The Rumbling Edge

Calendar release history

Common (excluding Website bugs): (12)

• Fixed: 316916 – Implement Task filter (Search for tasks in task list on tasks tab) / Implement “Find Events or Tasks”
• Fixed: 362940 – Invite Attendees dialog: remove “Next hour” and “Previous hour” buttons
• Fixed: 537456 – It is not possible to copy/paste Tasks from the Task View or Today Pane
• Fixed: 586276 – Hooks / stubs mechanisms for Mozilla Lightning
• Fixed: 588799 – The latest thunderbird and lightning no longer work with chandler projects server
• Fixed: 704001 – Remove the dotted lines in trees
• Fixed: 711715 – gdata-provider versions should increase from release to beta to aurora to trunk
• Fixed: 713633 – Fix calDateTime nsIXPCScriptable implementation (build error calDateTime::PreCreatePrototype)
• Fixed: 713990 – Provider for Google Calendar 0.9 doesn’t work with Seamonkey 2.6
• Fixed: 714431 – New Event… and New Task… are always disabled
• Fixed: 714432 – Lightning not working on some Windows XP [Failed to load native module at path ...\calbasecomps.dll]
• Fixed: 714569 – Add menu commands to postpone the start and/or due dates of tasks

One can get the latest Lightning .xpis here.

Sunbird will no longer be actively developed by the Calendar team.

Thunderbird release history

Thunderbird-specific: (21)

• Fixed: 391004 – “Open Browser with Message-ID” should be removed from References’ and Message-IDs’ context menu for emails
• Fixed: 534466 – Address book birthday field doesn’t parse date formats correctly and displays spurious date elements.
• Fixed: 561517 – Exception setting up account
• Fixed: 609424 – review, update make live crash article
• Fixed: 696347 – Compact Folders throws error message cmd_compactFolder. TypeError: this._resetThreadPane is not a function
• Fixed: 705381 – Tab blend into the rest making things look odd
• Fixed: 710838 – Certain dark Personas make it hard to read the selected tab title
• Fixed: 711085 – Attachment tests are never run as part of mozmilltests.list, and are broken
• Fixed: 712285 – (tabs on top) throbber very close to edge
• Fixed: 712395 – Folder pane randomly collapses on startup with TestPilot 1.3.4 and Tabs on top
• Fixed: 712560 – Ctrl+Tab doesn’t cycle tabs anymore
• Fixed: 713058 – Polish tabs-on-top theme on Windows XP
• Fixed: 713061 – Polish the standalone window under Aero
• Fixed: 713071 – Active tabs are bold, possibly a bit too much
• Fixed: 713457 – Linux theme fixes
• Fixed: 713852 – Fix strange tab appearance due to change in border-image behaviour
• Fixed: 714042 – Stop trying to package MacOS/Contents/Plug-Ins/ since we haven’t put anything in there since bug 520494
• Fixed: 714390 – Folder Location and Mail Views items are cut off in the customize toolbar dialog
• Fixed: 714456 – navigation-toolbox light blue under Classic
• Fixed: 714510 – Viewpickerlabel has a white background on normal toolbars
• Fixed: 715212 – Customize toolbar dialog buttons are strangely tall

MailNews Core: (16)

• Fixed: 389650 – “Unable to save your message as a draft” and “Assembling mail information” when replying to forwarded attached .eml message
• Fixed: 487945 – Auto save breaks inline img links for non-draft edits
• Fixed: 490749 – File/New/Saved Search produces exception, if no account/no folder is selected at folder pane (Error: folder is undefined Source File: chrome://messenger/content/folderPane.js Line: 1463)
• Fixed: 564656 – “Warning: package error or possible missing or unnecessary file: ….app/Contents/Plug-Ins/ (package-manifest, …).”
• Fixed: 629487 – crash [@ nsMsgDBView::RemoveRows]
• Fixed: 695256 – Switch from PRBool to bool and replace PR_TRUE/PR_FALSE with true/false in comm-central
• Fixed: 709247 – Fix to sync feeds database on folderpane moves
• Fixed: 710494 – [SeaMonkey] xpcshell: “Couldn’t report telemetry” warning. (“test_corrupt_database.js | 3 == 2″. And 6 other gloda tests.)
• Fixed: 711787 – Deadlock in nsImapProtocol::CanHandleUrl caused by calling nsISocketTransport::IsAlive off the socket transport thread
• Fixed: 713429 – All message filters disappear
• Fixed: 713611 – Thunderbird Daily starting from 20111225 messed-up some messages (showing their source in the preview pane due to offset shift by 2 bytes, when pop3 download of multiple msgs with quarantinging turned off and leave on server turned on)
• Fixed: 713683 – crash at mail startup [@ nsParseNewMailState::MoveIncorporatedMessage]
• Fixed: 713873 – crash in nsMsgDatabase::SetSummaryValid if feed db out of date
• Fixed: 713958 – msgOffset for copied local messages not set correctly
• Fixed: 715210 – Remove some WINCE leftovers in comm-central
• Fixed: 715793 – Port |Bug #715048| to Comm-central.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux (i686), Official Linux (x86_64)

