Next step towards SyncEvolution 1.3. It adds a workaround for Funambol's OneMedia and fixes an old bug which became more severe in 1.2.99.1. Also has some usability improvements for CalDAV/CardDAV. Hopefully it will not take long to stabilize the code, so test it now while it is still hot :-)

I'll give a talk about SyncEvolution and EDS in the Mobile Linux Dev Room at FOSDEM on Saturday. I hope to see you there :-)

For those who can't come, attached are the slides.

Maintenance release with various bug fixes.

The major new feature of the 1.2 release is support for non-SyncML protocols in general and CalDAV/CardDAV in particular. ActiveSync support is in development and will be in 1.3. These protocols are implemented as backends which are combined with other backends by SyncEvolution in a so called "local sync". The GTK sync-ui does not yet support configuring non-SyncML protocols. See the README.rst and man page for more information on how to use the new feature via the command line.

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

Release 1.1.99.5 is the first release candidate for 1.2. It has gone through a long stabilization period and thus is suitable for normal users.

The major new feature of the 1.2 release is support for non-SyncML protocols in general and CalDAV/CardDAV in particular. ActiveSync support is in development.

There have been two blog posts recently who point out that data synchronization using open source tools still doesn't work as well as it should:

• Adam Williamson: "The continuing state of contact + calendar synchronization suck"
• Matěj Cepl: Synchronization sucks!

As someone who has worked hard on making synchronization suck less I can't let this stand without commenting... in particular not when SyncEvolution is mentioned as not being reliable! ;-)

A Sony Ericsson K800 user reported a problem with non-standard characters (German umlauts in his case).

End of November, the scheduleworld.com service shut down.