Download Evolution 1.5 unstable

The developers of GNOME’s built-in email client Evolution have released a first version in the 1.5 series of their software according to their schedule. The release has been given an unstable status and is intended to help as many bugs as possible that have reared their ugly heads in the development process with a one-way ticket /dev/null. In the announcement we read the following about the new version:

Upgrade Notes:
Evolution 1.5 can be installed at the same time as 1.4.x. However note that there are still some bugs migrating data from 1.4.x to 1.5 and that 1.5 stores its information in ~/.evolution rather than ~/evolution/ so that if you add new info in 1.5 in will not show up in 1.4. X.

What Has Changed:
Evolution 1.5 has fixed some major architectural issues and sees the splitting out of the addressbook, calendar and task data access into a separate library for other projects to use. Shell components are now much more simplified.

We have also untangled the GUI quite a bit making the components (mail, tasks, etc) more individual and improving the usage experience for the user. [break]The sources of the new release are heresubdivided into a number of packages.