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Evolution 2.6.0 released

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2006-03-14 13:21. Evolution
Evolution

The Evolution Team is pleased to announce the release of Evolution
2.6.0.

What is new in 2.6?

  • Memo Component
  • New Look for the Event/Task/Meeting Editor
  • Calendar Publishing support
  • CalDAV support
  • Network Manager support
  • HULA connectivity support
  • Improved GroupWise support
  • Improved Event Recurrence support
  • Calendar Tooltips
  • CSV/tab importers for Mozilla, Outlook and Evolution formats
  • Contact list support for LDAP addressbooks
  • Support for saving Advanced Searches for Address books
  • Support for Prioritizing messages in the composer
  • Lots of bug fixes and lots of other User Interface Improvements

Where can I get it?

You can find the tarballs here :

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/evolution/2.6/evolution-2.6.0.tar.bz2
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server/1.6/evolution-data-server-1.6.0.tar.bz2
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-exchange/2.6/evolution-exchange-2.6.0.tar.bz2
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gtkhtml/3.10/gtkhtml-3.10.0.tar.bz2
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.2/libsoup-2.2.91.tar.bz2

Reporting Bugs

If you have problems with 2.6.0, please take the time to submit the bug
using Bug Buddy or at http://bugzilla.gnome.org. Try to fill in as
much detail as you can regarding the circumstances that lead to the
problem.

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

More information is available at the project website
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution
and the project wiki :
http://go-evolution.org/

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Evolution? by Anonymous George
Why is Evolution part of GNOME? by Anonymous George
> In my opinion, only by Anonymous George
Follow-up by Anonymous George

Wow, as a happy Evolution

Submitted by rehdon on Wed, 2006-03-15 08:49.

Wow, as a happy Evolution user I was going to say "Good stuff!" and thank the devs, but read a bunch of critical comments! As anyone tested the new release to check IMAP problems at least? And yes, a good integrated spam filter would definitely be an appreciated improvement (let's say I'd happily do without HULA connectivity support in exchange ;).

rehdon

Webdav write support and that tedious Novell influence by Anonymous George
why I dumped evolution by Anonymous George
I stopped using evolution... by Anonymous George
At some point the evo search by Anonymous George

http://go-evolution.org/ unreachable

Submitted by Drom on Tue, 2006-03-14 22:43.

stro: http://go-evolution.org/ is unreachable... :(

为什么现在的Linux软件全都受发行版版本限制？ by Anonymous George
這個嘛... by Anonymous George
我明白，但这不是理由 by Anonymous George
Ehm, yeah by Anonymous George
你不要不承认 by Anonymous George
by Anonymous George

Does Novell Eat It's Own Dogfood?

Submitted by blocke on Tue, 2006-03-14 19:32.

Was the horrible performance regression in IMAP fixed at the last moment? Taking literally hours to open a set of IMAP folders when thunderbird takes seconds is pathetic.

"Slow O(N^2) behaviour when scanning imap server folders makes evolution unusable"
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331479

"I have to offer my congratulations to whoever made this change -- you've turned a three-line IMAP transaction into a multi-megabyte download taking many minutes, for every mail folder on the system. When I started Evolution for the first time after 'upgrading' it, I had to leave it overnight to let it finish starting up and doing this check."
http://www.advogato.org/person/dwmw2/diary.html?start=125

"I started the 'new and improved' Evolution at about 7pm on the first day, and it spent about two hours downloading headers before it fell into a pattern of thrashing the link once every few minutes, downloading the flags of every mail in the folders it was checking."
http://www.advogato.org/person/dwmw2/diary.html?start=126

Was it fixed in 2.6.0? Every 2.5.x release I used had basically completely useless IMAP support? Does Novell test with anything except their commercial server?

no replies !! by Anonymous George
Compile against firefox by Anonymous George
genuinely curious here, why by Anonymous George
For the encryption, silly :-) by Anonymous George
Simple explanation by Anonymous George

Actually it uses GtkHTML

Submitted by johnnyproton on Tue, 2006-03-14 21:55.

Which generally sucks compared with the excellent rendering of Gecko/Firefox but has definitely improved in recent versions, especially in terms of the composer element. At least now (in 2.6) my drafts look the same as the output.

I would definitely welcome a version of Evolution that uses Gecko though. I think it's a larger task than many would expect.

GTKHTML by Anonymous George