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@@ -1,614 +0,0 @@ -Version 0.6 ------------ - -General: - - - Split out lots of functionality to gal. Evolution now depends on - gal. (Chris Lahey, Gal Team) - -Shell: - - - Added a cute splash screen. (Ettore, TigerT) - - - Improved the way `~/evolution' is initialized the first time. - (Iain) - - - Fixed the problem with the folder bar disappearing too son when - clicking on the scrollbar. (Ettore) - - - Updated to use the new toolbar and UI merging code from Bonobo. - (Michael Meeks, Ettore) - -Mail: - - - Numerous i18n encoding, decoding, and display fixes. Non-ASCII - text should be displayed correctly in most context in the mailer - now. The composer no longer sends undeclared 8bit data. (Jeff) - - - The IMAP provider now caches summary info between sessions, so - startup should be much faster for large folders. (Dan) - - - Subscribe/unsubscribe UI for newsgroups. (IMAP subscriptions will - be supported in a later release.) NNTP authentication support. - Various other NNTP fixes. (Chris Toshok) - - - New "full search" button to do more complicated searches. (NotZed) - - - Composer attachment bar improvements. You can now drag files to - the composer window to attach them to the message. (Iain) - - - Message list state (columns selected, sorting, etc) is now saved - between sessions. (NotZed) - - - "Get Mail" now works for IMAP. IMAP mail no longer arrives - asynchronously (although if you delete mail from another client, - it will be deleted asynchronously). (Dan) - - - Image attachments now use thumbnail images rather than a generic - image icon. (Iain) - - - Various IMAP provider bugs (Dan, Jeff) - - - Filter code cleanup/improvements. (NotZed) Filtering can read and - write message scores. (Jeff) On-demand filters no longer expunge - the source folder, and don't filter deleted messages. (Jeff) - Filters now log their actions. (Jeff) - - - Drafts, Outbox, and Sent folders now default to showing "To" - instead of "From" in the header list. Messages output to the Sent - folder are marked as "Seen". "Send later" on a reply will mark the - message as having been replied to. (Jeff) - - - Message list "attachment" column is now functional. The - read/unread state of a fake thread header now matches the state of - the thread. (NotZed) Message list sorting is more clever (Jeff) - - - The "Print" toolbar button now opens a Print dialog rather than a - Print Preview window. (Miguel) - - - New "Select All" command. "Mark all messages as seen" became "Mark - (selected) messages seen". (Jeff) - -Calendar: - - - Improved todo list and calendar view gui (Damon) - - - Printing works again (Federico) - - - Config dialog improvement and implementation (Damon) - - - Todo and calendar conduits working, except for archiving (JP) - -Addressbook: - - - Lots of internal refactoring of addressbook, including changes due - to gal. (Chris, Chris) - - - Lots of bug fixes. (Chris, Chris, Matt Bissiri, Iain, Dan) - - - Added a working field to save whether the contact wants - HTML. (Chris Lahey) - - - Added "Stop" and "View All" toolbar buttons. (Chris Lahey) - - - Lots of work on modifiable LDAP. (Chris Toshok) - - - Recognizes a lot more Prefixes and Suffixes when parsing names. (Nat) - - - The card view doesn't write out cards unless they've changed. (Chris Lahey) - - - New layout of address editor dialog. (Anna, Chris Lahey) - -Version 0.5.1, "Salamended", 2000-09-15 ---------------------------------------- - -General: - - - Fixed a font-handling problem that would cause Evolution to crash - at startup with certain Gtk themes. (Chris) - - - Fixed some build problems. (Chris) - - - We no longer ship an out-of-date Red Hat-only RPM spec file. - -Shell: - - - The shell now installs the `Sent' folder at startup if it doesn't - exist yet. (Ettore) - - - If a component crashes unexpectedly, the shell displays a dialog - box informing the user of that. (Ettore) - - - Fixed a bug in the folder selector dialog that would result in - crashes while trying to move messages in the mailer. (Dan) - -Addressbook: - - - Fixed a bug that would cause the addressbook to crash when - embedded in the composer. (Dan) - -Mail: - - - Fixed a display problem caused by expunging an IMAP folder. (Dan) - - - Fixed POP mail so that "keep on server" is obeyed correctly. (Dan, - Jeff) - - - Fixed replies so that replying to a message twice doesn't turn off - the "replied" flag. (Dan) - - - Fixed a bug that prevented "Send later" from working. (Dan) - - -Version 0.5, "Salamander", 2000-09-13 -------------------------------------- - -Shell: - - - Switched to using ETree for the folder view. (Chris Toshok, - Ettore) - - - Added interfaces to change the string displayed