Evolution (software)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
evolution

Evolution icon Tango 48px.svg
Evolution 3-18 de.png
Evolutions email client
Basic data

Maintainer Milan Crha,
Fabiano Fidêncio
developer The Gnome Project
Publishing year 2000
Current  version 3.36.0
( March 11, 2020 )
operating system GNU
programming language C.
category Personal Information Manager
License GNU LGPLv2 and a.
German speaking Yes
wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution

Evolution (formerly also Ximian Evolution or Novell Evolution ) is a personal information manager and part of the Gnome desktop. It is used to organize and manage e-mails, contacts, appointments, tasks and notes; its functionality is similar to Microsoft Outlook . Evolution is free software .

Functions

Evolution supports the POP , IMAP and SMTP protocols for retrieving and sending e-mails , and TLS and STARTTLS for secure data transmission . It offers the option of using the OpenPGP and S / MIME standards for encrypting and decrypting e-mails as well as generating and checking electronic signatures ; SpamAssassin and Bogofilter are available for automatic spam filtering . E-mail filters and search folders (which look like regular e-mail folders, behave like search queries, and how e-mail filters are created) make it easy to sort and organize your messages.

With the support of the NNTP protocol, Evolution can be used as a newsreader ; with the installation of the Evolution RSS plug-in , it has the functionality of a feed reader .

The contact management supports the LDAP and CardDAV protocols as well as Google Contacts , the calendar the iCalendar file format, the CalDAV protocol and Google Calendar for using address books, calendars, task lists and notebooks in local networks and on the Internet. The SyncEvolution program, made available by many GNU / Linux distributions, expands Evolution to include support for the SyncML standard and the ActiveSync protocol. Evolution address books can be used as a data source in LibreOffice .

There is an actively supported plug-in, Evolution EWS, for connecting to Microsoft Exchange servers .

history

Evolution was originally developed by the International GNOME Support company founded in 1999 by Miguel de Icaza (one of the two founders of the Gnome project) and Nat Friedman - which was renamed Helix Code a little later and finally to Ximian in January 2001 . The first publication took place in May 2000.

Evolution has been an official part of Gnome since version 2.0 was integrated into Gnome 2.8 in September 2004.

Interoperability with Microsoft Exchange

In December 2001 - together with the release of Evolution 1.0 - Ximian announced for economic reasons the release of the Ximian Connector , with which Evolution should achieve full interoperability with Microsoft Exchange 2000, as a proprietary plug-in ; it appeared in March 2002. After Ximian was taken over by Novell in August 2003, the source code of the Ximian Connector was published in May 2004 under the GNU General Public License . The plug-in, which Outlook Web Access used to connect to the server and which has also supported Microsoft Exchange 2003 since October 2003, was renamed Evolution Exchange in April 2005 and was actively developed until 2012.

At the beginning of 2007, as part of the OpenChange project, the development of an alternative plug-in was started which was supposed to use the Messaging Application Programming Interface - the central interface of the Microsoft Exchange Server - instead of Outlook Web Access . The plug-in called Evolution MAPI was integrated into Evolution with version 2.26 and enabled the connection to Microsoft Exchange 2007 servers. Evolution MAPI has been out of date since the beginning of 2014 at the latest ; its use is only recommended for use with versions older than Microsoft Exchange 2007.

In April 2011 the first development version of the third - and today most relevant - Evolution plug-in for connecting to Microsoft Exchange servers, Evolution EWS , was released. The plug-in integrated in Evolution from Version 3.4 uses the Exchange Web Services based on the SOAP network protocol and supports Microsoft Exchange 2007 and newer.

Support of other groupware servers

Evolution supported GroupWise natively as of version 2.0 - in May 2004 the source code was moved to its own plug-in, Evolution GroupWise . Due to a lack of resources, the plug-in has not been actively developed since Evolution 3.4. The Scalix Connect for Evolution plug-in for connection to Scalix servers, released in February 2006, has not been further developed since 2008. In 2010, the development of Evolution Kolab , a plug-in to support the Kolab groupware, began; the official release took place with Evolution 3.4. Also due to a lack of resources, it has not been actively developed since version 3.8 was released.

Ports to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X

In January 2005, Nat Friedman announced that Novell employee Tor Lillqvist , who had already ported the GIMP image editing program to Windows , had been hired to do the same with Evolution. The porting flowed into the regular source code . On the old website of the Evolution project, in addition to documentation of the creation process of Evolution for Microsoft Windows, installation packages (up to version 2.22) could be downloaded. From 2006 to 2010 the company DIP Consultants published Windows installation packages up to version 2.28 on SourceForge , in 2010 openSUSE made the last attempt to offer a Windows installation program. Windows porting has not been actively supported for years.