Official Mac

Calendar release history

Common (excluding Website bugs): (15)

• Fixed: 428022 – Category color indicators should be printed
• Fixed: 459021 – Invite Attendees dialog: automatically expand address book mailing lists
• Fixed: 537456 – It is not possible to copy/paste Tasks from the Task View or Today Pane
• Fixed: 563177 – No tooltip shown for Calendar and Tasks toolbar button
• Fixed: 605378 – Fail to parse supported-calendar-component-set results from Chandler PROPFIND
• Fixed: 612031 – follow-up to removal of region.dtd
• Fixed: 671119 – Calendar widget colors do not adapt to GTK high contrast themes
• Fixed: 684518 – Task view rows get a border after restarting (aero theme not applied)
• Fixed: 697379 – Fix the buildsymbols target for lightning on Windows
• Fixed: 697639 – Editing the Start Date of a series of repeating items with an UNTIL date can leave invalid occurrences in the views
• Fixed: 700079 – calItipEmailTransport does not set default SMTP server
• Fixed: 703877 – Implement bug 583197 in Task views
• Fixed: 709549 – Adding a new task selects the last item in the task list
• Fixed: 710239 – Minimonth and Timepicker mousewheel support is broken [Error: NSUIEvent is not defined]
• Fixed: 712103 – content/preferences/general.xul not processed

One can get the latest Lightning .xpis here.

Sunbird will no longer be actively developed by the Calendar team.

Thunderbird release history

Thunderbird-specific: (55)

• Fixed: 223132 – need a scrollbar on the envelope panel (view all headers / long address lists)
• Fixed: 323144 – “Trust junk mail headers set by” should support Bogofilter’s “X-Bogosity” header
• Fixed: 442838 – Unfork <msgCompSecurityInfo.xul>
• Fixed: 458454 – Ability to customize vanilla Thunderbird with a group of settings (through distribution.ini)
• Fixed: 521209 – Alt-S and alt-D access key twice in Options/Display
• Fixed: 543210 – Disable .pdf attachment warner when .pdf is in a full URL
• Fixed: 582801 – Thunderbird tab bar should be a toolbar
• Fixed: 595654 – MultiMessageSummary and ThreadSummary should ensure multimessageview.xhtml is loaded before proceeding
• Fixed: 635938 – Support more common ms-word extensions for the missing attachment query
• Fixed: 635993 – Attachment reminder doesn’t recognize file names with matching file-type extensions
• Fixed: 644169 – Provide tabs on top feature like FF 4.0
• Fixed: 650798 – Contacts sidebar: Missing accelerator keys on context menu
• Fixed: 652555 – Search… on folder context menu should be Search Messages…
• Fixed: 665142 – mark read by date should use a filter enumerator
• Fixed: 667244 – toggle quickfilter toolbar should not be a tab
• Fixed: 670304 – Buttons on the tab bar should match Firefox
• Fixed: 677882 – Bug 486320 not fully functional with Lightning installed
• Fixed: 680192 – Port bug 617528 from Firefox and make html5 context menus work in Thunderbird (important for Conversations)
• Fixed: 687520 – Add DSPAM to “Trust junk mail headers set by” Option
• Fixed: 687836 – Bug-fixing pre-followup patch.
• Fixed: 688860 – Cannot switch spell check language with multiple compose windows open
• Fixed: 689742 – Disable hardware acceleration in Thunderbird
• Fixed: 692100 – menubar is extremely difficult to read with aero-glass effect
• Fixed: 698272 – Long attachment file name screws up message reader UI for messages with single attachment
• Fixed: 698702 – Symbol packaging problem in Socorro symbol store
• Fixed: 700536 – Account provisioner polish, and x.browser bug in uriListener.js
• Fixed: 704451 – Switching to unread filter hides all my email
• Fixed: 704830 – Missing file at run time: chrome/messenger/content/messenger/webSearch.js
• Fixed: 705462 – [autoconfiguration] Setting my mozilla account through the “Mail Account Setup” does not find up the configuration
• Fixed: 705649 – vcard editor/ form showing blank
• Fixed: 705808 – TestPilot first-run tab shouldn’t open for Thunderbird
• Fixed: 706794 – Add extensions.strictCompatibility pref to Thunderbird to make addons compatible-by-default
• Fixed: 706796 – Addons that haven’t been updated for an extremely long time should not be compatible by default
• Fixed: 706797 – Make AddonRepository.getAddonsByIDs() not send performance data
• Fixed: 706905 – [build failed] LDAP C SDK with pymake on windows – ldap/sdks should update to changeset 2da94bd1028c
• Fixed: 707105 – Near-perma-orange: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test-newmailaccount.js | test-newmailaccount.js::test_get_an_account
• Fixed: 707122 – Fix packaging of msvc dlls (add support for 2011, remove others if necessary on upgrade)
• Fixed: 707225 – Addon update check should take into account compatibility preferences
• Fixed: 707792 – Port bug 549561 to Thunderbird to speed up mailbloat tests
• Fixed: 707992 – Upgrade to virtualenv 1.7 for mozmill tests
• Fixed: 708315 – virtual search folder can’t be deleted (“bundle is not defined” folderPane.js” line: 2203)
• Fixed: 708982 – Provide listenable events for attachment operations in the compose window
• Fixed: 709270 – Test-pilot’s More Info on Study tab links open wrong
• Fixed: 709717 – Send the compatibility mode when using AMO Search API
• Fixed: 709737 – Test Pilot notifications don’t work
• Fixed: 709842 – focus moves to message body, delete key no longer deletes msg
• Fixed: 710813 – Tools | Add-ons | Test Pilot Options popping up a very small non functional window
• Fixed: 710867 – Make inactive tabs opaque under Aero
• Fixed: 710912 – Permanent orange on Linux: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test-newmailaccount.js | test_can_pref_off_account_provisioner
• Fixed: 711968 – Buttons in Account Provisioner do not wrap long text
• Fixed: 711980 – Permanent orange: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test_mailtoURL.js | test_mime_attachments_size.js | test_attachmentChecker.js | xpcshell/head.js
• Fixed: 712159 – Line between window title bar and toolbar in standalone window
• Fixed: 712312 – Troubleshooting Information broken due to missing aboutSupport.showWin.label string
• Fixed: 712624 – Permanent orange: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test-autohide-menubar.js | test_autohidden_menubar_3pane, test_autohidden_menubar_message_window, test_autohidden_menubar_compose_window, test_autohidden_menubar_address_book
• Fixed: 712960 – TB 9 does not install on XP Pro SP3: error registering AccessibleMarshal.dll and MapiProxy_InUse.dll – missing msvc dlls

