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2008-01-29 Thunderbird Trunk builds

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

Thunderbird-specific:

Fixed: 321495 - Thunderbird 1.5rc1 and 1.5rc2 hangs with 945 messages in a POP account
Fixed: 382855 - plain text RFC2396E IP urls marked as scam, also links to 127.x.x.x
Fixed: 405440 - IMAP cache broken if the message download is not finished due to user interaction
Fixed: 410727 - XPCOMUtilify nsSetDefaultMail.js
Fixed: 412701 - Crash in nsCSSFrameConstructor::RestyleEvent::HandleEvent when closing
Fixed: 413299 - I object to application/object-stream

MailNews and other related categories:

Fixed: 116124 - remove duplicated conversion utils in nsMsgI18N.cpp
Fixed: 340634 - spell checker doesn't suggest "alot" correction
Fixed: 410320 - Crash when deleting mail, if two windows for the mail are opened [@ nsMsgMailSession::OnItemEvent]
Fixed: 412085 - [crash] Lots of incoming server function crash if SetKey hasn't been called [@nsMsgIncomingServer::getBoolValue] [@nsMsgIncomingServer::getIntValue] [@nsMsgIncomingServer::getCharValue]
Fixed: 412098 - [crash] nsMsgIncomingServer should only access mPrefBranch through the get*Value functions [@nsMsgIncomingServer::GetDoBiff] [@nsMsgIncomingServer::GetSocketType]
Fixed: 412103 - [crash] [@nsMsgIncomingServer::GetNewMessages]
Fixed: 412107 - [crash] [@nsMsgIncomingServer::IsNewHdrDuplicate]
Fixed: 412113 - [crash] [@nsMessengerBootstrap::Handle]
Fixed: 412134 - [crash] null-arg checks in nsMsgDBView.cpp
Fixed: 412137 - [crash] [@nsMsgFolderCompactor::Compact]
Fixed: 412138 - [crash] mdn extension assumes onStartRunningURL has been successful [@nsMsgMdnGenerator::OnStopRunningUrl]
Fixed: 412143 - [crash] null-arg checks in nsMailboxService.cpp
Fixed: 412144 - [crash] null-arg checks in nsNntpIncomingServer.cpp
Fixed: 413227 - Make it easier for address book based xpcshell unit tests to be used throughout mailnews
Fixed: 413518 - [crash] null-arg checks in nsMsgComposeService.cpp
Fixed: 413524 - [crash] null-arg checks in nsNntpService.cpp

Here is a not-so-good query of outstanding Thunderbird-specific blocker and critical bugs.

David Ascher has a comprehensive newsgroup post regarding the planning of Thunderbird 3. Feel free to join in the discussion.

Windows builds Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Linux builds Official Linux (i686)

Mac builds Official Mac (Universal binary)

Filed under 'Thunderbird Trunk' | Posted on 31 Jan 2008 (Thu) by Gary Kwong at 4:56 AM (GMT+8)

2008-01-29 Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 builds

Current Thunderbird 2.0 (2.0.0.9) | Next planned Thunderbird 2.0 (2.0.0.12) | Previous releases

Crash:

Fixed: 412701 - Crash in nsCSSFrameConstructor::RestyleEvent::HandleEvent when closing

Functionality:

Fixed: 405440 - IMAP cache broken if the message download is not finished due to user interaction

Spelling checker:

Fixed: 342511 - correcting another word (with spell checker) doesn't cause current word to be spell-checked

Miscellaneous fixes:

Fixed: 378340 - SpamAssasin typo in mailnews.js - causes "trust spamassassin" not to work
Fixed: 413299 - I object to application/object-stream

Outstanding bugs: (5)

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 20 Nov 06: 361279 - standalone mesage window: Unable to Retrieve Message when 'Retrieve Headers Only' applied
Since 21 Nov 06: 361417 - Crtl-Shift-A is no longer selecting the entire thread
Since 07 Jan 07: 366255 - Exception thrown in nsIEditor.inlineSpellChecker when opening/closing the compose window
Since 29 Jan 07: 368617 - Account setting "OK" button not saving data.

