Sunbird 1.0 Beta 1 / 0.9

The Sunbird Project is a redesign of the Mozilla Calendar component.
The goal is to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language.

At the moment the "Sunbird" name is a project name. It is not official and may change in the future.

Our intended user is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird and wants a calendar application based on Mozilla.

In addition, by focusing solely on standalone calendar, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the calendar application by removing components and chrome we don't need.

At the moment Sunbird is in an experimental stage. Although it is quite stable, we recommend it for testing purposes only.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· 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