The Rumbling Edge

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Common (excluding Website bugs): (10)

• Fixed: 366139 - Wrong end time set on multi-day events
• Fixed: 389281 - Write to read-only ICS store creates event on screen
• Fixed: 397323 - Invite Attendees dialog: cannot move/resize the splitter between attendees and grid
• Fixed: 575605 - Thunderbird + Lightning will not start if profile directory or extensions directory is a symbolic link
• Fixed: 577220 - Problem when parsing Outlook “X-ALT-DESC” property
• Fixed: 608709 - Can’t create/connect calendar using Provider for Google Calendar extension
• Fixed: 621136 - Lightning 32/64 bit universal builds broken due to not referencing the correct location for components
• Fixed: 623257 - Fix build errors w.r.t JS_GetStringChars
• Fixed: 624192 - Move Threading to Chrome Worker
• Fixed: 624656 - In multiweek/month views, moving an event via drag and drop changes the End date timezone

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar1.0+): (76)

• 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 2007-03-08: 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 2007-07-31: 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 2007-10-18: 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 2008-04-27: 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 2009-10-05: 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 méga 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 2010-08-29: 591744 - All calendars and events lost after restart [Error: Timezone Service not initialized]
• Since 2010-12-28: 621840 - the month name displayed in calendar is in an incorrect form

One can get the latest Lightning comm-central .xpis here.

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

Previous TB release – 3.1.7 | Current TB pre-release – 3.3 Alpha 2 | Previous releases | Mercurial source bundles (mozilla-central & comm-central)

Thunderbird-specific: (24)

• Fixed: 257735 - Drafts wrongly saved to sent folder after failing and retrying (common issue of Drafts/Templates/Outbox==Unsent Messages)
• Fixed: 308875 - ‘space bar’ message reading scrolling broken for formatted messages (with remote images)
• Fixed: 511375 - Add Ctrl-F4 keyboard shortcut to close tab
• Fixed: 531245 - Import from Apple Mail.app breaks messages and causes data loss.
• Fixed: 531534 - “Close message window on delete” does not work when messages are opened in tabs
• Fixed: 536145 - Reply, Forward, Junk, Delete Toolbar invisible on long from email adress
• Fixed: 550844 - Complete fixing up unit test for bug 526733 (installation of extensions via application/x-xpinstall type)
• Fixed: 571759 - Move Add-on Manager to be in a content tab
• Fixed: 577021 - In facetted search, German translation of “Mar” (for March) is in wrong charset
• Fixed: 613435 - msgCompSMIMEOverlay.xul: 1 s/observes/command/
• Fixed: 613443 - msgCompSMIMEOverlay.xul: remove useless |insertbefore=”button-save”|
• Fixed: 614994 - Update logo for Miramar branding
• Fixed: 616176 - Dictionary won’t install at all (not notification of incompatible dictionary)
• Fixed: 618467 - pane separator problem – too thin, can’t tell what a click would do
• Fixed: 620638 - List of messages (central pane) recovering left-hand side panel
• Fixed: 621190 - contacts added to address book lost after closing and opening thunderbird
• Fixed: 621519 - Attachment keyword icon is wrong
• Fixed: 623503 - Factor out MozMill content-tab helpers into a separate file
• Fixed: 623504 - AIX compilation errors in storage-backport
• Fixed: 624108 - Land about:support
• Fixed: 624150 - Generalize about:rights code into an about: redirector
• Fixed: 625146 - Don’t count MozMill support functions as tests
• Fixed: 625361 - Enable nsIBrowserSearchService in Thunderbird.
• Fixed: 626019 - No update.png in aero/messenger/icons/

MailNews Core: (30)