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 31 Jan 2008 (Thu) by Gary Kwong at 4:30 AM (GMT+8)

2008-01-18 Sunbird 0.8 builds

Current Sunbird (0.7) | Next planned Sunbird (0.8) | Previous releases

Common:

Fixed: 195580 - Can't use delete button to delete task or calendar
Fixed: 278799 - Unifinder: Sorting events should use collator, precomputed keys
Fixed: 313948 - Keep readOnly attribute set by user persist between sessions
Fixed: 353887 - Calendar Internal Code has errors when calculating recurrences with all-day and non-allday items
Fixed: 379029 - API to reflect provider capabilities
Fixed: 384826 - week/day view: drag event time, type title, double click: loses title
Fixed: 393395 - Offline Support infrastructure: Synchronization interfaces
Fixed: 401546 - Alarm indicator icon is not visible for recurrent events
Fixed: 402325 - Disable cut and paste commands when all calendars are readonly
Fixed: 405251 - Unit tests for memory and storage providers
Fixed: 408167 - could nightly calendar builds finish earlier (e.g. at ~8 am UTC)
Fixed: 408287 - Strict warnings in calendar-task-tree.xml on double click and startup
Fixed: 408291 - calendar-task-tree.xml shows completedDate in UTC
Fixed: 408349 - Add 'Click Here to Add a New Task' text field to Task List of Today-Pane
Fixed: 408473 - Strict warnings in calendar-dnd-listener.js [redeclaration of function ...]
Fixed: 408727 - Monthview is slow in sorting events
Fixed: 410140 - Update calendar copyright dates to 2008
Fixed: 412154 - Creating events with custom recurrence rule fails [Error: getElementValue is not defined]

Common (Providers):

Fixed: 328618 - failure when creating calendar objects does not display an error dialog
Fixed: 401263 - Event privacy set to "private" by default; should be set to "default" instead
Fixed: 409249 - Creating Tasks should return an error
Fixed: 412389 - channel variable not defined in calDavCalendar.js

Lightning-only:

Fixed: 325214 - Lightning calendar menu items don't have keyboard shortcuts
Fixed: 352546 - Build Lightning with all locales included
Fixed: 379204 - Add Open Calendar Item in Thunderbird File Menu
Fixed: 400444 - Thunderbird File - New menu has no accesskeys for Calendar items
Fixed: 405312 - Task Mode splitter affects Message Pane splitter in Mail Mode causing resizing issues
Fixed: 408651 - Scroll bar in Task mode is defect
Fixed: 411497 - Task mode should offer some sort of filtering
Fixed: 412613 - "Select All" (Ctrl+A) in Mail mode doesn't work anymore

Sunbird-only:

Fixed: 412639 - Clicking offline icon throws exception ["Cannot modify properties of a WrappedNative"]

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar0.8+): (27)

Since 29 Oct 05: 314339 - need to handle non-native timezone bits
Since 18 Feb 06: 327780 - Need to sort out what sort of toolbar UI to offer for Lightning
Since 01 Mar 06: 328996 - guessSystemTimezone doesn't take northern/southern hemisphere into account
Since 23 Nov 06: 361635 - Need to support incoming updates to existing iTIP/iMIP invitations
Since 29 Apr 07: 379198 - Lightning doesn't send iTIP messages on event updates
Since 18 Jul 07: 388656 - DATE values must not specify a TZID
Since 23 Jul 07: 389251 - Cannot dismiss alarm on single overridden instance of recurring item
Since 20 Oct 07: 400540 - Check installer removed-files against dist/bin
Since 05 Nov 07: 402518 - Enhance storage provider to store foreign timezones
Since 05 Nov 07: 402539 - Description and location not preserved when moving instance of recurring event
Since 02 Dec 07: 406441 - make it possible to build lightning as universal package
Since 03 Dec 07: 406576 - Investigate calIcalProperty::setDatetime_ for parentless properties (possible timezone issue)
Since 17 Dec 07: 408671 - Task/Event conversion is not possible on local calendars
Since 17 Dec 07: 408786 - recurring event to task conversion is not possible
Since 19 Dec 07: 408966 - After Event<->Task conversion some information are lost
Since 19 Dec 07: 408968 - It's not possible to convert a WCAP invitation in to a task
Since 05 Jan 08: 410931 - Update internal timezone definitions
Since 09 Jan 08: 411498 - Task mode details pane doesn't show enough details
Since 14 Jan 08: 412287 - Email -> task conversion when email has utf8 encoded subject creates task with weird name
Since 16 Jan 08: 412606 - Storage provider does not store X-params of attendees
Since 16 Jan 08: 412641 - Tracking bug for L10n issues regarding Sunbird/Lightning 0.8 release
Since 17 Jan 08: 412746 - Email addresses defect after event->task conversion on Mac
Since 17 Jan 08: 412757 - Event dialog is broken after removing the Privacy toolbar button [Error: menupopup has no properties]
Since 18 Jan 08: 412914 - Enable offline caching for a calendar with many events -> startup horrible slow
Since 18 Jan 08: 412918 - New Tasks run out of the view
Since 18 Jan 08: 412946 - Invitations show wrong start and end time
Since 19 Jan 08: 413128 - All calendars are deselected after Lightning update

Bugs with blocking-calendar0.8? flags: currently 10 at time of writing. (Bugs requested to block 0.8 release)

Bugs with wanted-calendar0.8+ flags: currently 65 at time of writing. (Bugs which should make it into 0.8) - folks who are interested in helping to develop the next version of Calendar should start from this list.

