I released Evolution 2.12 with GNOME 2.20. This is my first release as the maintainer for Evolution. Some interesting things we did for Evolution 2.12 follows
Spam Improvements
- New bogofilter spam plugin
- Spam plugins (bogofilter/spamassasin) can now learn ham
- Spams don’t initiate new mail notifications
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UI Improvements
- Basic contact merging support.
- Improved search support for Calendar and Tasks
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New advanced search and better quick search options
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- Better printing support for mailer
- Magic space bar support – Read all the unread mails in all folders with just space bar key
- Message selection improvements
- More options for offline support
- New –disable-preview command line option to avoid repeated crash on last selected email
- Option for Outlook style signature on top – more details here
- Option for Outlook style reply header
- Spinner in the status bar
- Support for multimedia keys
- Support for showing contact photos in preview pane
- Thread sorting based on the date of the latest message
Performance Improvements
- Addressbook improvements from DBus port branch
- EContact/VCard folding optimizations
- Huge Exchange folder loading optimizations
New Plugins
- Bogofilter spam plugin
- Attachment reminder plugin
- Mail notification plugin
- TNEF attachment plugins (Experimental)
- Revamped backup/restore plugin
Lots of Exchange/GroupWise performance/stability fixes went in 2.12 release. We had a special focus on stability in 2.12 cycle and Evolution has nearly 100 crashers fixed and in total 450 bugs were fixed during the 2.12 cycle. Now we are preparing a planning page for the next cycle here. Feel free to add your thoughts to the planning page.
Thanks a lot for the contributors and we are looking forward for the next release.