The Rumbling Edge

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Released on 23 Jan 07, and this changelog was last updated on 28 Jan 07.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2 Beta 2 has been released. Release notes are available. This post lists the new features and improvements in Thunderbird 2 Beta 2 over Beta 1. This list encompasses almost every single known fix that went into this release. Do check out the known issues as well.

Note that only Beta 1 builds will auto-update to Beta 2 when Beta 2 is released.

The Gecko 1.8.x branch (Thunderbird 2.x series) will incorporate improvements based on Gecko 1.8 foundations. No major Gecko 1.9 features will be in these builds.

Please note: Anyone other than developers and testers should not download the Thunderbird 2 Beta 2 release. It is intended for testing purposes only.

New features & significant changes in Thunderbird 2 Beta 2:

• Tools for organizing and managing e-mail
  • 74959: implement mail "back" and "forward"
  • 114656: Message Tags
    • 359338: Ability to search tags
    • 362557: Support for editing tags
  • 251296: Folder Views
  • 301084: Conversations (Similar to Gmail)
  • 328795: Find As You Type in the message pane
  • 345501: enable auto-save by default
  • 350661: Recent folder menus for Copying and Moving messages
• Be Informative
  • 312940: New Mail Alert Improvements
    • 360030: Ability to customize new mail alert information
  • 314124: Folder Summary Tooltips
  • 350864: Add ability to check news servers for new messages at startup
• Automatic detection of online state
• Preference dialog redesign
• Remote image policy changes
• Two pane view using a folder location picker toolbar widget
• 278096: Main mail window now shows quota usage (IMAP)
• 327124: Windows x64 platform support
• 335823: Universal binaries for Mac OS X builds
• 339135: New Windows installer based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
• 345887: Thunderbird Theme Update for Windows & Linux
• 348897: New combined and improved Add-ons manager for extensions and themes, updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
• 353841, 359900 : New account types - Gmail (all systems) & .Mac (Mac OS X only)
• 360588: New localizations: Belarusian, Georgian & Portuguese

Table of Contents

1. Security issues
2. Topcrash
3. Account manager
4. Address book
5. Attachment-related
6. Build configuration
7. Filter-related
8. Functionality
9. Localization
10. Networking
11. RSS
12. UI improvements
13. XULRunner
14. Miscellaneous fixes
15. Mac-specific
16. OS/2-specific

Changes in Thunderbird 2 Beta 2: (80)

Security issue: (1)

• Fixed: 240262 - Marquee tag functions only in default mode

Topcrash: (1)

• Fixed: 355338 - TB1507 topcrash [@ nsPop3IncomingServer::PerformBiff]

Account manager: (5)

• Fixed: 327298 - Double-clicking the Multiple Identities list should edit the selected identity
• Fixed: 345121 - Option "File replies in folder of original message" disabled
• Fixed: 359900 - Create a Gmail RDF file for the Account Manager
• Fixed: 366093 - Unable to send Mails via Gmail SMTP because of wrong SMTP Settings
• Fixed: 366439 - Add ability to append the default domain to the user name in ISP RDF Files

Address book: (4)

• Fixed: 336412 - First names or Surnames disappear after sending a message
• Fixed: 343011 - Searching Organization from LDAP address book yields no results
• Fixed: 355409 - unable to search LDAP server (over SSL) with tbird 2.0 build, but 1.5.0.7 works
• Fixed: 362186 - entries from ldap address book not displayed (offline) - you can only search

Attachment-related: (3)

• Fixed: 262866 - Invalid path offered when file already exists (Save all attachments)
• Fixed: 346332 - does no longer offer to open application/octet-stream attachments
• Fixed: 363764 - .vcs files (and sometime rtf files) get sent as text/plain

Build configuration: (4)

• Fixed: 360588 - Request to build be, ka, pt-PT version of Thunderbird
• Fixed: 363070 - Upgrade NSS on trunk and branches
• Fixed: 363679 - R_X86_64_PC32 relocations in nsLDAPBERElement.cpp building trunk thunderbird
• Fixed: 367127 - Make mozconfig-find space-safe (e.g. spaces in $HOME)

Filter-related: (1)

• Fixed: 215701 - hang while reading tokens for junk mail due to corrupt training.dat

Functionality: (9)

• Fixed: 229522 - Folder starting with . (dot) disappears after restart
• Fixed: 307046 - Autosave leaves ghost messages in drafts on cancelling compose
• Fixed: 343102 - Thunderbird cannot forward messages correctly in the inline format when the message contains attachments encoded in quoted-printable format
• Fixed: 350967 - adding smtp server fails if you've added and removed a lot in the profile's lifetime
• Fixed: 358124 - Replying to mail with plaintext attachment quotes the attachment
• Fixed: 363831 - Saved Search with only one folder to search results in endless loading and high CPU load
• Fixed: 365329 - string to date conversion returns wrong value for dates in february when run after 28th of each month
• Fixed: 366368 - Error when looking for dictionaries for Thunderbird on a.m.o
• Fixed: 367183 - preview text contains mail.app message boundary ID & some headers

Localization: (1)

• Fixed: 95613 - Attachment in Eudora-J mail is not imported correctly.