MailNews Core: (32)

• Fixed: 37465 – Assertions running news://host/article, news://host/group, or doing new message when you have zero accounts.
• Fixed: 376546 – Wishlist: Message Filters should have “Mark as unread” action
• Fixed: 402392 – Support other message storage formats
• Fixed: 413521 – add null-arg checks in nsMsgFilterService.cpp, nsMsgFolderCompactor.cpp, and nsMsgPrintEngine.cpp
• Fixed: 426504 – Add POPFile to “Trust junk mail headers set by” option
• Fixed: 481682 – Thunderbird Message Filters enabled with spacebar won’t save enabled/disabled state on close of filter list window
• Fixed: 518504 – Replace PR_MIN/PR_MAX with NS_MIN/NS_MAX, in comm-central
• Fixed: 545780 – mimeiimg.h: update comment about supported types
• Fixed: 555105 – SMTP pref dialog should say Port Standard: 587 – not 25
• Fixed: 561618 – SMTP Protocol Failure
• Fixed: 606818 – RSS Subscription stuck at “verifying the feed”
• Fixed: 681647 – Get rid of import code dependence on nsIEditor
• Fixed: 687430 – Feeds of an account stopped automatically updating, checking manually works only for single feeds, not whole account
• Fixed: 689437 – Drop support for migrating from old profiles (drop usages of libreg)
• Fixed: 694464 – c-c configure.in: port bug 464088 and bug 690369. (NSS_DISABLE_DBM)
• Fixed: 697740 – “Run Junk Mail Controls on Folder” quits early with error gMessengerBundle is not defined chrome://messenger/content/junkCommands.js Line: 276
• Fixed: 700175 – Port Bug 697881 “XCode 4.2 no longer provides a gcc-4.2″ to c-c
• Fixed: 701261 – Emails with attachment appears blank with no option to save attachment, and is shown as attachment by Forward (Actual Voice mail, PDF mail etc. Message body of non-multipart mail is non-displayable one such as audio/wav, application/pdf.)
• Fixed: 705504 – Ensure feeds are deleted cleanly and completely.
• Fixed: 705532 – Remove typo’d ENVIRONMENT_MAC_OS_X_VERION_MIN_REQUIRED define from c-c
• Fixed: 705553 – Make mailnews/addrbook compile with frozen linkage on Windows
• Fixed: 705573 – Make mailnews compile with frozen linkage on debug Windows
• Fixed: 707306 – add null-arg checks in nsMsgFilter.cpp, nsMsgFilterList.cpp, nsMsgSearchAdapter.cpp
• Fixed: 707517 – Port |Bug 603574 – [Windows VC++] –disable-profile-guided-optimization is ignored| to comm-central
• Fixed: 707539 – Port |Bug 639754 – Remove MOZ_IPC checks since IPC is always built now| to comm-central
• Fixed: 708274 – Remove 2 deprecated PR_ABS() uses in MailNews Core
• Fixed: 708577 – ldap/xpcom/src fails to build (gcc-4.6.1)
• Fixed: 708799 – WSEnable.exe.manifest: manifest authoring error c1010001
• Fixed: 709020 – Remove unused “failedDuplicateAccount” string
• Fixed: 710295 – test_autoconfigFetchDisk.js is not fully disabled on SeaMonkey
• Fixed: 711718 – Mac64 builds failing during packaging
• Fixed: 712260 – On Migration Day, update client.py to pull stable versions of suite extensions

