The Rumbling Edge

Calendar release history

Common (excluding Website bugs): (11)

• Fixed: 471378 - Create gnome theme (gnomestripe)
• Fixed: 639866 - Tracking bug for Lightning 1.0b4 release
• Fixed: 671062 - The up and down arrows used to adjust the number (minutes, hours, days) for the snooze are missing
• Fixed: 672143 - Windows nightly builds are failing [mozilla\intl\locales\et\hyphenation\hyph_mn.dic: No such file or directory]
• Fixed: 673084 - postflight_all errors when building official mac builds manually
• Fixed: 678013 - Linux nightly failing due to libstdc++ not containing the right GLIBC versions (elfhack fails)
• Fixed: 678118 - Build error: mozilla/net/CookieServiceChild.h: No such file or directory
• Fixed: 678853 - Get rid of annoying UTC/floating undefined messages
• Fixed: 679669 - WCAP calendars not working; Update calendar for nsIUnicharStreamLoader changes
• Fixed: 680236 - Don’t allow installation in builds that are binary incompatible
• Fixed: 680742 - xpcshell.ini missing in calendar/test

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar1.0+): (31)

• Since 2004-09-17: 260121 - Make datepicker and timepicker keyboard accessible
• 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 2006-09-30: 354935 - undo after moving a single occurrence does the wrong thing
• Since 2006-10-09: 356002 - Cannot dismiss/snooze alarms from read-only calendar
• Since 2006-11-16: 360916 - Snoozed alarm fires at old event time although event time has been changed
• 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 2007-05-08: 380060 - Implementation of full offline mode (esp. modification of calendar data)
• Since 2007-11-22: 405007 - Create unittest buildbots for Calendar
• Since 2008-01-18: 412914 - Enable offline caching for ical calendar with many events -> startup horrible slow
• Since 2008-01-23: 413641 - Launch Lightning Release Notes on update of extension
• Since 2008-03-11: 422184 - The fgPrinters extension could be included to improve printing experience in calendar
• Since 2008-04-27: 431076 - Add keyboard navigation/accessibility for the calendar views
• Since 2008-09-24: 456706 - Replying to a CalDAV invitation returns MODIFICATION_FAILED but succeeds.
• 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 2008-11-25: 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 2009-01-07: 472448 - Minimonth missing accessible name and navigation
• Since 2009-06-29: 501302 - Improve View performance by removing unneeded boxes (fixes regression: alarm icon cropped, misplaced)
• Since 2009-07-07: 502936 - cached calendars should not be refreshed at launch/startup time
• Since 2009-10-22: 523860 - Do not escape double quote character ” to \” in iCalendar output (potential RFC 2445 violation)
• 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 2010-02-12: 545838 - Run mozmill tests as part of the build process
• Since 2010-08-11: 586276 - Hooks / stubs mechanisms for Mozilla Lightning
• Since 2011-02-22: 636058 - Errors on import, mac only (Components.classes[contractids[fp.filterIndex]] is undefined)
• Since 2011-07-25: 673990 - Show Tasks and Calendar icons in the toolbar by default
• Since 2011-08-29: 683096 - Error: [Exception... "Could not convert JavaScript argument arg 5 [calIOperationListener.onGetResult]“…

One can get the latest Lightning .xpis here.

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

Thunderbird release history

Thunderbird-specific: (53)