in the tree view - as the name of the folder. (Ettore) - -Calendar: - - - Uses only the new iCalendar standard internally; this means future - interoperability with new calendaring programs. (JP, Federico) - - - New ultra-cool date range selector, aka little calendar. (Damon) - - - Plenty of internal refactoring. (JP, Damon, Federico) - - - Pilot synch work, mostly on pcs infrastructure and some todo work (JP) - <EXPERIMENTAL> - - - Pilot synch work, mostly on pcs infrastructure and some todo work (JP) - <EXPERIMENTAL> - -Addressbook: - - - New advanced search dialog. (Michael Zucchi, Chris Lahey) - - - Added parsing of addresses. (Jesse Pavel) - - - Converted most of addressbook to UTF8. (Lauris) - -Mailer: - - - Filters (but not vfolders) are now more powerful: they can check - any message header, and can do regexp searches on the headers and - body. (Jeff) - - - A first draft of an automated mailing list recognizer - has been added. (It will need more/better rules.) (Ettore) - - - Attachments are handled differently now. All attachments always - have an icon and a header, and you can right-click on the icon to - view/hide, save, or launch an external viewer. (Dan) - - - It is no longer necessary to quit and restart after adding a new - IMAP server. (Peter) - - - Lots of i18n/charset fixing. (Lauris) - - - Shiny new toolbar icons. (Tuomas) - - - Giant menu reorganization. Most message operations are now in the - "Message" menu, and folder operations in the "Folder" menu. - (Ettore, Dan, Peter) - - - "Mark as seen" timeout is now configurable. Mail view remembers - the location of the message list/message display split. (Richard - Hult) - - - New filter category: "On-demand", for filters to be applied - at arbitrary times rather than during mail incorporation. (Peter) - - - POP/IMAP config pages allow you to specify a port... this may - go away in a later release when we support ssl/ssh tunneling - directly. (Peter) - - - Reply To All will now remove your own addresses from the recipient - lists. (Jesse Pavel) - - - Folders are synced when you switch to another folder now. (Dan) - - - An IMAP bug that caused all messages to be marked as read before - they were read has been fixed. (Dan) - - - The IMAP provider is now more robust about dealing with other - concurrent IMAP clients. (Jeff) - - - POP and IMAP are better about when they do and don't try to - reconnect. This was part of Camel operation cancellation support, - which unfortunately didn't make it into 0.5. (Peter) - - - Sent and Outbox folders are now functional. You now have 2 - options when sending a message - "Send Now" which will send the - message imediately and "Send Later" which will queue the message in - Outbox for later sending. When a message is successfully sent, it - is copied to the Sent folder for your records. (Jeff) - -ETable: - - - ETree fixes. (Chris Toshok) - - - Lots of small usability fixes. (Chris Lahey) - - - Lots of grouping bug fixes. Specifically, fixed crashes when - grouping in trees and made ETable not go crazy when you change - data and the table is grouped. (Chris Lahey) - - - Improved table printing when grouped. (Chris Lahey) - - - Converted most of ETable to UTF8. (Lauris) - - -Version 0.4, "Alewife", 2000-08-14 ----------------------------------- - -Shell: - - - Added interfaces to display messages and a progress bar when the - component is busy. (Ettore) - - - Changed the shell BonoboUIHandler code to allow placing menu items - such as "Print" in the right places. (Ettore) - - - Added code to check if an existing `~/evolution' directory - actually has the content we expect and, if not, complain to the - user. (Dan) - - - Fixed some Bonobo-related refcounting problems. (Michael Meeks) - - - Removed the GConf dependency. (JP) - - - Improved the API for the folder selection dialog. (Ettore) - - - Memory leak fixes. (Peter) - -Calendar: - - The calendar is in the middle of major rewrite. Evolution 0.4 - ships with essentially the same calendar component as 0.3 did. - -Addressbook: - - - More work on the Palm Pilot conduits. (Chris Toshok) - - - Fixed some LDAP-related crashes. (Chris Toshok) - - - Added support for displaying embedded vCards through a Bonobo - component. (Chris Lahey) - - - Added support for generic fields. (Chris Lahey) - - - Fixed the navigation order for the Tab key in the contact editor - window. (Chris Lahey) - - - Fixed some Bonobo-related bugs and crashes. (Chris Lahey, Michael - Meeks) - - - Only display entries that have an email address in the address - selector dialog. (Chris Lahey) - - - Added an utility program to import vCards from Gnomecard. (Chris - Lahey) - -Mailer: - - Generic - - - Long mailer operations (such as fetching new mail) now