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux (i686), Official Linux (x86_64)

Official Mac

Calendar release history

Common (excluding Website bugs): (20)

• Fixed: 362645 - Google Calendar Provider: Support for Optimistic Concurrency
• Fixed: 386516 - Monthly repeating event on last day of month occurs on wrong dates
• Fixed: 406579 - Update story for timezone database
• Fixed: 434009 - Replace Task Progress bar colors
• Fixed: 582089 - caldav won’t display calendar items if they are marked with a content type of “text/plain”
• Fixed: 624662 - Event dialog: start/end timezone get lost if ‘all day’ checkbox is ticked/de-ticked once
• Fixed: 625272 - Port |Bug 617787 – Stop offering uninstall survey to users| to Sunbird
• Fixed: 647232 - Update internal timezone database from version 2011b to version 2011n
• Fixed: 687453 - Event dialog: No icons in customize toolbar
• Fixed: 689140 - Icons in task view and mail icon in “Write” button are size scaled with aero theme.
• Fixed: 691735 - Change lightning buildbot automation to directly upload to the /calendar/lightning/nightly/ directory on ftp
• Fixed: 695117 - No access to Apple iCloud calendars with TB/Lightning
• Fixed: 695247 - Allow opening event if invitation has already been processed
• Fixed: 697553 - Adapt to the calIChangeLog interface changes (gdata offline support)
• Fixed: 697812 - After creating a new event, clicking on other elements doesn’t blur the title textbox
• Fixed: 698760 - Calendar Views UI freshening
• Fixed: 698938 - Invitations Dialog: Selected option is not totally obvious
• Fixed: 699894 - [PATCH] timezones.sqlite gets installed with mode 0755
• Fixed: 701659 - Alarms fire but cannot be removed from the Alarm Dialog for occurrences of repeating items starting more than 6 hours in the future
• Fixed: 703308 - Replace call to isSameNode() in agenda-listbox.js (method was removed in mozilla10)

Lightning 1.0 has been released, and is likely to follow Thunderbird in a time-based release schedule.

Whatever bug misses the release train can catch the next one (YouTube video), so outstanding bug lists are no longer relevant.

One can get the latest Lightning .xpis here.

Sunbird will no longer be actively developed by the Calendar team.

Thunderbird release history

Thunderbird-specific: (47)