• Fixed: 289411 - e-mail tag is not visible when thread is collapsed
• Fixed: 353205 - request way to set default to no alternate text for inserting images
• Fixed: 373996 - Attachment panel in message reader is not focusable / accessible with the keyboard (needs [TAB] stop)
• Fixed: 382428 - Mail pane doesn’t comply with gnome desktop theme settings.
• Fixed: 406414 - Problem compiling for nsIMsgDBView support due to rule ordering issues in mail/build.mk
• Fixed: 473901 - Attachment(s) in compose window are poorly accessible via keyboard (implement Tab and Ctrl+Tab stop for composition’s attachment pane)
• Fixed: 532505 - Cannot select address book if quick search widget is removed from toolbar – Error: gSearchInput is null … abCommon.js Line: 588
• Fixed: 566142 - accountSetupInfo.label text is not right anymore
• Fixed: 581661 - On Windows, users should be able to hide the Thunderbird Menu Bar and show it with the alt key
• Fixed: 581932 - Keyboard shortcuts are disabled after deleting a message and next is a thread when message pane has focus
• Fixed: 585443 - install of not-newest version add-ons fails silently in Thunderbird if made compatible by maxVersion increase on AMO
• Fixed: 622343 - Junk icon is missing its description text in the customize menu
• Fixed: 644567 - large search text causes thunderbird to hang then crash [@ operator new(unsigned int) | gfxTextRun::operator new(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int)]
• Fixed: 646307 - stop annoying error console message: Warning: reference to undefined property msgWindow.msgHeaderSink
• Fixed: 656736 - Upgrade to latest MozMill for Thunderbird’s tests
• Fixed: 659788 - Add icons to Windows jumplist items
• Fixed: 660508 - x86_64 Thunderbird 5.0 Beta 1 installs into 32-bit Windows directory (port bug 568949 to comm-central)
• Fixed: 662960 - Investigate how to provide rich error messages on waitForEval timeouts with MozMill 1.5
• Fixed: 665303 - Pimp the message header appearence
• Fixed: 669242 - “Copies & Folders” account settings pane should assign ids to groupboxes so addons can add to them
• Fixed: 670468 - Shredder update from 20110708 to 20110709 results in unstartable application due to jemalloc.
• Fixed: 671123 - The message list tree headers have a heavy look to them
• Fixed: 671726 - operationFailedFolderBusy — another should be another, not an other
• Fixed: 672022 - Thunderbird 5 does not sort address columns correctly if showing only display name
• Fixed: 672830 - Very slow autocomplete on 7.0a2, os x
• Fixed: 674352 - Precompile startup cache for Thunderbird
• Fixed: 675300 - Can’t build Thunderbird on Lion.
• Fixed: 675445 - Align Thunderbird appearance after Bug 668195
• Fixed: 675472 - Incorrect return of NS_ERROR_* codes in functions returning PRBool (in comm-central)
• Fixed: 675473 - Incorrect use of PRBool when other types are more appropriate or vice versa (in comm-central)
• Fixed: 675514 - folder name comparison when deciding whether to include account name should be case-insensitive?
• Fixed: 675586 - tab close button is moving
• Fixed: 675609 - Port bug 673209 to comm-central
• Fixed: 675779 - Favour capital letters for accesskeys in utilityOverlay.xul
• Fixed: 675783 - Delete Folder should not underline the ‘d’ in Folder
• Fixed: 676038 - Remove the top border of #folderTree after landing of Bug 667245
• Fixed: 676754 - Detaching a single attachment doesn’t work
• Fixed: 676807 - Mail view picker label text invisible with dark gtk themes after the landing of bug #666227
• Fixed: 676916 - Thunderbird 5 not threading email correctly when message-id spans to continuation line (not fixed by Repair Folder)
• Fixed: 677345 - when Thunderbird is unfocused, the menubar is hard to read
• Fixed: 677347 - Build support to install hyphenation patterns in Thunderbird
• Fixed: 677412 - Improve error handling in HandleMultipleAttachments
• Fixed: 678140 - Message and folder focus is not shown when using CTRL+up/down arrow key
• Fixed: 678230 - Thunderbird tabs lack background image at the bottom since the landing of Bug #609714
• Fixed: 678244 - Fix minor coding errors in patch from bug 602718
• Fixed: 678963 - Remove README.txt from release packages
• Fixed: 678964 - Update package-manifest for latest changes
• Fixed: 679483 - Provide a way to disable this @!#$ rich failure logging that fills my terminal
• Fixed: 680000 - Upgrade fails on 64 bits installs (“404 file not found”)
• Fixed: 680219 - Thunderbird fails to build with Editor-related errors.
• Fixed: 680680 - Renaming attachments during composition broken (does not update display name in the pane)
• Fixed: 681189 - Replace PRBool with boolean in IDL files (in comm-central)
• Fixed: 682303 - Today build is broken: jemalloc is missing (20110826)

MailNews Core: (27)

