Evolution 1.4 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes

It is our greatest pleasure to announce the Release Candidate build of Ximian Evolution for GNOME 2, Evolution 1.3.92.

In order to install this version, you have to either use Red Carpet (Ximian's package managing application) or download the RPM packages from our FTP site.

Please note that the packages are made to work with your existing GNOME 2 packages as provided by your distribution; installing this release will not change your existing setup nor replace any of the base packages in your distribution.

IMPORTANT

Release Candidate 1 is *NOT* parallel installable with Ximian Evolution 1.2.x unlike the previous preview builds. If you have a previous version of Evolution already installed, it will be replaced by the Release Candidate.

Supported Systems

Evolution 1.3.92 is currently available for:

• Red Hat 8
• Red Hat 9
• Mandrake 9.1
• SuSE 8.2

Evolution 1.3.92 will be available soon for:

• Solaris 8

Installing through Ximian Red Carpet

The binaries can be simply installed from the "Ximian Evolution Beta" channel from Red Carpet. If you don't have Red Carpet installed, follow the directions on the Red Carpet Download page.

After installing Red Carpet, subscribe to the "Ximian Evolution Beta" channel. You can find help installing Evolution with the original Red Carpet on the Ximian Evolution Download page.

Installing from FTP

All the necessary RPMs can be found at the following location (the -devel packages are optional.)

 ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-evolution-beta/

We request that you download the files using your favorite ftp application, rather than using your browser to retrieve them. Browsers do not log out of ftp connections, which are limited, leading to refused connections and server slowdown.

Once you have the files, use the su command to become root:

$ su Password: [Enter your root password here]

Then install the files using the rpm command:

# rpm -Uvh *.rpm

You can then launch Evolution by typing "evolution-1.3" on the command-line.

Source

The corresponding source RPMs can be downloaded from our ftp site (below). Again, please use an ftp client to download these files.

  ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-evolution-beta/source/

Upgrade Notes

If you are running a previous version of Ximian Evolution, this Release Candidate will replace your previously installed version.

After installation, please make sure you have killed any remaining processes before running the new build. (In 1.0 or 1.2 run killev from the command line. In 1.3.x the command is evolution-1.3 --force-shutdown).

It is highly recommended that you make a backup of your ~/evolution directory before switching to Evolution 1.3 to prevent data loss.

All the data (mail, calendars, contacts) should be visible without any problems from both Evolution 1.2 and Evolution 1.3. Settings such as mail configuration will be imported from Evolution 1.2 the first time you launch Evolution 1.3.

Please note that Ximian Connector 1.2 will NOT work with Evolution 1.3, and that there are not going to be any public snapshots of Ximian Connector.

What Has Changed

The plan for Evolution 1.4 is to not add any new major features compared to Evolution 1.2. The aim of the upcoming stable release is to just provide the same functionality as Evolution 1.2, but with better integration with the GNOME 2 desktop, as well as to take advantage of the features of the new platform, such as better font support. Of course, a bunch of 1.2 bugs have also been fixed during the process of porting Evolution to GNOME 2.

A major change since version 1.2 is that Evolution 1.4 consists of only two processes: the front-end ("evolution-1.3") and the calendar/addressbook data backend ("evolution-wombat"). For this reason, the old killev script is no longer necessary for debugging purposes. If things get stuck, just run evolution-1.3 --force-shutdown.

Known Issues

• Gnome-Pilot conduits are not currently working under SuSE Linux 8.2. This is presumed to be a packaging bug which will be resolved in the final release.
• Creating multiple Evolution windows with summary views in them can cause random crashes.
• Invoking the help browser can cause Evolution to crash or hang on exit on some platforms.

Reporting Bugs

The main purpose of this release is, of course, to gather as much testing as possible from users. Your help in testing and submitting bugs as you find them is highly appreciated.

If Evolution crashes, please take the time to submit the bug using Bug Buddy, trying to fill in as much detail as you can regarding the circumstances that lead to the crash.

If, on the other hand, you find a problem in the behavior or the appearance of the application, please go to http://bugzilla.ximian.com/ to use our Bugzilla interface to report the bug.

