I have released version 0.4.0rc6 (click on Development Channel). This contains the last planned features for version 0.4.0 so if all goes well I hope to release 0.4.0 in June.
Changes since 0.4.0rc5
- Added more People fields (number is configurable)
- Added a button to reset all gContactSync settings
- Added an Anniversary field that is synchronized with Google (reset/replace from server to get these fields)
- Photos are only uploaded or downloaded if they have changed instead of if the contact has change
Changes since version 0.3
Features
- New Account Wizard
- The first sync merges existing contacts and groups/mailing lists
- Postal addresses are synchronized by default
- gContactSync uses Thunderbird’s existing address fields now that Google parses addresses
- Added Postbox 3 support
- Minor Accounts dialog changes
- Added an option to sync only the selected address book to the AB context menu
- Prevents a duplicate master password prompt when Thunderbird is started
- Miscellaneous improvements to importing contacts
- Contacts are merged when possible. Note that most sources only have display names and photos, so gContactSync only merges contacts with identical names
- Better UI for picking the destination address book
- Updated twitter import to use their newest API
- Removed import sources that have taken down their APIs (Plaxo, MySpace, etc.)
- Removed the “Other” tab on the preferences dialog. This just caused confusion and I don’t know of anyone who actually used it. The feature is still there, but only customizable through the Config Editor.
- Better handling and mitigation of 503 (Service Unavailable) errors.
- Button to clean up old contact photos (TB and gContactSync can both leave old photos behind)
- Uses the new chat fields in Thunderbird instead of adding new fields
- Website types/labels are now displayed in the contact view pane
- Added a preference for a timeout for HTTP requests
- Added a checkbox for the TB preference to show chrome errors in the error console
- Added more People fields (number is configurable)
- Added a button to reset all gContactSync settings
- Added an Anniversary field that is synchronized with Google (reset/replace from server to get these fields)
- Photos are only uploaded or downloaded if they have changed instead of if the contact has changed
Bug Fixes
- Treat infinite last modified dates as being older
- Fixed a strict JavaScript warning (no functional change)
- Support for empty extended property value names (Other tab of the Preferences dialog)
- Prevents a duplicate master password prompt when Thunderbird is started
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Makes sure that the dummy e-mail address is added to a contact if it is being edited from the mailing list.
- Bug fix for the preference to not sync contact photos (if a new Thunderbird contact had a photo gContactSync would add it to Google)
- Photos synchronized or imported by gContactSync will still work when gContactSync is disabled or uninstalled (NOTE – this only applies to contacts synchronized or imported starting with 0.4.0a3)
- Last modified date not set at the correct time, potentially causing a conflict on the next sync after adding a contact
- Fix for last modified date being updated when a contact is not successfully uploaded to Google
- Bug fix for persistent “You must login to sync contacts” message after canceling an expired authentication token prompt (NOTE: if you ran into this bug you must follow the instructions here: http://pirules.org/forum/index.php/topic,521.msg1680.html)
- Bug fix for changing the type of a website or related person
- Added a default delay between HTTP requests to mitigate 503 errors from Google (user over quota)
- Various postal address bug fixes
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