Bugs with wanted-calendar0.8? flags: currently 7 at time of writing. (Bugs requested to make it into 0.8)

Lightning .xpi:

Windows builds Official Windows .xpi, WCAP

Linux builds Official Linux .xpi, WCAP

Official Mac .xpi, WCAP (Both Mac builds PPC-only, enable "Open using Rosetta" in TB to install, see bug 406441)

Sunbird builds:

Windows builds Official Windows, Official Windows installer

Linux builds Official Linux (i686)

Mac builds Official Mac (Universal binary)

Filed under 'zz - Sunbird 0.8 nightlies' | Posted on 20 Jan 2008 (Sun) by Gary Kwong at 2:01 AM (GMT+8)

2008-01-18 Thunderbird Trunk builds

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

Thunderbird-specific:

Fixed: 297569 - Subscription hangs indefinitely on "Verifying feed" when <link> is empty
Fixed: 329441 - am-offline.xul l10n issues
Fixed: 329442 - fieldMapImport.xul l10n fixes
Fixed: 329445 - Add .label to offline pref labels
Fixed: 329447 - connection.xul l10n fixes
Fixed: 329449 - sendoptions.xul l10n fixes
Fixed: 329772 - am-server-advanced.dtd clarifying comments
Fixed: 362539 - Filters rules disappears when restarting due to >10000 /tmp/tmprules-*.dat files
Fixed: 403907 - Moving (+ delete/rename) a folder/subfolder (drag and drop) to an other location in the same account (even trash) take a lot of CPU and one to two minutes of processing (when many tmprules-N.dat in temporary directory, mainly caused by Bug 375292)
Fixed: 405303 - Add ID to View -> Layout menupopup to make overlaying easier for extensions (e.g. Lightning)
Fixed: 410601 - Mismatched accesskeys in mail/base/content/mailWindowOverlay.xul
Fixed: 411132 - Error 5.5.4 on sending to MS Exchange server due to newlines in hostname
Fixed: 411266 - Address book exported as homeStreet, but searches LDAP servers for mozillaHomeStreet
Fixed: 411481 - Make it easier for extensions to overlay the TB menubar by adding IDs
Fixed: 412434 - opening a window with -chrome does not work anymore

MailNews and other related categories:

Fixed: 206339 - improve PR_LOGGING for junk mail filter, so we can evaluate problems
Fixed: 207832 - Deleting certain mail with photos currently downloading can crash Mozilla with pop3 and norton antivirus
Fixed: 215068 - leading spaces are lost (HTML compose, plain-text send)
Fixed: 216479 - when opening drafts and templates for editing, we don't use the saved "return receipts" and "attach vcard" info
Fixed: 250811 - replace nsUint8Array with nsTArray<PRUint8>
Fixed: 322243 - Some elements in the card properties dialog missing accesskeys.
Fixed: 335813 - Spell checker doesn't recommend some obvious corrections
Fixed: 336581 - MDN contains Disposition-Notification-To: header (RFC3798 non conformance)
Fixed: 340362 - "ptr" is overwritten in "ptr = malloc" in AffixMgr::parse_affix(char *, char, _IO_FILE *)
Fixed: 340634 - spell checker doesn't suggest "alot" correction
Fixed: 355333 - [IMAP] Crash when moving or deleting messages [@ nsImapProtocol::HandleMessageDownLoadLine]
Fixed: 375292 - Stray tmprules.dat files created when getting new messages
Fixed: 387579 - crash while doing nothing... [@ nsMsgCompose::OnSendNotPerformed]
Fixed: 396588 - exclude "Card For" when printing address listing
Fixed: 403244 - crash [@ Tokenizer::tokenizeHeaders]
Fixed: 410369 - Some operations are very slow on large numbers of messages
Fixed: 410479 - replace nsSimpleUInt32Array with nsTArray<DWORD>
Fixed: 410553 - Message Filters that only "Tag Message" aren't entered in filterlog.html
Fixed: 410916 - Replace nsVoidArray with nsTObserverArray for the listener handling code in nsAddrDatabase
Fixed: 410928 - Remove nsAbMDBCardProperty
Fixed: 411646 - Crash [@ nsMsgCompose::Initialize] when initializing with null compose fields pointer in the params
Fixed: 412197 - Move nsIAbDirectory::listNickName and nsIAbDirectory::description from wstring to AString
Fixed: 412268 - Mailnews topcrashes [@ nsUInt32Array::GetAt]
Fixed: 412319 - In <MsgComposeCommands.js>, "Warning: assignment to undeclared variable destUri"

I will be tracking trunk builds from start of 2008 till now (this post) and beyond, but the categories are quite general (only Thunderbird-specific and several other related ones, including MailNews). (I am now using Python to partially automate Bugzilla output into HTML form, but it is still very much work-in-progress.)

