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Released on 05 May 10, and this changelog was last updated on 08 May 10.

Thunderbird 3.1 Beta 2 has been released. Release notes are available. This post lists the improvements in Thunderbird 3.1 Beta 2 over Thunderbird 3.1 Beta 1. This list encompasses almost every single known fix that went into this release, but excludes platform-wide fixes. Do check out the known issues as well.

Changes in Thunderbird 3.1 Beta 2: (248)

Thunderbird-specific: (132)

• Fixed: 123440 - Stop that annoying modal dialog when mail can’t connect to the mail server from connection time out error
• Fixed: 151244 - return receipt should be processed after the message has loaded
• Fixed: 221615 - View Before Return Receipt (Reciept)
• Fixed: 269728 - When sending email automatically add emails to CC list (instead of BCC)
• Fixed: 270598 - Message asking for a return receipt not marked as read
• Fixed: 274142 - Document how to set up accounts
• Fixed: 288172 - closing standalone mail window of RSS item while still loading causes crash [@ nsMsgDBView::GetURIForViewIndex(unsigned int, nsACString_internal&)] (v3), [@ nsMsgDBView::GetURIForViewIndex] (v2)
• Fixed: 291547 - [rfe] “new” message prefetching for imap
• Fixed: 339050 - thunderbird gives bad error if kerberos tickets are expired or nonexistant
• Fixed: 408338 - Thunderbird should have session restore
• Fixed: 432799 - copy/move to … again should honor renamed folder (move to last folder again)
• Fixed: 433039 - Right clicking on column header show an irrelevant context menu
• Fixed: 441705 - SetUpServerMenu is no longer used
• Fixed: 459879 - edit message as new fails on imap message with “.” in user name
• Fixed: 465633 - Switch to better default fonts on platforms which have them
• Fixed: 471608 - Undocumented keyboard shortcuts for delete word in Message Composer/Editor
• Fixed: 472785 - Create about:hotkeys or about:keyconfig for Help menu
• Fixed: 477091 - shortcuts for opening calendar or tasks tab don’t work, new shortcuts required
• Fixed: 479811 - Thunderbird crashes randomly when sitting idle. syslog shows ‘fd too big’
• Fixed: 487283 - Build the default language langpack (usually en-US) as part of `make package`
• Fixed: 495020 - Unread Folder population causes focused folder to change
• Fixed: 495939 - New Folder dialog don’t use a verb for the confirm button
• Fixed: 495940 - Rename Folder dialog don’t use a verb for the confirm button
• Fixed: 504728 - Embedded JPG won’t open and associated text not displayed.
• Fixed: 505035 - Cannot change the column list of all folders at once
• Fixed: 516477 - Dock shows a double count of unread messages
• Fixed: 517202 - Quick Search: Search term sticks across folders, should be cleared
• Fixed: 518215 - pref for more prominent attachment reminder
• Fixed: 518828 - Need a new preference to allow “New Mail” count for dock icon instead of unread mail count
• Fixed: 519677 - “OK” button in “About Thunderbird” dialog should be aligned right
• Fixed: 519956 - Finalize customization of header pane toolbar, needs palette and View toggle
• Fixed: 521241 - session not restored after hang
• Fixed: 522243 - Master password is prompted several times, if first prompt was left alone.
• Fixed: 522761 - Need option ‘keep folders scheme’ under the archive feature to don’t forget the messages organization
• Fixed: 525238 - Authentication method (plaintext/encrypted password, Kerberos/GSSAPI etc.) should be explicit, not just “Secure authentication”
• Fixed: 525380 - Search bar should show drop-down list for contact search when length is 1 with CJK
• Fixed: 525537 - Gloda search tokenizer should perform case-folding and accent-folding to be case-insensitive and accent-insensitive, also handle half-width katakana
• Fixed: 525561 - Ctrl+K doesn’t select existing search terms in quicksearch box
• Fixed: 525716 - Implement ESC keyboard shortcut to remove quicksearch filter
• Fixed: 525890 - Missing (context) menu: Message > “Show in conversation” (to view / open message in new thread pane view)
• Fixed: 526060 - Inconsistent behavior when dragging folders to Imap account
• Fixed: 526820 - Requires master password immediately on every startup, though not
• Fixed: 529496 - Missing archive and junk icons in mail panel
• Fixed: 529742 - Vary update frequency and rate prefs between releases and nightly/unofficial builds
• Fixed: 530055 - Enable crash stack reporting on mozmill tests in tinderbox
• Fixed: 530779 - With main window/3-pane closed, sent email cannot be copied to “sent”-folder and drafts cannot be saved – “There was an error copying the message to the Sent folder. Retry?”