• Fixed: 330891 - Return inserts line break, should insert paragraph break
• Fixed: 527927 - JS Mime Emitter drops parts for inconsistent MIME hierarchies (multipart/encrypted, uuencode) [parentPart is undefined; components/jsmimeemitter.js Line: 311]
• Fixed: 529429 - crash [@ morkTable::CutRow(nsIMdbEnv*, nsIMdbRow*)]
• Fixed: 537018 - crash [@ nsMsgFilterAfterTheFact::ContinueExecutionPrompt()]
• Fixed: 564423 - Get rid of “Part 1.2″ attachments being displayed unless “Show all message parts” is selected
• Fixed: 605511 - hang painting tree or biff after responding confirm to compact prompt with mail.purge.ask enabled
• Fixed: 636681 - Send in background silently doesn’t work if Outbox folder has corrupt .msf file
• Fixed: 655536 - MsgHdrToMimeMessage could understand detached attachments and feed enclosures
• Fixed: 664790 - crash [@ nsImapFlagAndUidState::ExpungeByIndex ]
• Fixed: 668952 - Inbox corruption/error message occurs with “move to folder” filters. “Error truncating the Inbox, you may need to delete INBOX.msf”
• Fixed: 671673 - mailnews.sendInBackground tries to send in background even when working offline
• Fixed: 671965 - failure to report invalid pop3 account password when auth logon fails
• Fixed: 675447 - Port Bug 672501 – [Clang]: Not able anymore to build with the 10.7 SDK
• Fixed: 676882 - Crash in libmime following bug 674488 libmime passes badly encoded char* into JS land as AUTF8Strings landing
• Fixed: 677089 - crash [@ nsAbOSXDirectory::AssertCard]
• Fixed: 677179 - Fix nsMsgResultElement definitions in idl files
• Fixed: 678012 - Add DS_Store files to hgignore
• Fixed: 678186 - Make nsIMsgVCardService use charPtr instead of string for return values
• Fixed: 678356 - Better document nsIMsgCompFields.idl body property
• Fixed: 678453 - misuse of NS_ENSURE_ARG_POINTER
• Fixed: 678921 - Use EqualsLiteral and LowerCaseEqualsLiteral
• Fixed: 678984 - Assertion failure: rt->onOwnerThread() running test_imapPasswordFailure.js
• Fixed: 680396 - TB 6.0 crash when sending or saving an e-mail with attached PDF [@ nsSJISProber::HandleData]
• Fixed: 680822 - Should invoke do_GetService for nsIAbManager outside loop
• Fixed: 681159 - Misdescription in nsIImportAddressBooks.idl
• Fixed: 681367 - Get/SetParam build bustage
• Fixed: 681429 - In nsMsgFilterCore.idl : const long News=0xb; is wrong.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (2011-08-28) (discussion)

Official Linux (i686), Official Linux (x86_64)

Official Mac (2011-08-27)

Calendar release history

Common (excluding Website bugs): (16)

• Fixed: 351581 - [Win] Print fails on first attempt but works on second
• Fixed: 405480 - Acknowledging (dismiss, snooze) alarm causes hidden calendar to show
• Fixed: 424808 - addItem in calendar-month-day-box scales badly
• Fixed: 438369 - Create database backup before performing a database upgrade
• Fixed: 442607 - Reminder details link does not work if calendar window is closed
• Fixed: 463275 - Edit Recurrence dialog shows wrong rule when editing event
• Fixed: 482110 - calendar stays hidden after adding event to it; new event not visible
• Fixed: 496883 - alarm dialog plays a sound for each alarm that is displayed
• Fixed: 500114 - MODIFICATION_FAILED Error after editing occurrence of repeating task in Task List
• Fixed: 557782 - Crash when I open a mail with a large ics calendar attachment sent from Apple Mail [@ strlen | icalvalue_attach_as_ical_string_r ] (windows), [@ strlen | libcalbasecomps.dylib@0x13ae8] (Mac)
• Fixed: 669311 - On Windows 7 the navigation buttons inside mini-day and the keep-duration button need an adjustment
• Fixed: 672102 - toolbarbutton-day-text is hard to read with personas
• Fixed: 672158 - Custom repeated task – cannot click on OK button
• Fixed: 672460 - Event invitation not sent out when Outlook compatiblity is checked
• Fixed: 672816 - Snoozing/Dismissing one event on alarm popup closes entire window
• Fixed: 673100 - Update calendar builders to gcc-4.5

