14 DAY TRIAL // The GNOME Project is preparing these days to release the second and last scheduled point release for the latest GNOME 3.24 desktop environment, and some of the core components and apps are already receiving new versions.
That's right, we're talking about GNOME 3.24.2, which should be out in the coming days, around the date of May 10, 2017, bringing various small enhancements and bug fixes to some of the components distributed as part of the GNOME 3.24 Stack. The Evolution email and groupware client is, again, among the first to be updated.
Evolution 3.24.2 is out today, and the internal changelog, which we've attached at the end of the article, is pretty hefty. Changes include the ability to recognize pasted URLs as such without rendering the rest of the email text as a link after pressing Enter, and support for wrapping lines in a citation without breaking it.
The signature editor was updated to set the right format, no empty blocks will appear when deleting quoted content from a GMail account, '-Wl,--no-undefined' is no longer set on BSD systems, and the evolution-alarm-notify service is now automatically hidden in the Startup Applications utility used by Ubuntu.
It will be released as part of the GNOME 3.24.2 desktop
Among other improvements implemented in the Evolution 3.24.2 point release, we can mention that inline audio play is now disabled in the message preview window, it's again possible to insert and remove both rows and columns in tables, as well as to replace Unicode NBSP to ASCII space in text/plain before sending a message.
The Indonesian, Greek, and Russian language translations have been updated, and several crashes and annoyances were patched in this update. You can download the Evolution 3.24.2 source tarball right now from our website if you want to compile it yourself, or wait for it to be released as part of the GNOME 3.24.2 desktop.