• Fixed: 531092 - Need release note warning and help documentation for destructive POP3 default setting “Leave messages on server for at most [14] days” or “until I delete them”
• Fixed: 531267 - Autoconfig: Make XML config file reading more liberal
• Fixed: 532061 - Prohibit modification of property of root-level smart folder (same as property of virtual folder), unless customization of it is implemented
• Fixed: 532590 - Quick Account Setup (add radiobox {POP, IMAP} )
• Fixed: 533695 - New mail folder icon is identical to standard folder icon with default theme on Windows XP
• Fixed: 534143 - offline mode: moving messages to folders, not all actions executed when going online
• Fixed: 534312 - Arrows to switch between folder views are too small
• Fixed: 534604 - [autoconfig] username for outgoing server (SMTP) is not set properly if it is different from the one for incoming server (POP/IMAP)
• Fixed: 534695 - Prompted for password multiple times; once for each open tab
• Fixed: 534722 - Fetch mail server config directly from ISP
• Fixed: 534822 - Address books get added with no name if created via altering default preferences (e.g. extension/mcd)
• Fixed: 535343 - Print preview fails on tabbrowser.loadOneTab
• Fixed: 536048 - Cannot distinguish the log for “Empty Trash” from folder deletion in Activity manager
• Fixed: 536346 - Keyboard shortcut in Menu Edit Selection should be Ctrl+A not Alt+A as shown
• Fixed: 536676 - msg list data disappears until I navigate away from inbox to another folder then come back
• Fixed: 538335 - Support Lightweight Themes in Thunderbird
• Fixed: 538407 - Attachments are not accessible for ‘Content-Type:application/octet-stream, Content-Disposition:inline;filename=”xxxx.yyy”‘, if mime-type for “.yyy” is unknown
• Fixed: 540110 - test-folder-display-helpers.js’ waitForEval timeouts should be treated as failures, logHelper should be mozmill aware
• Fixed: 540380 - Add mozsqlite3.dll to comm-central file in use checks
• Fixed: 541052 - Toolbox does not expand vertically anymore
• Fixed: 543252 - Folder List Doesn’t Appear When Filing Messages (non-existent accountN is left in mail.accountmanager.accounts. Garbage by Tb 2, or garbage after duplicated serverX/accountN deletion by Tb 3.0)
• Fixed: 544321 - Update c-c TB unified package manifest for OS/2
• Fixed: 545085 - Allow Mozmill to work with relative topsrcdirs
• Fixed: 545217 - rename “Smart folders” to “Unified folders”
• Fixed: 545221 - change folder pane, smart folders default settings
• Fixed: 545469 - folder preference for gloda indexing
• Fixed: 545563 - migration assistant / new features popup window
• Fixed: 545625 - back-fork ifdef’d mozStorage of bug 507414 into comm-central or mozilla-1.9.2 for TB 3.1 release
• Fixed: 545955 - quick search filtering outside of full searching (implement filter bar, separate quickfilter and global search)
• Fixed: 545993 - Local folder is locked after drag and drop of news article to local folder. If folder is in pop account, new messages are blocked with message “This folder is being processed …”
• Fixed: 546278 - [autoconfig] variables in hostnames are not replaced
• Fixed: 546913 - Trunk builds without Places failing due to not being able to initialise the IHistory service
• Fixed: 547564 - Thunderbird 2.0 to 3.0 upgrade deleted contents of pop3 folders wi colons (:), slash(/) in folder names on Mac OS X
• Fixed: 547951 - Adapt MozMill tests for core Bug 545407 removing the disabling of DNS prefetch in content tabs
• Fixed: 548172 - thunderbird mozmill test runner on linux should use Xvnc via vncserver when available
• Fixed: 548491 - this.userChangedOutgoingSocketType should be this._userChangedOutgoingSocketType
• Fixed: 549040 - Account Wizard: Parallelize the guessConfig() heuristic
• Fixed: 549220 - Renaming IMAP folder using special characters like german umlauts fails on thunderbird V3 – works on same server using thunderbird version < 3
• Fixed: 549580 - If compose window initialisation fails, don’t hide the error by throwing it to the text console