• Fixed: 193281 - Ability to import/save e-mail messages from .eml text files to folders (Message|Copy)
• Fixed: 250415 - Ctrl+scrollwheel should Zoom/Unzoom message by default (mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action = 3)
• Fixed: 408370 - STEEL 0.1
• Fixed: 469117 - Multiple Proxy Authentication Required
• Fixed: 499557 - New mail alert should not be displayed when running a full-screen application
• Fixed: 535103 - Thunderbird does not (offer to) remember authenticated proxy password
• Fixed: 550478 - Attached .eml – Other Actions –> View Source – only shows body.
• Fixed: 579912 - Quirks in folderPane.css
• Fixed: 582576 - quick filter state on folder switch involving Account central does not match button state
• Fixed: 583197 - Accessibility: Message window To,From,Subject titles very feint and hard to see (grey text on a grey background)
• Fixed: 585308 - change access key for account settings to S to match main pane
• Fixed: 627829 - Add hbox enclosing messagepanebox
• Fixed: 666229 - simple, glyphs for the message header buttons
• Fixed: 671936 - threading gets worse when a search folder combining IMAP Inbox and Sent is reopened
• Fixed: 677421 - Add support for OpenSearch from Thunderbird
• Fixed: 679414 - apparently untriaged feedback-thunderbird mailing list still drawing user feedback
• Fixed: 682070 - Revised attachment view doesn’t work well with personas
• Fixed: 686347 - Get an account implementation tracker
• Fixed: 690655 - I cannot re-edit vCard using the previous values
• Fixed: 690761 - Switch nsIAbManager::convertQueryStringToExpression aQueryString parameter to nsAUTF8String
• Fixed: 692616 - large images not be scaled down to windows size
• Fixed: 695468 - Upgrade to MozMill 1.5.6 for Thunderbird
• Fixed: 696621 - Inadvertent global variable creation in mail/base/content/folderPane.js
• Fixed: 697413 - Usage of progress bar for visualizing imap quota is irritating - details window only
• Fixed: 698077 - You can only “Don’t Save” a message once on quit
• Fixed: 698238 - test-font-chooser.js fails on Windows after bug 454532
• Fixed: 699825 - Ensure valid 3pane layout pref value, UI fail if not.
• Fixed: 700054 - Emoticons not displayed in pull-down menu using GNOME desktop
• Fixed: 700220 - Multi-message summary broken after bug 397424
• Fixed: 700292 - Permanent orange: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test-address-book.js | test_writing_to_mailing_list
• Fixed: 700535 - Need to be able to pref off account provisioner
• Fixed: 700627 - Add ast to all-locales for Aurora
• Fixed: 700650 - Switch to official mail account provider URLs in all-thunderbird.js
• Fixed: 700657 - Permanent orange: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test-instrument-setup.js | test_mail_account_setup
• Fixed: 700947 - Hide Test Pilot Feedback button on Aurora until input.mozilla.org works for Thunderbird
• Fixed: 700993 - Chrome tabs broken after landing of bug 677421
• Fixed: 701005 - Permanent orange: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test-header-toolbar.js | test_customize_header_toolbar_reorder_buttons, test_customize_header_toolbar_separate_window, test_customize_header_toolbar_remove_buttons
• Fixed: 701016 - Remove hard-coded “Free” string, and add plural form support in Account Provisioner
• Fixed: 701671 - Entity messengerWindow.title seems not to be used in Thunderbird
• Fixed: 702086 - Don’t throw when version is null in specialTabs.splitVersion
• Fixed: 702094 - Dragging attachments from the compose window doesn’t work anymore
• Fixed: 702137 - genericPhotoHandler saves wrong photoname
• Fixed: 702201 - Clicking the “Delete” toolbar button with an attachment focused should delete the message, not the attachment
• Fixed: 702209 - [testpilot] Disable feedback buttons in Tools -> Feedback menu for now
• Fixed: 702349 - On Mac the background of the individual test pilot studies is transparent
• Fixed: 704234 - remove the update channel reference from the about page when updater is not available
• Fixed: 704436 - “Get next N news messages” never works

MailNews Core: (34)

• Fixed: 39121 - Unspecialize Trash folder for IMAP “Mark as Deleted” & “Remove Immediately” modes
• Fixed: 77972 - Non-ascii name is garbled in the Reply-to field on the Account Manager mail panel
• Fixed: 226890 - Thunderbird doesn’t handle news: and nntp: URLs properly (RFC 5538)
• Fixed: 278341 - [mozTXTToHTMLConv] A colon (:) after a URL in a message is recognized as part of the URL.
• Fixed: 351109 - Reply/Forward/Edit of .EML file corrupts image URL
• Fixed: 403242 - Executes arbitrary commands on NNTP server after receiving a badly formatted article
• Fixed: 435242 - Remove NS_NewAtom usage from mailnews
• Fixed: 488971 - 6 * |mailnews/base/test/TestMsgStripRE.cpp(102) : warning C4309: ‘initializing’ : truncation of constant value|
• Fixed: 496970 - can’t search address book for contact that includes apostrophe
• Fixed: 583490 - crash [@ nsOutlookCompose::FindNextEndLine(SimpleBufferTonyRCopiedTwice&)]
• Fixed: 584962 - automatic CC to self stripped on Reply All
• Fixed: 591649 - Account Manager (and other screens) exceed display size and become unusable
• Fixed: 592967 - nsImportAddressBooks.cpp: 1 s/ImportMailThread/ImportAddressThread/
• Fixed: 618624 - in message filter “content-type” for News account, I am missing “doesn’t contain” choice (News only problem)
• Fixed: 649268 - msgReadSMIMEOverlay.xul: 1 s/observes/command/
• Fixed: 666202 - import subscriptions and export subscriptions differ about opml extension
• Fixed: 670935 - News crash [@ nsMsgKeySet::Output(char**) ] | [@ nsMsgNewsFolder::UpdateSummaryFromNNTPInfo ] and [@ nsMsgKeySet::Output ] (Mac)
• Fixed: 686278 - Drop –disable-mailnews
• Fixed: 687848 - crash in TB when import email from outlook 2007 due to OOM
• Fixed: 690207 - Skip IMAP folders on import from Outlook
• Fixed: 692875 - editing an existing draft with inline images doesn’t handle mime part renumbering when new images are added before existing images
• Fixed: 694915 - crash nsNntpService::MessageURIToMsgHdr (from 8.0 or later)
• Fixed: 696455 - Port |Bug 680373 – Link jemalloc to mozutils instead of mozalloc on Android| to comm-central
• Fixed: 696572 - Port |Bug 681588 – Cleanup wrap malloc and its use on Android| to comm-central
• Fixed: 696913 - deadlock in nsImapProtocol::SendData if UI thread tries to check CanHandleUrl()
• Fixed: 697572 - Port Bug 680277 “Debug builds should always be compiled with frame pointers” to c-c
• Fixed: 698987 - Sub folder is not imported correctly
• Fixed: 700745 - Remove -fpascal-strings from mac build options from c-c
• Fixed: 701213 - some mistakes in comment
• Fixed: 701679 - Port |Bug 311007 – Add aFlags arg to onLocationChange(…), to distinguish between same-document and different-document| to comm-central
• Fixed: 702475 - delimiter, the third argument of nsTextAddress::ReadRecord and ReadRecordNumber, is not used at all
• Fixed: 702881 - The document of nsIImportAddressBooks::GetSampleData is ambiguous
• Fixed: 703503 - Charset detection function should be moved into mailnews/base/util/
• Fixed: 704797 - Port |Bug 650476 – Build –with-libxul-sdk is broken| to comm-central