• Fixed: 444093 - Spec out nsIAbItem::uuid more clearly
• Fixed: 511484 - crash: textbox with type=”autocomplete” and searchSession=”ldap” [@ nsLDAPAutoCompleteSession::FinishAutoCompleteLookup(int, unsigned int, nsLDAPAutoCompleteSession::SessionState)], should assert
• Fixed: 522028 - Resolve why Mac builds on 1.9.3 sometimes need –with-macosx-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk
• Fixed: 556351 - crash [@ mime_encode_qp_buffer(MimeEncoderData*, char const*, int)]
• Fixed: 562926 - detachAttachmentsWOPrompts crashes with zero counts [@ nsMessenger::DetachAttachmentsWOPrompts(nsIFile*, unsigned int, char const**, char const**, char const**, char const**, nsIUrlListener*)]
• Fixed: 567773 - Replay of flag changes after offline operation is forgotten when network connection is interrupted on replay
• Fixed: 574441 - Keep sent folder offline store up to date
• Fixed: 574961 - crash [@ MimeHeaders_get(MimeHeaders*, char const*, int, int)] [@ MimeHeaders_get_name] [@ @0x0 | MimeHeaders_get_name(MimeHeaders*, MimeDisplayOptions*)]
• Fixed: 582195 - Create sane equivalent of ConvertibleToNative() function for frozen linkage
• Fixed: 587475 - Reimplement UTF-7 in mailnews
• Fixed: 606699 - The new “count the size of attachments” feature does not count bytes for .eml attachments
• Fixed: 613184 - IMAP protocol causes tens of wakeups
• Fixed: 613846 - NSLDAP32V60.dll symbols don’t seem to have paths to files
• Fixed: 614919 - Reply to HTML message with account that use HTML signature file, quote my signature (builds broken starts 20101115)
• Fixed: 619387 - crash [@ nsMsgDBFolder::AutoCompact(nsIMsgWindow*)]
• Fixed: 619388 - crash [@ nsOfflineStoreCompactState::FinishCompact()]
• Fixed: 622665 - Remove old unused na2 import code
• Fixed: 623169 - importDialog.js uses different strings to back-end code to try and work out what it is doing
• Fixed: 623497 - Update trunk comm-central to LDAP c-sdk version 6.0.7
• Fixed: 623498 - Back port LDAP ASLR onto the current Thunderbird/SeaMonkey releases
• Fixed: 623520 - AIX5.x port Testing minimum compiler version
• Fixed: 623522 - Stop IMAP touching the preference service from background threads | Permanent Orange | TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test_dod.js | false == true
• Fixed: 623685 - mail.imap.mime_parts_on_demand_max_depth is obsolete
• Fixed: 623883 - Fix some small occasional memory leaks in nsImapProtocol.cpp
• Fixed: 624337 - Forward icon is not shown when email is forwarded inline by filter
• Fixed: 624419 - Potential off-by-one error in MimeHeaders_build_heads_list()
• Fixed: 625126 - Make logHelper’s mark_failure work a little better
• Fixed: 625401 - Port Bug 585818 (Define variable so Makefiles can easily tell if they’re targeting either x86 or x64) to comm-central
• Fixed: 625506 - crash [@ nsImapCacheStreamListener::OnStartRequest] (Mac&linux), [@ nsImapCacheStreamListener::OnStartRequest(nsIRequest*, nsISupports*)] (windows)
• Fixed: 626310 - Port |Bug 600435 – XULRunner universal for i386/x64_64 fails to unify nspr-config| to comm-central

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-thunderbird3.3 marked as “alpha3+” - tentative query): (0)

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Changelog for previous release (Miramar 3.3 Alpha 1) | Changelogs for other Thunderbird releases

Released on 20 Jan 11, and this changelog was last updated on 24 Jan 11.

Miramar 3.3 Alpha 2 has been released. Release notes are available.

Changes in Miramar 3.3 Alpha 2 (94)

Thunderbird-specific: (41)

