SyncEvolution 1.1.99.7 released#
Mostly bug fixes again. Some are a bit more intrusive, thus another pre-release. Changes ======= * syncevolution.org binaries: now compatible with Debian Testing/libnotify.so.4 ([BMC #22668](https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22668)) libnotify is not linked directly into syncevo-dbus-server in the syncevolution.org binaries. Instead libnotify.so.1 till .so.4 (current Debian Testing) are opened opened dynamically and the necessary functions are looked up via dlsym(). Not finding the libraries or the functions silently disables this notification mechanism. * calendar sync: better handling for add<->add conflicts (partly fixes [BMC #22783](https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22783)) When both sides of a sync have added the same event, the sync must determine which one is more recent instead of blindly overwriting always the same side. Such conflicts are typically rare except for enterprise scenarios where meeting invitiations are processed automatically by a groupware (Exchange, Google Calendar/Mail, …) and then the attendee status is updated on one side. SyncEvolution now does the necessary age comparison and preserves the more recent data for most properties. In some properties the data from both sides is preserved by concatenating the text (description, location, …). It remains to be seen whether that is really desirable. Also, sync statistics are slightly off: the incoming item is counted as “added” even though it gets turned into an update. * item operations: authentication problem for WebDAV when using keyring ([BMC #21311](https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21311)) The password still wasn’t looked up in the keyring when using –import/export/delete-items. * “databasePassword” source property: lookup failure in keyring ([BMC #22937](https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22937)) The databasePassword also wasn’t looked up at all when doing item operations via the command line. When configuring sources for an HTTP server, the config name typically is just the context (@foo). When using the config in the HTTP server, the config name is the peer inside that context (client@foo). Because the GNOME keyring lookup keys for the “databasePassword” (more specifically, the object name) contained the full config name which was different in both cases, looking up the saved password failed. The solution is to normalize the config name (to accomodate for different ways of spelling it) and use only the context, with @ as before. This will break existing setups where the object name in the keyring (incorrectly) includes the full config name. In that case just configure the source again to set the password anew. * Evolution Calendar: fixed detached recurrence support ([BMC #22940](https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22940)) When manipulating a meeting series with more than one detached recurrence certain sequences of operations could incorrectly fail with “UID already exists”. * iCalendar 2.0: must set VALUE in EXDATE (part of [BMC #22940](https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22940)) EXDATE has a VALUE parameter, which wasn’t defined in the XML profile. Didn’t seem to matter at all in practice, but wasn’t standard-compliant. * GTK sync-ui: wrap sync service descriptions ([BMC #7199](https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7199)) Descriptions of different sync services are not fully visible unless word-wrapping gets enabled. * source configs: don’t check “backend” unless it is needed When using a config which has sources with a backend type set which is not currently available, an error was thrown even if those sources weren’t even part of the current operation (for example, syncing another source which is currently supported). * config migration: avoid name conflicts and auto syncing of old configs ([BMC #22691](https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22691)) When (auto-)migrating a config, it was possible that a name for the peer, say foo.old, was chosen for the renamed config although there was already such a config, for example foo.old in ~/.sync4j. Besides being confusing for users, this also led to a bug in the code where it copied from the older config with the foo.old name. The main problem fixed is the disabling of auto syncing in the old config. Otherwise it was still used by syncevo-dbus-server for syncing, which triggered another auto-migration, ad infinitum… * auto syncing: must check whether enabled when looking at unknown URLs (part of [BMC #22691](https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22691)) “syncURL = insert your URL here” with “autoSync = 0” did lead to auto sync attempts although it wasn’t enabled. A check for “auto syncing enabled” was missing for the “unknown transport” case. * CalDAV/CardDAV + local storage: avoid empty properties The main motivation for this change is that a recent Apple Calendar server rejects vCards with empty BDAY property. Another reason is that keeping the data as small as possible is desirable by itself. Sending an empty property serves as a hint for the peer that the property is supported. This is not necessary when storing an item in a backend. Therefore this commit disables empty properties for all backends which do not themselves set the m_backendRule Synthesis info value. * Apple CardDAV: apply PHOTO import/export scripts by default A recent Apple Calendar server (correctly) rejects the invalid PHOTO;TYPE=unknown: property in a vCard. This internal representation must be cleared before serializing the field list. * for developers: modified backend API - ClientTestConfig modernized - InsertItemResult::m_merged turned from boolean to enum * testing and compilation changes; for example, the minimum version of libsynthesis is now checked at configure time instead of failing at runtime due to missing features in the Synthesis engine Source, Installation, Further information =============================== Source snapshots are in http://downloads.syncevolution.org/syncevolution/sources i386 and amd64 binaries for Debian-based distributions are available via the “unstable” syncevolution.org repository. Add the following entry to your /apt/source.list, then install “syncevolution-evolution”:
deb http://downloads.syncevolution.org/apt unstable main Binaries for lpia will be made available again in the next release. These binaries include the “sync-ui” GTK GUI and were compiled for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy). Older distributions like Debian 4.0 (Etch) can no longer be supported with precompiled binaries because of missing libraries, but the source still compiles when not enabling the GUI (the default). The same binaries are also available as .tar.gz and .rpm archives in http://downloads.syncevolution.org/syncevolution/evolution. In contrast to 0.8.x archives, the 1.0 .tar.gz archives have to be unpacked and the content must be moved to /usr, because several files would not be found otherwise. After installation, follow the [getting started](/documentation/getting-started) steps.