Changelogs for other releases Last updated 01 May 06. -- Work-in-progress -- Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1 has (not yet) been released. Release notes are (not yet) available. This post lists the new features and improvements in Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1. This list encompasses almost every single known fix that went into this release. The Gecko 1.8.x branch (Thunderbird 2.x series) will incorporate improvements based on Gecko 1.8 foundations. No major Gecko 1.9 features will be in these builds. New features & significant changes in 2.0 Alpha 1 - TBD - All changes in 2.0 Alpha 1 (so far) : (260) Security issues: (2) Fixed: 328917 - Mail Multiple Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities Fixed: 334341 - Using image tags with a non image file, and selected view image, file will still load up, allowing access to system resources Topcrashes: (3) Fixed: 320927 - crash when checking pop3 mail Fixed: 322273 - Crash at (@ nsMsgQuickSearchDBView::ListIdsInThread) Fixed: 322283 - Crash after filter operation with a missing destination folder Crashes: (13) Fixed: 301308 - crash (@ nsMsgGroupView::~nsMsgGroupView) Fixed: 313357 - SeaMonkey crashes on quit (MailNews-related) Fixed: 319210 - crash (@ plc4.dll + (00001ae2)) on mail send (using SSL connection to SMTP) Fixed: 321495 - Thunderbird 1.5rc1 and 1.5rc2 hangs with 945 messages in a POP account Fixed: 322351 - mozISpellCheckingEngine.check crashes if word is misspelled (@ mozMySpell::Check) Fixed: 323131 - crash after saving all attachments (@ nsMessenger::SaveAllAttachments) Fixed: 328187 - crash at IMAP login with GSSAPI authentication using SSPI library Fixed: 328606 - Crash after entering <smiley><space><space> Fixed: 329595 - Crash on marking mail as Junk (Local Folders) Fixed: 330760 - crash in (@nsMsgSearchDBView::~nsMsgSearchDBView) Fixed: 332119 - IMAP folders: if sum of characters in foldernames to long TB crashes or loops when you access the last folder in chain. Fixed: 332700 - Frequent Crashes on the trunk and branch (crash @ nsMsgDatabase::GetHdrFromUseCache) Fixed: 334186 - AsyncOpenExclusive returns freed value Account manager: (5) Fixed: 311721 - ABSearchDialog.xul should include abResultsPane.css to display the icons Fixed: 328174 - ISP files: can't preselect server type choice Fixed: 328175 - ISP files: can't force smtp server creation Fixed: 328178 - ISP files: hostname fields are not prefilled with hostname values given in isp rdf files Fixed: 335175 - missing per-account options on sidebar Address book: (15) Fixed: 64305 - Adding a New card in the Address book w/o giving any info will add it successfully Fixed: 136773 - Investigate enabling ldap:5 logging on optimized builds. Fixed: 180057 - CSV export should output field names as first record in the output Fixed: 218411 - Duplicate contact is added even though address being sent to is in the Additional Email field (collection) Fixed: 251681 - Can't copy field from LDAP Address Book Fixed: 300968 - Replicating (downloading) from a LDAP directory server while adding fails Fixed: 307056 - Read-only address book cards should have just a ok button that doesn't try to update the card Fixed: 314995 - Can't save new card if no email entered Fixed: 316812 - When address book name is Japanese character(doesn't contain ASCII alpha-numeric), address book is lost when new address book is created Fixed: 317404 - Importing an empty ldif address confuses thunderbird Fixed: 317566 - Using global LDAP server prefs for autocomplete lookup does not always work correctly Fixed: 318680 - "Organisation" should be spelled "Organization" in the alert for empty fields in Address Book. Fixed: 320169 - Hangs while sending mail to "list in list" in address book Fixed: 323608 - ldap schema's use of displayName has changed since Thunderbird 1.0x Fixed: 325958 - Misc Address Book tidying up Attachment-related: (4) Fixed: 182627 - Message body is not displayed for some messages if view attachments inline is false Fixed: 203570 - opening a fwd local message has original messages's attachments Fixed: 317009 - Thunderbird incorrectly decodes =00 in quoted-printable attachments as 0x20, not NULL Fixed: 327656 - Disconnections on some emails with