SyncEvolution 0.6 -> 0.7, 17.12.2007 ------------------------------------ C++ client library: r_6_5_3_1 Updating user configuration: no relevant changes in this release. For those who haven't done so already, enabling large object support is recommended (see syncml/config.txt sample configs). * added port for iPhone and Mac OS X Address Book * fixed Nokia packaging problem which prevented installation via the package manager unless it was in "red pill" mode (SF #1781652) * sync with eGroupware - lost or messed up telephones: SyncEvolution incorrectly added TYPE=OTHER to phone numbers sent with e.g. CELL instead of TYPE=CELL (SF #1796086). Another patch was required for eGroupware itself to correctly map phone numbers as sent by SyncEvolution, see Compatibility web page. * added .deb packages * adapted calendar event insert/update to Evolution 2.12: the UID needs to be restored, otherwise the Evolution backend crashes (GNOME issue #488881) * new feature: if the previous log directory is still available, then local changes made since last sync can be queried before starting a sync (new option --status) and will be printed directly before a sync. Setting the "logdir" option will automatically keep the most recent logs and database dumps around. * added command line options: --sync|-s Temporarily synchronize the active sources in that mode. Useful for a 'refresh-from-server' or 'refresh-from-client' sync which clears all data at one end and copies all items from the other. --status|-t The changes made to local data since the last synchronization are shown without starting a new one. This can be used to see in advance whether the local data needs to be synchronized with the server. --quiet|-q Suppresses most of the normal output during a synchronization. The log file still contains all the information. --help|-h Prints usage information. --version Prints the SyncEvolution version. * default configurations now reference the normal Evolution databases ("Personal") thus requiring less changes to use. The account information is now clearly marked as placeholder which needs to be entered. * bugfix: vCard 3.0 with mixed case were not converted properly to vCard 2.1 by SyncEvolution (must convert to upper case because vCard 2.1 only allows that), leading to problems with mapping phone numbers in the Funambol server. Diagnosed and reported by Paul McDermott, thanks a lot! * support receiving plain text notes with \n and \r\n line breaks; always send with \r\n * added explicit error message when syncevolution is invoked with incorrect names in the list of sources to synchronize: previously it silently ignored unknown names * improved output: less verbose ("extracting" items is now logged at debug level and thus not normally shown) and more informative printing of changes (table summarizes number of changes on client and server, heading for comparison changed to make it clear that it shows changes on the client) * SyncCap is not generated unless syncModes are configured: added a comment to example config (SF #1764123) * improved error handling: catch errors during post-processing and continue SyncEvolution 0.7-pre2 -> 0.7, 17.12.2007 ----------------------------------------- C++ client library: r_6_5_3_1 * bugfix: vCard 3.0 with mixed case were not converted properly to vCard 2.1 by SyncEvolution (must convert to upper case because vCard 2.1 only allows that), leading to problems with mapping phone numbers in the Funambol server. Diagnosed and reported by Paul McDermott, thanks a lot! * support receiving plain text notes with \n and \r\n line breaks; always send with \r\n * added explicit error message when syncevolution is invoked with incorrect names in the list of sources to synchronize: previously it silently ignored unknown names * added stack dumping in case of premature abort; removed workaround for lost connection to Evolution Dataserver again because the workaround itself caused random segfaults inside glib SyncEvolution 0.7-pre1 -> 0.7-pre2, 08.11.2007 ---------------------------------------------- C++ client library: branch b_v65 Updating user configuration: no relevant changes in this release. For those who haven't done so already, enabling large object support is recommended (see syncml/config.txt sample configs). It is required for myFUNAMBOL to synchronize very large address books and some users have reported segfaults unless this option was enabled. * iPhone bug fix: syncing contacts with photos was unreliable (export) and crashed (import) because the API had not been called correctly * iPhone + ScheduleWorld: when configured to use vcard3 (recommended!) then contacts are exchanged as vCard 3.0 * iPhone + ScheduleWorld bugfix: importing vCard 3.0 did not correctly classify the phone numbers. A sync with the new "--sync refresh-from-server" option will fix this, assuming that the server has the correct data. * Evolution: detect a crashed backend and abort SyncEvolution instead of hanging forever. * adapted calendar event insert/update to Evolution 2.12: the UID needs to be restored, otherwise the Evolution backend crashes (GNOME issue #488881) * new feature: if the previous log directory is still available, then local changes made since last sync can be queried before starting a sync (new option --status) and will be printed directly before a sync. Setting the "logdir" option will automatically keep the most recent logs and database dumps around. * added command line options: --sync|-s Temporarily synchronize the active sources in that mode. Useful for a 'refresh-from-server' or 'refresh-from-client' sync which clears all data at one end and copies all items