SyncEvolution 1.1.99.6
======================

Mostly bug fixes again. Some are a bit more intrusive, thus another
pre-release.

* syncevolution.org binaries: now compatible with Debian Testing/libnotify.so.4 
(BMC #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)

  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)

  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)

  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)

  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)

  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)

  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)

  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)

  "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
=========================================

http://syncevolution.org/blogs/pohly/2011/syncevolution-11997-released

Source snapshots are in
  http://downloads.syncevolution.org/syncevolution/sources

i386, lpia 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

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.x .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
http://syncevolution.org/documentation/getting-started steps.

-- 
Patrick Ohly, on behalf of everyone who has helped
to make SyncEvolution possible:
http://syncevolution.org/about/contributors



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