Yorba in Copenhagen

Earlier this month, several of us Yorbans made a trek to Copenhagen for Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS.) It’s a beautiful city with lots to see. For the most part the weather behaved well and we were able to wander around and see the sites, albeit bundled up in three layers of jackets.

Here’s some photos we took in Copenhagen and at UDS.

Announcing Geary 0.2.2

We’re pleased to announce the release of Geary 0.2.2, 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.

Improvements for this release include:

  • PLAIN authentication fixed on Yahoo! and other SMTP servers
  • geary.desktop file always built and installed

The Geary 0.2.2 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 Ubuntu users may also wish to subscribe to Yorba’s Daily PPA.

Geary 0.2.1 released

We’re pleased to announce the release of Geary 0.2.1, 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:

* Save attachments FileChooserDialog now displays network mounts
* Adds support for SMTP PLAIN authentication
* Installs Italian translation (overlooked in 0.2.0)
* Adds three new translations: Czech, Telugu, and Turkish
* Preferences dialog and .desktop file now translated
* Icon and desktop file cache updated after uninstall
* Various translation fixes, including translations not being displayed

The Geary 0.2.1 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.

Shotwell 0.13.1 Released!

Good afternoon, one and all,

We’re pleased to announce the release of Shotwell 0.13.1. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.

Among the fixes in this release:

  • Increased robustness against server errors and malformed responses in the publishing subsystem
  • Better support for importing video from some Sony cameras
  • Correction of a problem where the searching and filtering UI could get out of sync with what was being displayed in a user’s library
  • Fixing of a regression in which the Send To feature didn’t work correctly with multiple photos

A tarball of this release can be obtained from http://yorba.org/download/shotwell/0.13/shotwell-0.13.1.tar.xz, and Ubuntu users on Precise Pangolin can obtain a pre-built version from the Yorba PPA; users on Quantal Quetzal or other distributions should have access to pre-built binaries soon through the normal update mechanisms.

Again, thank you for your interest in Shotwell, and if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to let us know or mention them on our mailing list.

Geary 0.2 released

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.

gexiv2 0.5.0 released

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.

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