You can also check if your bug has been reported before by using the search functionality of Bugzilla.

Bugs fixed

Addressbook

• - Rename local folder issue in contacts (sean.gao@sun.com)
• , , - HIG compliance (Anna)
• - Use stock buttons in the ldap config page (Toshok)
• - Add icon to "Add" button in "Add to Contacts" dialog (Toshok)
• , , - HIG compliance (Anna)
• - HIG compliance (Toshok)
• , , , , - HIG compliance (Anna)
• - Use stock Add/Remove icons in the contact list editor (Toshok)
• - Crash when deleting addresses from long contact lists (Toshok)
• - "Print" not hooked up in etable view (Toshok)
• - Cannot tab out of date edit widgets in contact editor (Toshok)
• - Selecting a field in a contact highlights entire row (Toshok)
• - Selecting text in a contact address field selects all rows of text (Toshok)
• - Display not shifted when cursor moved to next address line (Toshok)
• - Not saving information entered in Notes field of Contact editor (Toshok)
• - Crash related to mailing address checkbox (Toshok)
• - Clicking in white space of contact brings up empty contact editor (Toshok)
• - Crash on solaris due to missing NULL in g_guild_filename. (sean.gao@sun.com)
• - clicking on letters in LDAP address card view does not load selected letter (Dan, Toshok)
• - Crash on reply (Toshok)
• - Crash when adding duplicate contact (Toshok)
• - All contacts have disappeared (Toshok)
• - GalView menu missing from the addressbook (Toshok)
• - Evolution crashed pasting large amount of text into address field (Toshok)
• - auto-completion folder list wasn't populated correctly on fresh install (Toshok)

Calendar

• - connector crashed while evolution was idle (Rodrigo)
• - Double clicked on meeting in Exchange calendar, Evo crashed (Rodrigo)
• - Alarm dialog does not reappear after snoozing Exchange alarm (Rodrigo)
• - Calendar update failing and crashing (JP)
• - Warning while running gdb includes: "Some clown returned undeclared exception" (JP)
• - day view ignores scroll wheel (JP)
• - Accelerators in meeting selector not working/looks bad (Hans Petter)
• - calendar not refreshing correctly after changing meeting times (Rodrigo)
• - When running under valgrind Evolution crashed while exiting (JP)
• - button order of "Enter Delegate" dialog (Rodrigo)

Mail

• - Thread expansion state not remembered (Jeff)
• - Send/Recv not sending mail in connector Outbox (Michael)
• - Crash selecting a non-selectable folder (Michael)
• - Another workaround for mailers sending out invalid date formats (Jeff)
• - Edit->Mark as unread doesn't behave the same as right click->mark as unread (Jeff)
• - Thread expansion state lost on deleting messages (Jeff)
• - Crash entering address in composer (Rodrigo)
• - Custom fixed font setting not applying to composer (Michael)
• - Crash opening a mail again that was still being opened (Jeff)
• - Adding colour from not working properly (Jeff)
• - Spelling preferences Enable/Disable button inconsisency (Michael)
• - Crash when pressing send/recv too quickly (Michael)
• - Invalid 8 bit header data getting to the UI layer generating warnings (Michael)
• - Crash deleting local folder with indexing turned off (Jeff)
• - Crash setting up local mail account (Michael)
• - Copying many messages between IMAP folders results in several duplicates (Jeff)
• - changing server settings enables the account (Jeff)
• - crash reading mail (Michael)
• - Check spelling while I type - broken (Larry)
• - Composer ignores color for misspelled words (Larry)
• - Reproducible crash after searching mail w/ attachment and closing (Jeff)
• - Evo crashed during POP download/filtering (Jeff)

Shell

• - Window title too long (Ettore)
• - Updated contributor list in the about box (Michael)
• - Crash hitting escape or closing window on rename box (Michael, Ettore)
• - Send/Receive sensitive when started in offline mode (Ettore)
• - Unread count problem in the shortcut bar (Ettore)
• - Compilation problems on Forte (Antonio Xu)
• - Folder bar selection lost on folder delete (Ettore)
• - Don't crash when an invalid "default:" URI is given on the command-line (Ettore)
• - Memory corruption problem in settings dialog (Ettore)
• - Crash on exit (Ettore)
• - Crash on exit (Ettore)

