Tag: release

Evolution 2.24.4 released

It was Saturday morning 2:00 am when I published the tarball. So what’s special?

This is the first additional release past the regular stable of GNOME 2.24.3. We saw that the 2.24.x series brought regressions due to the disk summary work. With every stable release we made it better and we thought it might be good to continue this and add two more releases on stable branch. These are the dates and 2.24.4 is already out

2.24.4 on Jan 30
2.25.5 on Feb 25

Thx to “ever great” Milan Crha for hacking out sqlite/fsync/ext issue which hurt our performance a lot. He wrote an awesome piece of sqlite vfs similar to FF’s vfs but a lot simpler which improved performance by 75% atleast. And thanks to David Ronis (huey) for some fine bugs which saved 2.24.4 and thx to Srinidhi who gave me the ultimate NEWS generation script which just did everything automatically. It’s a bit buggy but should be better in sometime. I would push Srinidhi to share it somewhere , it would be useful for a lot of people.

Evolution 2.22 released

I sent an announcement mail for Evolution 2.22. A sneak-peak of what we have done in 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 download)
  •  Junk/NotJunk flags stored on the IMAP Server (Second instance of Evolution detects spam automatically from stored  headers)

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. (Evolution 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

Thanks a lot to every one who contributed patches/bug/debug informations/others for Evolution 2.22. Please have a look at the wiki for more information on what is coming up for Evolution 2.24.