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar1.0+): (29)

• Since 2004-09-17: 260121 - Make datepicker and timepicker keyboard accessible
• 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 2006-09-30: 354935 - undo after moving a single occurrence does the wrong thing
• Since 2006-10-09: 356002 - Cannot dismiss/snooze alarms from read-only calendar
• Since 2006-11-16: 360916 - Snoozed alarm fires at old event time although event time has been changed
• 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 2007-11-22: 405007 - Create unittest buildbots for Calendar
• Since 2008-01-18: 412914 - Enable offline caching for a calendar with many events -> startup horrible slow
• Since 2008-01-23: 413641 - Launch Lightning Release Notes on update of extension
• Since 2008-03-11: 422184 - The fgPrinters extension could be included to improve printing experience in calendar
• Since 2008-04-27: 431076 - Add keyboard navigation/accessibility for the calendar views
• Since 2008-06-26: 441992 - caldav and ics calendar aren’t disabled after canceling the login dialog
• Since 2008-09-24: 456706 - Replying to a CalDAV invitation returns MODIFICATION_FAILED but succeeds.
• 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 2008-11-25: 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 2009-01-07: 472448 - Minimonth missing accessible name and navigation
• Since 2009-06-29: 501302 - Improve View performance by removing unneeded boxes (fixes regression: alarm icon cropped, misplaced)
• Since 2009-07-07: 502936 - cached calendars should not be refreshed at launch time
• Since 2009-10-22: 523860 - Do not escape double quote character ” to \” in iCalendar output (potential RFC 2445 violation)
• 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 2010-02-12: 545838 - Run mozmill tests as part of the build process
• Since 2011-02-22: 636058 - Errors on import, mac only (Components.classes[contractids[fp.filterIndex]] is undefined)
• Since 2011-07-25: 673990 - Show Tasks and Calendar icons in the toolbar by default

One can get the latest Lightning .xpis here.

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

Thunderbird release history

Thunderbird-specific: (37)

• Fixed: 281046 - [TB] Trying to select all attachments selects all messages (Edit | Select | All / CTRL+A, with focus in the attachment panel, does not select all attachments)
• Fixed: 296523 - Request for improving grouping by view
• Fixed: 446313 - Pressing <ENTER> on focused attachment does not trigger default download action (keyboard navigation)
• Fixed: 516294 - Right-click on attachment pane white-space does not deselect attachments, triggers wrong context menu
• Fixed: 526303 - (Persistent) “Reply to sender” button on header should not be dropdown
• Fixed: 535349 - Message header pane says “to You” but search filters says “To Me”
• Fixed: 572074 - Certificate for mail encryption not found using LDAP
• Fixed: 573230 - Attachments in attachment panel are not focusable (regression), thus completely inaccessible for keyboard users
• Fixed: 577925 - F6 doesn’t work when message summary view is shown (operate on collapsed)
• Fixed: 588007 - Investigate using monochrome icons for the headers
• Fixed: 625472 - Esc dismisses quick-filter-bar (threadpane) filter but keeps focus, input still in filter entry
• Fixed: 630759 - Improve attachment list XBL bindings
• Fixed: 650642 - [Pinstripe] Make the filterdialog and the advanced search dialogs look better
• Fixed: 658534 - can’t collapse+expand accounts in folder pane, tree is undefined
• Fixed: 660019 - Special characters (UTF-8) are displayed incorrect
• Fixed: 666227 - Change toolbar and tab background area pick up window control color
• Fixed: 666232 - Smaller resize grips on Linux
• Fixed: 667245 - the widget for switching folder pane views is heavy and ugly
• Fixed: 667248 - menubar and primary toolbar buttons are impossible to read with aero-glass effect
• Fixed: 667384 - When “From” header is pushed down by message header buttons, too much space is wasted
• Fixed: 669235 - Address book search box should have flexible width
• Fixed: 669285 - Look into if we should give some color to the sidebar
• Fixed: 669309 - Thunderbird 5 doesn’t display some attachment size multipart/mixed + multipart/alternative
• Fixed: 669647 - need a unit test for undoing local message move/copy
• Fixed: 670159 - need unit test for move/copying a message to a local folder whose db is out of date
• Fixed: 671132 - if switching from icon+text to just text the text becomes misaligned
• Fixed: 671236 - Flatter appearance for quick filter bar
• Fixed: 671904 - New Account Wizard bad-input warnings are unreadable (gray-on-black) in Ubuntu 11.04 (e.g. “Please enter your name”, “Double check this email address”, “Username or password invalid”)
• Fixed: 671921 - Minor string change: “Double check” in New Account Wizard should probably be hyphenated
• Fixed: 672691 - get rid of xpcshell test leaks in test_askuser.js
• Fixed: 672964 - test_searchBoolean.js leaks the world
• Fixed: 673022 - test_imapFilterActions leaks a lot of state
• Fixed: 673049 - Forwarding an .eml message causes message compose error
• Fixed: 673268 - test_imapContentLength.js leaks
• Fixed: 673480 - Cannot delete Mailing Lists
• Fixed: 673880 - Port Bug 406026 – Consider allowing the blocklist url to direct to a particular point in the blocklist
• Fixed: 673884 - update removed-files.in for bug 643816