from the other. --status|-t The changes made to local data since the last synchronization are shown without starting a new one. This can be used to see in advance whether the local data needs to be synchronized with the server. --quiet|-q Suppresses most of the normal output during a synchronization. The log file still contains all the information. --help|-h Prints usage information. --version Prints the SyncEvolution version. * default configurations now reference the normal Evolution databases ("Personal") thus requiring less changes to use. The account information is now clearly marked as placeholder which needs to be entered. SyncEvolution 0.6 -> 0.7-pre1, 17.10.2007 ----------------------------------------- * C++ client library: tag "sdkcpp_6_0_9_1" (same as before) * added support for Mac OS X/iPhone address book * fixed Nokia packaging problem which prevented installation via the package manager unless it was in "red pill" mode * improved output: less verbose ("extracting" items is now logged at debug level and thus not normally shown) and more informative printing of changes (table summarizes number of changes on client and server, heading for comparison changed to make it clear that it shows changes on the client) * example configs were in share/share directory (SF #1767329) * Nokia 770/800: uninstallable package fixed by setting category (SF #1781652) * sync with eGroupware - lost or messed up telephones: SyncEvolution incorrectly added TYPE=OTHER to phone numbers sent with e.g. CELL instead of TYPE=CELL (SF #1796086). Another patch was required for eGroupware itself to correctly map phone numbers as sent by SyncEvolution, see Compatibility web page. * SyncCap is not generated unless syncModes are configured: added a comment to example config (SF #1764123) * improved error handling: catch errors during post-processing and continue SyncEvolution 0.5 -> 0.6, 13.07.2007 ------------------------------------ * C++ client library: tag "sdkcpp_6_0_9_1" * added support for synchronizing Evolution notes (aka memos) as plain text where the first line serves as summary; this is the format understood by ScheduleWorld * added support for synchronizing Evolution notes (aka memos) as iCal 2.0 journal; not currently supported by any server and untested * revamped example configs and documentation: only one set of config files for each server is provided, because this is more likely to be needed by users * example configs are now installed in share/doc/syncevolution, enabled message limit and large object support in them * added support for Nokia 770/800 (aka Maemo): built with loadable modules so that it works with whatever backends are installed, improved log handling to accomodate for limited space on filesystem (see below), some workarounds * added workaround for Nokia 770: contacts are not really deleted unless the EDS-Sync with instant messaging servers is activated; now SyncEvolution will delete contacts marked as deleted by the GUI before a sync if it finds any. WARNING: if you use EDS-Sync and SyncEvolution, then give EDS-Sync enough time after going online to finish its own synchronization of modified/deleted contacts before starting SyncEvolution. * improved log handling: writing log and database dumps can be disabled with "logdir=none", verbosity of log is controlled by "loglevel", better handling of errors during initial database access * added workaround for Evolution bug #455274: the separator for multiple categories in events and tasks is not generated and interpreted according to iCalendar 2.0 by Evolution; as a consequence of that items sent to the server had all categories merged into one and items imported into Evolution only used one of the catories http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455274 * fixed off-by-one counting of months in backup directory names * fixed error handling: a failed source was not forced into a slow sync as required; one failed source prevented saving configs of not-failed ones and thus forced those into an unnecessary slow sync * uses the Funambol C++ testing framework (which is based on the previous SyncEvolution testing); now creates its configs and (when using CLIENT_TEST_EVOLUTION_PREFIX=file://) also the Evolution databases automatically * implemented synccompare as pure Perl script using Algorithm::Diff instead of external diff tool * synccompare did not figure out width of shell window as it should have * better error handling if creating the before/after database dumps fails (SF #1685637) * workaround for Funambol 3.0 trailing = parser bug UPGRADING Old config files from 0.5 or older continue to work, but it is recommended to set the following options to enable message size limits: maxMsgSize = 8192 maxObjSize = 500000 loSupport = 1 SyncEvolution 0.6pre2 -> 0.6, 13.07.2007 ---------------------------------------- * improved README/HACKING documents * fixed the new example configs: use event/task for Funambol 6.0, name was wrong * added workaround for Evolution bug #455274: the separator for multiple categories in events and tasks is not generated and interpreted according to iCalendar 2.0 by Evolution; as a consequence of that items sent to the server had all categories merged into one and items imported into Evolution only used one of the catories http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455274 * added workaround for Nokia 770: contacts are not really deleted unless the EDS-Sync with instant messaging servers is activated; now SyncEvolution will delete contacts marked as deleted by the GUI before a sync if it finds any. WARNING: if you use EDS-Sync and SyncEvolution, then give