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Mozilla Lightning Project Changelog

What's new in Mozilla Lightning Project 3.7 Beta 1

Jan 29, 2015
  • NOTE: This version is en-US only, since Thunderbird did not have a beta build for Thunderbird 35.

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 3.3.3 (Jan 29, 2015)

  • Added locales cy, fi, pt-BR, tr.

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 3.3.2 (Dec 29, 2014)

  • Fixed locales that went missing in Lightning 3.3.1
  • Added gd and lt locales.

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.9 (Nov 15, 2012)

  • v3.1.9 ignores retention policy in trash folder
  • Update en-GB for Calendar/Lightning 1.9

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.8 (Oct 4, 2012)

  • Add Support for current-user-principal / "group calendar" synchronization fails
  • Tools - Options - Lightning is confusing
  • Cannot build libical using pymake.
  • Datepicker widget does not obey "Optimize colors for accessibility" setting, text not readable
  • JavaScript Error: "this_ is not defined" on any new calendar item
  • Monochrome icons for lightning-button-calendar and lightning-button-tasks
  • New Event/Task toolbar layout is different from other dialogs
  • PUBLISH does not allow update (SEQUENCE)
  • Visible privacy status of events in calendar view
  • When modifying an event, Lightning also tries to also modify the organizer (and fails)
  • No email send after invitation creation if offline cache is enabled [Exception... "'TypeError: aItem.calendar.canNotify is not a function' when calling method: [calIOperationListener::onOperationComplete]"
  • Remove chromedir attributes in XUL
  • Make use of BigFiles/FileLink to attach files in the event dialog
  • Exceptions do not take over organizer from parent item
  • Mac OS X comm-central and comm-aurora Lightning nightly builds are missing since 17-Jul-2012
  • Repeating events are not always synchronized if offline cache is enabled [Error syncing items: TypeError: oid.parent is not a function]
  • Event dialog broken due to FileLink feature [Error: ReferenceError: cloudFileAccounts is not defined]
  • JavaScript Error: "this_ is not defined" on any new calendar item
  • Attendee Dialog: Time Slot Indicator has no border
  • Attendee Dialog: No borders between days in free/busy grid
  • Bring back display of build ID to prerelease builds
  • Print Preview shows "All day - All day" for allday events
  • Events that span two or more days are shown incorrect in print output (only shown on first day and with wrong time)

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.6 (Jul 13, 2012)

  • Fixed:
  • Fix id of calendarService.js
  • Make sure prefs.js isn't installed mode 755
  • Add extensions.getAddons.cache.enabled pref
  • Modification of a repeating task causes an unnecessary full refresh of the task trees
  • Alarm service should ignore alarms on added and modified items outside the alarm search range
  • calDateTime returns invalid nativeTime property with dates before 1970
  • Create a script that serves update.rdf information for Lightning Nightly builds
  • Add an em:updateURL tag for nightly builds only
  • Add a difference engine for processing items
  • comm-central build error "[testharnessreport.js] Error 1" due to "ImportError: No module named simplejson"
  • Change background color for selected item in the reminder dialog in Windows 7 High Contrast mode (unreadable green on grey)
  • Follow Thunderbird's Australis changes (Bug 740035 and Bug 734736)

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.5 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • Fixed:
  • Event dialog is not non-modal anymore
  • Add context menu to copy URL for attached links in events/tasks
  • Unused entities in lightning.dtd
  • Storage calendar events are not shown in views due to a corrupted event organizer
  • Typo in the name of an entity
  • don't typedef long intptr_t if _MSC_VER >= 1400
  • Consolidate theming to make more css common
  • Upload lightning in |make upload| if MOZ_CALENDAR is specified, for tryserver
  • Support Attachments and Attendees on Alarms
  • Allow getting a calendar by id
  • The appointment mouseover should show the organizer
  • When mail display is set to black background/white text, calender items appear white on white
  • buttons are too close to edge
  • Remove the side margins in Today Pane
  • calendar-summary-dialog isn't showing the status icons
  • Warning: "Unknown property '-moz-box-shadow'. Declaration dropped." in calendar-views.css

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.4 (Apr 26, 2012)