MailNews Core: (23)

• Fixed: 309258 - XPath can be used to determine text of mail message (wiretap)
• Fixed: 309263 - Scripts in attachments (e.g. forwards) run and can access content of message (wiretap variant)
• Fixed: 309267 - Consider using a whitelist of allowed JavaScript properties and methods for mailnews
• Fixed: 309276 - Wiretap with splitText and offsetWidth
• Fixed: 315144 - Pressing [Shift+]DEL on focused(!) attachment(s) within the mail window deletes message(s) instead of attachment(s)
• Fixed: 456026 - Add day/month order indications to the birthday field on address book contacts
• Fixed: 458591 - Consider improving the labels on the Birthday Field
• Fixed: 484550 - crash [@ arena_dalloc_small | arena_dalloc | free | nsFolderCompactState::`vector deleting destructor''(unsigned int)] – [@ nsFolderCompactState::Release]
• Fixed: 502724 - crash [@ nsMsgLocalMailFolder::GetNewMessages(nsIMsgWindow*, nsIUrlListener*)]
• Fixed: 533530 - junk training data not saved if plugin leaks, need a quit observer
• Fixed: 557129 - crash [@ nsMsgXFVirtualFolderDBView::CopyDBView(nsMsgDBView*, nsIMessenger*, nsIMsgWindow*, nsIMsgDBViewCommandUpdater*)]
• Fixed: 593829 - crash [@ memcpy | nsBufferedOutputStream::Write(char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int*)] | [@ nsMsgSaveAsListener::OnDataAvailable]
• Fixed: 602718 - Inline images not shown in attachment pane when “View>>message body as.plaintext” (after bug 351224, image embedded in multipart/related part is not accessible as attachment)
• Fixed: 617721 - (startup) crash [@ nsPop3Protocol::LoadUrl(nsIURI*, nsISupports*)] and [@ nsPop3Protocol::LoadUrl] (Mac)
• Fixed: 661987 - Failed loadVirtualFolders causes tab registration to fail (so addons won’t load)
• Fixed: 669153 - Error: couldn’t find mozinfo.json at <location> Perhaps you need to use –build-info-json?
• Fixed: 669385 - Wrong date format in print preview (and on paper) of today’s messages
• Fixed: 669586 - Replace some nsCStringArray instances with nsTArray<nsCString>
• Fixed: 672286 - Copy xpcshell.ini only if ENABLE_TESTS is set
• Fixed: 673235 - test_nsMsgDBView.js leaking morkTable and morkObject
• Fixed: 673240 - Thunderbird crashes when opening IMAP Account mail with MoreFunctionsForAddressBook addon [@ morkTable::HasRow] | [[@ nsAddrDatabase::HasRowButDeletedForCharColumn] (Mac & linux)
• Fixed: 673559 - Make comm-central support the June 2010 DirectX SDK
• Fixed: 674488 - libmime passes badly encoded char* into JS land as AUTF8Strings, results in complete garbage

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux (i686), Official Linux (x86_64)

Official Mac