Evolution 3.17.3 is now available for testing

Jun 24, 2015 03:38 GMT  ·  By

The GNOME developers are hard at work these days preparing the release of the third milestone towards the upcoming GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, which will see the light of day on September 23, 2015.

GNOME 3.17.3 will be released by the end of the week, so many of its core components have already been updated, including the well-known Evolution email and groupware client. Therefore, we can report that Evolution 3.17.3 is now available for download and testing, a release that fixes approximately 50 bugs that have been reported by users since the previous version of the software.

According to the internal release notes, which have been attached at the end of the article for reference, Evolution 3.17.3 addresses issues in the EHTMLEditorSelection, EHTMLEditorView, and EShell components, and adds improvements to the UI layout. Also, the Spanish, Greek, Italian, Czech, Turkish, and Occitan languages have been updated.

Moreover, the third milestone of Evolution 3.18 now parses email attachments on demand, updates the event numbers immediately after an event has been deleted, the text in the composer is now aware of the desktop scaling factor, and it now respects the GNOME notification settings when running under the GNOME Shell interface.

Evolution 3.17.3 fixes a few memory leaks

In addition to the changes mentioned above, Evolution 3.17.3 also pluggs a few memory leaks, adds the ability to set various work time settings for different days, implements several workarounds for multiple crashes in some components, and it now automatically saves the text in a new composer window.

Evolution 3.17.3 will be available for testing as part of the upcoming GNOME 3.17.3 desktop environment, but you can also download the sources right now from Softpedia. However, please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release software and it's not suitable for production environments.

Evolution 3.17.3 Changelog