Here is a not-so-good query of outstanding Thunderbird-specific blocker and critical bugs.

I don't test trunk builds that often, so please feel free to comment if they break.

Windows builds Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Linux builds Official Linux (i686)

Mac builds Official Mac (Universal binary)

Filed under 'Thunderbird Trunk' | Posted on 20 Jan 2008 (Sun) by Gary Kwong at 1:19 AM (GMT+8)

2008-01-18 Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 builds

Current Thunderbird 2.0 (2.0.0.9) | Next planned Thunderbird 2.0 (2.0.0.12) | Previous releases

Topcrashes:

Fixed: 355333 - [IMAP] Crash when moving or deleting messages [@ nsImapProtocol::HandleMessageDownLoadLine]
Fixed: 403244 - crash [@ Tokenizer::tokenizeHeaders]

Crash:

Fixed: 410320 - Crash when deleting mail, if two windows for the mail are opened [@ nsMsgMailSession::OnItemEvent]

Address book:

Fixed: 404264 - Junk Mail Controls to stop abnormally when processing email with null "from" (sender)

Filter-related:

Fixed: 283493 - flushing of training data during session practically never happens due to too high "# of changes" threshold

UI improvements:

Fixed: 301291 - Forward-inline ignores outgoing-charset preference
Fixed: 395374 - Send Unsent Messages fails silently in offline mode

Outstanding bugs: (6)

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 20 Nov 06: 361279 - standalone mesage window: Unable to Retrieve Message when 'Retrieve Headers Only' applied
Since 21 Nov 06: 361417 - Crtl-Shift-A is no longer selecting the entire thread
Since 07 Jan 07: 366255 - Exception thrown in nsIEditor.inlineSpellChecker when opening/closing the compose window
Since 29 Jan 07: 368617 - Account setting "OK" button not saving data.
Since 16 Jan 08: 412701 - Crash in nsCSSFrameConstructor::RestyleEvent::HandleEvent when closing

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 20 Jan 2008 (Sun) by Gary Kwong at 12:36 AM (GMT+8) | Comments (2)

Dan Mosedale joins MailCo

Dan Mosedale has joined MailCo. To the regular Mozilla folks, he is well-known for his previous development on mail/news and calendar code. He will be working with David Ascher at least for the next four months.

That's two on board MailCo so far.

Filed under 'Others (2008)' | Posted on 16 Jan 2008 (Wed) by Gary Kwong at 10:27 PM (GMT+8)

Much anticipated trunk news

Written on 13 Jan 2008, last updated 19 Mar 2008.

With the conclusion of Thunderbird 1.5.0.x ending with the possible last major update to Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, it is now time to refocus on trunk development that has occurred ever since Gecko 1.8 got branched on 12 August 2005 almost 2.5 years ago.

I came up with a query that tracks development on trunk builds that did not make it to 1.5 or 2.0, and the following are some examples of notable fixes that have made it (or will be making it) into Thunderbird 3. Please note that the list is not meant to be comprehensive, and some bugs in the query itself may not be relevant. Work-in-progress bugs may not necessarily make it into version 3.

Fixed:

16913 - Filter news based on any headers
90584 - charset=... must be applied to non-MIME Subject:/From:/To:/etc. fields
203927 - [Mac] Make use of Mac OS X's Address Book
226468 - "Add to BCC:" button added in Contacts sidebar
254031 - DOM inspector from AMO now works in Thunderbird
261512 - Show number of selected messages in status bar
319778 - Replace MySpell with HunSpell
326469 - [Mac] Support for Cocoa widgets by default
379396 - Enable Breakpad Support In Thunderbird
381041 - Shift-Del Behavior Should Work On Toolbar Button and Menus
414674 - AMO integration for Thunderbird
Remove pre-Win2k support - bugs 327675, 330276, 359808 (can be regarded as fixed)
Remove 10.2+ (Jaguar) support on Gecko 1.9 - Gran Paradiso 3 Alpha 1 release notes announcement, bug 363629
Remove 10.3+ (Panther) support on Gecko 1.9 - Gran Paradiso 3 Alpha 7 release notes announcement, bug 388444
Lots of backend changes (Architectural cleanup) - bugs 33451, 71535, 115324, 132180, 250811, 257386, 287832, 379431, 387712, 397457 etc.
More architectural changes can be found at Jesse Ruderman's "Unofficial Firefox Trunk Changelog".

