and myself.  This is Charles’ first time to GUADEC, but the rest of us should be familiar faces to many GUADEC regulars out there.

Adam and I will be giving a keynote on Friday, July 27th titled “Crowdfunding GNOME Application Development”.  This is a topic we’ve been thinking a lot about lately and look forward to sharing some of our thoughts with all of you.

Yorba will also be hosting a BoF/workshop on Geary, our new email client for the GNOME desktop.  This is for anyone and everyone interested in Geary as well as the future of messaging on the GNOME desktop.  We’ll be discussing our vision and would love to hear yours as well.  The workshop will be on July 30th, 12:00 – 13:00 in Room 2.2a.

Looking forward to seeing all of you in A Coruña!

Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.12.3 Released!

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Good morning, one and all,

It’s with joy and with pride, both in no small degree,
That I get to announce oh-twelve dot three.

Bugs have been squashed and fixes were made,
Therefore, we suggest all users upgrade.

You’ll like this if your camera’s AVCHD,
And tags are safe now in your library,

And with dark images, if ‘enhance’ you smash,
Or zoom using hotkeys, it’ll no longer crash.

We hope this release brings you much joy and cheer;
Please give it a go, get your copy here:

Announcements, Geary

Geary 0.1 released

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After a year of hard work, we’re thrilled to announce the release of Geary 0.1, a lightweight email reader for the GNOME desktop.

Geary 0.1 includes the following features:

  • Basic support for viewing and composing HTML email
  • Send and receive email
  • Reply to all and forward email
  • Optional spell checker
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Organizes emails into conversations

Geary supports Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. If you’d like to download Geary, you may download the tarball. Build instructions are available on our wiki. For Ubuntu users, Geary will be available on the Yorba PPA shortly.

If you’d like to stay up to date with the latest in Geary, join Geary’s mailing list.

Major props to the Geary team for all their hard work getting this release out the door. Give Geary a try. We’re still in the early days of Geary’s development, and there are lots more features to add, but we’d love your input, opinions and help slaying bugs!