The Rumbling Edge

Previous Shredder - Alpha 1 | Current Shredder - Alpha 2 | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

Thunderbird-specific:

• Fixed: 273008 - Paste without formatting preference or at least have an easy keybinding
• Fixed: 329444 - messenger.xul l10n fixes
• Fixed: 369283 - Thunderbird should support the Vista Search
• Fixed: 378412 - Adding a "Gmail" account that already was entered manually results in invisible duplicate
• Fixed: 413487 - "brief" headers (normal mode) should display more or all of subject
• Fixed: 438918 - who wants a retention policy of "delete all but the last X messages" with X=30?
• Fixed: 448479 - No Proxy For: port Bug 311779 (save IE’s ";" as "," so it works automatically)
• Fixed: 448694 - Remove UI for "Remember the last selected message" (mailnews.remember_selected_message)
• Fixed: 449691 - improved message (view) reader pane
• Fixed: 450151 - Thunderbird does not form ligatures in fonts under 20 pixels
• Fixed: 450712 - "INBOX" is always displayed as selected folder name of "When I delete a message/Move it to this folder"
• Fixed: 450724 - Implement New/Edit Card inline features for message header display
• Fixed: 451599 - Add preferences UI for disk cache size and clearing the cache
• Fixed: 451620 - remove the Advanced Preference for Connection timeout
• Fixed: 454622 - mail won’t download if "Allow anti-virus clients to quarantine individual incoming messages" is checked
• Fixed: 455801 - Polish changes to message reader for b1
• Fixed: 455847 - memory leak in nsDirPrefs.cpp
• Fixed: 456096 - drag and drop folder fails - error nsITransferable.getAnyTransferData, messengerdnd.js :: DropOnFolderTree
• Fixed: 456563 - Add en-GB to Thunderbird all-locales list
• Fixed: 456725 - Add fy-NL to thunderbird all-locales list
• Fixed: 456863 - New/Edit Card tooltip not resetting in Header bar display
• Fixed: 456869 - port the firefox add-ons preference to thunderbird preferences
• Fixed: 457151 - Add [id] to the Thunderbird build
• Fixed: 457556 - Ukrainian Thunderbird3
• Fixed: 457975 - Composition Mode Over-ride (shift+reply) does not work for new reply button
• Fixed: 458002 - Update shipped-locales for Thunderbird alpha 3
• Fixed: 458215 - Add option to client.py to pass arbitrary options to hg
• Fixed: 458425 - Remove TB specific disable of test_punycodeURI.js

IMAP, News, POP and SMTP-related:

• Fixed: 436151 - support IMAP RFC 4551 - CondStore extension

MailNews Core:

• Fixed: 227649 - Remove obsolete <mailnews/mapi/old/*>
• Fixed: 287939 - Mail tries to save deleted attachment
• Fixed: 294824 - Don’t hardcode appname in the cancel message for News
• Fixed: 420830 - Expose mime_create() to content type handler plugins
• Fixed: 444417 - IMAP undo of delete appears to work, but doesn’t
• Fixed: 450917 - Create and populate nsIAbCollection
• Fixed: 451143 - Print Preview Card and Abook both unuseable
• Fixed: 451390 - In comm-central <client.py>, add an |options.skip_ldapsdk|
• Fixed: 455797 - birthday picker doesn’t let me enter certain dates, resets day and year
• Fixed: 455812 - nsAutoSyncManager should expose a scriptable XPCOM interface to allow monitor background download operations
• Fixed: 455942 - Port to comm-central: bug 440714, bug 447642, bug 454391, bug 454786, bug 454192
• Fixed: 456233 - nsMsgHdr needs to ensure various ‘in string’ parameters to avoid crashes
• Fixed: 456250 - Properly detect application/pkcs7-mime subtypes in libmime
• Fixed: 456326 - "ASSERTION: Some other operation is in progress" when synchronizing mails
• Fixed: 456327 - Enable showing "*** Initiating Auto-Sync on folder imap://………." messages by turning them into NSPR logging
• Fixed: 456415 - Setting up a vcard for an account doesn’t work.
• Fixed: 456440 - IMAP folder paths not initialized correctly if done for the first time inside nsImapMailFolder::GetFilePath
• Fixed: 456548 - IMAP subfolders not initialized beyond one level in GetSubFolders
• Fixed: 457052 - try to repair cause of assertion - Borked message header
• Fixed: 457168 - These emails repeatedly match the wrong filter
• Fixed: 457545 - nsParseMailbox.cpp:1813: warning: unused variable ‘numFolders’

What was previously known as Shredder Beta 1 has now been renamed to Alpha 3. Note that this is just a name change. Builds are available for testing.

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-thunderbird3+ with Target Milestone of Thunderbird 3 Alpha 3): (3)

• Open: 429118 - Spellcheck gives up after too few misspelled words in HTML editor
• Open: 430762 - Start page for Alpha/Beta builds
• Open: 457709 - tracking bug for build and release of Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 3

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (Universal binary) (2008-10-03 build)