As early as September 2004, an Apple consultancy made a macOS installation program for Evolution 1.4 available for download on SourceForge , and in August 2008 Novell released the second and so far last Evolution port (version 2.6) to Mac OS X.

history

Evolution follows the versioning scheme of Gnome with a major, minor, and revision number. Stable versions have even minor version numbers, developer versions have odd numbers (the table below shows only stable versions). Every six months - in March and September - a new stable version is released; in between work on the development version, bug fixes are incorporated into the development branch of the stable version . On January 18, 2016 z. B. both the developer version 3.19.4 and the stable version 3.18.4 with bug fixes. After the release of Evolution 3.20 in March 2016, development was continued under version 3.21.x, and bug fixes were incorporated into the stable development branch 3.20.x.

version publication Remarks
Older version; no longer supported: 0.0 May 10, 2000 Publication of a first development version under the code name Prokaryote
Older version; no longer supported: 1.0 December 3, 2001 Official first publication by the Ximian company
Older version; no longer supported: 1.2 November 11, 2002
Older version; no longer supported: 1.4 June 2, 2003
Older version; no longer supported: 2.0 September 20, 2004 First release after the integration into Gnome (together with Gnome 2.8); Starting with this version, Evolution follows Gnome's six-month development cycle; Support of the NNTP protocol (and thus of Usenet newsgroups) as well as the groupware software GroupWise
Older version; no longer supported: 2.2 March 23, 2005
Older version; no longer supported: 2.4 September 5, 2005 OpenPGP support for encrypting and decrypting e-mails and for generating and checking electronic signatures
Older version; no longer supported: 2.6 March 15, 2006 Support of the network protocol CalDAV
Older version; no longer supported: 2.8 September 6, 2006
Older version; no longer supported: 2.10 March 12, 2007
Older version; no longer supported: 2.12 September 17, 2007
Older version; no longer supported: 2.22 March 12, 2008 Version jump due to the synchronization of the version numbering with that of Gnome; Google Calendar support
Older version; no longer supported: 2.24 September 22, 2008
Older version; no longer supported: 2.26 March 18, 2009 Support of MAPI , the central interface of the Microsoft Exchange Server ; Import of PST files
Older version; no longer supported: 2.28 September 21, 2009
Older version; no longer supported: 2.30 March 31, 2010 Complete removal of bonobos in favor of D-Bus
Older version; no longer supported: 2.32 September 29, 2010
Older version; no longer supported: 3.0 April 4, 2011
Older version; no longer supported: 3.2 September 26, 2011
Older version; no longer supported: 3.4 March 26, 2012 Support of the Kolab Groupware; Use of WebKit instead of the previous GtkHTML for rendering HTML mails
Older version; no longer supported: 3.6 September 24, 2012
Older version; no longer supported: 3.8 March 27, 2013
Older version; no longer supported: 3.10 23rd September 2013
Older version; no longer supported: 3.12 March 24, 2014
Older version; no longer supported: 3.14 September 24, 2014
Older version; no longer supported: 3.16 March 23, 2015
Older version; no longer supported: 3.18 September 21, 2015
Older version; no longer supported: 3.20 March 21, 2016
Older version; no longer supported: 3.22 19th September 2016
Older version; no longer supported: 3.24 20th March 2017
Older version; no longer supported: 3.26 13th September 2017
Older version; no longer supported: 3.28 March 14, 2018
Older version; no longer supported: 3.30 5th September 2018
Older version; no longer supported: 3.32 March 13, 2019
Older version; no longer supported: 3.34 September 12, 2019
Current version: 3.36 March 11, 2020
Legend:
Old version
Older version; still supported
Current version
Current preliminary version
Future version

See also

Portal: Free Software  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the subject of Free Software