Work-in-progress: (Can be anything from enhancements to blockers)

Replace mork with something better (SQLite?) - bugs 11050, 382876
Hide/Mute quoted text - bug 35929
Make LDAP addressbooks editable - bug 86405
Tabbed messaging - bug 218999
Thunderbird should use the new password manager - bug 239131
Add AND / OR searching to quick search - bug 240454
Build/run Thunderbird on top of XULRunner - bug 306324
[Mac] Growl Integration for Mail Alerts on Mac OS X - bug 308552
Show Address Book Contact Information in tooltips - bug 342580
Add ability to "Copy Email Address" from Address Book Card Pane - bug 365421
Lots of in-progress backend changes (Architectural cleanup) - bugs 377319, 379070, 394167, 395701 etc.
Clean up (and document) nsNNTPProtocol - bug 400331
Fake server testing scheme for mailnews/ - bug 413077
Refactor the Address Book interfaces - bug 413260
Outlook Express/Outlook parity bugs - bug 423488

The main query ~~(~130 bugs)~~ (~650) can be found here. A separate query similar to the main one, but for assigned and reopened bugs ~~(~60)~~ (~300) is also available.

<jargon>Main query goes like this: all thunderbird components + all mailnews components except installer, security and build config. No keywords: fixed-aviary1.0* fixed1.4* fixed1.8*, verified1.8*, crash, topcrash, regression, footprint, mlk. Marked resolved, verified, closed, fixed. Duration from 2005-08-12 to 2008-01-10, with resolution turning into fixed during this period. All have target milestone of mozilla1.9*, mozilla2.0, thunderbird 3 or future. -Edited to remove "footprint" keyword and target milestones.</jargon> (The focus is till 2008-01-10 trunk builds)

Sidenote: Eudora is now at version 8.0.0b2 (17 Dec 2007). Significance? "It is now based on the trunk code of Thunderbird: version 3.0a1pre. Some of the main new features of the trunk Thunderbird are the tabs interface for mailboxes and messages (right-click and select "Open in New Tab"), and the integration with the Mac OS X address book" (Penelope version 0.1a22, Thunderbird 3.0a1pre trunk code as of 2007/10/19)

"Eudora is a mail and news application from Qualcomm based on the open source Thunderbird client from Mozilla. It's *not* our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it." There may be a point in time in the future where Eudora features may make it into Thunderbird and vice versa, by complementing each other.

Feel free to add details below by posting a comment and providing a bug number if you see one worthy of making the list above.

Edit 1 (2008-01): Added more stuff. Incorporated changes suggested by James Napolitano. Split into fixed (green) and work-in-progress (red) categories. Added more bugs and architectural notes. Removed colours which made it difficult to read. Added demorkification & Mac Growl support bugs. Links to related blog posts about mork and its issues.

Edit 2 (2008-02): More bugs fixed. Mozilla Add-ons integration added. More in-progress bugs. Eudora 8.0.0b3 released.

Edit 3 (2008-03): More bugs fixed.

Filed under 'Thunderbird Trunk' | Posted on 16 Jan 2008 (Wed) by Gary Kwong at 10:20 PM (GMT+8) | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)

2008-01-10 Sunbird 0.8 builds

Current Sunbird (0.7) | Next planned Sunbird (0.8) | Previous releases

Common:

Fixed: 317786 - when an event has duration and no dtend, the duration is replaced by dtend on serializing (upload/export)
Fixed: 323011 - Unifinder default option should not be 'all events'
Fixed: 367186 - Migration wizard hangs when importing an empty ICS file from calendar extension
Fixed: 376585 - [Proto] Subscription Dialog -- Searching for Calendars
Fixed: 404056 - Select Calendar dialog is empty during export/import/publish
Fixed: 410055 - LAST-MODIFIED entries of all items in an ics file are set to actual time
Fixed: 410168 - circular reference in timezone references
Fixed: 410520 - need a way to not start the data migrator
Fixed: 410664 - Fix typo
Fixed: 410788 - remove dump statements

Common (Providers):

Fixed: 362650 - Google Calendar Provider: Support for Recurring Events
Fixed: 401678 - gdata preferences file is not correctly added
Fixed: 410560 - Quicken standalone build process

Lightning-only:

Fixed: 402534 - Provide a default set of categories
Fixed: 405687 - missing keyboard shortcut for the tasks window
Fixed: 406731 - Event..., Task..., Calendar... items are missing in File Menu
Fixed: 409968 - Modifying all items of a recurring event runs into exceptions
Fixed: 410650 - accel+VK_DOWN for jumping to today doesn't work

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar0.8+): (29)