Networking: (2)

• Fixed: 319535 - Message: NO Access denied for GETACL on INBOX (ACL "a" required)
• Fixed: 348752 - Unable to consistently remove tags from IMAP mail messages

RSS: (3)

• Fixed: 340957 - duplicate messages from single feed item if using multiple RSS accounts
• Fixed: 359402 - Loading remote images in RSS articles is broken
• Fixed: 363154 - Improper RSS Display After Today's (12/8/06) Auto-update

UI improvements: (32)

• Fixed: 223864 - When sorting mail by "Order Received", no sort icon is displayed
• Fixed: 240788 - Marking Message as Junk Hangs Thunderbird
• Fixed: 278096 - Show quota usage in main window
• Fixed: 302470 - Virtual folders in IMAP account with non ascii characters displayed wrong
• Fixed: 307058 - Folder Properties dialog's Retention Policy tab has incorrectly aligned captions
• Fixed: 331014 - Hang on incremental search in main window
• Fixed: 333607 - Download Manager: contentAreaUtils.js error when saving link target
• Fixed: 336910 - Buttons in Filter Rules dialog do not work with the keyboard
• Fixed: 341957 - Improved mail alert does not respect task bar position
• Fixed: 342315 - Reply All (to self sent msg) should preserve visible BCC recipients from original message
• Fixed: 343875 - The old labels prefs dialog should be removed or adapted to the new tags feature
• Fixed: 346873 - Message transfer-encoding not decoded in preview text (biff/mail alert/folder pop-up)
• Fixed: 353193 - RFE: Add customizable mail header display
• Fixed: 356327 - Pasted Windows Clipboard Images don't show up in the compose window
• Fixed: 360591 - quota indicator status bar item is too tall
• Fixed: 360792 - mail.delete_matches_sort_order does not work when using imap mark as deleted model
• Fixed: 360814 - remote content for (custom) thunderbird start page do not show anymore
• Fixed: 362241 - Thread Pane selection is lost when Tb compacts folders
• Fixed: 362567 - Customize Message Views modal dialog won't go away
• Fixed: 362741 - Selecting folder with previous view unread, while viewing another unread folder, fails.
• Fixed: 362990 - Customize Message Views dialog's selection should not affect View menu selection
• Fixed: 363094 - Autocomplete-to-my-domain confused after '@' entered in field
• Fixed: 363113 - Thunderbird autocomplete freezes up to 1 minute after typing one or two characters of an email address
• Fixed: 364116 - Virtual Folder list contains an extraneous splitter
• Fixed: 364275 - some texts in Account Setting->Security dialog need LABEL_FOR set
• Fixed: 364815 - JS Errors closing/opening compose window after opening Contacts Sidebar
• Fixed: 365621 - Update mail/ copyright dates to 2007
• Fixed: 365858 - tags lost on drag&drop from the IMAP (without tag support) to Local-folder (copy works)
• Fixed: 366016 - Reduce quoted text in our message preview string to "..."
• Fixed: 367318 - updated qute theme icons from arvid
• Fixed: 367434 - Many labels do not have the LABEL_FOR relation set
• Fixed: 367529 - Unable to load remote images in news

XULRunner: (1)

• Fixed: 286933 - Enter that selects autocomplete entry should be hidden from page scripts

Miscellaneous fixes: (6)

• Fixed: 348520 - remove threadpane.dtd from thunderbird
• Fixed: 359967 - File pref-downloads.dtd is no longer used
• Fixed: 362754 - confirmPhishingUrl entity is not logically formulated
• Fixed: 362755 - Beta 1 Release notes
• Fixed: 363163 - Thunderbird is chewing up cpu cycles even when idle.
• Fixed: 363979 - package storage.xpt and dom_storage.xpt

Mac-specific: (6)

• Fixed: 355547 - tag color not always showing up in thread pane
• Fixed: 364542 - View > Messages > All/Unread doesn't uncheck
• Fixed: 365282 - Thunderbird changes specified content type to text/plain when programatically sending email via javascript
• Fixed: 365710 - when in "recent" folders view, newly created folder should show up
• Fixed: 365879 - Don't ship movemail.rdf on the Mac
• Fixed: 366516 - Bump Up Security Settings for pre-filled dotmac accounts

OS/2-specific: (1)

• Fixed: 265798 - [XULRunner] cannot create new toolbar

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