Web links

Commons : Evolution (software)  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ evolution / evolution.doap. In: Gnome Git Repository. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Miguel de Icaza: Evolution “Prokaryote” 0.0 has been released. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. May 10, 2000, accessed March 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ gitlab.gnome.org . (accessed on April 8, 2020).
  4. ↑ evolution.doap . In: Gnome Git Repository . (accessed April 29, 2017).
  5. ↑ www.openhub.net . In: Gnome Git Repository . (accessed April 29, 2017).
  6. ↑ evolution / COPYING. In: Gnome Git Repository. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
  7. Jump up ↑ Evolution email and calendar. In: website of the Gnome project. Retrieved March 12, 2016 .
  8. ↑ About Us. In: website of the Gnome project. Archived from the original on December 16, 2011 ; accessed on March 8, 2016 (English).
  9. ↑ Nat Friedman: Helix Code is now "Ximian, Inc". In: Linux Today. January 10, 2001, accessed March 8, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Miguel de Icaza: Helix Code. The GNOME company. In: Ximian, Inc. Web site. Archived from the original on August 5, 2001 ; accessed on March 8, 2016 (English).
  11. ↑ Helix Code Rocks. In: Helix Code, Inc. website. Archived from the original on April 7, 2000 ; accessed on March 8, 2016 (English): "Helix Code is providing Helix GNOME as a service to the GNOME community, which can count on always having updated, stable packages for its users and developers. [...] To go with that, Helix Code is building a full suite of productivity applications, starting with Evolution and Gnumeric. "
  12. ↑ GNOME 2.8 released! Gnome Foundation, September 15, 2004, accessed March 6, 2016 .
  13. ↑ GNOME 2.8 Release Notes. Gnome Project, September 2004, accessed March 6, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Joe Barr: Ximian Evolution 1.0 links Linux to Exchange. Parts not open source. In: The Register. December 3, 2001, accessed March 8, 2016 .
  15. ↑ a b Ximian Releases Ximian Evolution Version 1.0, the Definitive Personal and Workgroup Information Management Application for Linux and UNIX. Seamlessly Integrated Email, Calendar, Contact, Task Management and Extensive Standards Support Enable the Corporate Open Source Desktop. In: Ximian, Inc. website December 3, 2001, archived from the original on June 7, 2002 ; accessed on March 7, 2016 (English).
  16. ↑ Ximian Announces Availability of Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange 2000 to Enable Interoperability for Ximian Evolution Users. Customers Embrace Complete, Low-Cost Integration of Linux and UNIX Users into Corporate Microsoft Exchange 2000 Environments. In: Ximian, Inc. website March 25, 2002, archived from the original on August 6, 2002 ; accessed on March 8, 2016 (English).
  17. ^ Novell Acquires Ximian to Expand Linux Solutions and Open Source Commitment. In: Ximian, Inc. website August 4, 2003, archived from the original on August 5, 2003 ; accessed on March 9, 2016 (English).
  18. ↑ a b c Novell Announces Evolution 2.0 and Release of Connector for Microsoft Exchange Server Under Open Source Lice. In: Novell, Inc. Web site May 11, 2004, accessed March 8, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Frequently Asked Questions About the Ximian Connector. In: Ximian, Inc. website. Archived from the original on April 3, 2002 ; accessed on March 11, 2016 (English).
  20. ↑ Novell Connects Linux Desktop Users to Microsoft Exchange 2003. In: Novell, Inc. website October 21, 2003, accessed March 10, 2016 (English).
  21. ↑ evolution-exchange / NEWS. In: Gnome Git Repository. Retrieved March 15, 2016 (Changelog from Evolution Exchange).
  22. ↑ What is OpenChange? In: Website of the OpenChange project. Archived from the original on May 21, 2007 ; accessed on March 11, 2016 (English).
  23. ↑ evolution. In: website of the Gnome project. Archived from the original on February 9, 2014 ; accessed on March 11, 2016 (English): "evolution-mapi-3.10.2.tar.xz (deprecated)"
  24. ↑ Choose the right connection. In: Evolution user documentation. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
  25. ^ David Woodhouse: Evolution-EWS (Exchange Web Services) Alpha release. In: evolution-list mailing list. April 19, 2011, accessed March 11, 2016 .
  26. ^ Matthew Barnes: Coming Soon in Evolution 3.4. In: Matthew Barnes' weblog. October 9, 2011, accessed March 11, 2016 .
  27. ↑ Vibha Yadav: New Evolution Groupwise repository. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. May 6, 2011, accessed March 12, 2016 .
  28. ^ Matthew Barnes: What's New in Evolution 3.6. In: evolution-list mailing list. September 19, 2012, accessed March 12, 2016 .
  29. ^ Carsten Guenther: Announce: Scalix Connect for Evolution. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. February 14, 2006, accessed March 12, 2016 .
  30. ↑ evolution-scalix / ChangeLog. In: Gnome Git Repository. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
  31. ↑ evolution-kolab. initial commit - new (empty) evolution-kolab project. In: SourceForge. June 10, 2010, accessed March 12, 2016 .
  32. ↑ a b GNOME Release Notes 3.4. In: website of the Gnome project. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
  33. ^ Christian Hilberg: Kolab 3.1. In: evolution-kolab-devel-list mailing list. October 22, 2013, accessed March 12, 2016 .
  34. ↑ evolution-kolab / NEWS. In: Gnome Git Repository. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
  35. ^ Nat Friedman: Evolution for Windows. January 17, 2005, archived from the original on April 15, 2013 ; accessed on March 6, 2016 .
  36. ↑ Tor Lillqvist: Nothing much here. In: SourceForge. Retrieved March 9, 2016 .