EDS-Sync enough time after going online to finish its own synchronization of modified/deleted contacts before starting SyncEvolution. SyncEvolution 0.6pre1 -> 0.6pre2, 23.04.2006 -------------------------------------------- * C++ client library: tag "sdkcpp_6_0_7" + revision 1.7 of build/autotools/test/Makefile.am * added support for synchronizing Evolution notes (aka memos) as plain text where the first line serves as summary; this is the format understood by ScheduleWorld, not the iCal 2.0 format added in 0.6pre1 * improved log handling: writing log and database dumps can be disabled with "logdir=none", verbosity of log is controled by "loglevel", better handling of errors during initial database access * fixed off-by-one counting of months in backup directory names * fixed error handling: a failed source was not forced into a slow sync as required; one failed source prevented saving configs of not-failed ones and thus forced those into an unnecessary slow sync * revamped example configs: only one set of config files for each server is provided, because this is more likely to be needed by users * uses the Funambol C++ testing framework (which is based on the previous SyncEvolution testing); now creates its configs and (when using CLIENT_TEST_EVOLUTION_PREFIX=file://) also the Evolution databases automatically SyncEvolution 0.5 -> 0.6pre1, 26.03.2006 ---------------------------------------- * C++ client library: CVS snapshot from 26.03.2006 * added support for synchronizing Evolution notes (aka memos) as iCal 2.0 journal * added --enable-static-cxa = linking C++ runtime statically: binaries produced for 0.6 will have less external dependencies than the 0.5 binaries * added hacks for Maemo/Nokia 770, including a build mode with dynamically loadable modules (--enable-shared, --enable-maemo, --with-patched-dbus) * implemented synccompare as pure Perl script using Algorithm::Diff instead of external diff tool * synccompare did not figure out width of shell window as it should have * better error handling if creating the before/after database dumps fails (SF #1685637) * example configs are now installed in share/doc/syncevolution, enabled message limit and large object support in them * workaround for Funambol 3.0 trailing = parser bug UPGRADING Old config files continue to work, but it is recommended to set the following options to enable message size limits: maxMsgSize = 8192 maxObjSize = 500000 loSupport = 1 SyncEvolution 0.4 -> 0.5, 12.11.2006 ------------------------------------ * C++ client library revision "syncevolution-0-5": - added support for sending changes in smaller chunks ("Large Object Support"): disabled by default, see updated example configuration - time is printed with GMT offset so that a server admin in a different timezone can always figure out how a client log relates to events on the server - special item keys as they might be stored in some calendars after importing non-Evolution events are now properly supported * bug fix: in 0.4 it was necessary to manually configure the verDTD or the Funambol 3.0a server would choke on the invalid SyncML during the second synchronization with SyncEvolution; now this option is set automatically * added support and testing of transmitting just the changes from client to server or vice versa; see "one-way-from-server/client" in example configuration * fixed/updated comments in the example configuration * improved automated testing and fixed the problem that CPPUnit was not found unless it was part of the system * Now works on Maemo/Nokia 770: minor changes were necessary so that the system address book can now be selected under the name "<>. Copying 300 contacts into the Nokia 770 went fine, but any further attempt to synchronize suffered from timeouts inside the embedded Evolution Data Server. SyncEvolution 0.3 -> 0.4, 11.09.2006 ------------------------------------ * C++ client library revision "syncevolution-0-4": - added support for device information, required by some servers - fixed incompatibilities with non-Funambol servers - the user agent string can now be modified in the spds/syncml/config.txt, but it is recommended to not set it explicitly. Then SyncEvolution will automatically insert its current version. - #305795: for tasks the "text/x-todo" type from the configuration was sent to servers instead of the correct "text/calendar" provided by SyncEvolution itself - sync modes "refresh-client/server" can now be specified as "refresh-from-client/server" in the config * updated default syncml/config.txt: - firstTimeSyncMode has never been implemented in the library, removed its documentation, - added documentation for userAgent - use "refresh-from-client/server" * SF issue 1511951: support copying changes back from EGroupware server by not expecting the UID of calendar items to be unmodified * fixed a bug where after a refresh-from-client sync changes would be sent to the server again during a two-way sync although the server already had them * implemented authentication for Evolution databases * synccompare was removing too many parts of vCards with single-value ORG properties * improved error reporting when selected server is not configured * changed vCard parser to make it compatible with servers which send a verbatim semicolon as part of properties where the semicolon has no special meaning * If minor errors occur like not being able to insert an item at the client or server side, then it is reported in the log and output, but the next synchronization will be a normal synchronization, not a forced slow one as in previous versions. The old approach ensured that the problem was noticed and fixed, but