The Rumbling Edge

The Thunderbird folks are organizing a bug test day this Thursday, 08 May 2008, in preparation for Alpha 1 release. The schedule is located here. Generally, feel free to pop by outside of the sessions as well, some experienced folks should be around to help you.

The focus of this bug test day is found here.

The nightlies are here if you want to try out potential Alpha 1 builds.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 builds:

Official Windows installer

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (Universal binary)

Please drop by #testday and help us test Alpha 1; we need your help! First timers and experienced triagers welcome.

I will be available throughout all three the last two timeslots to assist anyone who wants to contribute. (My nick is "nth10sd") Several experienced folks will be there to assist as well. More testday information is available at the QMO blog.

The results of the bug test day will be posted to Mozilla Wiki.

Current Sunbird (0.8) | Next planned Sunbird (0.9) | Previous releases

Common:

• Fixed: 386596 - Option to show completed Tasks should be moved to the menu
• Fixed: 392855 - [Today Pane] 'Show Today Pane' button not available with fresh profile
• Fixed: 395928 - Event Dialog: Unify wording by renaming Importance to Priority
• Fixed: 414932 - Change String Name imipHtml.Comment to imipHtml.comment
• Fixed: 418414 - Remove obsolete Jan Mayen references
• Fixed: 420832 - Crash on exit while caldav-Calendars are being reloaded [@ OperationStreamListener::OnStopRequest]
• Fixed: 428392 - Accepting Events not adding event to calender - falsely reporting "not an attendee"
• Fixed: 429093 - Add margin to Event List for Today Pane
• Fixed: 429908 - Minimonth broken on Trunk
• Fixed: 429911 - [Minimonth] Year Popup doesn't listen to scrollwheel.
• Fixed: 429912 - Packaging cleanup for crashreporter.xpt
• Fixed: 429927 - Remove outdated comment from calendar/base/jar.mn
• Fixed: 430062 - remove some 1.8.0 branch specific code from calManager
• Fixed: 430430 - Consolidate context menus
• Fixed: 431031 - Remove files from resources/content/converters directory
• Fixed: 431041 - Correct tooltip for Print toolbarbutton
• Fixed: 431395 - Remove ununsed files from /calendar/resources/content/

Common (Providers):

• Fixed: 400278 - CalDAV provider issues requests to unselected caldav accounts at startup
• Fixed: 410898 - DTSTART/DTEND ignored in FREEBUSY response to scheduling request
• Fixed: 417629 - Import ICS file to CalDAV server fails to handle recurrence-id correctly
• Fixed: 428851 - Accepting Meeting Invites Does Not Update Google Calendar
• Fixed: 429061 - webcals scheme not supported (i.e., for https)
• Fixed: 430249 - Storage calendar sends out too many onOperationCompletes
• Fixed: 430280 - bad aOperationType on addItem

No outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar0.9+).

Lightning .xpi:

Official Windows .xpi, gdata provider

Official Linux .xpi, gdata provider

Official Mac .xpi, gdata provider

Sunbird builds:

Official Windows, Official Windows installer

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (Universal binary)

What's new in Trunk since 12 August 2005 | Previous releases

Thunderbird-specific:

• Fixed: 424098 - One mail identity that is a substring of another mail identity will make thunderbird fail to idenify the sender of a reply or forward mail
• Fixed: 424764 - Error: selectedFolders[0]/msgFolder is undefined when opening the File menu of the standalone msg window
• Fixed: 426715 - can't open new composition window anymore ("An error occurred while creating a message compose window. Please try again."
• Fixed: 427203 - Investigate turning on the ftp protocol in Thunderbird builds
• Fixed: 428062 - Command Shift M broken (os x, nightlies)
• Fixed: 428620 - 'Get Mail' fails for selected inbox in folder pane
• Fixed: 428887 - accounts not listed in account order under the Get Mail button
• Fixed: 429032 - Filter dialog broken
• Fixed: 429844 - Thunderbird Linux and Mac trunk l10n builds have "Mail/News" branding instead of "Thunderbird"
• Fixed: 429942 - Ditch prebinding for Thunderbird trunk builds
• Fixed: 431171 - Thunderbird crashes on closing address book.