• Fixed: 550142 - Fix Litmus test 5634 help url
• Fixed: 550312 - add install survey hooks
• Fixed: 550487 - Show n lines of addresses in To/CC/BCC headers
• Fixed: 550506 - don’t hardcode mail application name in Makefile.in
• Fixed: 550568 - don’t hardcode name of default mail application
• Fixed: 550589 - Get the font chooser working properly with font.name-list.*
• Fixed: 550835 - TB cannot be built using system hunspell lib
• Fixed: 551585 - Remove copyright strings in UI
• Fixed: 551694 - Dock shows a double count of unread messages on startup
• Fixed: 551760 - Set uninstall survey url to new url
• Fixed: 552077 - allow for additional parameters for autoconfig
• Fixed: 552576 - quicksearch needs better/smarter handling of multi-word search
• Fixed: 552629 - nsIMsgCustomColumnHandler needs new iid because parent interface nsITreeView was changed
• Fixed: 552637 - nsMsgSearchOp and nsMsgSearchScope should get new iids
• Fixed: 553441 - Unable to import more than one PEM file from same (Astaro Security Gateway) CA
• Fixed: 553566 - TB g_set_prgname called multiple times – segmentation fault on startup.
• Fixed: 553575 - multiple master password dialogs show up, should be only one
• Fixed: 553747 - making unified folders extensible
• Fixed: 554017 - libfreebl* are not in package-manifest.in
• Fixed: 554359 - about:rights text in nightlies is showing text for branded builds
• Fixed: 554404 - SMTP editor dialog misaligned after Bug 525238 landed
• Fixed: 554558 - gFolderTreeView.load fails if the mode is not provided by TB
• Fixed: 555001 - I can’t use “or” operator in Gloda system search
• Fixed: 555164 - Semantic meaning for account manager strings was changed, without changing the entity names
• Fixed: 555945 - ThunderbirdTest mozmill runners broken by failure of vncserver code to kill existing sessions dead
• Fixed: 556491 - [autoconfig] guessConfig() only finds first AUTH method for SMTP
• Fixed: 557477 - Content/Chrome tabs leak javascript objects/functions
• Fixed: 557491 - [autoconfig] emailAddress param not sent to autoconfig server
• Fixed: 557848 - Update About > Credits for Thunderbird3.1
• Fixed: 557909 - [Linux] Should use default sans-serif font instead of hardcoded one
• Fixed: 557960 - Doubled message counts in dock *after* startup when login name contains a “.”
• Fixed: 558107 - Thunderbird 3.1b2pre (20100408) fails to start because of missing MSVCP80.dll
• Fixed: 558291 - Header and message preview out of sync when the sender has requested a receipt.
• Fixed: 558793 - bwinton’s review of auth pref change bug 525238
• Fixed: 559299 - print preview is broken
• Fixed: 560560 - add nsIMsgDBView::numMsgsInView for quick filter
• Fixed: 560746 - Remove the forced master password prompt hack
• Fixed: 561000 - new migration assistant has a hard coded “Disk space” header
• Fixed: 561054 - No search icon or text on global search bar
• Fixed: 561059 - Incorrect Encoding of cmd/command symbol in global search and quick filter search bars.
• Fixed: 561427 - protocol errors on libnotify-based systems show only empty popup notification windows
• Fixed: 561479 - Better mac styling of the quick filter toggles
• Fixed: 561489 - Hardcoded string in quick search filtering “Filter message by”
• Fixed: 561534 - Nit: Quickfilter bar’s tooltips should not end with a full stop (remove final dot that tooltips have)
• Fixed: 561535 - Quickfilter non-functional if the Welcome page appears on run (e.g. after an update)
• Fixed: 562009 - Update files with locales to include in the Thunderbird 3.1 Beta 2 build
• Fixed: 562786 - Work around bug 549931, display empty address rather than completely incorrect header for 3.1 beta 2

MailNews Core: (116)

• Fixed: 161156 - Attached URL with JA chars can’t be shown correctly in mail window
• Fixed: 161791 - Save As dialog of mail compose window can’t handle non-ASCII filename
• Fixed: 168231 - Cancel message confirmation should have different buttons
• Fixed: 194156 - “Mailbox does not exist” — What mailbox?