attachments Build configuration: (19) Fixed: 255408 - Need to be able to build mozilla --with-system-nss Fixed: 288647 - NSS doesn't build --with-system-nspr Fixed: 305767 - Allow a different marker character for preprocessing CSS files Fixed: 307168 - Need to clone NSPR X86-64 GCC configure fix to main configure (hidden visibility) Fixed: 307311 - Allow client.mk to build xulrunner + multiple apps in one sweep Fixed: 314821 - Stop building dist/gre Fixed: 314961 - Won't build when using spaces in --enable-optimize and having dash as sh Fixed: 316177 - command-line options for "-compose" broken Fixed: 316674 - compare-locales should support reasonable numbers of ordered search Fixed: 317620 - Land NSS 3.11 on the Mozilla trunk and on 1_8 branch Fixed: 321791 - mailViews.dat should be in mail.xpi Fixed: 322824 - Merge tier_94, tier_97 and tier_98 into tier_99 Fixed: 322894 - unify necko and content unit tests Fixed: 324370 - #define MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH on the 1.8 branch Fixed: 325400 - client.mk fast-update broken under Cygwin Fixed: 328303 - Fix configure help for --with-branding, which suggests --enable-branding Fixed: 328356 - Change 1.8 Branch Version strings to 2.0a1 Fixed: 329047 - 1.5.0.2 nightlies ABI incompabilities with 1.5 Fixed: 329358 - xterm title setting should use ESC)0 rather than ESC)2 Filter-related: (3) Fixed: 278052 - Filter using address book does not work on IMAP when running filter after the fact Fixed: 295088 - Filter/Search term evaluator is extremely sub-optimal Fixed: 324467 - TBird 1.5 fails to automatically filter on message body, if Anti-Virus quarentining is ON Functionality: (10) Fixed: 133883 - No error msg when user tries to do replication when offline Fixed: 179056 - "Check for new message every" stops after hibernate Fixed: 209748 - Marking e-mail as Junk moves selection to next e-mail, even if marked <> selected (privacy) Fixed: 314009 - Draft messages not deleted when Send Later used Fixed: 314831 - deleting local msg while local folder being compacted fails and you can't load msgs afterwards Fixed: 315625 - When forwarding a message inline, Thunderbird strips inline-images Fixed: 315975 - Display of mixed ascii/html mail breaks when BODYSTRUCTURE server response contains not enough information Fixed: 316055 - Copying tree of folders to IMAP fails, if a parent folder contains no messages Fixed: 322808 - Can not launch my own extension using the "-chrome" option. Fixed: 329232 - saving drafts on UW-IMAPD server does not work with default configuration Installer: (2) Fixed: 322994 - Remove palm related files in the installer Fixed: 327039 - Macro names are not expanded causing Windows Add/Remove programs to fail. Localization: (8) Fixed: 153855 - Composer does not display a UTF-8 signature in the right way. Fixed: 180849 - Mail loss in import of NC4 mail when 0x5C(\) is used as 2nd byte of muti-byte character in folder name. Fixed: 201071 - signature file containing accented characters has become corrupted Fixed: 227290 - be generous to overlong (invalid) B-encoded words in 2047 encoded header? Fixed: 314637 - Search Messages can't find some words in ISO-2022-JP messages Fixed: 315057 - Display - Fonts tab: The pull-down menu of Character Encodings doesn't work. Fixed: 323318 - (RFC 2231) when the attachment file name is separated, should append semi-colon(';') Fixed: 324311 - Profile startup fails if non-ascii characters in profile path Networking: (16) Fixed: 83396 - Alert "message contains bare newlines" displays and lost messages when copying msgs from Local(or other IMAP account)folder to an IMAP account folder Fixed: 206018 - ldap connections not close properly, LDAP/SSL triggers internal failure error message. Fixed: 303571 - Can not move subfolders to IMAP "root" folder (maildir) Fixed: 307527 - Connection timeout with IMAP on dual core systems Fixed: 307605 - Eliminate method nsIMAPGenericParser::at_end_of_line() Fixed: 307615 - Significantly reduce memory allocations for IMAP mail download by improving |nsIMAPGenericParser::AdvanceToNextLine()| Fixed: 312009 - IMAP capability flags remembered across capability responses Fixed: 312572 - Simplify syntax error handling/logging in IMAP parsing Fixed: 312599 - Move parsing