  • [PATCH] Missing close button for Event dialog under Gnome3
  • Visual indicator in day and week view to show current time (slot)
  • Optimize drag & drop and rezising of events/tasks
  • The until date of a repeating event changes from UTC time to floating after Thunderbird is closed and restarted.
  • move the keep-duration-button's images inside the calendar-event-dialog.png file
  • Cannot enter a "snooze default" larger than 999
  • Implement Task filter (Search for tasks in task list on tasks tab) / Implement "Find Events or Tasks"
  • Task filters "Today" and "Next Seven Days" should show all active tasks for the period
  • Save event with Ctrl-S after changing calendar produces misleading dialogues
  • Add menu commands to postpone the start and/or due dates of tasks
  • Event is moved from original calendar to primary Google calendar upon editing
  • Allow to view all events in current display in unifinder
  • calDateTime doesn't need to implement nsIXPCScriptable
  • Invite Attendees dialog: remove "Next hour" and "Previous hour" buttons
  • Make Customizing Lightning Toolbars work in SeaMonkey.
  • Enabling timezone support in the event dialog should be more visible
  • Full sync providers like ICS very slow when refreshing
  • Fix calDateTime nsIXPCScriptable implementation (build error calDateTime::PreCreatePrototype)
  • On sending updated iTIP message, the subject does not indicate 'updated'
  • calendar-summary-dialog : attendees names overlap
  • Add support for nested mailing lists in the invitations dialog
  • Implement bug 583197 in Task views
  • Remove the dotted lines in trees
  • Use on Aero inverted icons
  • Make the calendar-tab-button and the task-tab-button a toolbarbutton-1
  • Broken calendar-tab-button / task-tab-button on tab toolbar during toolbar customization
  • Write icon in Write popup not shown under Win7
  • Build error in calDateTime.cpp: fatal error: jsdate.h: No such file or directory

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.3 (Mar 10, 2012)

  • This version of Lightning is compatible with Thunderbird 11 and Seamonkey 2.8. The following notable fixes are included:
  • Improved interoperability for Apple iCloud and Chandler Servers
  • New Toolbar to match Thunderbird's tabs on top visuals
  • Improve selection behavior in Calendar View
  • Fixed a regression that kept invitations from being processed

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.2.3 (Mar 10, 2012)

  • Fixes two small issues with invitations.

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.2.1 (Feb 7, 2012)

  • Fixes an important issue that affects certain CalDAV servers, where the organizer and attendee is set wrong.

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.2 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Updates timezones to 2001n which fixes timezone issues for Russian users in particular.
  • Provides hooks to allow provider extensions to install an ACL Manager.
  • Some fixes for the Chandler and Zimbra CalDAV Servers.
  • Fixed a critical issue while modifying items offline on a CalDAV Server

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.2b1 (Jan 7, 2012)

  • Updates timezones to 2001n which fixes timezone issues for Russian users in particular.
  • Provides hooks to allow provider extensions to install an ACL Manager.
  • Some fixes for the Chandler CalDAV Server.

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.1.1 (Jan 7, 2012)

  • This release fixes a critical issue for some users on Windows XP. If you are using Lightning 1.1, you are advised to upgrade as soon as possible!

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.0 Beta 4 (Aug 2, 2011)

  • Accept/Decline Events and Tasks directly via context menu
  • Improves CalDAV's webdav-sync robustness and scalability
  • Event creation is now possible via click and drag in the time scale, even with a full schedule
  • Reminder window is now sorted ascending, the most important alarms are at the top
  • When moving events in the day and week view, you can now use shift to move by single minutes instead of 15 minute intervals.
  • Some representation problems have been fixed
  • Some problems with events and calendar have been fixed
  • New design, especially for Vista/Win7 with Aero support
  • A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge website.

