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Lightning Changelog

What's new in Lightning 3.3.3

Jan 29, 2015
  • Added locales cy, fi, pt-BR, tr.

New in Lightning 3.3.2 (Dec 29, 2014)

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

New in Lightning 1.9 (Nov 15, 2012)

  • Update en-GB for Calendar/Lightning 1.9

New in Lightning 1.8 (Oct 4, 2012)

  • 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 Lightning 1.6 (Jul 13, 2012)

  • 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"
  • Mac: View Tabs height not aligned, too short
  • 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 Lightning 1.5 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • 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
  • rsync xpi-stage/lightning to dist dir on mac osx
  • Support Attachments and Attendees on Alarms
  • Allow getting a calendar by id
  • The appointment mouseover should show the organizer
  • FIXE 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 Lightning 1.2.1 (Feb 3, 2012)

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

New in Lightning 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 Lightning 1.1.1 (Jan 6, 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 Lightning 1.0 (Nov 8, 2011)

  • Full offline support, when the "Cache" is enabled for a calendar
  • Improve diagnostics for the ICS provider
  • Fix the top startup crash. Please give Lightning another try if you previously had issues
  • Some fixes for the alarm system, specifically related to snoozing and recurring events
  • Allow opening events already accepted via invitation
  • Fresh new UI style for all calendar views

New in Lightning 1.0 Beta 5 (Aug 1, 2011)

  • Remote calendar with webcal:// location not working
  • Thunderbird Does Not Process Meeting Invites from Outlook, Google Calendar
  • startup crash [@ cal::UTC()]
  • wcap not working since TB5 and Lightning 1.0b4rc2
  • Snoozing/Dismissing one event on alarm popup closes entire window
  • Event invitation not sent out when Outlook compatiblity is checked

New in Lightning 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 have been improved
  • The application stability, performance and memory consumption have been improved
  • A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge website (LINK MISSING)

New in Lightning 0.9 (Sep 25, 2008)

  • 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 Lightning 0.8 (Apr 4, 2008)

  • Lightning 0.8 introduces a task mode (Screenshot) 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 Lightning 0.8 RC2 (Apr 2, 2008)

  • Lightning 0.8 introduces a task mode (Screenshot) 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