from nsIMAPBodyShell to nsImapServerResponseParser, eliminate 200 lines Fixed: 312601 - Properly handle quoted strings and string literals in |nsIMAPGenericParser::skip_to_close_paren()| Fixed: 317327 - Eliminate method |nsImapServerResponseParser::end_of_line()| Fixed: 320334 - Make never-overridden methods of nsIMAPGenericParser non-virtual and concatenate error flags. Fixed: 321239 - IMAP parser error in FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE response Fixed: 322863 - Properly implement parsing of IMAP |atom| and |astring| Fixed: 327754 - PARSER:Internal Syntax Error: %s:: no atom characters found Fixed: 335877 - imap subscribe ui broken for servers with non '/' hierarchy delimiter Printing: (5) Fixed: 90434 - printing selected text leaves dark background Fixed: 312415 - Selected images (from a selection of the document to print) are black Fixed: 317289 - hang (never finish/freeze) printing selection in iframe Fixed: 328134 - margin fields in page setup accept '^' and '|' characters Fixed: 334944 - Firefox printing content of <noscript> tag RSS: (11) Fixed: 252483 - Create an account wizard for RSS Fixed: 312008 - RSS feeds stop loading after connection errors Fixed: 315600 - Hangs while validating feed (rdf) Fixed: 320677 - <item pubdate> ignored if RFC3339-format Fixed: 320818 - broken parsing on CDATA sections Fixed: 320967 - 'content:encoded' field ignored in RSS2 feed parsing Fixed: 324167 - feed parser should use nsIIOService instead of nsIURI Fixed: 324172 - opml export has wrong IO mode for writing Fixed: 324179 - RSS2 and Atom parsers picking up elements at wrong nesting level Fixed: 327291 - rss feed folder db's not getting closed after check for new messages Fixed: 328219 - crash when reading an rss feed because gIOService is null Spelling checker: (1) Fixed: 307052 - Spellchecker doesn't display suggestion list for misspelled words if Russian Spell dictionary is installed UI improvements: (46) Fixed: 85296 - Reply and Reply-all on messages sent "From: myself" should use the original To: field Fixed: 183394 - sometimes when you delete a message, the focus gets lost instead of going to the next message Fixed: 184811 - addressingwidget appears as sunken, not as button Fixed: 204350 - Attached email message window glitches (forward, reply, view source disabled) Fixed: 223730 - "Opening folder..." remains in status bar after folder has been fully opened Fixed: 239136 - Thunderbird needs to integrate with the new download manager Fixed: 277843 - saved searches that search message body do not update correctly Fixed: 291343 - moving single grouped message makes another group disappear Fixed: 294793 - Using a template changes mail composer's default background color Fixed: 295956 - Editing message in drafts folder (with IMAP and multiple profiles) results in error. Fixed: 296422 - Difficulty reverting to Classic 3 pane view Fixed: 298525 - Phishing State should take precedence over Junk State in the message bar Fixed: 307423 - Asterisk (*) no longer Expands All Threads Fixed: 308499 - "Spell as you type" wording needs to be changed Fixed: 310534 - Dragging text into search box does not overwrite prefilled text Fixed: 311239 - Fixes for F6/Ctrl+Tab navigation in 3-Pane Fixed: 312940 - Improve the alert notification for new mail Fixed: 314086 - Able to see old subject headers in the compose window Fixed: 314349 - Reply/Forward/Edit with .EML or message/rfc822: fails if no Message-Id Fixed: 317680 - F8 works when it should not: account page displayed Fixed: 318650 - Empty thread pane rows when deleting quick search results in group mode Fixed: 320015 - Can't use only icons-only or text-only in standalone message window toolbar (custom) Fixed: 320117 - Syntax Error in chrome://editor/content/EdInsertTOC.js Fixed: 320185 - It's impossible to delete or detach attachment via File Menu Fixed: 320744 - no way to clear downloads.rdf. Should be a way to clear or remove the file entirely. Fixed: 321254 - contacts sidebar leaks ldap connections Fixed: 323351 - auto save should time out much sooner Fixed: 324194 - Remove the search bar, make quick search and mail views customizeable toolbar buttons Fixed: 324521 - Poor Inline Spell Checking Performance On Large Text Documents Fixed: 326280 - Suppression of append-domain autocompletion not working Fixed: 326846 - read mail not marked as read Fixed: 327641 - "Open in New Mail Window" missing from folder context menu Fixed: 328015 - Tooltip with the list of new letters in the folder incorrectly Fixed: 328593 - progress/status doesn't work in folder views Fixed: 328795 - Convert Thunderbird to use typeahead find Fixed: 328935 - Thunderbird threaded view misses messages Fixed: 329552 - New Mail Notification Alert is only a couple pixels tall Fixed: 329553 - New Mail alert notification isn't always wide enough Fixed: 329954 - Re-show the alert notification when clicking on the biff icon in the system tray Fixed: 330241 - notifier encoding problem Fixed: 330402 - Findbar buttons in Thunderbird without padding Fixed: 330523 - Replace Animated scroll with a fade in for new mail alert notification Fixed: 330613 - Update Qute theme for Extension Manager. Fixed: 330615 - Convert Thunderbird to use the winstripe theme in mozilla\toolkit Fixed: 331152 - Download Manager is Broken in 2.0a1 Builds Fixed: 331159 - Copy seamonkey's msg notification bar implemenation XPToolkit: (63) Fixed: 187772 - mouse wheel scrolling does not dismiss form auto complete history, results in floating autocomplete dropdown Fixed: 202992 - "h" or "htt" cut off in address bar autocomplete (adds :// to domain names starting with "p" or "t") Fixed: 250867 - icons only and other toolbar modes are not created in a global place Fixed: 273050 - Review storage module Fixed: 295178 - Misleading l10n note in customizeCharset.dtd Fixed: 296080 - showAutoscrollMarker code is wrong in special situations Fixed: 297503 - Useless autoscroll code? Fixed: 298665 - color picker is broken (popup doesn't close after selecting a color) Fixed: 298950 - need copy in context menu Fixed: 298960 - -remote can no longer handle commas or quotes Fixed: 302099 - How do embedders embed libxul? Fixed: 304531 - event.target.rel has no properties (Port fix from bug 225854) Fixed: 306538 - Autocomplete doesn't work without a mousemove event Fixed: 308068 - JavaScript strict warning in richlistbox.xml Fixed: 308591 - Button.dlgType sets an attribute with the wrong case Fixed: 309289 - When moving an extension up/down in the richlistbox widget, it is scrolled to the top of the window. Fixed: 310636 - Make mozStorage a little more developer friendly Fixed: 312642 - expose clickSelectsAll property in textbox.xml Fixed: 315434 - Security error with remote <xul:tabbox>: can't switch tabs if chrome has focus Fixed: 315570 - Add a reusable autocomplete result type that doesn't depend on Mork Fixed: 317568 - Stub executable opens console window Fixed: 318036 - adding to Array.prototype breaks a tree column picker Fixed: 318407 - onchange event of preference elements gets called twice Fixed: 319248 - Don't use navigator.properties Fixed: 319410 - textbox element loses content upon resize with direction:rtl and flex Fixed: 319453 - GetBlob should not crash if there is no data Fixed: 320429 - Switching tabs in a tabbox can result in illogical assignment of focus Fixed: 320449 - Make properties of GRE_GetGREPathWithProperties useful Fixed: 320901 - Remove reloading code, key and context menu item from help viewer Fixed: 321729 - CVS Remove update.js and remove its reference from jar.mn Fixed: 322354 - libxul always links against X11 Fixed: 323296 - Create rule to check out l10n-files only Fixed: 323956 - Missing xpinstall prefs for XULRunner Fixed: 324913 - tabbrowser.xml depends on nsIWebNavigation Fixed: 324994 - Storage GetString/GetUTF8String should set IsVoid Fixed: 325253 - Don't warn if there is no form history file to import Fixed: 325416 - Move typeaheadfind out of TB ifdefs Fixed: 325471 - Broken search for path to binary on linux in xulrunner-stub Fixed: 326007 - Xulrunner fails to build using VS.NET 2003 (VC7.1), chokes at linking xul.dll due to conflicting LIBC and MSVCRT libs Fixed: 326334 - Implement mozStorage as a multithreaded server Fixed: 326772 - compatibility.ini should include TARGET_OS_ABI Fixed: 326909 - document the -safe-mode command-line option in -help Fixed: 327053 - Make caching persistent between transactions Fixed: 327317 - Create a mozStorageConnection.indexExists function Fixed: 