The Rumbling Edge

Functionality:

• Fixed: 276716 - Virtual Folder/Saved Search Folder does not cache the message list for subsequent accesses to the folder
• Fixed: 346378 - Renaming a folder for the 2nd time, causes us to lose the favorite folder flag

Installer:

• Fixed: 329263 - properties menu item for Win XP Start menu is not localizable

Spelling checker:

• Fixed: 234936 - Don't inline spell check URLs
• Fixed: 339123 - Words that should or need to be added to the dictionary
• Fixed: 339127 - Provide a way for a web page to enable/disable spell checking on a given field
• Fixed: 341420 - Speed up inline spellchecker
• Fixed: 344172 - Spellchecker doesn't display suggestion list for misspelled words and doesn't underline them if Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian Spell dictionary is installed
• Fixed: 345048 - Scrolling with spellchecked words visible is slower
• Fixed: 345050 - Turning off spellchecking is very slow when there are many misspellings.
• Fixed: 345112 - Make the inline spellchecker work incrementally
• Fixed: 345751 - Use the new sorted range feature in the selection
• Fixed: 346185 - fixing one of two misspelled words in a line makes spellcheck underline disappear on both
• Fixed: 346200 - Spell checker doesn't like curly quotes and other non-ASCII punctuation

UI improvements:

• Fixed: 317348 - new mail indicated on folder when there is no new mail
• Fixed: 339865 - Virtual Folders not showing up until you cycle the folder view
• Fixed: 340434 - "Grouped By Sort" (for status) has no Group for "Unread" messages - Both Unread AND read are shown as "Read"
• Fixed: 341173 - Need hotkeys to assign label/tag to message - shortcut 0-5
• Fixed: 347297 - saved search folder over a single folder not showing up in the "recent folders" folder view
• Fixed: 347464 - compose window toolbar on the mac is missing a spring

XPToolkit:

• Fixed: 334675 - Notify user on async IO errors

Miscellaneous fix:

• Fixed: 346302 - Yet another RFC 2231 violation (0x2a is not escaped)

Mac-specific:

• Fixed: 271315 - tbird on mac should use command-n as new message shortcut

Outstanding bugs:

• Since 16 Dec 03: 228675 - Limit growth of junk token store
• Since 12 May 04: 243430 - Improving the chi-square spam detection method
• Since 17 Mar 05: 286655 - deleting or detaching attachment from IMAP message duplicates the message temporarily
• Since 29 Oct 05: 314297 - deleting one attachment from a locally stored message deletes multiple attachments
• Since 24 Jan 06: 324606 - Thunderbird hangs on Return Receipt Notification on some SPAM-Mails on IMAP-Accounts
• Since 14 Mar 06: 330507 - Crash when clearing a quick search during a LDAP search.
• Since 28 Apr 06: 335823 - Universal binaries not yet out for 1.8.x branch and trunk
• Since 24 May 06: 339115 - save as file stopped working on IMAP
• Since 07 Jul 06: 343901 - cannot install dictionaries in thunderbird since bug 216382 landed
• Since 12 Jul 06: 344433 - Thunderbird needs to use a new set of APIs to claim defaults in windows Vista
• Since 25 Jul 06: 345887 - Thunderbird Theme Update for Qute

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (no discussion available @ mozillazine forums)

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (PowerPC build)