A new version of the Geary email client is now available for download

Aug 21, 2014 11:28 GMT  ·  By

Geary, a lightweight email program designed around conversations and built for the GNOME desktop by the Yorba software group, is now at version 0.7.1.

The software is developed by Yorba, the same team responsible for Shotwell, a photo manager that is the default application in major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Fedora. Geary is now part of the GNOME project and it’s slowly becoming a very powerful email client, which is a category of software that is sorely missing some good competition.

According to the changelog, the attachments that are lacking Content-Disposition are now displayed, the Inbox is now cleared at startup (Dovecot, Zimbra, more), a major memory leak has been fixed, the IMAP disconnect/reconnect logic has been improved, the search results have been stabilized to prevent lost or dropped results, the inline composer has been polished, a number of other smaller fixes have been implemented, and several translations have been updated.

You can download a source package for Geary 0.7.1, but the developers provide for Ubuntu users a stable build via a PPA for all the supported versions of the operating system from Canonical.

Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.