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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
- Security
issues
- Topcrash
- Account
manager
- Address
book
- Attachment-related
- Build
configuration
- Filter-related
- Functionality
- Localization
- Networking
- RSS
- UI
improvements
- XULRunner
- Miscellaneous
fixes
- Mac-specific
- 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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