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux (i686), Official Linux (x86_64)

Official Mac

Calendar release history

Common (excluding Website bugs): (36)

• Fixed: 325519 - ICS provider provides almost no useful diagnostic info on errors
• Fixed: 349641 - Lightning asks for master password again
• Fixed: 355282 - Click and Dragging a new event can’t be cancelled by Escape
• Fixed: 355288 - Can only delete multiple events at once, when not right-clicking on an event to get the context menu
• Fixed: 373773 - Need way for providers to use external (possibly shared) dialogboxen (i.e caldav conflict dialog)
• Fixed: 380060 - Implementation of full offline mode (esp. modification of calendar data)
• Fixed: 386516 - Monthly repeating event on last day of month occurs on wrong dates
• Fixed: 438310 - Delete a recurring task in the today pane -> no ‘Delete repeating event’ dialog
• Fixed: 459021 - Invite Attendees dialog: automatically expand address book mailing lists
• Fixed: 477287 - with Cache, Provider for Google Calendar loses alarms and categories on event edit / alarms and categories cannot be added to existing events
• Fixed: 496897 - an exception occurs when closing the alarm window containing alarms for several occurences of the same event
• Fixed: 541310 - Related Link (in Edit Task and Edit Event Window) is NOT clickable
• Fixed: 553800 - Cannot change priority from task context menu in Today pane (Mail tab only)
• Fixed: 554267 - Deleting a single item of an recurring event, does not delete the alarm of this event.
• Fixed: 653924 - RELATED-TO headers are duplicated during write
• Fixed: 663400 - Changing view causes an error “this.tabbox is null”
• Fixed: 673083 - Create a buildsymbols target for Lightning
• Fixed: 673088 - Parse shipped-locales better
• Fixed: 675608 - startup crash [@ mozalloc_abort(char const* const) | NS_DebugBreak_P | cal::getTimezoneService()]
• Fixed: 678649 - Today pane in Lion won’t expand
• Fixed: 682583 - Remove calendar’s dependency on nsTryToClose.js
• Fixed: 684582 - Fix strict warnings: assignment to undeclared variable
• Fixed: 686420 - Cancelled events are not shown as cancelled in “Events and Tasks” bar (Today pane)
• Fixed: 688469 - Create the Calendar 1.0b7 release builds
• Fixed: 688727 - make repack-l10n-all fails on windows due to awk call
• Fixed: 689589 - Lightning doesn’t work in Thunderbird 9.0a2 and 10.0a1, startup errors [document.getElementById("calendarDisplayDeck") is null]
• Fixed: 690560 - make repack-l10n-all doesn’t work correctly on Mac universal builds.
• Fixed: 690562 - Create Calendar 1.0rc1 release builds
• Fixed: 692755 - Fix channels for the ics provider
• Fixed: 692783 - Attendees not aligned with their respective free/busy timelines
• Fixed: 692926 - Labels in Task header pane have hard coded colors
• Fixed: 695136 - In rotate view (day/week views), creating events via drag and drop doesn’t work
• Fixed: 695223 - Exception in caldav provider
• Fixed: 696122 - L10n files (lightning-AB-CD.jar) missing in Lightning 1.0rc builds
• Fixed: 696460 - Database backup fails [Storage: Error creating backup file: ReferenceError: CI is not defined]
• Fixed: 696629 - Task-view button text not readable under Ubuntu default theme

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar1.0+): (28)

