Yorba has released Shotwell 0.18.0, the latest version of our GNOME photo manager. Updates include:
We at Yorba are pleased to announce the release of Geary 0.6.0, a new stable version of our IMAP mail client. Much has changed since our last stable release, including:
Yorba has released Geary 0.4.3, an update of our IMAP email client. This update features two fixes:
* Fix “squished” conversation list when used with certain themes
* Compile-time support for WebKitGTK 2.0
In particular, the first problem affects users of Mint 16 Cinnamon. Those users should upgrade to Geary 0.4.3 to avoid this display problem.
The tarball for the Geary 0.4.3 is available at https://download.gnome.org/sources/geary/0.4/geary-0.4.3.tar.xz
Ubuntu users (including Mint) can install the upgrade at Yorba’s PPA. Note that neither of the above problems should affect users of the recent 0.4 backport to Precise/Luna.
Last month I announced Yorba was sponsoring a $500 bounty to backport Geary 0.4 to Precise Pangolin 12.04 and elementary’s Luna. I’m pleased to announce two new developments toward that goal.
First, since then six forward-thinking people added another $100 to the bounty, making the total pot $600. Thank you! This was the part of the experiment I was most interested in. Backporting Geary to 12.04 was a highly-requested task, and I wondered if the people who wanted it would be willing to contribute a little money toward that goal. At least some people did think it worthwhile enough, and collectively they added 20% to Yorba’s initial offer.
Second, I’m pleased to announce that the goal has been reached. Tom Beckmann put in a lot of hours and considerable blood, sweat, and tears to port Geary back to 12.04, but he did it and so he claims the bounty. I’ve run his version of Geary on both Precise and elementary Luna and am quite impressed. It uses our new symbolic icon layout, it’s integrated with Precise’s message indicator, and offers every feature in Geary 0.4, including full-text search and the stability improvements we added to 0.4.1. Best of all, he packaged it up on a Launchpad PPA, meaning it’s a snap to install.
If you’re running Precise Pangolin 12.04 or elementary Luna and you’d like to upgrade your version of Geary, I recommend the following directions. Open a terminal window and type the following:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tombeckmann/geary $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install geary
If you’re already running Geary 0.3.1, this new version will update your old database and you’ll be good to go.
A few notes about this release:
(One further note: due to some technical issues, the original Bountysource.com page was moved here. Other than the URL, all details have remained the same.)
Congratulations Tom, and thanks!
Yorba has released Geary 0.4.2, an update of our IMAP email client. The only change in this release is:
* Update to compile with Vala 0.22.1
The tarball for Geary 0.4.2 is available at http://yorba.org/download/geary/0.4/geary-0.4.2.tar.xz
Ubuntu Quantal and Raring users can update by subscribing to Yorba’s PPA. We hope this release will be available in Ubuntu’s Sauncy repository shortly.
Yorba has released Shotwell 0.15.1, an important update to our Shotwell Photo Manager. This update includes these fixes:
* Install Tumblr plugin resources (Tumblr plugin failed to work without them)
* Fix crash when video thumbnails are being inspected and created
Yorba strongly recommends all users upgrade to this release.
The tarball for Shotwell 0.15.1 is available at http://www.yorba.org/download/shotwell/0.15/shotwell-0.15.1.tar.xz Ubuntu Quantal and Raring users can update by subscribing to Yorba’s PPA. We hope that a version for Saucy will be available soon in Ubuntu’s repositories.