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The Evolution Team is pleased to announce Evolution 2.1.3 has been released to coincide with GNOME 2.9.4. Download the following:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution/2.1/evolution-2.1.3.1.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ximian-connector/2.1/ximian-connector-2.1.3.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server/1.1/evolution-data-server-1.1.3.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtkhtml/3.5/gtkhtml-3.5.3.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gal/2.3/gal-2.3.2.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.2/libsoup-2.2.1.tar.gz

Upgrade Notes:
Evolution 2.1 is an unstable development series. It will upgrade your existing 1.4 install, but currently does not need to upgrade your 2.0 install to work.



Major New User Features:
* New IMAP provider (IMAP4rev1 account type for testing) that should
improve reliability and
* Online/Offline for mail with syncing of message changes to server
(IMAP4, Groupwise, Exchange)
* Online/Offline for contacts (ldap, groupwise, exchange)
* Online/Offline for calendars (webcal, groupwise, exchange)
* Attachments for calendar events
* Weather in the calendar
* Plugin that puts new message events on DBUS for applets to listen to
* Improved recurrence handling in calendar - exceptions can be made to
recurring events now without create a separate event
* Right to Left mail display
* GroupWise support for send options, shared folders
* Exchange support for folder sizes and password expiry warning

Major New Developer Features:
* EPlugin
* Loadable EDS Modules
* libedataserverui with convenience widgets for e-d-s data
* libedataserverui with name selector completion widgetry

Known Issues:
1) We've had reports of crashes moving from 2.0 to 2.1 but nothing we've
been able to track down. If you have this problem and are building from
source especially, give us a back trace. If this happens you can go
back to 2.0 no problem currently as no data is modified.

2) Some people have reported issues with druids/wizards and gtk 2.6,
both us and the gtk guys are looking at this

3) Composer may crash when closing (fixed in 2.1.3.1)

4) Can't edit signatures (fixed in 2.1.3.1)

5) Build fix for new-mail-notify plugin (fixed in 2.1.3.1)

Evolution 2.1.3, 2004-01-10
----------------------------

Bugzilla bugs fixed (see http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi):

* Calendar

#69663 - Task list on the web does not mark tasks as finished (JP)
#61076 - Evolution calendar messages unnecessarily marked for
translation (JP)
#41624 - only the last exception is deleted on palm device (JP)

* Addressbook

#61068 - Extraneous space in evolution message (Andre Klapper)
#61975 - Can't translate string "Reflow test" (JP)

* Plugins

#30992 - Preferences dialog greys out OK button after Apply (JP)

Other bugs

* Address Book

- set read only state better for contact editor (Hans)
- add UI for marking calendars offline (Siva)
- use new name selector api (Hans)

* Mail

- Display icon for shared folder (Vivek)
- New offline folder/store classes (Jeff)
- Handle reply in mailto: (Michael)
- a11y fixes (Mengjie Yu)
- (Mengjie Yu)

* Calendar

- detached instance recurrence handling (Rodrigo)
- calendar attachments (Harish)
- send options for meeting (Chen)
- handle calendar:// uris (JP)
- handle different calendars having the same uid (Rodrigo)
- add UI for marking calendars offline (Chen)
- use new name selector API (Hans)
- prevent crash when searching for f/b info (JP)
- a11y fixes (Harry)
- calendar config cleanup (JP)

* Shell

- Make component buttons configurable (JP)
- Set offline with gconf key (Siva)

* Plugins

- add component.migration event for calendar (David Trowbridge)
- fix translations of popup menus (Michael)
- HIG config dialog fixes (Rodney)
- Add calendar file config plugin so local calendar get set up right
(JP)
- Add calendar weather config plugin (David Trowbridge)
- Add exchange account config plugin (Sushma)
- Add groupwise send options plugin (Partha)
- Add itip formatter plugin (JP)
- Add new-mail-notify plugin that uses DBUS (Miguel Angel Lopez
Hernandez)
- Use standard error messages in save-calendar plugin (Philip Van
Hoof)
- Add send options plugin for account editor (Chen)
- Add shared folder notification plugin (vivek)

Updated translations:
- lt (Zygimantas Berucka)
- ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
- bg (Vladimir Petkov, Alexander Shopov)
- et (Priit Laes, Ivar Smolin)

Exchange Connector 2.1.3 2005-01-10
------------------------------------

New Features :

* Integrating ximian-connector-setup with account setup (Sushma)
* Support for calendar attachments (Sarfraaz)
* Mail tracking options (Sarfraaz)

Evolution Data Server 1.1.3, 2005-01-10
----------------------------------------

Bugzilla bugs fixed (see http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi):

* Calendar

#68533 - evolution-alarm-notify appears to cause an e_data_book leak
(Harish)

* Camel

#70556 - Unable load messages info from MS Exchange by IMAP
(Michael)
#70919 - Crash during fetching mail (mail has gpg signature)
(Michael)

Other bugs

* Addressbook
- Merge offline support for groupwise, ldap (Siva, Chen, Hans)

* Calendar
- Backend attachment support (Harish)
- Weather calendar (David Trowbridge)
- Handle send options for groupwise (Chen)
- Fixed problems when items only had detached instances (Rodrigo)
- Merge offline support for groupwise, ldap, webcal (Siva, Chen)

* Camel
- Merge groupwise SOAP mailer (Partha)
- IMAP4 offline support (Jeff)
- Groupwise offline support (JP, Jeff, Partha)
- 64 bit fixes (David Mosberger-Tang)

* All
- move e-categories and rewrite (Rodrigo)
- emit source_changed signal if properties change (David Trowbridge)
- implement e-name-selector class, without bonobo (Hans)

Updated Translations:
- bg (Vladimir Petkov)
- ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
- ru (Leonid Kanter)

gtkhtml-3.5.3 "Resort" 2004-01-10
------------------------------------------------

New in this release

* Right-to-Left display support
* fix crash on a double-click on the background of the mail header
* i18n fixes (Mengjie Yu)
* a11y fixes (Mengjie Yu)

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gal-2.3.2 2005-01-10
----------------------

Bugzilla bugs fixed (see http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi):

#29309 - Adding a new column leaves the window open

Other bugs and changes:

- Updated translations:
zh_CN (Funda Wang)


Reporting Bugs

If you have problems with 2.1.3, please take the time to submit the bug
using Bug Buddy or at http://bugzilla.ximian.com. Try to fill in as
much detail as you can regarding the circumstances that lead to the
problem

If you have a feature request, you can also file that at
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/ don't be discouraged if you don't hear from
us right away, we get hundreds of feature requests a year.

You can also 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


-JP
--
JP Rosevear
Novell, Inc.