Since 01 Mar 03: 195580 - Can't use delete button to delete task or calendar
Since 29 Oct 05: 314339 - need to handle non-native timezone bits
Since 01 Mar 06: 328996 - guessSystemTimezone doesn't take northern/southern hemisphere into account
Since 13 Sep 06: 352546 - Build Lightning with all locales included
Since 23 Nov 06: 361635 - Need to support incoming updates to existing iTIP/iMIP invitations
Since 29 Apr 07: 379198 - Lightning doesn't send iTIP messages on event updates
Since 18 Jul 07: 388656 - DATE values must not specify a TZID
Since 23 Jul 07: 389251 - Cannot dismiss alarm on single overridden instance of recurring item
Since 23 Aug 07: 393395 - Offline Support infrastructure: Synchronization interfaces
Since 20 Oct 07: 400540 - Check installer removed-files against dist/bin
Since 05 Nov 07: 402518 - Enhance storage provider to store foreign timezones
Since 05 Nov 07: 402539 - Description and location not preserved when moving instance of recurring event
Since 25 Nov 07: 405312 - Task Mode splitter affects Message Pane splitter in Mail Mode causing resizing issues
Since 02 Dec 07: 406441 - make it possible to build lightning as universal package
Since 03 Dec 07: 406576 - Investigate calIcalProperty::setDatetime_ for parentless properties (possible timezone issue)
Since 14 Dec 07: 408349 - Add 'Click Here to Add a New Task' text field to Task List of Today-Pane
Since 17 Dec 07: 408651 - Scroll bar in Task mode is defect
Since 17 Dec 07: 408671 - Task/Event conversion is not possible on local calendars
Since 17 Dec 07: 408727 - Monthview is slow in sorting events
Since 17 Dec 07: 408786 - recurring event to task conversion is not possible
Since 19 Dec 07: 408966 - After Event<->Task conversion some information are lost
Since 19 Dec 07: 408968 - It's not possible to convert a WCAP invitation in to a task
Since 19 Dec 07: 408971 - eMail to event/task conversion: wrong start time
Since 28 Dec 07: 410140 - Update calendar copyright dates to 2008
Since 03 Jan 08: 410666 - Lightning 0.7 event dialog broken in recent Thunderbird 2.0.0.12pre builds
Since 04 Jan 08: 410755 - It is not possible to resize and reorder the columns of the task list
Since 05 Jan 08: 410931 - Update internal timezone definitions
Since 09 Jan 08: 411497 - Task mode should offer some sort of filtering
Since 09 Jan 08: 411498 - Task mode details pane doesn't show enough details

Bugs with blocking-calendar0.8? flags: currently 4 at time of writing. (Bugs requested to block 0.8 release)

Bugs with wanted-calendar0.8+ flags: currently 67 at time of writing. (Bugs which should make it into 0.8) - folks who are interested in helping to develop the next version of Calendar should start from this list.

Bugs with wanted-calendar0.8? flags: currently 3 at time of writing. (Bugs requested to make it into 0.8)

Lightning .xpi:

Windows builds Official Windows .xpi, WCAP

Linux builds Official Linux .xpi, WCAP

Official Mac .xpi, WCAP (Both Mac builds PPC-only, enable "Open using Rosetta" in TB to install, see bug 406441)

Sunbird builds:

Windows builds Official Windows, Official Windows installer

Linux builds Official Linux (i686)

Mac builds Official Mac (Universal binary)

Filed under 'zz - Sunbird 0.8 nightlies' | Posted on 12 Jan 2008 (Sat) by Gary Kwong at 5:24 PM (GMT+8)

2008-01-10 Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 builds

Current Thunderbird 2.0 (2.0.0.9) | Next planned Thunderbird 2.0 (2.0.0.12) | Previous releases

Build configuration:

Fixed: 409515 - Please enable Afrikaans (af) for Thunderbird 2 (MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH)
Fixed: 410658 - add Ukrainian to the builds

Filter-related:

Fixed: 375292 - Stray tmprules.dat files created when getting new messages

UI improvements:

Fixed: 405303 - Add ID to View -> Layout menupopup to make overlaying easier for extensions (e.g. Lightning)

David Ascher is seeking input on MailCo's suggested new name over at the Mozilla Labs forum.

There have been 60 million downloads of Thunderbird since 1.0 release.

Outstanding bugs: (5)

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 20 Nov 06: 361279 - standalone mesage window: Unable to Retrieve Message when 'Retrieve Headers Only' applied
Since 21 Nov 06: 361417 - Crtl-Shift-A is no longer selecting the entire thread
Since 07 Jan 07: 366255 - Exception thrown in nsIEditor.inlineSpellChecker when opening/closing the compose window
Since 29 Jan 07: 368617 - Account setting "OK" button not saving data.

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 12 Jan 2008 (Sat) by Gary Kwong at 1:52 AM (GMT+8)

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 Released

Changelog for previous release (Thunderbird 2.0.0.9) | Changelogs for other Thunderbird releases

Released on 26 Feb 08, and this changelog was last updated on 27 Feb 08.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 has been released. Release notes are available. This post lists the improvements in Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 over 2.0.0.9. This list encompasses almost every single known fix that went into this release. Do check out the known issues as well.

