khal v0.8.4 released
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khal v0.8.4 (pypi) is a bugfix release that fixes a **critical bug**
in *khal import*. **All users are advised to upgrade as soon as
possible**.


Details
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If importing events from *.ics* files, any VTIMEZONEs (specifications
of the timezone) would *not* be imported with those events. As khal
understands Olson DB timezone specifiers (such as "Europe/Berlin" or
"America/New_York", events using those timezones are displayed in the
correct timezone, but all other events are displayed as if they were
in the configured *default timezone*. **This can lead to imported
events being shown at wrong times!**


Solution
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First, please upgrade khal to either v0.8.4 or, if you are using a
version of khal directly from the git repository, upgrade to the
latest version from github.

To see if you are affected by this bug, delete your local khal caching
db, (usually *~/.local/share/khal/khal.db*), re-run khal and watch out
for lines looking like this: "warning: $PROPERTY has invalid or
incomprehensible timezone information in $long_uid.ics in
$my_collection". You will then need to edit these files by hand and
either replace the timezone identifiers with the corresponding one
from the Olson DB (e.g., change *Europe_Berlin* to *Europe/Berlin*) or
copy original VTIMZONE definition in.

If you have any problems with this, please either open an issue at
github or come into our irc channel (*#pimutils* on Libera.Chat).

We are sorry for any inconveniences this is causing you!