MailNews and other related categories:

• Fixed: 332110 - Attaching out-of-locale Unicode-named file fails: won't send
• Fixed: 410747 - IMAP code deadlocks when it can't reach the network
• Fixed: 422178 - IMAP thread calls docloader from wrong thread [@ JS_BeginRequest]
• Fixed: 424570 - ###!!! ASSERTION: shouldn't have any listeners: 'm_ChangeListeners.Length() == 0' after adding and removing a mailing list
• Fixed: 424607 - Numerous regressions in news groups (caused by fix for bug 16913 ?)
• Fixed: 428614 - Crash every time I try to read news [@SearchTable]
• Fixed: 428996 - Expose less of the messenger chrome package to content
• Fixed: 430736 - Crash [@ strlen - nsCharTraits<char>::length - nsDependentCString - nsMsgSearchValueImpl::GetStr] clicking on saved search folder

Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 is now in code freeze.

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-thunderbird3.0a1+): (2)

• Since 07 Jan 08: 411171 - Thunderbird Mac tinderbox crashing in dump_syms
• Since 15 Apr 08: 429235 - Prepare Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 1 release notes

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (Universal binary)

Current Thunderbird 2.0 (2.0.0.14) | Next planned Thunderbird 2.0 (2.0.0.15?) | Previous releases

No checkins during this period.

No outstanding bugs.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 has been released.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (Universal binary)

The Thunderbird folks are organizing a bug day this Thursday, 01 May 2008. The schedule is located here. Generally, feel free to pop by outside of the sessions as well, some experienced folks should be around to help you.

The focus of this bug day is found here.

How?

Triaging is easy! You don't have to be able to understand computer languages in order to triage most bugs.

You just have to try and reproduce the bug by following the steps written in the report. Add a comment stating whether the bug still applies in the latest supported version of Thunderbird 2 (2.0.0.12), or in the trunk nightlies (3.0a1pre) for the more adventurous.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 builds:

Official Windows installer

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (Universal binary)

Please drop by #bugday and help us get our bug numbers down; we need your help! First timers and experienced triagers welcome.

I will be available throughout all three the last two timeslots to assist anyone who wants to contribute. (My nick is "nth10sd") Several experienced folks will be there to assist as well.

The results of the bug day will be posted to Mozilla Wiki.

P.S.: Apologies for the lack of updates on The Rumbling Edge so far. I have been really busy these couple of weeks. I hope to give more updates, especially with the impending release of Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 in the next few weeks, soon.

The Thunderbird folks are organizing a bug day this Thursday, 24 April 2008. The schedule is located here. Generally, feel free to pop by outside of the sessions as well, some experienced folks should be around to help you.

The focus of this bug day is found here.

How?

Triaging is easy! You don't have to be able to understand computer languages in order to triage most bugs.

You just have to try and reproduce the bug by following the steps written in the report. Add a comment stating whether the bug still applies in the latest supported version of Thunderbird 2 (2.0.0.12), or in the trunk nightlies (3.0a1pre) for the more adventurous.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 builds:

Official Windows installer

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (Universal binary)

Please drop by #bugday and help us get our bug numbers down; we need your help! First timers and experienced triagers welcome.

I will be available throughout all three the last two timeslots to assist anyone who wants to contribute. (My nick is "nth10sd") Several experienced folks will be there to assist as well.

The results of the bug day will be posted to Mozilla Wiki.

Current Sunbird (0.8) | Next planned Sunbird (0.9) | Previous releases

Common:

• Fixed: 368865 - REG_APP_DESC should be removed from the Calendar 1.8 branch
• Fixed: 377753 - Look and Feel of minimonths should be adapted
• Fixed: 390194 - [Proto] Event/Recurrence dialog: Width is too small for all three minimonths
• Fixed: 393769 - [Trunk] Mouseover tooltips aren't shown
• Fixed: 393998 - Next button in new calendar dialog is disabled when changes are cancelled
• Fixed: 396075 - "New Calendar" dialog: sentences should get punctuation marks
• Fixed: 402482 - No scroll-bar for all-day events
• Fixed: 410755 - [Trunk] It is not possible to resize and reorder the columns of the task list
• Fixed: 411958 - Use tinderboxen to build gdata-provider nightlies
• Fixed: 413265 - Some timezones not mapped correctly
• Fixed: 414565 - Show relative date string in alarms for tomorrow's events
• Fixed: 417020 - UTC and floating are missing in time zone picker
• Fixed: 418058 - Add tooltip to X button in unifinder
• Fixed (for 0.8): 420840 - Tracking bug for 0.8 RC cleanup
• Fixed: 421307 - TaskMode: synchronize FilterOptions with FilterOptions in Menu
• Fixed: 422369 - Make Calendar styles LTR (left-to-right) and RTL (right-to-left) agnostic
• Fixed: 422640 - enable View menu-items
• Fixed: 423503 - Memory leaks in lightning
• Fixed: 426140 - Wrong sort order for priority
• Fixed: 426759 - Create calIAlarm interface
• Fixed: 427458 - Completed task time is shown in UTC and not in local time
• Fixed: 427562 - specifications of item-categories with underline character in name do not show in sunbird 0.8
• Fixed: 428798 - Remove obsolete CSS rules .next-button:hover:active and .prev-button:hover:active
• Fixed: 428922 - Remove even more obsolete CSS rules
• Fixed: 428933 - Consolidate view-specific CSS rules in calendar-views.css
• Fixed: 429101 - Missing styling on navigation buttons in main calendar view
• Fixed: 429313 - open the invitation dialog when the counter is 'Zero' -> error console output

Common (Providers):

• Fixed: 413333 - Offer auto-conversion of google ICS calendars to writable Google Calendars
• Fixed: 429095 - Recurrences with no end date should be limited to a maximum of 60 instances
• Fixed: 429497 - Warning and error nsIInterfaceRequestor in the error console

Lightning-only:

• Fixed: 389150 - Display Today Pane with Task List in Calendar mode too
• Fixed: 419184 - "msgHeaderParser is not defined" when dragging mail to Calendar item

Sunbird-only:

• Fixed: 399599 - Help menu has no accesskey for item "Contents"
• Fixed: 402593 - Sunbird lacks Ctrl+Q to exit
• Fixed: 413523 - [Trunk] No icon images are shown in the Customize Toolbar dialog
• Fixed: 427237 - cvs remove unused files in calendar/sunbird/themes/***stripe/sunbird/

Mac-specific:

• Fixed: 422630 - [Pinstripe] Fix groupbox theme regression caused by bug 421814

I will no longer track Calendar website bugs, including community-contributed calendars. While they are important, they are not exactly central to the development of the application.

No outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar0.9+).

Lightning .xpi:

Official Windows .xpi, gdata provider

Official Linux .xpi, gdata provider

Official Mac .xpi, gdata provider

Sunbird builds:

Official Windows, Official Windows installer

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (Universal binary)

What's new in Trunk since 12 August 2005 | Previous releases

Thunderbird-specific:

• Fixed: 329363 - Incorrect ellipsis in some translatable messages
• Fixed: 333511 - Only the first of multiple selected attachments are deleted/detached from a given message
• Fixed: 339410 - images not displayed inside message body (POP/IMAP/RSS)
• Fixed: 362213 - heap overflow in MimeExternalBody_parse_eof
• Fixed: 365842 - Title bar displays email address rather than Account name
• Fixed: 369620 - (pref unthreads=True): Threading via column header forces Sort by "Order Received", should be "Date"
• Fixed: 397928 - (pref unthreads=True): Threading via column header forces Sort by "Order Received", should not change
• Fixed: 413781 - XBLify folder-selection menus
• Fixed: 422700 - Get bug 376238 fixed or disable images on drag feedback
• Fixed: 425756 - return receipt sent every time I enter the message for messages marked as read
• Fixed: 426280 - Thunderbird should not rely on toolkit/obsolete
• Fixed: 426658 - Long delay when getting new mail
• Fixed: 427338 - Remove unused tooltip popup elements
• Fixed: 427549 - Unused preference causes message in Error Console
• Fixed: 427822 - Explicitly Enable Alive tests on Windows Thunderbird trunk tinderbox
• Fixed: 428144 - Fix Tb's license.html generation following bug 368091
• Fixed: 428329 - Closing Thunderbird without dismissing the Customize Toolbar dialog might lead to loss of all toolbar items
• Fixed: 428588 - get codesize (Z) on tinderboxen hooked up to build-graphs.mozilla.org
• Fixed: 428662 - Subscribe dialog broken
• Fixed: 428755 - No active throbber on OS X
• Fixed: 428767 - Unbreak ourselves after bug 292789 removed message access to messageBody.css
• Fixed: 428830 - Thunderbird startup leaks nsLocalFile due to bug 388833
• Fixed: 428951 - dialog in sendProgress.xul does not have an id