• Fixed: 203570 - [message/rfc822] opening a fwd local message has original messages’s attachments
• Fixed: 212465 - [RFE] provide keyboard shortcut (accelerator) for rewrap while editing
• Fixed: 338549 - Mailnews account password prompts at startup no longer serial
• Fixed: 394687 - need to import settings from Windows Mail on Vista and Windows Live Mail on XP/Vista/Windows 7
• Fixed: 435306 - Mailnews needs to remember passwords better
• Fixed: 448515 - Instill client.mk what profiledbuild means on comm-central
• Fixed: 463385 - sprinkle magic PARALLEL_DIRS fairy dust about the build system
• Fixed: 467015 - “warning C4005: ‘FILE_ILLEGAL_CHARACTERS’ : macro redefinition”
• Fixed: 478463 - Add libnotify (+ libindicate) support to Thunderbird
• Fixed: 492026 - Port |Bug 480069 – Recursive submakes without shell loops| to comm-central
• Fixed: 494912 - Wrong Character Set used when forwarding
• Fixed: 496236 - [Tracking] Resync’ configure.in between c-1.9.1 and m-1.9.1
• Fixed: 506669 - crash [@ NS_strlen(unsigned short const*)] – [@ nsImapProtocol::ShowProgress] with IMAP and Galician locale.
• Fixed: 509147 - Port |Bug 483856 – Use $(CURDIR) to make pymake happy| to comm-central
• Fixed: 509533 - Remove obsolete “MOZ_WIDGET_TOOLKIT =/!= mac” checks, in comm-central
• Fixed: 518134 - Enabled column in Message Filters does not track dialog size properly
• Fixed: 519022 - nsMessengerOSXIntegration isn’t 64-bit compatible
• Fixed: 520114 - Port |Bug 441324 – Implement xmalloc regardless of whether jemalloc is disabled| to comm-central
• Fixed: 520139 - Gloda does not protect against exceptions thrown by openUnsharedDatabase on corrupt databases
• Fixed: 520394 - Build config changes for Cocoa Printing
• Fixed: 521428 - Port |Bug 518124 – Package content_canvas.xpt| to comm-central (apps)
• Fixed: 521524 - Port |Bug 469443 – Form Manager Storage should be a JavaScript-based component| to comm-central (apps)
• Fixed: 522712 - Port |Bug 511761 – Only use compatibility.ini (not .autoreg, or stat()s) to invalidate fastloads and other caches| to comm-central (apps)
• Fixed: 525463 - AIX Port Seamonkey 2.0: macro redefinition in mailnews/base/src/nsMsgAccountManager.cpp
• Fixed: 530098 - gloda deletion processing is more expensive than it needs to be
• Fixed: 530376 - xpcshell-tests in /mailnews/addrbook fail on JS strict mode
• Fixed: 531757 - Extend nsIMessenger.idl to allow detachment to folders
• Fixed: 533007 - POP: Login failed dialog “Retry” option doesn’t work properly
• Fixed: 536739 - nsMsgPrompt should use FormatString instead of hand-rolling string insertion
• Fixed: 537012 - “Create filter from message” fails from Smart Folders
• Fixed: 537404 - crash [@ nsMsgCompose::SetDocumentCharset(char const*)]
• Fixed: 537571 - client.py should error out early if wrong python version
• Fixed: 537588 - AIX Port tracking bug for comm-1.9.1
• Fixed: 538753 - Port |Bug 508861 – [electrolysis] Build/ship the C++ runtime with MSVC/jemalloc| to comm-central. (SeaMonkey packaging fix only)
• Fixed: 539389 - Very slow file manipulation deleting or moving messages (profile stored on synchronized network folder). Tb3 requests write for each line of mail data. Should use buffering.