  37. ^ Building Evolution on Windows. In: Evolution project website. Archived from the original on July 3, 2013 ; accessed on March 10, 2016 (English).
  38. ↑ Questions. In: DIP Consultants website. Archived from the original on June 17, 2008 ; accessed on March 9, 2016 (English).
  39. ↑ Shellter. In: SourceForge. Retrieved March 9, 2016 .
  40. ↑ Fridrich Strba: Experimental Evolution installer for Windows. In: Fridrich Strba's blog. May 25, 2010, accessed March 10, 2016 .
  41. ↑ Milan Crha: Evolution doesn't start: libglade * / libgdk * / libg * .dll missing. In: Gnome Bugzilla. June 11, 2015, accessed on March 10, 2016 (English): “There is a win32 / subfolder of the evolution sources with a Readme and Makefile, which build evolution together with dependencies, but it all needs more love, testing, and so on, not talking about "packaging" into an installer. "
  42. ↑ Ximian Evolution (X11) for Mac OS X. In: SourceForge. Advanced Systems Technologies, Inc., September 6, 2004, accessed March 11, 2016 .
  43. ↑ Evolution 2.6 for Mac OS X. In: Novell, Inc. Web site August 12, 2006, archived from the original on October 30, 2006 ; accessed on March 10, 2016 (English).
  44. ^ Source. In: website of the Gnome project. Retrieved March 14, 2016 .
  45. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l evolution / NEWS. In: Gnome Git Repository. Accessed March 23, 2017 .
  46. ↑ evolution / NEWS. In: Gnome Git Repository. Retrieved March 15, 2016 (change log of the Evolution 3.18 development branch).
  47. ↑ Ximian Releases Ximian Evolution Version 1.2 to Provide Enhanced Usability and Email Management. In: Ximian, Inc. website November 11, 2002, archived from the original on November 14, 2002 ; accessed on March 7, 2016 (English).
  48. ↑ Ximian Announces New 1.4 Versions of Ximian Evolution and Connector for Microsoft Exchange to Enhance Productivity and Interoperability of Linux Systems. New Versions of Groupware Suite and Software Extension Simplify Linux, UNIX Desktop Integration in Multi-Platform Corporate Environments. In: Ximian, Inc. website June 2, 2003, archived from the original on August 11, 2003 ; accessed on March 7, 2016 (English).
  49. ↑ JP Rosevear: Evolution 2.0.0. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. September 20, 2004, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  50. ↑ JP Rosevear: Evolution 2.2.0. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. March 23, 2005, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  51. ↑ Harish Krishnaswamy: ANNOUNCE: Evolution 2.4.0 and Evolution-Data-Server 1.4.0 Release. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. September 5, 2005, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  52. ↑ Harish Krishnaswamy: Announce: Evolution 2.6.0, EDS 1.6.0, Evolution-exchange 2.6.0 and Gtkhtml 3.10.0 releases. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. March 15, 2006, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  53. ↑ Harish Krishnaswamy: ANNOUNCE: Evolution 2.8.0, Evolution-Data-Server 1.8.0, GtkHTML 3.12.0 and Evolution Exchange 2.8.0. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. September 6, 2006, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  54. ↑ Harish Krishnaswamy: ANNOUNCE: Evolution 2.10.0, Evolution-Data-Server 1.10.0, GtkHTML 3.14.0 and Evolution Exchange 2.10.0. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. March 12, 2007, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  55. ↑ Srinivasa Ragavan: Evolution 2.12.0, Evolution-Data-Server 1.12.0, GtkHTML 3.16.0, Evolution Exchange 2.12.0 and Evolution-sharp-0.14.0 released. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. September 17, 2007, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  56. ↑ Srinivasa Ragavan: Evolution 2.22 released. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. March 12, 2008, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  57. ↑ Srinivasa Ragavan: Evolution 2.24 released. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. September 22, 2008, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  58. ↑ Srinivasa Ragavan: Evolution 2.26 released. In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. March 18, 2009, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  59. ↑ Chenthill: evolution 2.28.0 released !! In: Evolution-hackers mailing list. September 21, 2009, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  60. ↑ Vincent Untz: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.30! In: gnome-announce-list mailing list. March 31, 2010, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  61. ↑ Release Notes for GNOME 2.30. In: website of the Gnome project. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
  62. ↑ Vincent Untz: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.32! In: gnome-announce-list mailing list. September 29, 2010, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  63. ↑ Matthias Clasen: GNOME 3.8 released. In: gnome-announce-list mailing list. March 27, 2013, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  64. ↑ Matthias Clasen: GNOME 3.14 released. In: gnome-announce-list mailing list. September 24, 2014, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  65. ↑ GNOME 3.25.x Development Series. In: Wiki of the Gnome Project. Accessed March 23, 2017 .
  66. ↑ https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/03/gnome-3-28-released/
  67. ↑ https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/09/gnome-3-30-released/
  68. ↑ https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/03/gnome-3-32-released/
  69. ↑ https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/09/gnome-3-34-released/
  70. ↑ https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/03/gnome-3-36-released/