required user assistance. With the new approach synchronization continues to work, although without fixing the root cause of the problem. * Workaround for bug in Evolution 2.0.6 (and perhaps other versions): for calendars and task lists not all deleted items were reported at once thus a single synchronization would only tell the server about a subset of the changes. Repeating the synchronization would eventually be told of all changes, so now this repetition is built into the code which queries for changes and a single synchronization is sufficient as it should be. SyncEvolution 0.4 pre2 -> 0.4, 11.09.2006 ----------------------------------------- * adapted to C++ client library from CVS head, tagged as syncevolution-0-4: devinfo.patch patch was merged with several changes to the API * SF issue 1511951: support copying changes back from EGroupware server by not expecting the UID of calendar items to be unmodified SyncEvolution 0.4 pre1 -> pre2, 21.08.2006 ------------------------------------------ * C++ client library revision "syncevolution-0-4-pre2": most patches were merged into CVS head, but .patches/devinfo.patch still needs to be applied manually when checking out from the Funambol CVS instead of using the bundled version * fixed a bug where after a refresh-from-client sync changes would be sent to the server again during a two-way sync although the server already had them * implemented authentication for Evolution databases * synccompare was removing too many parts of vCards with single-value ORG properties * improved error reporting when selected server is not configured * use 7-bit quoted-printable encoding with explicit UTF-8 charset for vCard 2.1 to avoid any potential confusion about the content; not really necessary because SyncML specifies 8-bit UTF-8 as the default * fix for 0.4 pre 1: sending CHARSET is not allowed (and not needed) for vCard 3.0, so it was removed again (did not harm either) * fix for 0.4 pre 1: sending vCard 2.1 to Synthesis server did not work because the new device info always mentioned 3.0 as the preferred format - now the preferred format matches the one that was configured and that thus will be used. SyncEvolution 0.3 -> 0.4 pre 1, 2006-08-06 ------------------------------------------ * C++ client library revision "funambol30ga" plus the patches stored in its ".patches" directory: - the user agent string can now be modified in the spds/syncml/config.txt, but it is recommended to not set it explicitly. Then SyncEvolution will automatically insert its current version. - now compatible with additional servers (fixed some SyncML protocol issues, added support for sending device information) - revised API of the client library - #305795: for tasks the "text/x-todo" type from the configuration was sent to servers instead of the correct "text/calendar" provided by SyncEvolution itself - sync modes "refresh-client/server" can now be specified as "refresh-from-client/server" in the config * updated default syncml/config.txt: - firstTimeSyncMode has never been implemented in the library, removed its documentation, - added documentation for userAgent - use "refresh-from-client/server" * changed vCard parser to make it compatible with servers which send a verbatim semicolon as part of properties where the semicolon has no special meaning * If minor errors occur like not being able to insert an item at the client or server side, then it is reported in the log and output, but the next synchronization will be a normal synchronization, not a forced slow one as in previous versions. The old approach ensured that the problem was noticed and fixed, but required user assistance. With the new approach synchronization continues to work, although without fixing the root cause of the problem. * Workaround for bug in Evolution 2.0.6 (and perhaps other versions): for calendars and task lists not all deleted items were reported at once thus a single synchronization would only tell the server about a subset of the changes. Repeating the synchronization would eventually be told of all changes, so now this repetition is built into the code which queries for changes and a single synchronization is sufficient as it should be. * Made it compile on Maemo 2.0, the Nokia 770 build environment, by adding "--disable-ecal". Not tested yet, though. SyncEvolution 0.3, 2006-06-27 ----------------------------- * added syncing of calendars and tasks as iCalendar 2.0 * added syncing of contacts as vCard 3.0 * tested extensively with sync.scheduleworld.com and added an example configuration for it * uses C++ client library revision "wmplugin_3_0_20" which contains several bug fixes, among them proper support for special characters and memory handling fixes * much nicer listing of changes made during a sync, handled by the improved "synccompare" utility script (formerly known as "normalize_vcard") * improved automated testing SyncEvolution 0.2, 2006-03-19 ----------------------------- * added automatic backup mechanism and log storage, see "Automatic Backups and Logging". * output no longer is the original log data, but rather a human-readable report of errors and synchronization results. * "normalize_vcard" can now also compare two .vcf files directly. * improved unit tests to catch more errors * hide certain differences in vcards coming back from the server: duplication of extended vcard properties, missing TYPE=OTHER * fixed client library problems: see http://forge.objectweb.org/tracker/?group_id=96&atid=100096 #304792, #304829 * added some more problems to the "Known Problems" section SyncEvolution 0.1, 2006-03-13 ----------------------------- * initial release