• Fixed: 540385 - Manually marking a message as NOT JUNK is insufficient; message gets refiled as junk
• Fixed: 540470 - Port |Bug 514131 – Kill xpcom/obsolete| to comm-central
• Fixed: 540472 - Resync’ config/static-checking-config.mk (etc) from m-c
• Fixed: 540676 - fake IMAP server doesn’t support BODYSTRUCTURE
• Fixed: 541334 - Add recognition of SHA-2 hashes when verifying S/MIME messages with detached signatures (application/pkcs7-signature)
• Fixed: 541408 - newsgroup filter from “create filter from message” is not created
• Fixed: 542259 - not prompting for new smtp password in some cases, e.g., when server drops the connection on bad authentication
• Fixed: 542283 - Port |Bug 494826 – Compile SQLite with SQLITE_DEBUG defined| to comm-central
• Fixed: 542291 - Port |Bug 363485 – Build break in JavaXPCOM when building with MSYS| to comm-central
• Fixed: 542837 - Folder submenus no longer have the menulist-menupopup class
• Fixed: 543088 - Autocomplete – primary email address no longer appears before additional email address (now sorted alphabetically)
• Fixed: 543159 - Port |Bug 454256 – –enable-static firefox builds should error in configure| to comm-central
• Fixed: 543382 - Port |Bug 467862 – Build system should support building both a static and a shared library from the same Makefile| to comm-central
• Fixed: 545055 - Port |Bug 460913 – Installer shouldn’t copy xulrunner files into Firefox install directory| to comm-central
• Fixed: 545313 - Port |Bug 480967 – Don’t leak MSYS paths into makefiles| to comm-central
• Fixed: 545621 - Adapt gloda to use new storage createAsyncStatement API
• Fixed: 546384 - another new nstmp file created and not deleted each time after using “Compact Button”, but not when “File/Compact Folders” from menu
• Fixed: 546642 - Cleanup during make distclean
• Fixed: 546716 - Port |Bug 422771 – reduce narrow windows API calls in browser| to comm-central
• Fixed: 547786 - gloda deleted folder tombstones prevent indexing of re-created folders in same session
• Fixed: 547877 - Gloda needs to specialize folderCreated notification and mark newly created folders as clean rather than filthy
• Fixed: 548210 - Port |Bug 509319 – Enable FIPS throws uncaught exception in toggleFIPS| to comm-central
• Fixed: 548458 - xpcshell tests leak when doing offline imap operations
• Fixed: 548719 - crash [@ CFRelease | nsOSHelperAppService::GetMIMEInfoFromOS(nsACString_internal const&, nsACString_internal const&, int*) ]
• Fixed: 549129 - Port changes for Visual Studio 2010 to configure.in
• Fixed: 549238 - [OS/2] build break in nsStopwatch.cpp due to -Werror=return-type
• Fixed: 549293 - Port MOZ_IPC support to comm-central
• Fixed: 549336 - Custom filters generate an error in searchSpec
• Fixed: 549457 - errors doing STARTTLS ignored
• Fixed: 549794 - Too many .msf file open with many third level folders and Show only subscribed folders unchecked/disabled
• Fixed: 550146 - Use nsToolkitCompsCID.h not nsXPFEComponentsCID.h when bug 550145 lands
• Fixed: 550455 - Crash when m_foldersToStat.Count() == 0 [@ nsImapIncomingServer::OnStopRunningUrl]
• Fixed: 550474 - Fix ‘–enable-static –disable-static-mail’ behavior
• Fixed: 550648 - Gloda fulltext message search may have inefficient query structure when result set significantly exceeds LIMIT, resulting in slow faceted search response
• Fixed: 550657 - Port |Bug 485409 – Substitute windows-style paths in configure when building with pymake| to comm-central
• Fixed: 550913 - remove unused files from mork/src dir in repo
• Fixed: 550980 - nsMsgDBFolder.cpp:180: error: cannot convert ‘const char*’ to ‘nsStringBuffer*’ in initialization (port bug 534136)
• Fixed: 551182 - Backport fixes from Firefox package-compare review
• Fixed: 551294 - [OS/2] need to link against mozalloc on comm-central
