14 DAY TRIAL // The Evolution open-source groupware client, which provides email and calendar capabilities to various GNOME-based GNU/Linux distributions, has recently been updated as part of the forthcoming GNOME 3.17.4 desktop environment.
According to the attached changelog, Evolution 3.17.4 is a pretty big release, but nothing out of the ordinary for this type of software. It would appear that over 50 bugs have been squashed in this snapshot towards Evolution 3.18, which will be distributed as part of GNOME 3.18, due for release on September 23, 2015.
Among some of the most exciting changes introduced by Evolution 3.17.4, we can mention that the libgdata library is no longer required, the inline GPG decryption no longer hides the decrypted text, Certificate support has been added to the Contact editor, and Anniversary and Birthday columns have been added to the Contacts view of the app.
Furthermore, it is now possible to use tab navigation throughout the entire Composer General Preferences dialog, the OK button has been disabled by default in the Copy to Calendar dialog, the ability to allow users to select a calendar even when a meeting is found has been added, and a crash has been patched in the e_addressbook_view_delete_selection() function.
EHTMLEditor has received a lot of attention
The EHTMLEditor component of Evolution has received a lot of attention in this unstable update, especially for the EHTMLEditorSelection and EHTMLEditorView modules. All these changes and numerous others are mentioned in the changelog attached at the end of the article.
Last but not least, the Spanish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Slovak, and Swedish language translations have been updated. You can download the Evolution 3.17.4 sources right now from Softpedia, but please try to keep in mind that it's a pre-release version that contains some rough edges. Thus, we don't recommend installing it on production environments.