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 1.0 Beta 1 (Jan 13, 2010)

  • Seamless integration into the new Thunderbird 3.0 user interface
  • The different modes (calendar view, task view) are now diplayed in tabs
  • Lightning now supports SeaMonkey 2.0 as a host application
  • You can now define multiple alarms for a single event
  • CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers has been improved
  • The application stability, performance and memory consumption has been improved

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 0.9 (Jan 13, 2010)

  • Events spanning days now have a visual indicator indicating them as connected events
  • When reloading a remote calendar a progress indicator is now shown
  • The so-called "minimonth" (small calendar month in the upper left) has been given a visual overhaul
  • The calendar views (day, week, multiweek, month) have been given a visual overhaul
  • The today pane can now be displayed in calendar mode and task mode as well
  • CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers has been improved
  • iMip/iTip support (support for email invitations) has been greatly improved
  • The application stability and memory consumption has been greatly improved
  • Lightning 0.9 is intended to be the last release for the Thunderbird 2 series. For the future we are planning to integrate Lightning fully into the upcoming Thunderbird 3 release

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 0.8 (Jan 13, 2010)

  • Lightning 0.8 introduces a task mode that contains the following features:
  • Quick display of current tasks
  • Task preview pane displaying task parameters like the description, from date, due date, category, etc
  • Possibility to filter displayed tasks (today's tasks, overdue tasks, completed tasks, etc.)
  • New icon set and reworked menu structure that only offers the user those options that are currently available to him in calendar or task mode
  • Lightning now contains an event list (also known as "unifinder"), which allows the easy selection and sorting of current, future and past events. The unifinder can be easily enabled or disabled by using the "Find events" button on the Calendar toolbar
  • Category colors are now shown next to an event box, giving users a much better overview of their differently categorized events
  • Events with alarms now have a visual indicator showing an alarm bell
  • A totally overhauled alarm dialog
  • Easy conversion of mails, events and tasks into each other. The mode toolbar icons on the left side now function as drop targets, which allows you to convert an e-mail to an event or tasks (or vice versa), just by dragging an e-mail to the calendar icon on the left
  • Visual overhaul for the today pane
  • Lightning now recognizes the timezone definitions in .ics files created by other applications. This fixes the longstanding issue of Lightning miscalculating the date or time of events contained in those files
  • The timezone guessing has been significantly improved
  • Lightning now contains experimental support for viewing remote calendars offline. This feature has known bugs and is included for testing purposes only
  • Lightning contains several performance fixes, which should improve working with larger calendar files
  • You can now define for each of your calendars, whether you want to be notified of alarms for events in these calendars or not
  • * Special builds with support for Sun Java Calendar Server (lightning-WCAP) are no longer available as the base extension package now contains all the necessary code
  • * Thunderbird 1.5.0.x builds are no longer supported. Users of Thunderbird 1.5.0.x are strongly encouraged to update to Thunderbird 2. Please use the "Check for Updates..." option in the help menu to get the update

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 0.7 (Jan 13, 2010)

  • Lightning 0.7 is the latest release of our calendar extension for Mozilla Thunderbird. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.
  • It is now much easier to switch between the mail and calendar parts of Thunderbird thanks to a user interface redesign
  • A redesigned event/task dialog has been enabled to gather feedback from the community. It offers a much cleaner user interface and additional functionality including:
  • Events/Tasks can be created in different timezones
  • Attendees can be added from a local or corporate LDAP directory
  • Free-Busy information is available for users of the Sun Java Calendar Server
  • Integrated display of recurrence patterns, reminders and attendees
  • Custom recurrences and reminders
  • Clear separation between tasks and events
  • The new event summary dialog lists all the details of tasks and events for calendar which are read-only
  • The Today Pane gives a quick overview over your current tasks and upcoming events. The Today Pane can be enabled/disabled by a toolbar button
  • Colliding events (events in the same time slot) are shrunk so that they fit into the display of a day. This no longer affects other events on the same day
  • Localized releases of Lightning and Sunbird in Chinese (simplified), Georgian, Lithuanian, Portuguese (European), Spanish (Argentina) and Turkish

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 0.5 (Jan 13, 2010)

  • Much more polished user interface in the calendar views
  • Event invitations can be sent and received via iMIP/iTIP (Lightning only)
  • Working hours are back
  • Automatic migration of data in Sunbird 0.2, iCal.app, and Evolution
  • Much improved printing functionality
  • Better integration of Lightning into Mozilla Thunderbird (Printing, Undo/redo, Copy/paste)
  • Support for Google Calendar (via the Google Calendar Provider extension)
  • and much more. A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge weblog.

New in Mozilla Lightning Project 0.3.1 (Jan 13, 2010)

  • Be sure to install any Daylight Savings Time updates from your OS vendor. Failure to do so will result in erroneous event times.