• Since 2004-09-17: 260121 - Make datepicker and timepicker keyboard accessible
• Since 2005-11-01: 314594 - No error message if invalid URL used for new calendar, creates invalid calendars
• Since 2005-11-10: 315959 - profile ICS calendar reading
• Since 2006-09-30: 354935 - undo after moving a single occurrence does the wrong thing
• Since 2006-11-16: 360916 - Snoozed alarm fires at old event time although event time has been changed
• Since 2007-03-24: 375210 - Revisit alarm dialog dismissal/snooze user experience
• Since 2007-07-24: 389445 - The view doesn’t scroll with the mouse if I drag start/end time to a hidden hour display
• Since 2008-01-18: 412914 - Enable offline caching for ical calendar with many events -> startup horrible slow
• Since 2008-01-23: 413641 - Launch Lightning Release Notes on update of extension
• Since 2008-03-11: 422184 - The fgPrinters extension could be included to improve printing experience in calendar
• Since 2008-04-27: 431076 - Add keyboard navigation/accessibility for the calendar views
• Since 2008-09-24: 456706 - Replying to a CalDAV invitation returns MODIFICATION_FAILED but succeeds.
• Since 2008-10-29: 462277 - Turn on experimental cache by default
• Since 2008-10-29: 462280 - profile Tb startup time with and without Lightning
• Since 2008-10-30: 462305 - Lots of warning messages in Error Console when in offline mode
• Since 2008-11-25: 466742 - Event color changing actions shouldn’t need re-calculation of calendar view [i.e. changing calendar of event]
• Since 2008-12-10: 468863 - The richlistbox item for a reminder has two buttons with empty accessible names
• Since 2009-01-07: 472448 - Minimonth missing accessible name and navigation
• Since 2009-06-29: 501302 - Improve View performance by removing unneeded boxes (fixes regression: alarm icon cropped, misplaced)
• Since 2009-11-07: 527254 - Lightning Command Controller tracker
• Since 2009-11-12: 528329 - Alarm is not fired when dismissed and later set reminder again
• Since 2010-02-12: 545838 - Run mozmill tests as part of the build process
• Since 2011-07-25: 673990 - Show Tasks and Calendar icons in the toolbar by default
• Since 2011-10-17: 695247 - Allow opening event if invitation has already been processed
• Since 2011-10-26: 697553 - Adapt to the calIChangeLog interface changes (gdata offline support)
• Since 2011-10-27: 697812 - After creating a new event, clicking on other elements doesn’t blur the title textbox
• Since 2011-11-01: 698760 - Calendar Views UI freshening
• Since 2011-11-01: 698938 - Invitations Dialog: Selected option is not totally obvious

One can get the latest Lightning .xpis here.

Sunbird will no longer be actively developed by the Calendar team.

Thunderbird release history

Thunderbird-specific: (48)

• Fixed: 380372 - Attachment error when saving twice as draft a mail template containing an inline image
• Fixed: 452634 - Add keyboard shortcut to add attachment [Ctrl+Shift+A], change keyboard shortcut for “Remove Named Anchors” to [Ctrl+Shift+R]
• Fixed: 544359 - Replying to an attached message∩╝êmessage/rfc822 part) or an opened .eml file shows incorrect date
• Fixed: 608278 - Changes to make Thunderbird fit in with Ubuntu’s Unity
• Fixed: 654222 - Attachment list should resize to fit long names
• Fixed: 664640 - artificial titles of message/rfc822 attachments borrow from names of other attached files instead of own subject lines
• Fixed: 666231 - Monochrome graphics for the message list tree header
• Fixed: 671827 - LDAP search is broken when using GSSAPI binding
• Fixed: 672022 - Thunderbird 5 does not sort address columns correctly if showing only display name
• Fixed: 673322 - Multi-message summary buttons don’t match message header buttons
• Fixed: 673826 - Improve borders in various themes
• Fixed: 675781 - First Last does not have a comma
• Fixed: 677884 - New entry in address book not saved. error console has this.yearField is null and aDatepicker.yearField is null
• Fixed: 678255 - Advanced dialog for POP3 account showing the IMAP dialog
• Fixed: 679513 - [Tracking] Add Test Pilot to Thunderbird
• Fixed: 680695 - Implement / add context menu with actions for all attachments for right-click on [paperclip icon], “X attachments” or [size] labels of attachment bar
• Fixed: 682581 - Remove mail’s dependency on nsTryToClose.js
• Fixed: 682639 - can’t open attachment from compose window
• Fixed: 683093 - Drag Attachments to a Finder-Window isnt working
• Fixed: 684508 - Line breaks in internet-cited text break UTF-8 quoted-printable characters
• Fixed: 689543 - Alignment in message thread pane is off
• Fixed: 689950 - RSS attachments can’t be downloaded
• Fixed: 690080 - Tab focus ring enlarges tab
• Fixed: 690267 - Insert|Insert Characters and symbols not working – no options in drop-downs.
• Fixed: 690277 - Multiple (duplicate) Address Book Entries In “do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in” (Account settings -> Junk settings)
• Fixed: 690290 - Disable the what’s new tab for users updating from 7.0 to 7.0.1
• Fixed: 690316 - Disable the what’s new tab for users updating to minor/security release versions
• Fixed: 690319 - Random orange: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test-summarization.js | test_summarization_thread_detection (preceded by something like “Thought we would find row 0 at 92,-9 but we found -1″)
• Fixed: 690520 - plugin crash mozmill test should handle crash-reporter not being enabled
• Fixed: 690522 - I tried to compose an email as I always do with one of my email distribution lists in my Address Book and when I highlight the list and click WRITE, nothing happens
• Fixed: 690526 - Compose window address list won’t resize smaller once made bigger
• Fixed: 691025 - GPG detached signatures (asc) missing for thunderbird 7.0.1
• Fixed: 691724 - The folder view tree aligns with nothing
• Fixed: 691730 - toolbar buttons and global search box are different height
• Fixed: 691748 - Enable privacy policy link on Thunderbird’s about dialog
• Fixed: 692473 - Add profiledbuild to the targets that qualify for auto-running client.py
• Fixed: 692730 - More information about telemetry is 404
• Fixed: 692735 - Crash exporting messages in HTML format with ImportExportTools
• Fixed: 694409 - Suppress Telemetry notification on Mozmill tests
• Fixed: 694793 - Missing notcached.title element in DTD.
• Fixed: 694890 - Subject and date labels don’t line up
• Fixed: 695312 - TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | (runtestlist.py) | Exited with code 1 during directory run during Mozmill test addrbook/test-address-book.js
• Fixed: 696445 - make package-tests should include reftests
• Fixed: 697013 - Change about window to be an accessible dialog and put all relevant static info into its acc description
• Fixed: 697964 - Port bug 665196 (submit crash report & reload plugin in one step) and bug 688083 (sync submit crash report checkbox between instances) to Thunderbird
• Fixed: 698374 - Port bug 476430 – Make third-party add-ons disabled on startup, and allow users to activate them
• Fixed: 698405 - Permanent Orange: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test-plugin-crashing.js | setupModule
• Fixed: 698451 - include hyphenation dictionaries in omnijar – remove old files from builds on update.

