Aethera is a PIM application that has the capability to handle all kinds of personal information: contacts,email, tasks, todos, notes, journals.

Aethera has various communication features regarding: send/receive email, send/receive task requests and appointment requests via email. It can help you to know quickly the world's news and weather.

Aethera is a new cutting edge communications and personal data management software written with Qt and deployed for Linux, Windows and Macintosh. By PIM we mean Personal Information Manager, by PDR we mean Personal Data Repository, the rest should be obvious.

Aethera supports all the standard messaging protocols such as POP and IMAP with full synchronization capability as well as support for multiple identities.

All the features you would expect to find in an industrial strength email system are part of Aethera. In addition there is a personal calendar and schedule, as well as "sticky" notes, "To Do" lists, an address book, groupware compatibility via Kolab, and optional plug ins the extend the idea of collaboration beyond the bounds of typical groupware with instant messaging, whiteboarding and voice over IP (VoIP).

The combination of Aethera with Kolab provides you with a very powerful combination that can realistically replace Outlook/Exchange and in some cases Lotus Notes, for only the price of the hardware to install it on. There are no per server costs or per user costs unless you want the optional plug ins, which are all priced at trivial amounts. Since Aethera runs on virtually any operating system you are likely to use, it doesn't require that you make any changes on the desktop.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Groupware (Kolab1, Citadel)
· Aethera can use even empty Shared Folders (Kolab1 compatibility).
· The jabber chat logs can be saved in Notes Shared Folders (Kolab1 compatibility)

· General
· Sound support for notifications, you can use the autodetect mode or just choose your player.
· Sound support can be disabled if you want to hear only your music :).
· More translations available (Greek support in progress). The current supported languages are French, German, Russian and Portuguese (BR).
· tkJabberPro
· The notification system has been improved and you will get notifications as popup messages, as sounds or as status bar messages depending on the situation.
· Now it's more comfortable to know about your new instant messages from your contacts or file transfer status.
· Now it comes with a system tray support (Linux only) which works very well with the new notification system.
· Better support for unicode, so that you can communicate with friends all over the world.
· The management of chat logs has been improved with a search mechanism and with groupware support.
· There is a new search line which let you see only the needed chat logs.
· The groupware support (Kolab1 compatible) helps you to store your chat logs on the server for sharing it with other people or just to have your important data available from different location.
· The chat list view has alternative background color for a better visibility.
· You can send/request authorization when you need. Adding a new contact will manage the authorizations automaticaly. The layout for authorization dialog has been fixed.

Improvements and fixes:
· Datebook
· ICAL format support has some fixes.
· The automaticaly saving options works now.
· The sound option for events alarm works now. It is using the new sound support.
· Removing a calendar with Delete key isn't possible anymore.
· Addressbook
· VCARD support is reading/importing both VCARD2 and VCARD3 data format and it exports data only in VCARD3 format. In this way more people will be able to import their old contacts in Aethera.
· The support for phone field is fixed (even as a SIP type).
· The Kolab support is better too.
· The contacts view list is using alternative background for a better visibility.
· Windows support
· The ability to view/open attachments or the help files in Windows XP (SP1, SP2) is fixed.