The Rumbling Edge

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Released on 23 Nov 10, and this changelog was last updated on 27 Nov 10.

Miramar 3.3 Alpha 1 has been released. Release notes are available.

Changes in Miramar 3.3 Alpha 1 (~190)

Official Windows installer

Official Linux (i686)

Official Mac (32/64-bit)

Previous Lightning release (1.0 Beta 2) | Next planned Lightning (1.0 beta 3?) | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

Common (excluding Website bugs): (4)

• Fixed: 534190 - Acceptance is sent back as “tentative” to outlook users.
• Fixed: 578654 - [Mozmill] CalendarUtils doesn’t support entering task data
• Fixed: 609362 - Build error: no ‘calDateTime::InnerObject’ member function declared in class ‘calDateTime’
• Fixed: 609651 - Error: Failed to read ‘EnterUserPasswordFor’ from chrome://global/locale/prompts.properties

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar1.0+): (85)

• Since 2004-04-29: 242112 - Make calendar keyboard accessible
• Since 2004-09-17: 260121 - Make datepicker and timepicker keyboard accessible
• Since 2004-11-17: 270501 - the list of events for the listbox (unifinder) is sorted three times
• Since 2004-12-05: 273279 - no visual status mark on tentative or cancelled events/tasks
• 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 2006-03-04: 329387 - Dismissed alarm behave erratically when event is moved
• Since 2006-03-20: 331112 - RFC description of WKST does not appear to be followed
• Since 2006-07-28: 346278 - Allow building localized lightning langpacks
• Since 2006-08-22: 349641 - Lightning asks for master password again
• Since 2006-08-22: 349673 - Alarm dialog shown for new events that are scheduled in the past
• 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 2006-11-21: 361424 - month view day boxes should draw eventboxes in a batch
• Since 2007-01-06: 366139 - Wrong end time set on multi-day events
• Since 2007-03-02: 372424 - iTIP/iMIP invitation bar doesn’t disappear after changing e-mail folder
• Since 2007-03-08: 373251 - Can open multiple windows of a single event/task from Agenda, Task lists and Unifinder
• Since 2007-03-24: 375210 - Revisit alarm dialog dismissal/snooze user experience
• Since 2007-07-23: 389281 - Write to read-only ICS store creates event on screen
• Since 2007-07-31: 390293 - Event/task dialog does nothing upon “Save and close” when Thunderbird/Sunbird main window is closed
• Since 2007-08-29: 394195 - Dialogs need a scroll bar or minimum height/width
• Since 2007-09-08: 395504 - Allow to have localized default values for some preferences (lightning-l10n.js not shipped)
• Since 2007-09-24: 397323 - Invite Attendees dialog: cannot move/resize the splitter between attendees and grid
• Since 2007-10-18: 400267 - short events besides a whole-day spanning event are leaving the time scale grid
• Since 2007-11-15: 403922 - Multiweek scroll / next / previous is too slow with multiple calendars
• Since 2007-11-21: 404900 - Add Accept/Decline to Calendar item’s context menu
• Since 2007-11-22: 405007 - Create unittest buildbots for Calendar
• Since 2007-12-11: 407915 - Snooze handling in new reminder dialog is hardly usable
• Since 2008-01-17: 412803 - Add selector of writeable calendars to the “click here to create a task” line
• Since 2008-01-18: 412914 - Enable offline caching for a calendar with many events -> startup horrible slow
• Since 2008-01-18: 412963 - [Offline] Disabled cached calendars become visible after synchronization
• Since 2008-01-23: 413641 - Launch Lightning Release Notes on update of extension
• Since 2008-03-10: 421986 - Adding events to invisible CalDAV calendars does not force visibility
• Since 2008-03-24: 424808 - addItem in calendar-month-day-box scales badly
• Since 2008-04-06: 427403 - CTRL+Cursor Down for selecting multiple items from a list of Mail messages or Tasks loses focus (need new keyboard shortcut for Lightning’s Today tab)
• Since 2008-04-27: 431076 - Add keyboard navigation/accessibility for the calendar views
• Since 2008-04-28: 431265 - No error messages or status if network calendar is unavailable
• Since 2008-06-10: 438369 - Create database backup before performing a database upgrade
• Since 2008-06-26: 441992 - caldav calendar isn’t switched off after canceling the login dialog
