* Update Lightning to 1.3 from 1.3b1
Changelog:
* Support for Apple iCloud and Chandler servers improved
* Support for high contrast themes (needs to be enabled in the preferences)
* New toolbar to adapt to Thunderbird's Tabs-on-Top
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8.0 changes:
Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 8 engine
Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default
New Search and Find Shortcuts
Improved accessibility of the attachment list
Folder switching pane widget has been removed, can be added back with the
Folder Pane View Switcher Add-on
Numerous platform fixes to stability
Fixed several security issues
7.0 changes:
Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 7 engine
Several user interface fixes and improvements
Several fixes to attachment handling
Ability to print a summary of selected email messages
Platform improvements to Address Book
Fixed several security issues
Numerous platform fixes that improve speed, performance and stability
Release notes for 6.0:
Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 6 engine
Several theme improvements for Windows 7
Support for Windows 7 Jump lists
Several fixes when importing email from Microsoft Outlook
Default mail client check now works with newer Linux distributions
Various other user interface fixes and improvements
Numerous platform fixes that improve speed, performance, stability and security
Release notes for 5.0:
More responsive and faster to start up and use
Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 5 engine
New Add-ons Manager
Revised account creation wizard to improve email setup
New Troubleshooting Information page
Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to different windows
Attachment sizes now displayed along with attachments
Plugins can now be loaded in RSS feeds by default
There are several theme fixes for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Support for Mac 32/64 bit Universal builds (Thunderbird no longer supports PowerPC on Mac)
Over 390 platform fixes that improve speed, performance, stability and security
- Several fixes to improve performance, stability and security
- Several fixes to improve handling of large folder files stored locally.
- Several fixes to improve corruption in local copy of IMAP mailboxes.
- MFSA 2010-78 Add support for OTS font sanitizer
- MFSA 2010-75 Buffer overflow while line breaking after document.write
with long string
- MFSA 2010-74 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.13/ 1.9.1.16)
* Several fixes to improve stability.
* Several fixes to the user interface.
* Several security fixes:
MFSA 2010-63 Information leak via XMLHttpRequest statusText
MFSA 2010-62 Copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop into designMode document allows XSS
MFSA 2010-61 UTF-7 XSS by overriding document charset using <object> type
attribute
MFSA 2010-59 SJOW creates scope chains ending in outer object
MFSA 2010-58 Crash on Mac using fuzzed font in data: URL
MFSA 2010-57 Crash and remote code execution in normalizeDocument
MFSA 2010-56 Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeContentView
MFSA 2010-55 XUL tree removal crash and remote code execution
MFSA 2010-54 Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeSelection
MFSA 2010-53 Heap buffer overflow in nsTextFrameUtils::TransformText
MFSA 2010-52 Windows XP DLL loading vulnerability
MFSA 2010-51 Dangling pointer vulnerability using DOM plugin array
MFSA 2010-50 Frameset integer overflow vulnerability
MFSA 2010-49 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.9/ 1.9.1.12)
(Since pkgsrc-2010Q2 has the 3.0 branch of thunderbird I will send a
separate diff to releng for the 3.0.6 security update.)
MFSA 2010-47 Cross-origin data leakage from script filename in error messages
MFSA 2010-46 Cross-domain data theft using CSS
MFSA 2010-44 Characters mapped to U+FFFD in 8 bit encodings cause subsequent
character to vanish
MFSA 2010-43 Same-origin bypass using canvas context
MFSA 2010-42 Cross-origin data disclosure via Web Workers and importScripts
MFSA 2010-41 Remote code execution using malformed PNG image
MFSA 2010-40 nsTreeSelection dangling pointer remote code execution
MFSA 2010-39 nsCSSValue::Array index integer overflow
MFSA 2010-38 Arbitrary code execution using SJOW and fast native function
MFSA 2010-34 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.7/ 1.9.1.11)
- Update bundled enigmail to 1.1.2
- Update mozilla branch patches to 1.9.2 (from devel/xulrunner)
- While here fix PR pkg/43598 PLIST problem w/ enigmail
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Thunderbird 3.1 is based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform to provide improved
performance, stability, web compatibility, and code simplification and
sustainability.
New features include:
Faster Search Results and Quick Filter Toolbar
* Faster Search Results
* Quick Filter Toolbar
User Experience Improvements
* New Migration Assistant
* Saved Files Manager
* Mail Account Setup Wizard
Performance Improvements
* Improvements to Stability, Memory, and Password Handling