MailNews and other related categories:

• Fixed: 125928 - HTML composition converted to PlainText fails to strip spaces before hard breaks with format=flowed
• Fixed: 190298 - already-attached attachments should be able to be renamed
• Fixed: 366491 - Maintain correct junkscore and junkscoreorigin, preserve junkstatus
• Fixed: 408096 - & not escaped as & in href when creating plaintext url html
• Fixed: 412363 - Buffer overflow in external MIME bodies
• Fixed: 415601 - Mailnews topcrashes [@ nsUInt32Array::GetAt] [@ nsMsgDBView::NonDummyMsgSelected] typically deleting message(s) or opening message in new tab, switching tabs, renaming folder
• Fixed: 422720 - Crash when trying to reorder "date" column for gmail IMAP account, ~5000 messages [@nsAutoLock::SetThreadPrivate]
• Fixed: 424531 - warning: ‘attrib’ may be used uninitialized in nsMsgSearchTerm::GetTermAsString
• Fixed: 424567 - Fix nsIAbDirectory::URI and improve nsAbMDBDirectory's IsMailList member handling
• Fixed: 426615 - Provide a standard Directory Provider service for mailnews xpcshell tests
• Fixed: 427534 - Tidy up the Address Book unit tests
• Fixed: 427614 - increased memory usage on TB startup of 100-120MB shortly after profile manager, and 100% cpu for several seconds
• Fixed: 427711 - Can't rename a local folder to exactly the same name
• Fixed: 427853 - Define nsIAbManager::getDirectory
• Fixed: 429405 - Compile error in nsMsgHeaderParser.cpp

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-thunderbird3.0a1+): (7)

• Since 03 Jan 08: 410747 - Imap code deadlocks when it can't reach the network
• Since 11 Mar 08: 422178 - IMAP thread calls docloader from wrong thread [@ JS_BeginRequest]
• Since 22 Mar 08: 424607 - Numerous regressions in news groups (caused by fix for bug 16913 ?)
• Since 03 Apr 08: 426715 - can't open new composition window anymore ("An error occurred while creating a message compose window. Please try again."
• Since 11 Apr 08: 428620 - 'Get Mail' fails for selected inbox in folder pane
• Since 14 Apr 08: 429032 - Filter dialog broken
• Since 15 Apr 08: 429235 - Prepare Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 1 release notes

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (Universal binary)

Current Thunderbird 2.0 (2.0.0.12) | Next planned Thunderbird 2.0 (2.0.0.14) | Previous releases

No checkins during this period.

No outstanding bugs.

Due to a firedrill Firefox 2.0.0.14 release, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 will be released instead, with all previous patches from 2.0.0.13 included.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (Universal binary)

The Thunderbird folks are organizing a bug day this Thursday, 17 April 2008. The schedule is located here. Generally, feel free to pop by outside of the sessions as well, some experienced folks should be around to help you.

The focus of this bug day is found here.

How?

Triaging is easy! You don't have to be able to understand computer languages in order to triage most bugs.

You just have to try and reproduce the bug by following the steps written in the report. Add a comment stating whether the bug still applies in the latest supported version of Thunderbird 2 (2.0.0.12), or in the trunk nightlies (3.0a1pre) for the more adventurous.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 builds:

Official Windows installer

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (Universal binary)

Please drop by #bugday and help us get our bug numbers down; we need your help! First timers and experienced triagers welcome.

I will be available throughout all three the last two timeslots to assist anyone who wants to contribute. (My nick is "nth10sd") Several experienced folks will be there to assist as well.

The results of the bug day will be posted to Mozilla Wiki.