Summary

• , - HIG compliance (Anna)
• - Charsets not respected in news feed display (Michael)
• - Crash on exit (JP)
• - Crash on exit (Ettore)

gal

• - Crash on selection based actions. (Mike)
• - Combo cells require double click to select item.(Mike)
• - Incorrect button ordering on categories dialog. (Toshok)
• - HIG changes to Edit Categories dialog. (Anna)
• - Folder displays scrolled down from top. (Mike)
• - Return statement in e_completion_callbacks_new. (Mike)
• - "To:" and "CC:" don't accept zh_CN characters. (Toshok)
• - DragnDrop issues with the shortcut-bar. (Mike)
• - make clean fix. (Mike)
• - sgml formatting fixes in docs. (Alastair Tse)
• - Crash in etree updating nodes. (Mike)
• - Categories master list dialog was only accessible once. (Toshok)
• - crash dragging column headers in etable. (Mike)
• - crash while editing text cells in etable. (Mike)
• - scroll adjustment jumps on resize of table. (Ettore)
• - crash creating new custom views. (Mike)
• - crash in pango layout code for text cells. (Mike)

Other bugs

Addressbook

• 64bit cleanup and warning fixes (Jeremy Katz)
• Fixed some probable memory corruption (Toshok, Sean Gao)

Calendar

• Fixed crash in cal_client_discard_alarm (Rodrigo)
• Fixed Bonobo unrefing problems on components (JP)
• Fixed multiple initialization in calendar factory (Rodrigo)

Mail

• Crash on exit if password dialog was open (Ettore)
• Make Ok the default response on the password dialog (Ettore)
• Crash in SMTP if unable to resolve the remote host name (Jeff)
• Fix an automake 1.6 issues with camel-lock-helper (Dan)
• Reload page if citation color changes (Larry)
• Made all the composer preferences work (Larry)

Shell

• HIGified config settings dialog a bit more (Anna)
• Fixed a bunch of reference count problems (JP)
• Improved the look of the "open other user's folder" dialog (Dan)

Summary

• Fixed a typo that caused the summary to not see the default calendar folder (Ettore)
• Made the print dialog close properly (Ettore)
• Reference count fixes (JP)

gal

• leaks plugged (JP)
• fix destruction of torn off combos. (Jody)
• bring spec file up to date. (Rui Miguel Seabra)
• cygwin build fixes (Masahiro Sakai)

gtkhtml

• viewport and frame clipping fixed
• fixed a bug in image url replacement
• added new options for animations magic links/smileys and inline spelling
• editor preferences now bonobo properties
• fixed the drawing of alt text in the plain painter
• fixed flag definition for gtk_html_begin_full
• fixed crashes if spelling languages no set
• printing margins corrected for new gnome-print
• made keybindings listen to gnome-wide gconf setting
• unbreak font manager default setting
• made shift-tab traverse backwards in the tab order
• fixed idle crash
• make tab drawing work in all cases
• make file insertion in the editor handle charsets gracefully
• translate ui elements in bonobo
• fix translation domain in editor
• HIG improvements

All

• Various container referencing issues (JPR)
• 64 bit and portability fixups (Jeremy Katz)
• Cleaned up lots of compile time warnings and run-time debugging output (everyone)

Updated translations

• cs (Miloslav Trmac)
• da (Kenneth Rode Christiansen)
• de (Christian Neumair)
• es (Francisco Javier Fernandez)
• fr (Christophe Fergeau)
• it (Marco Ciampa)
• ja (Takuo Kitame)
• no (Kjartan Maraas)
• pt (Duarte Loreto)
• pt_BR (Gustavo Maciel Das Vieira)
• ru (GNOME Russian Team)
• sr (Danilo � egan)
• sv (Christian Rose, Anders Carlsson)
• Fixed encoding of the ca, en_AU, en_CB, et, eu, ro catalogs (Abel Cheung)