The Gecko 1.8.1.x branch (Thunderbird 2.0.0.x series) will not include any groundbreaking features that Gecko 1.9 will bring, since it is based on Gecko 1.8. Additionally, in order to synchronize the version numbering with Firefox, 2.0.0.10 & 2.0.0.11 were dropped in favour of 2.0.0.12.

Impact key for security issues listed on the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories webpage:

Critical: Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.
High: Vulnerability can be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, requiring no more than normal browsing actions.
Moderate: Vulnerabilities that would otherwise be High or Critical except they only work in uncommon non-default configurations or require the user to perform complicated and/or unlikely steps.
Low: Minor security vulnerabilities such as Denial of Service attacks, minor data leaks, or spoofs. (Undetectable spoofs of SSL indicia would have "High" impact because those are generally used to steal sensitive data intended for other sites.)

Changes in 2.0.0.12: (30)

Security issues: (5)

Fixed: MFSA 2008-12 - Heap buffer overflow in external MIME bodies (Critical)
Fixed: MFSA 2008-01 - Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.12) (Moderate)
Fixed: MFSA 2008-03 - Privilege escalation, XSS, Remote Code Execution (Moderate)
Fixed: MFSA 2008-05 - Directory traversal via chrome: URI (Moderate)
Fixed: MFSA 2008-07 - Possible information disclosure in BMP decoder (Low)

Topcrashes: (2)

Fixed: 355333 - [IMAP] Crash when moving or deleting messages [@ nsImapProtocol::HandleMessageDownLoadLine]
Fixed: 403244 - crash [@ Tokenizer::tokenizeHeaders]

Crashes: (2)

Fixed: 410320 - Crash when deleting mail, if two windows for the mail are opened [@ nsMsgMailSession::OnItemEvent]
Fixed: 412701 - Crash in nsCSSFrameConstructor::RestyleEvent::HandleEvent when closing

Address book: (1)

Fixed: 404264 - Junk Mail Controls to stop abnormally when processing email with null "from" (sender)

Build configuration: (7)

Fixed: 331708 - When importing folders from Eudora, Thunderbird ignores folders whose names begin with a space
Fixed: 408755 - Update MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH to NSPR_4_6_8_RTM for Leopard build compatibility
Fixed: 408935 - Can't --disable-xpcom-obsolete in a 1.8 branch static build
Fixed: 409027 - transformiix builds with conflicting visibility on 1.8 branch due to header name collision
Fixed: 409515 - Please enable Afrikaans (af) for Thunderbird 2 (MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH)
Fixed: 410658 - add Ukrainian to the builds
Fixed: 416183 - add afrikaans to shipped-locales

Filter-related: (1)

Fixed: 283493 - flushing of training data during session practically never happens due to too high "# of changes" threshold
Fixed: 375292 - Stray tmprules.dat files created when getting new messages

Functionality: (1)

Fixed: 405440 - IMAP cache broken if the message download is not finished due to user interaction

Spelling checker: (1)

Fixed: 342511 - correcting another word (with spell checker) doesn't cause current word to be spell-checked

UI improvements: (3)

Fixed: 301291 - Forward-inline ignores outgoing-charset preference
Fixed: 395374 - Send Unsent Messages fails silently in offline mode
Fixed: 405303 - Add ID to View -> Layout menupopup to make overlaying easier for extensions (e.g. Lightning)

Miscellaneous fixes: (3)

Fixed: 378340 - SpamAssasin typo in mailnews.js - causes "trust spamassassin" not to work
Fixed: 413299 - I object to application/object-stream

Mac-specific: (3)

Fixed: 333821 - Capital (uppercase) J cannot be typed when entering text in some fields in Thunderbird
Fixed: 403250 - [10.5] 1.8 build configured with --enable-strip fails: strip: symbols referenced by relocation entries that can't be stripped in: .../xpinstall/src/libxpinstall.dylib
Fixed: 403258 - [10.5] When using an SDK, many configure checks fail

OS/2-specific: (1)

Fixed: 355067 - Package OS/2 cairo support library (mzfntcfg.dll) with SVG builds

Windows builds Official Windows installer

Linux builds Official Linux (i686)

Mac builds Official Mac (Universal binary)

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2008-01-01 Sunbird 0.8 builds

Current Sunbird (0.7) | Next planned Sunbird (0.8) | Previous releases

Calendars:

Fixed: 404653 - Updated 2008 spanish holidays calendar for Mozilla Calendar project website
Fixed: 409489 - Czech holidays
Fixed: 409502 - Colombian Holidays: Updated for 2008

Common:

Fixed: 324440 - make calendar code link with xpcom_glue instead of xpcom directly, convert to frozen linkage
Fixed: 332866 - Buttons with "Open"/"Edit" for events/tasks should be added to the Calendar Alarm window
Fixed: 341576 - A better event alarm dialog
Fixed: 354198 - Print output shows all day events from day preceding the selected date range
Fixed: 365706 - Migration wizard shows oversized progress bar on import page
Fixed: 382121 - use a javascript implementation of propertybags
Fixed: 388018 - Mode Toolbar: Prepare Items to perform as Drop Target
Fixed: 389522 - move shared code from applicationUtil.js to calUtils.js
Fixed: 389854 - Today-pane: implement agenda-pane
Fixed: 390492 - events with DURATION get serialized with DURATION and DTEND
Fixed: 392584 - Calendar Mode Menu cleanup needed
Fixed: 393414 - TZID should be ignored when DATE-TIME values are specified in absolute time (UTC)
Fixed: 400949 - Build Lightning with Sunbird
Fixed: 402177 - Add functionality for hiding the unifinder easily
Fixed: 404487 - recurring event, open edit dialog via context menu -> no 'Editing a repeating item'-dialog
Fixed: 405034 - Task list doesn't persist sort order or column selection anymore
Fixed: 405111 - Hidden completed tasks are visible in task list after Startup or Reload Remote Calendars
Fixed: 405417 - new task mode remains empty
Fixed: 405418 - Calendar color is not applied immediately to ICS calendars
Fixed: 405499 - Task list behaves erratic after deleting multiple tasks at once
Fixed: 405502 - Imported task is displayed twice in task list
Fixed: 407574 - calCompositeCalendar: numToSend is not defined
Fixed: 407798 - All tasks shown multiple times
Fixed: 408227 - calendar-alarm-dialog.ico file should include images for older platforms
Fixed: 408237 - Non working code due to setting of readonly attribute 'generation' in providers
Fixed: 409526 - QueryInterface functions in calUtils.js can be faster
Fixed: 409743 - Ukrainian builds
Fixed: 409842 - Remove unused journal menuitems and strings
Fixed: 409843 - Unify toolbar button styles
Fixed: 410080 - consolidate usage of ics-service
Fixed: 410086 - Random events have "Untitled" title

Common (Providers):

Fixed: 400808 - Google re-invites all attendees of an event when an invitation is accepted
Fixed: 405109 - It shouldn't possible to use the same profile by different wcap calendar users
Fixed: 405459 - Task without start and due date are not displayed anymore
Fixed: 406801 - Import and display of event with foreign timezone fails
Fixed: 406804 - Database upgrade from Sunbird 0.3 to 0.8pre fails
Fixed: 407279 - Make CalDAV-scheduling freebusy work with Oracle server
Fixed: 407700 - WCAP: Need to filter [;:] for common names CN
Fixed: 408067 - nsIXULAppInfo.ID case is incorrect
Fixed: 408826 - Errors regarding gdata's superCalendar
Fixed: 409346 - Typo in CalDAV provider prevents PUT to Chandler svn

Lightning-only:

Fixed: 406345 - Switching between modes is broken
Fixed: 407745 - Add lightning version in user-agent string
Fixed: 408740 - Calendar Toolbar has conflicting accesskey in Lightning
Fixed: 409003 - Rotate View is always disabled

Mac-specific:

Fixed: 408743 - Today-pane close button misses active and hover states on Mac

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar0.8+): (17)

Since 29 Oct 05: 314339 - need to handle non-native timezone bits
Since 10 Jan 06: 323011 - Unifinder default option should not be 'all events'
Since 01 Mar 06: 328996 - guessSystemTimezone doesn't take northern/southern hemisphere into account
Since 23 Nov 06: 361635 - Need to support incoming updates to existing iTIP/iMIP invitations
Since 23 Aug 07: 393395 - Offline Support infrastructure: Synchronization interfaces
Since 20 Oct 07: 400540 - Check installer removed-files against dist/bin
Since 05 Nov 07: 402518 - Enhance storage provider to store foreign timezones
Since 16 Nov 07: 404056 - Select Calendar dialog is empty during export/import/publish
Since 25 Nov 07: 405312 - Task Mode splitter affects Message Pane splitter in Mail Mode causing resizing issues
Since 03 Dec 07: 406576 - Investigate calIcalProperty::setDatetime_ for parentless properties (possible timezone issue)
Since 14 Dec 07: 408346 - single recurring event with alarm -> dismiss/dismiss all doesn't work
Since 17 Dec 07: 408657 - Implement nsITreeView fully for all calendar related trees.
Since 17 Dec 07: 408671 - Task/Event conversion is not possible on local calendars
Since 17 Dec 07: 408786 - recurring event to task conversion is not possible
Since 19 Dec 07: 408968 - It's not possible to convert a WCAP invitation in to a task
Since 19 Dec 07: 408971 - eMail to event/task conversion: wrong start time
Since 27 Dec 07: 409968 - Modifying all items of a recurring event runs into exceptions

Bugs with

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2008-01-29 Sunbird 0.8 builds

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2008-01-10 Sunbird 0.8 builds

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