SeaMonkey 2.49.5 contains (among other changes) the following major changes relative to SeaMonkey 2.49.4:
SeaMonkey 2.49.5 uses the same backend as Firefox and contains the relevant Firefox 52.9.0 ESR security fixes.
SeaMonkey 2.49.5 shares most parts of the mail and news code with Thunderbird. Please read the Thunderbird 52.9.1 release notes for specific changes and security fixes in this release.
Additional security fixes up to ESR 60.2 and a few enhancements have been backported.
SeaMonkey-specific changes
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* Among the general platform and mail fixes this release contains backported fixes from Thunderbird for the EFAIL security vulnerability.
cubeb_sun replaces cubeb_oss, adding support for additional channels
on NetBSD, passing tests, and recording support (more useful on firefox
where WebRTC works)
upstream's official builds use gtk3 over gtk2 and doing so enables
support for hidpi displays.
me and several others have been using this for the past ~week, see
https://github.com/kinetiknz/cubeb/pull/510
bump PKGREVISION.
Note this update is based off an EOL firefox (ESR52). Use with caution.
What's New in SeaMonkey 2.49.4
SeaMonkey 2.49.4 uses the same backend as Firefox and contains the relevant Firefox 52.9.0 ESR security fixes.
SeaMonkey 2.49.4 shares most parts of the mail and news code with Thunderbird. Please read the Thunderbird 52.9.1 release notes for specific changes and security fixes in this release.
SeaMonkey-specific changes
Among the general platform and mail fixes this release contains backported fixes from Thunderbird for the EFAIL security vulnerability.
SeaMonkey now uses gtk3 on Linux. If you experience a problem because of this please file a bug and link it to Switch Linux builds to GTK3 with SeaMonkey 2.49. Pleae try another OS theme first. Some of them are buggy and cause problems with SeaMonkey, Thunderbird and Firefox.
remove patches for security fixes now upstream.
seamonkey is now based on firefox 52.7.3 ESR.
SeaMonkey 2.49.3 shares most parts of the mail and news code with Thunderbird.
Please read the Thunderbird 52.7.0 release notes for specific changes and
security fixes in this release.
SeaMonkey-specific changes
seamonkey official linux builds are based on GTK3 (no change for us)
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the compositor during
certain graphics operations when a raw pointer is used instead of a
reference counted one. This results in a potentially exploitable crash
Bug 1440717 - Use RefPtr for CompositingRenderTargetOGL::mGL. r=Bas, a=ritu
PKGREVISION++
remote code execution via ogg files.
Note firefox52 nor this patches tremor, so the vulnerability still exists
for ARM (which uses tremor rather than vorbis).
Blind commit. I don't have the resources to build so many firefoxes.
However it is based off firefox52.
PKGREVISION++
Changelog:
Based on Firefox 52.4.1
SeaMonkey-specific changes
SeaMonkey should no longer crash when you start it or try to use the mail feature on OS X 10.12 or greater.
You were not always prompted for authentication in SeaMonkey 2.48 under certain scenarios resulting in login failures. The problem, tracked in bug 1347857, has been fixed.
Mail and News: The way images are included in a compose window has changed. Images are now included as data URIs and not as references to parts of other messages or operating system files. This allows better interoperability with office packages such as MS Office or LibreOffice. Images linked from locations on the internet will no longer be downloaded and attached to the message automatically. This can be changed globally by setting the preference mail.compose.attach_http_images.
Language support for nb-NO has been re-added.
SeaMonkey now uses gtk3 on Linux. If you experience a problem because of this please file a bug and link it to Switch Linux builds to GTK3 with SeaMonkey 2.49. Pleae try another OS theme first. Some of them are buggy and cause problems with SeaMonkey, Thunderbird and Firefox.
Quotes are now colored differently in Mails bug 1374708.
Under OSX the left panes in Bookmarks Manager, MailNews and Address Book are now styled like finder panes. See bug 1095904.
Quotes are now colored differently in Mails up to 5 levels deep depending on your OS. See bug 1374708. This may break custom themes for email composition because a new style sheet named "messageQuotes.css" has been added.
