The email and groupware client of the GNOME desktop

Apr 16, 2015 23:02 GMT  ·  By

The GNOME Project has recently announced that the powerful Evolution email and groupware client has been updated for the GNOME 3.16.1 desktop environment, a maintenance release that fixes over 65 bugs.

According to the internal release notes, Evolution 3.16.1 repairs an issue that destroyed the primary clipboard content when typing text in the composer, fixes a critical runtime warning when pasting "\n" in the composer, and addresses a segfault when attempting to Cut selected email address from the CC field in the composer.

The issue when the text cursor was moved by one letter when turning off Plain text font style was fixed, recurring all-day events are now correctly displayed, S/MIME and PGP security are no longer combined on email reply, and broken encoding when replying with selection was repaired.

Various memory leaks have been fixed in the Composer, a safety check has been added to the e-tree-table-adapter.c:resort_node() function, uninitialized variables are no longer used, several memory leaks have been repaired in WebKit DOM objects, and the BCC header from "Sender or Recipients" filter search condition has been removed.

Numerous other issues have been addressed in Evolution 3.16.1

Moreover, a "list" option has been added to the Mail Free Form expression, several regressions that occurred after "Fix various leaks of WebKit DOM objects" have been repaired, a couple of memory leaks have been addressed in the e-widget-undo.c and composer components, and an unneeded variable was removed from EMComposerUtils.

In addition to the above, various other issues have been addresses in the Evolution 3.16.1 maintenance release, including a bug in EHTMLEditorActions, thirteen bugs in EHTMLEditorView, twelve issues in EHTMLEditorSelection, and one bug in EMailSignatureEditor.

Evolution 3.16.1 is distributed as part of the recently announced GNOME 3.16.1 desktop environment, and you can quickly update your installation from the default software repositories of your distribution. You can also download the Evolution 3.16.1 sources right now from Softpedia.