MailNews Core: (32)

• Fixed: 133068 - Uninitialized memory read in nsMsgLocalMailFolder::DisplayMoveCopyStatusMsg
• Fixed: 224733 - escape issues with mailbox urls in the compose window
• Fixed: 341568 - valid subject displayed as blank in thread pane (preceded by bogus header)
• Fixed: 394113 - Smart handling of incorrectly-formatted date fields (timezone of “-0700″ instead of “-07:00″)
• Fixed: 507285 - Filter code leaks with copy then move
• Fixed: 532522 - gloda indexes deleted folders, that are subfolders of trash
• Fixed: 537407 - crash [@ nsMsgComposeAndSend::Fail(unsigned int, unsigned short const*, unsigned int*)] and [@ @0x0 | nsMsgComposeAndSend::Fail(unsigned int, unsigned short const*, unsigned int*)] and [@ nsMsgComposeAndSend::Abort()] (Mac)
• Fixed: 537496 - [meta] comm-central Mac OS X 64-bit support
• Fixed: 554015 - reorder fulltext columns so body is the 0th column for disk-space savings
• Fixed: 554033 - bump the gloda fts3 tokenizer minimum token length from 2 to 3
• Fixed: 583618 - Fix PRBool misuses in mailnews
• Fixed: 675407 - Remove XPCOM proxies from comm-central
• Fixed: 677805 - Bump page size and cache size for Gloda
• Fixed: 678405 - Gloda shouldn’t generate rows in messageAttributes for unimportant attributes
• Fixed: 678621 - Make the attachmentInfos url property a getter
• Fixed: 684492 - shutdown crash nsLDAPConnection::~nsLDAPConnection()
• Fixed: 686087 - add ability to stream just the message headers of a message
• Fixed: 686188 - Replace nsCStringArray in news with nsTArray counterparts
• Fixed: 686189 - Replace nsCStringArray in mailnews/db with nsTArray counterparts
• Fixed: 688856 - teach comm-central client.mk to use hgtool.py
• Fixed: 690369 - c-c configure.in: port bug 557824 and bug 661403. (MOZ_INSTALLER)
• Fixed: 691288 - Clicking on mailto link is broken, it opens an empty compose window
• Fixed: 691770 - Tags are lost when an index file is rebuilt (mail copied from IMAP to local doesn’t have X-Mozilla-Keys: until compacted)
• Fixed: 692801 - nsAddbookUrl doesn’t clone correctly
• Fixed: 693365 - Subscribe to newsgroup labels are blank
• Fixed: 693946 - Remove nsCStringArray usage from nsMessenger
• Fixed: 694090 - undo imap delete to trash causes multiple message when expunge after delete is set
• Fixed: 694500 - crash CCompositionFile::EnsureHasDataInBuffer
• Fixed: 694749 - port |Bug 540433 – Remove nsIDocumentViewer| to comm-central
• Fixed: 695812 - client.mk with RUN_CLIENT_PY doesn’t work with mozconfigs that include from mozilla/
• Fixed: 698190 - Fix things after landing of mozilla::clamped function from bug 695303
• Fixed: 698447 - Remove binary name hack in mail bloat tests now that we have a Thunderbird executable on Mac

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux (i686), Official Linux (x86_64)

Official Mac