run - asynchronously rather than blocking the UI. This involved - a major rewrite of much of the Camel and mailer code. (Peter) - - - GPG/PGP message decryption support (Nathan Thompson-Amato, Dan) - - - Unfinished messages in the composer can be saved to the "Drafts" - folder and finished later. (Jeff) - - - Double-clicking on a message in the message view now opens it in a - separate window. (Jeff) - - - vCards attached to messages now bring up a minicard view with a - button to add the vCard to the addressbook (Chris Lahey, Dan) - - - Inline uuencoded/binhexed "attachment" support (Dan) - - - "Mark All Messages Seen" command. (Cody Russell) - - Filters / VFolders - - - Major filter/vfolder dialog rewrite (Michael Zucchi) VFolders can - now search any (searchable) folder, not just Inbox. - - - Auto-filter/auto-vfolder code (right click on a message in the - list and pick one of the options at the bottom of the menu to - create a filter/vfolder rule for similar messages). (Michael) - - - You can now set the color of messages in the message list, based - on filter rules. (Local stores can also now store arbitrary user - flags, although there is not yet UI code to set/view them.) - (Michael) - - - Added "Save" button to the quicksearch bar to save a search as a - vfolder. (Michael) - - Configuration - - - Major mail config dialog rewrite (JP). - - - The mailer now remembers your threaded/unthreaded message view - setting between sessions. (Jeremy Wise). - - - Support for multiple identities (JP, Jeff), sources (JP, Peter), and - IMAP servers (JP, Dan) - - Providers - - - You can now leave POP mail on the server. (This will [currently] - only work right with POP servers that support the UIDL command. - On other servers, it will never download some messages unless you - never delete mail.) - - - There is now an MH-like local store available, and code to convert - a folder from one type to the other. (Michael) - - - The mbox provider now writes out "From " lines that are more - compatible with other mailers (like Mutt) that are picky about - their exact format. (Michael) - - - The IMAP provider now supports searching (Jeff). Also various - other speed/efficiency/robustness improvements (Jeff), and support - for old IMAP4 servers as well as IMAP4rev1 (Jon K Hellan). - - -Version 0.3, "Jellyfish", 2000-07-21 ------------------------------------- - -Shell: - - - Pop-up folder selection. (Ettore) - - - Added support for multiple views. (Ettore) - - - Added support for saving component-specific settings, and - some initial code to save the view's configuration. - (Ettore) - - - Fixed the Bonobo menu code so that it works with all the - locales. (Ettore) - -Mailer: - - - Lots of IMAP fixes. (Jeff) - - - You can use an external setuid/setgid movemail program - (although we don't ship our own yet). If you have one - installed with emacs, the configure script will find - that. Otherwise, you can specify --with-movemail=/path. - (Dan) - - - You can toggle HTML/plain text for an individual message - in the composer now. (Ettore) - - - Bonobo embedding sort of works again, but there are - problems with size allocation somewhere. Attachments can now - also be handled by external applications. (Dan) - - - text/plain mail is now line-wrapped in the mail display, - to deal with people who don't put newlines in their mail. - (Dan) - - - Allow user to specify IMAP namespace in the mail config - dialog. (Dan, Jeff) - - - Quoted-printable encoder fixes. (Michael Zucchi) - - - Various NNTP fixes, include a news pane in the config - dialog. (Chris Toshok) - - - Some memory corruption fixes. (Peter Williams) - - - Fix for message not being re-drawn as deleted. (Peter - Williams, Jeff) - - - Moving a message to another folder copies the flags now - (Jeff) - - - Close signature in HTML mail with </PRE>, not <PRE>, and - default to ~/.signature. (Michael Meeks) - - - Fixed some confusing behavior in the message threading - algorithm. (Dan) - - - Improvements to the item selection code. (Chris Lahey) - -Calendar: - - - Added support for a bunch of previously unsupported iCalendar - properties. (Federico) - - - Conduit for synchronizing the calendar with gnome-pilot - (requires gnome-pilot from CVS). (Seth) - - - ETable-based to-do list view ("taskpad"), for your viewing - pleasure. - -Addressbook: - - - Conduit for synchronizing the addressbook with gnome-pilot - (requires gnome-pilot from CVS). (Chris Toshok) - - - Conduit for synchronizing the addressbook with gnome-pilot - (requires gnome-pilot from CVS). (Chris Toshok) - - - Fixed some random crashes. (Chris Lahey) - - - Implemented a vCard Bonobo control so that we can support - inline vCard viewing in the mailer. (Chris Lahey) - - - Quick search