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+SyncEvolution 1.5 -> 1.5.1, 05.06.2015
+======================================
+
+Maintenance release. Binaries now also get compiled for Debian 8.0
+"Jessie".
+
+Details:
+
+* avoid time zone issue with Funambol server
+
+ The Funambol iCalendar 2.0 parser fails to handle time zones
+ with quotation marks around the TZID value, which is something
+ that SyncEvolution started to add in 1.4.99.3. While it is valid
+ to quote like that, it is not necessary, so avoid quoting in
+ this case to restore interoperability.
+
+* syncevo-http-server: stop using deprecated twisted.web.error (FDO #90419)
+
+ This has become a real problem for example on Fedora 22 where the
+ old name is no longer available.
+
+* syncevo-http-server: use TLS instead of SSLv3
+
+ This fixes a potential security risk and connection problems with clients
+ that don't support SSLv3 anymore.
+
+* syncing: avoid segfault for invalid text inside items (FDO #90118)
+
+ As reported by Canonical, syncing fails if data items contain
+ text which is not correct UTF-8 in one of the fields that
+ SyncEvolution logs in the command line output (like SUMMARY of
+ a calendar event).
+
+ That is because the byte string coming from the item is passed
+ unchecked to the D-Bus implementation for transmission via D-Bus. But
+ D-Bus strings must be correct UTF-8, so depending on the D-Bus library
+ in use, one gets a segfault (GIO D-Bus, due to an unchecked NULL
+ pointer access) or an "out of memory" error (libdbus, which checks for
+ NULL).
+
+ SyncEvolution now replaces invalid bytes with a question mark in its
+ output while preserving the rest of the text.
+
+* file backend: log item manipulation
+
+ Extracting a meaningful description of each item from the Synthesis
+ engine when updating and adding items is easy to do for items of
+ certain known types (contacts and calendar items).
+
+* command line: preserve log prefix of target side of local sync
+
+ In some cases, the prefix which was supposed to be embedded
+ in the log messages from the target side of a local sync got
+ lost on the way to the command line tool.
+
+ Primarily this affected the added/updated/deleted messages, as in:
+
+ [INFO remote@client] @client/addressbook: started
+ [INFO remote@client] updating "Joan Doe"
+ [INFO remote@client] @client/addressbook: received 1/1
+
+* compile fix: use ${PKG_CONFIG} instead of pkg-config.
+
+ This fixes the build on Exherbo that only has prefixed versions of
+ pkg-config.
+
+* WebDAV: handle 403 during Google OAuth authentication
+
+ When sending an access token with insufficient scope (for example,
+ because the Ubuntu Online Accounts service definition was incomplete,
+ as documented in FDO #86824), Google responds with a 403 "service
+ denied" error.
+
+ This is now dealt with by retrying, just as for a transient 401 error.
+
+* CalDAV: more efficient "is empty" check (FDO #86335)
+
+ Since 1.4.99.4, syncing WebDAV collections always checks first
+ whether there are items in the collections. This was partly done for
+ slow sync prevention (which is not necessary for empty collections),
+ partly for the "is the datastore usable" check.
+
+ However, this did not take into account that for CalDAV collections,
+ the entire content gets downloaded for this check. That is because
+ filtering by item type (VEVENT vs. VJOURNAL) is not implemented
+ correctly by all servers. So now all CalDAV syncs, whether incremental
+ or slow, always transfered all items, which is not the
+ intention (incremental syncs should be fast and efficient).
+
+ This release adds a more efficient isEmpty() check: for simple CardDAV
+ collections, only luid and etag get transferred, as in
+ listAllItems(). This is the behavior from 1.5.
+
+ For CalDAV, a report with a filter for the content type is used and
+ the transfer gets aborted after the first item, without actually
+ double-checking the content of the item. This is different from
+ listAllItems(), which really transfers the content. This extra content
+ check would only be needed for some old servers (Radical 0.7) and is
+ not essential, because reporting "not empty" even when empty is safe.
+
+* WebDAV: send Basic Auth via http in some cases (FDO #57248)
+
+ It turned out that finding databases on an Apple Calendar server accessed via
+ http depends on sending Basic Auth even when the server does not ask for it:
+ without authentication, there is no information about the current principal,
+ which is necessary for finding the user's databases.
+
+ To make this work again, sending the authentication header is now forced for
+ plain http if (and only if) the request which should have returned the
+ principal URL fails to include it. This implies sending the same request
+ twice, but as this scenario should be rare in practise (was only done for
+ testing), this is acceptable.
+
+* Ubuntu Online Accounts: support plain text credentials
+
+ The backend for UOA was rewritten by Alberto Mardegan and now also
+ can use plain username/password credentials stored in UOA.
+
+* various compiler error and warning fixes
+
+
SyncEvolution 1.4.1 -> 1.5, 31.10.2014
======================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7c4b05fc..41dde315 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dnl Invoke autogen.sh to produce a configure script.
#
# Starting with the 1.1 release cycle, the rpm-style
# .99 pseudo-version number is used to mark a pre-release.
-AC_INIT([syncevolution], [m4_esyscmd([build/gen-git-version.sh 1.5])])
+AC_INIT([syncevolution], [m4_esyscmd([build/gen-git-version.sh 1.5.1])])
# STABLE_VERSION=1.0.1+
AC_SUBST(STABLE_VERSION)