• Since 2008-06-29: 442607 - Reminder details link does not work if calendar window is closed
• Since 2008-09-01: 453186 - Drag and drop issues in day/week view if mouse leaves the calendar view (with exceptions)
• Since 2008-09-14: 455260 - Present CalDAV parsing error messages in activity manager
• Since 2008-09-20: 456208 - Disabling calendars autorefresh does not prevent cached calendar sync
• Since 2008-09-24: 456706 - Replying to a CalDAV invitation returns MODIFICATION_FAILED but succeeds.
• Since 2008-10-13: 459641 - Tabs and tab shortcut buttons should perform as drop target to convert events tasks, e-mail messages
• Since 2008-10-15: 460075 - Consolidate logging, support fine-grained logging
• 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 2008-11-05: 463275 - Edit Recurrence dialog shows wrong rule when editing event
• Since 2008-11-18: 465512 - New navigation bar contains some flaws under MacOS
• Since 2008-11-20: 466032 - Reminder dialog without events appears when experimental cache is enabled
• 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 2008-12-28: 471378 - Create gnome theme (gnomestripe)
• Since 2009-01-07: 472448 - Minimonth missing accessible name and navigation
• Since 2009-01-21: 474607 - Events with start times and titles starting with a digit are truncated in all calendar views
• Since 2009-01-26: 475376 - Unify wording: “reminder” instead of “alarm”
• Since 2009-05-02: 491118 - reminder for recurring non-dismissed events fire again after hibernation (double/twice in alarm popup)
• Since 2009-05-08: 492069 - Lightning corrupts ATTENDEE / ORGANIZER with CN parameter that contains a comma
• Since 2009-05-23: 494598 - Update Lightning icons to match Thunderbird 3.0 default theme
• Since 2009-05-25: 494788 - Error: “too much recursion” when quickly reloading remote calendars (calIStatusObserver, calendar-statusbar.js)
• Since 2009-06-08: 496893 - The displaying of many alarms seems to take excessive resources
• Since 2009-06-09: 497095 - faulty operations retains the new ctag
• Since 2009-06-17: 498968 - Create a new, faster storage provider
• Since 2009-06-29: 501302 - Improve View performance by removing unneeded boxes (fixes regression: alarm icon cropped, misplaced)
• Since 2009-07-01: 501689 - Investigate making storage asynchronous
• Since 2009-07-02: 502095 - “Write” popup menu and Today pane statusbar item have odd icons
• Since 2009-07-07: 502936 - cached calendars should not be refreshed at launch time
• Since 2009-09-15: 516802 - Refactor & cleanup mode and calendar view switching + today pane code
• Since 2009-10-05: 520667 - Pressing Select All (Ctrl + A) in the tasks view selects all the items in the calendar view
• Since 2009-10-22: 523860 - Do not escape double quote character ” to \” in iCalendar output (potential RFC 2445 violation)
• Since 2009-11-03: 526288 - Keyboard shortcuts for zooming in or out of message body (Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+0) only work after opening the View > Zoom menu item
• 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 2009-11-22: 530423 - The m√©ga awful slowness of sunbird with caldav schedules
• Since 2009-12-05: 533096 - Consolidate theming to make more css common
• Since 2010-02-12: 545838 - Run mozmill tests as part of the build process
• Since 2010-02-18: 547168 - crash [@ libgobject-2.0.so.0.2200.4@0xc2c0] [@ wait_for_retrieval] on double-click, instead of opening New Event dialog
• Since 2010-05-20: 567197 - Most of entities calendar.context.delete* are useless
• Since 2010-06-29: 575782 - Lightning 1.0 beta 2 does not work with non-ASCII characters in event names
• Since 2010-08-29: 591742 - Import and Export is broken [Exception "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]“]
• Since 2010-08-29: 591744 - All calendars and events lost after restart [Error: Timezone Service not initialized]
• Since 2010-10-04: 601607 - Weekday name doesn’t switch to short format on overflow
• Since 2010-10-04: 601643 - Error during startup [NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED in mozIStorageService.openSpecialDatabase() in calmgr_checkAndMigrateDB()]

One can get the latest Lightning .xpis here.

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

Previous TB release – 3.1.6 | Current TB pre-release – 3.3a1? | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

Thunderbird-specific: (20)

