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2006-11-28 Thunderbird 2.0 builds

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Crashes:

  • Fixed: 182231 - crash on import mails (huge archive) from outlook 2000
  • Fixed: 340969 - [XULRunner] crash at [@ nsFormFillController::GetTextValue]

Address book:

  • Fixed: 357321 - don't blindly trust address book recipients when loading remote content
  • Fixed: 361223 - Read-only fields on ldap cards are no longer readonly.

Build configuration:

  • Fixed: 338128 - system-headers misses a few files
  • Fixed: 358934 - additional cairo headers need to be in config/system-headers
  • Fixed: 361332 - Need a better way to determine if an NSPR_CO_TAG can pulled by date

Functionality:

  • Fixed: 360409 - mails with messed up references seem to disappear
  • Fixed: 360463 - Junk status is lost when moving or deleting a message using IMAP
  • Fixed: 361730 - Seamonkey _deletes_ mail file if the mail file's size is greater than 2GiB and the .msf file has zero length

Networking:

  • Fixed: 62836 - disconnects without sending QUIT to SMTP server
  • Fixed: 279525 - Thunderbird Sends IP Address for EHLO
  • Fixed: 360118 - Thunderbird SMTP client does not honor SMTP negative responses codes and state machine.

Spelling checker:

  • Fixed: 349319 - If you have both the en-GB and the en-GB-oed dictionaries installed you can't distinguish them when trying to select the correct dictionary

UI improvements:

  • Fixed: 223909 - copy and paste windows clipboard images
  • Fixed: 288079 - Cancel customize toolbar loses buttons
  • Fixed: 294296 - misleading error message when 'domain not found'
  • Fixed: 358339 - Mail and / or news message header display is broken, too small.
  • Fixed: 359191 - Mingw build error in nsMailWinIntegration.cpp when trying to build Thunderbird
  • Fixed: 361285 - nocachedbodybody property in messenger.properties is missing a space between "Offline." and "In the future".
  • Fixed: 361591 - ID needed for QuickSearchFocus() key

Mac-specific:

  • Fixed: 252247 - Persistent JavaScript Error: GetThreadTree is not defined

Technical stuff:

  1. Flags marked for TB 2.0 have been changed to fixed1.8.1.1 from fixed1.8.1 for most bugs fixed from this period of time onwards.
  2. "L10n Freeze and Beta 1 Code Freeze is next week (December 4th)", from Weekly Updates 2006-11-27.

Outstanding bugs: (16)

  • Since 16 Dec 03: 228675 - Limit growth of junk token store
  • Since 12 May 04: 243430 - Improving the chi-square spam detection method
  • Since 29 Mar 05: 288172 - closing standalone mail window of RSS item while still loading causes crash
  • Since 04 Nov 05: 315091 - Thunderbird crashes when using filter to forward mail
  • Since 24 Jan 06: 324606 - Thunderbird hangs on Return Receipt Notification on some SPAM-Mails on IMAP-Accounts
  • Since 20 Jun 06: 342154 - No more confirmation dialog of attachment correctly saved if attachment file type listed as "save to disk" and "save without asking" option is checked
  • 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 28 Jul 06: 346332 - does no longer offer to open application/octet-stream attachments
  • Since 17 Aug 06: 349073 - address book comes up empty
  • Since 12 Sep 06: 352370 - For TB2 release, upgrade langpack maxVersion to 2.0.0.*
  • Since 29 Sep 06: 354896 - Thunderbird Vista Compatibility Tracking Bug
  • Since 01 Nov 06: 359134 - Integrate with necko's automatic online/offline management
  • Since 13 Nov 06: 360639 - Folders for offline use dialog lets you pick saved search folders
  • Since 14 Nov 06: 360702 - Look for ISP RDF Files in extension directories
  • Since 21 Nov 06: 361417 - Crtl-Shift-A is no longer selecting the entire thread

Windows builds Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Linux builds Official Linux (i686)

Mac builds Official Mac (Universal binary)

Filed under 'Thunderbird 2.0 (Gecko 1.8.1.x)' | Posted on 29 Nov 2006 (Wed) by Gary Kwong at 12:42 PM. (GMT+8)