• Fixed: 304835 - Attachments aren’t draggable from compose windows.
• Fixed: 308875 - ‘space bar’ message reading scrolling broken for formatted messages (with remote images)
• Fixed: 439291 - thunderbird doesn’t have the account/folder list under the Go menu
• Fixed: 511375 - Add Ctrl-F4 keyboard shortcut to close tab
• Fixed: 531245 - Import from Apple Mail.app breaks messages and causes data loss.
• Fixed: 531534 - “Close message window on delete” does not work when messages are opened in tabs
• Fixed: 534523 - Move to / Copy to Recent context submenu list doesn’t sort folder names alphabetically [v3.0 regression]
• Fixed: 537228 - msgCompSMIMEOverlay.xul: indentation fix
• Fixed: 545557 - better windows theme colors when not in a11y theme mode
• Fixed: 549306 - addressbook background color doesn’t change in windows’ accessibility mode
• Fixed: 550844 - Complete fixing up unit test for bug 526733 (installation of extensions via application/x-xpinstall type)
• Fixed: 571759 - Move Add-on Manager to be in a content tab
• Fixed: 579576 - Thunderbird cannot stop loading messages using the customizable “stop” toolbar button
• Fixed: 594369 - Message panel ‘sender’ header is not aligned to the right on RTL Thunderbird 3.1
• Fixed: 601573 - Support omnijar in Thunderbird
• Fixed: 606327 - Investigate updating Thunderbird to the latest MozMill
• Fixed: 608981 - Enable building of places in Thunderbird, but disable history by default
• Fixed: 610603 - mailnews.headers.showMessageId doesn’t show the Message-ID unless you click on ‘+’
• Fixed: 612023 - Can’t open URIs from the command line
• Fixed: 612338 - Package ConsoleAPI.js
• Fixed: 613195 - No keyword detection for missing attachment feature
• Fixed: 613435 - msgCompSMIMEOverlay.xul: 1 s/observes/command/
• Fixed: 613443 - msgCompSMIMEOverlay.xul: remove useless |insertbefore=”button-save”|
• Fixed: 613975 - Inconsistent Print and Print Preview between File and message context menu
• Fixed: 614205 - Drop unnecessary NECKO_PROTOCOLS_DEFAULT in confvars.sh
• Fixed: 614918 - On Solaris 10, /bin/sh doesn’t understand “export LDAP_COMPONENT=mozldap”
• Fixed: 614994 - Update logo for Miramar branding
• Fixed: 616176 - Dictionary won’t install at all (not notification of incompatible dictionary)
• Fixed: 616316 - MozMill runtest.py now depends on simplejson, even on Python 2.6
• Fixed: 616932 - [Quick Filter bar] Missing tag icon
• Fixed: 618467 - pane separator problem – too thin, can’t tell what a click would do
• Fixed: 618528 - subscribe dialog content is broken
• Fixed: 620022 - should clear message display when switching to summarize view
• Fixed: 620467 - Give Account Central system colors
• Fixed: 620638 - List of messages (central pane) recovering left-hand side panel
• Fixed: 621519 - Attachment keyword icon is wrong
• Fixed: 623503 - Factor out MozMill content-tab helpers into a separate file
• Fixed: 624108 - Land about:support
• Fixed: 624150 - Generalize about:rights code into an about: redirector
• Fixed: 625146 - Don’t count MozMill support functions as tests
• Fixed: 625361 - Enable nsIBrowserSearchService in Thunderbird.

MailNews Core: (53)