• Fixed: 551677 - Gloda could provide ability to force indexing of all messages in a folder, even non-dirty indexed ones
• Fixed: 551917 - Leak regression following bug 496019 landing in m-c (mozilla::storage::Connection::Close can spin a nested event loop)
• Fixed: 552344 - (debug) xpcshell-tests: msgAsyncPrompter.js fails to load log4moz.js
• Fixed: 552625 - Tb31: nsIMsgFolder needs new iid because it was changed without changing iid
• Fixed: 552635 - Failed to build nsLDAPProtocolModule.cpp on OpenSolaris
• Fixed: 552943 - Today build fails to start (msvcp80.dll)
• Fixed: 552955 - Resync’ client.py on c-1.9.1 after bug 508955 and bug 538528
• Fixed: 553529 - Remove leftover checks for mac widget toolkit
• Fixed: 553867 - Port |Bug 547083, configure bails for Python 2.6 (on Ubuntu 9.10?)| to c-c
• Fixed: 553877 - Port |Bug 536173, Build fails when building an uncommited merge “ValueError: too many values to unpack| to c-c
• Fixed: 553964 - Port |Bug 550468 – Fix support for Pango font engine on Qt platform| to comm-central
• Fixed: 554331 - Thunderbird Mac nightly builds broken (making complete update) due to not being able to find the right topsrcdir
• Fixed: 554605 - crash [@ morkRow::AcquireRowObject(morkEnv*, morkStore*)]
• Fixed: 554609 - fts3 tokenizer should use bi-gram for Thai, Lao and Khmer
• Fixed: 554901 - mailnews.messageid_browser.url is no more valid for mid-searches
• Fixed: 554939 - Copy bug 511967 …/locales/Makefile.in changes to comm-central
• Fixed: 554950 - Whitespace resync’ c-c …/locales/Makefile.in with bug 496196
• Fixed: 555051 - Support “needs body” for custom filter actions
• Fixed: 555715 - Replace resource://app/ with resource:///
• Fixed: 556256 - Explicitly set MOZ_MORKREADER and MOZ_MORK for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, and sync enable places changes from bug 516758
• Fixed: 556269 - Port |Bug 514787 – Remove unused TARGET_CARBON and TARGET_API_MAC_CARBON in configure.in| to comm-central
• Fixed: 556352 - |make xpcshell-tests| runs mailnews tests in a loop
• Fixed: 556670 - Fix resource://gre/ abuses, in comm-central
• Fixed: 556786 - Filter junk status “Not Junk” won’t save
• Fixed: 556831 - nsMsgDBView::IsValidIndex() unncessarily checks if unsigned int is < 0
• Fixed: 557050 - [Windows, SeaMonkey (2.1)] xpcshell-tests: 28 MailNews tests fail with “ASSERTION: unable to initialize resource / nsRDFService.cpp”, due to Windows (O.E.) A.B. not being disabled
• Fixed: 557622 - Hook up IMAP to msgAsyncPrompt service and make its password prompts serial again
• Fixed: 557625 - Hook up POP3 to msgAsyncPrompt service and make its password prompts serial again
• Fixed: 558607 - mailnewsMigrator.js logs an exception on “gPrefs.getCharPref(“mail.accountmanager.accounts”)”
• Fixed: 559528 - Don’t appear preview message on new biff window when receiving multiple messages
• Fixed: 559681 - [Windows, Packaged] xpcshell-tests: “Exception / NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND / nsIProcess.init / test_largeOfflineStore.js :: run_test :: line 59″. LargeOfflineStoreHelper.exe is not packaged
• Fixed: 560010 - Remove names from getters and setters in mail/ and mailnews/
• Fixed: 560701 - make search listener registration optionally only get start/end notifications
• Fixed: 560717 - Linux floating point exceptions running make check
• Fixed: 560740 - Cancelling the master password prompt brings up a second one for each connection
• Fixed: 560809 - Update client.py for the comm-1.9.2 branch
• Fixed: 562312 - nsIURLFetcher needs new iid because it was changed without changing iid
• Fixed: 562655 - Port bug 560723 – Sort out why the _Throw() hack doesn’t work on VC10, and find an alternative to comm-central

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