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Download current balsa release

balsa-2.6.4 - released on 2022-09-20

This is main release of balsa, recommended for use on all distributions supporting gmime3.

Download from:

• balsa-2.6.4.tar.xz (observe the .xz extension!) with sha256sum befa5984511db33d41f2b1ecbfc99e22a15d45d08efe5d737b5174a1a6ac8fc1

balsa-2.5.11 - released on 2020-05-10

This is a bug fix release off balsa-2.5-gmime-2.6 branch. It requires gmime-2.6

Download from:

• balsa-2.5.11-tar.bz2 with sha256sum 2d3d0eac019566b3188eb3e2d46fe1a8c0c6679e24b9d6a7600e240e645e0cf1

GIT source & build instructions

Balsa source is also available from the GNOME GIT repository. Check out balsa module. The GIT version is sometimes not sufficiently stable for everyday use it but has all the new features and is the best starting point if you want to hack Balsa.

To clone all the history and branches of Balsa, from a shell:

git clone git://git.gnome.org/balsa

If you want the check-out to be put in a folder that is not named balsa, specify your own folder name as a second argument to git clone.

The main branch (known as master in a GIT repository) requires recent versions of Gtk and GLib, and version 2.4 of GMime. The gtk3 branch compiles against gtk3 library.

• Detailed build instructions