• Fixed: 195702 - attachment size should be visible in compose window
• Fixed: 250141 - Need way to purge/delete downloaded newsgroup messages
• Fixed: 286581 - IMAP AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL with TLS and given client certificate
• Fixed: 444093 - Spec out nsIAbItem::uuid more clearly
• Fixed: 540288 - News article is empty if selected during download from news server
• Fixed: 541718 - The structure with which RSS Feed was developed was changed, and the HTML display of Feed became impossible.
• Fixed: 544984 - Improve print format of attachment file names, esp. remove content-type and content-encoding
• Fixed: 545343 - Port |Bug 526451 – allow to build gconf and gnomevfs/gio support independently| to comm-central
• Fixed: 555557 - Update license blocks to use “Mozilla Foundation” instead of “Mozilla Messaging” (c-c)
• Fixed: 561292 - TB doesn’t keep track of forwarded messages on IMAP servers that don’t support $forwarded IMAP flag
• Fixed: 562926 - detachAttachmentsWOPrompts crashes with zero counts [@ nsMessenger::DetachAttachmentsWOPrompts(nsIFile*, unsigned int, char const**, char const**, char const**, char const**, nsIUrlListener*)]
• Fixed: 574961 - crash [@ MimeHeaders_get(MimeHeaders*, char const*, int, int)] [@ MimeHeaders_get_name] [@ @0x0 | MimeHeaders_get_name(MimeHeaders*, MimeDisplayOptions*)]
• Fixed: 577887 - Kill MOZ_LDAP_XPCOM_EXPERIMENTAL
• Fixed: 579682 - Attachments disappear when attempting to open and view mail (Tb generates association of .file_extension->multipart/appledouble in mimeTypes.rdf, then multipart/appledouble is applied to file of the .file_extension sent with application/octet-stream)
• Fixed: 579783 - warnings in nsBayesianFilter
• Fixed: 579811 - warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type in porter_stemmer
• Fixed: 582195 - Create sane equivalent of ConvertibleToNative() function for frozen linkage
• Fixed: 587475 - Reimplement UTF-7 in mailnews
• Fixed: 605972 - Use balloon tips to notify new messages
• Fixed: 606699 - The new “count the size of attachments” feature does not count bytes for .eml attachments
• Fixed: 607032 - [OS/2] Followup to bug#602842, port fakelibs
• 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: 608673 - Port |Bug 418866 – fix profile-guided optimization (pgo) on linux| to comm-central
• Fixed: 609683 - double messages ending up in imap offline store
• Fixed: 609796 - Port |Bug 576399 – GCC 4.5 -Os bustage workaround| to c-c
• Fixed: 609909 - crash [@ nsNNTPProtocol::HandleAuthenticationFailure()]
• Fixed: 610611 - redundant GetMessageKey() call
• Fixed: 612201 - nsMessenger::mScriptObject is not used
• Fixed: 613184 - IMAP protocol causes tens of wakeups
• Fixed: 613224 - Documentation has outdated links in altbase.h and other files, MDN /docs/
• Fixed: 613419 - Port Breakpad default-changes to comm-central in configure.in
• Fixed: 613811 - Port PYTHON_VERSION check to c-c configure.in
• Fixed: 613846 - NSLDAP32V60.dll symbols don’t seem to have paths to files
• Fixed: 613875 - Crash [@ nsURIHashKey::HashKey(nsIURI const*)]
• Fixed: 615459 - configure deps not set correctly since LDAP move to hg
• Fixed: 616816 - CRs in nsMsgXFViewThread.cpp nsIMailboxUrl.idl certFetchingStatus.js mimecms.cpp
• Fixed: 617284 - Composition window busted due to JavaScript error: chrome://editor/content/editorUtilities.js unterminated regular expression literal
• Fixed: 617446 - libmime: mimeEncryptedClass (and also some other classes) are not exposed via XPCOM
• Fixed: 617889 - warning: value computed is not used in porter_stemmer
• Fixed: 618801 - Gloda fails to attach the right allUserAttachments property for buggy messages
• Fixed: 619131 - Fix JS_SHARED_LIBRARY setting in comm-central for non-libxul builds (aka fix Calendar/Lightning link errors)
• Fixed: 619387 - crash [@ nsMsgDBFolder::AutoCompact(nsIMsgWindow*)]
• Fixed: 619388 - crash [@ nsOfflineStoreCompactState::FinishCompact()]
• Fixed: 619888 - Add a JavaScript dictionary which can support arbitrary keys
• Fixed: 622665 - Remove old unused na2 import code
• Fixed: 623169 - importDialog.js uses different strings to back-end code to try and work out what it is doing
• Fixed: 623497 - Update trunk comm-central to LDAP c-sdk version 6.0.7
• Fixed: 623522 - Stop IMAP touching the preference service from background threads | Permanent Orange | TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test_dod.js | false == true
• Fixed: 623685 - mail.imap.mime_parts_on_demand_max_depth is obsolete
• Fixed: 623883 - Fix some small occasional memory leaks in nsImapProtocol.cpp
• Fixed: 625126 - Make logHelper’s mark_failure work a little better
• Fixed: 625401 - Port Bug 585818 (Define variable so Makefiles can easily tell if they’re targeting either x86 or x64) to comm-central

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