327349 - Add JavaScript ASSERT function to globalOverlays.js Fixed: 327557 - Storage service keeps reference to main thread Fixed: 327567 - Storage connections should not outlive service Fixed: 327740 - wrong casts used in mozStorageAsyncIO Fixed: 327907 - Ending process firefox.exe can lead to database corruption Fixed: 328068 - gather memory usage data for load events Fixed: 328125 - Add support for client-side throttling Fixed: 328140 - Integrate 0-filling patch into storage system Fixed: 328212 - Update AsyncIO with bugfixed in sqlite tree Fixed: 328213 - Upgrade to sqlite 3.3.4 Fixed: 328505 - --install-app fails on Linux for packages without a vendor Fixed: 328790 - main thread never joins with async-io thread Fixed: 328890 - text box widget regression, unable to open urls in Thunderbird Fixed: 331431 - toolkit.jar is a dumping ground for everything. Fixed: 332091 - Possibility to add "special" part to package names Fixed: 332262 - "smime3.dll not found" error dialog w/ XULRunner embedded in Eclipse Fixed: 334034 - Unlabeled Close button with browser.preferences.instantApply Fixed: 334044 - build as standalone extension Fixed: 335319 - pre-process out debug.js' license header Miscellaneous fixes: (8) Fixed: 136049 - Daylight savings change invalidates summary files Fixed: 192666 - extension-list is appearing twice in ldif/tab/txt import file picker Fixed: 300338 - debug build too chatty with ldap disabled (JS errors in MsgComposeCommands.js) Fixed: 312643 - phishingdetector exception for relative urls Fixed: 314990 - Not using unique message id when msg doesn't have message id Fixed: 319700 - Location of start page doesn't stay greyed out on restart Fixed: 331265 - Tabs and Line Feed Issues with New Mail Alert Notification Fixed: 332632 - String assertion in libmime when reading mail from mail.app Mac-specific: (11) Fixed: 308294 - Thunderbird tinderbox (bg l10n) fails in "$(ZIP) -r9D $(LANGPACK_FILE) install.rdf chrome chrome.manifest" Fixed: 309210 - makexpi.pl only looks for *.so when stripping Fixed: 315195 - (XPToolkit) Select wrong default font if I close the preferences window with Command + W shortcut Fixed: 320880 - Thunderbird/About Thunderbird dialog box in address book is a sheet (modal window) Fixed: 325410 - Mac builds not packaging .chk files Fixed: 327108 - Cannot save copies to Sent folder. Selections in Copies & Folders are not retained(IMAP) Fixed: 328403 - Update (.mar) packaging should fail if the stuff to package is missing Fixed: 329796 - (Affects Linux too) Can't debug XForms on Mac OS X Fixed: 329806 - (XPToolkit) nsStorageFormHistory needs to recognize endianness marker when importing old mork db Fixed: 331676 - Crash on search in threaded mode Fixed: 334663 - gray box around mail message header info is gone Intel Mac-related: (9) Fixed: 302212 - Mac OS X x86 builds can't target SDKs Fixed: 322578 - Support ppc<->x86 cross builds for Mac OS X Fixed: 324855 - Need a script to produce universal binary .app from cpu-specific bits Fixed: 327823 - Support configurable preflight/postflight actions in client.mk Fixed: 327848 - Drive the Mac universal build process entirely in-tree Fixed: 328081 - Support unification of bdate for multi-project builds Fixed: 328391 - .mar generation should package universal build when the build is universal Fixed: 328596 - (XPToolkit) Difficult to "Open using Rosetta" due to self-relaunching Fixed: 330890 - unify does not preserve the execute bit Sun-specific: (3) Fixed: 156605 - Solaris: Disable stack execution in the Mozilla client executable Fixed: 312154 - (XPToolkit) Start script does not take care of running instance Fixed: 314018 - Error in configure(.in): Sun CXX (CC) compiler defiens __SUNPRO_CC and not __SUNPRO_C BeOS-specific: (2) Fixed: 318918 - (XPToolkit) sqlite does not build when MOZ_OBJDIR is different than source directory. Fixed: 330340 - (XPToolkit) Build broken in sqlite AIX-specific: (1) Fixed: 323997 - TARGET_XPCOM_ABI not set in AIX builds Note that questions in the comments section about the release date of 2.0 Alpha 1 will be deleted. It will be released when it's ready, and this changelog will be updated accordingly. Windows builds Official Windows installer Linux builds Official Linux (i686) Mac builds Official Mac