• Fixed: 476217 - archive folder setting should not be per-identity
• Fixed: 503246 - nsISound::playSystemSound(“_moz_mailbeep”); is obsolete on Gecko1.9.2a1 and later
• Fixed: 527550 - mozmill tests for message header pane
• Fixed: 530503 - File -> New -> Other accounts proposes .mac
• Fixed: 543701 - Email address of secondary identities not recognized as “You” address book contact
• Fixed: 577043 - ensure Gloda is in the namespaces of the windows that use Activity Manager – “Gloda is not defined” error console message from Thunderbird
• Fixed: 578816 - Cannot send photos attached from Digikam
• Fixed: 580237 - Re-use Firefox’s Automated update testing for Thunderbird releases
• Fixed: 584325 - Can’t install new dictionaries
• Fixed: 588753 - mailContentHandler.js needs updating for component registration changes (opening text files as attachments broken)
• Fixed: 606327 - Investigate updating Thunderbird to the latest MozMill
• Fixed: 608638 - Get rid of the Netscape 4.x profile migration
• Fixed: 608789 - archive doesn’t select the right message after archive finished
• Fixed: 608993 - Remove final uses of commonDialog following m-c changes
• Fixed: 609926 - ‘Quote Message’ menuitem activation misbehaves
• Fixed: 609996 - search.xml autocomplete needs tweak to be cleanly extensible
• Fixed: 610065 - Add src parameter to AMO API pings
• Fixed: 610603 - mailnews.headers.showMessageId doesn’t show the Message-ID unless you click on ‘+’
• Fixed: 611697 - Set up unofficial branding for Miramar
• Fixed: 611997 - Menu –>File and Tools are broken on build 20101113

MailNews Core: (31)

• Fixed: 286581 - IMAP AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL with TLS and given client certificate
• Fixed: 404922 - compose window fails to recognize updated image file when using drag and drop
• Fixed: 499997 - fix signed warnings in eudora import
• Fixed: 513249 - [SeaMonkey 2.1] Wrong text encoding for html mail in non-utf encoding (with html5.enable=false, charset in <meta> tag is always used in HTML rendering, although decoder returns in UTF-8)
• Fixed: 541718 - The structure with which RSS Feed was developed was changed, and the HTML display of Feed became impossible.
• Fixed: 555557 - Update license blocks to use “Mozilla Foundation” instead of “Mozilla Messaging” (c-c)
• Fixed: 573388 - ASSERTION: aWebProgress and channel callbacks do not point to the same docshell
• Fixed: 594355 - Default alert sound not playing on Mac when new email arrives
• Fixed: 596820 - crash [@ nsMsgAccountManager::RemoveIncomingServer(nsIMsgIncomingServer*, int)]
• Fixed: 598104 - Local Sent folder allowed to grow past 4GB
• Fixed: 598942 - Yellow triangle appearing in the Windows tray instead of new mail icon
• Fixed: 601471 - Unify: stop trying to ‘package-tests’ builds with ‘–disable-tests’
• Fixed: 603253 - Make featureConfigurator.js use iteratorUtils.toArray
• Fixed: 604849 - Port |Bug 480735 – Startup timeline| to comm-central
• Fixed: 604871 - Add –enable-profiling configure option in comm-central (port Bug 592923)
• Fixed: 605093 - Permanent Mac Orange due to test timeouts: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | asyncTestUtils.js | Timeout running test, and we want you to have the log
• Fixed: 605376 - Port |Bug 559263 – make jemalloc work with android| to comm-central
• Fixed: 605810 - bypassing file picker when calling nsIMessenger.SaveAs()
• Fixed: 607775 - Finalize missed comm-central sync for client.mk
• Fixed: 607981 - Unified Inbox doesn’t work anymore ‚àí no way to set it back up
• Fixed: 608048 - xpcshell target does not pass-down $(EXTRA_TEST_ARGS)
• Fixed: 608202 - xpcshell: new test_attachment_size.js fails, “ASSERTION: nothing to write!: ‘dest >= line && dest < src’ … mimeenc.cpp, line 757″ in yenc test
• Fixed: 608478 - Move PERL and MOZILLA_VERSION lines back to where they belong…
• Fixed: 608483 - Port |Bug 551438 – Require system libpng to be at version 1.4.1 or later| to comm-central
• Fixed: 608484 - Port |Bug 595805 – Update required cairo version to 1.10 | to comm-central
• Fixed: 608485 - Port Mozilla Changes of |Bug 583611 – (SQLite3.7.1) Upgrade to SQLite 3.7.1| to comm-central
• Fixed: 610289 - Remove a fistful of unused prefs from mailnews.js
• Fixed: 610611 - redundant GetMessageKey() call
• Fixed: 612201 - nsMessenger::mScriptObject is not used
• Fixed: 612286 - Temporarily disable Eudora import code to get 64-bit Mac builds running
• Fixed: 613419 - Port Breakpad default-changes to comm-central in configure.in

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-thunderbird3.3 marked as “alpha1+” - tentative query): (2)

• Since 2010-11-08: 610366 - Run packaged tests on release builds
• Since 2010-11-08: 610368 - Tracking bug for build and release of Thunderbird 3.3 alpha 1 (3.3a1)

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux (i686), Official Linux (x86_64)

Official Mac (64-bit capable)