looks at both the name and the company name now. - (Chris Lahey) - - - Added more functionality to the contact editor's toolbar. (Chris - Lahey) - - - Support for printing single cards. (Chris Lahey) - -Version 0.2, "Saccharomyces", 2000-07-11 ----------------------------------------- - -Shell: - - * Folder selection dialog (Ettore). - - * Folder creation dialog (Ettore). - -Addressbook: - - * LDAP server configuration dialog (Chris Toshok). - - * Integration of LDAP servers in the shell's tree view (Chris Toshok). - - * ETable-based view (Chris Lahey). - - * Printing support for the ETable-based view (Chris Lahey). - - * Address selection dialog integrated with the message composer (Chris - Lahey). - - * Many miscellaneous bugs fixed (everyone). - -Calendar: - - * Printing support (Michael, Federico). - - * Many, many behavior fixes and polishing to the day/week/month view - widgets (Damon). - - * New glade-based event editor. This is unfinished but usable (Seth, - Federico). - - * Mouse wheel scrolling support (Anders). - - * We have an awesome new engine for computing recurring events - (Damon). This will be plugged in to the new iCalendar code. - - * Internal and public API fixes (Federico, Seth). - - * Shell-related changes (Ettore). - - * Data model for ETable; this is not used yet (Federico). - - * New iCalendar support; this is not used yet (Federico). - - * Pilot syncing updates; this is not used yet (Seth). - - * Many miscellaneous bugs fixed (everyone). - - -Mailer: - - Major features: - - * Basic IMAP support (Jeff) - - * Threaded message view (Michael, Chris Toshok) - - * Filters now work (original work by Michael, bugfixes by Dan) - - - Smaller features: - - * Implemented moving messages between folders (Dan) - - * Very basic printing support (Dan, but it was only like 5 lines - of code, because gnome-print kicks ass) - - * "Delete", "Forward", and "Refile" operations now work on - multiple messages. (Chris Lahey, Peter Williams, Dan) - - * Toggle read/unread flag when the user clicks on the envelope - icon (Chris Lahey, Dan). - - * The "New folder" menu item now works (Ettore, Dan). - - * The filter/vfolder druid now uses the new shell folder selection - UI (Michael) - - * Added "Cc" to the set of filter/vfolderable headers and make the - filter/vfolder "messages to address" rule work with to or cc. - (Dan) - - * New key bindings: "Delete" deletes the current message and jumps - to the next undeleted message. "N" and "P" go to next/previous - unread message. (Dan) - - * Keep asking for POP/IMAP password until the user gets it correct - or hits Cancel, and remember the result until the user exits (or - chooses "Forget Passwords"). (Dan, Jeff) - - * Kludge Camel to output ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8, since - neither GtkHTML nor ETable supports UTF-8 still. (Dan) - - * Use the gnome-vfs "sniff buffer" interface to try to identify - the MIME type of attachments without useful type information - (Dan) - - * Allow saving drafts in the composer (Ettore) - - * Added "Received date" header to the set of possible message list - headers. (Dan) - - * Partial gladification of the config dialog (JP Rosevear) - - - Bug fixes: - - * Message read/unread/deleted flags should now be saved reliably - when you exit, and summary should not be rebuilt when a rebuild - isn't needed. Expunging should work reliably (Dan, Ettore, - Jeff). - - * Fix disappearing toolbar bug (Dan). - - * Fixed a bug that made downloading of very large messages over - POP incredibly slow, and various other smaller POP bugs. (Dan) - - * Fixed bugs that made large attachments sometimes get dropped and - small ones sometimes get truncated. (Dan) - - * Fixed filter/vfolder "messages to address" rule to correctly - match "to" rather than "from". (Michael) - - * Fix some text/plain formatting bugs in the composer. (Dan, - Ettore) - - * Turn off search mode when getting new mail (to avoid corrupting - the display). Make "get mail" always put unfiltered mail into - Inbox rather than the current folder. (Dan) - - * Fixed a bug that caused "Re:" to be prepended even to subjects - that started with "Re:" when replying. Added a default subject - to forwarded messages. (Dan) - - * Make the "Attach" dialog in the composer remember the last - directory it was in. (Dan) - - * Code to parse invalid date formats since some mailers generate - them... (Jeff) - - * Fixed various small SMTP bugs (Jeff, Chris Lahey) - - * Fixed some memory leaks (Peter, Jeff) - - * Make replies use the text/plain part of a multipart/alternative - if the user configured plain text rather than HTML mail sending. - (Dan) - - * Various config dialog fixes (Jeff) - - * Partial filter/vfolder GUI facelift (Jacob) |