CHangelog:
What's New in SeaMonkey 2.53.6
SeaMonkey 2.53.6 contains (among other changes) the following major changes
relative to SeaMonkey 2.53.5.1:
* Improve usability of multiple mailboxes/folders selectionbug 1600103.
* Add Greek localisation (el).
* Remove more RDF from mailnews code.
* Switch to mozilla as topsrcdir and component for building is comm/suite
now.
* Rust support is now up to 1.48 and official build is now using 1.47.0
* Various security and general platform fixes.
SeaMonkey 2.53.6 contains (among other changes) the following major changes
relative to SeaMonkey 2.49.5:
* The Bookmarks Manager has switched its name to Library, and now also
includes the History list. When invoking History, the Library will be shown
with the History list selected. The extensive modifications were needed
because of Mozilla Gecko platform API changes.
* Download Manager has been migrated to a new API. Although it looks pretty
much the same as before, the search option is missing and some other minor
details work differently. The previous downloads history is removed during
the upgrade.
* The layout panel was added to the CSS Grid tools.
* TLS 1.3 is the default SSL version now.
* The only NPAPI plugin which will work with SeaMonkey 2.53.6 is Flash.
Support for other NPAPI plugins like Java and Silverlight has been removed.
For displaying pdf files in the browser you can use pdf.js-seamonkey from
Isaac Schemm.
* SeaMonkey now uses a new api for formatting regional data like time and
date. Default is to use the application locale of the current SeaMonkey
build. If you use a language pack or a different OS formatting this is
usually not desired. You can change the formatting from the application
locale to the regional settings locale (OS) in the preferences dialog under
"Appearance".
SeaMonkey 2.53.6 uses the same backend as Firefox and contains the relevant
Firefox 60.8 security fixes.
SeaMonkey 2.53.6 shares most parts of the mail and news code with Thunderbird.
Please read the Thunderbird 60.0 release notes for specific changes and
security fixes in this release.
Additional important security fixes up to Current Firefox 78.6 ESR and a few
enhancements have been backported. We will continue to enhance SeaMonkey
security in subsequent 2.53.x beta and release versions as fast as we are able
to.
SeaMonkey-specific changes
* SeaMonkey now uses gtk3 on Linux. If you experience a problem because of
this please file a bug and link it to bug 1367257. Please try another OS
theme first. Some of them are buggy and cause problems with SeaMonkey,
Thunderbird and Firefox.
Changelog:
What's New in SeaMonkey 2.53.3
SeaMonkey 2.53.3 contains (among other changes) the following major
changes relative to SeaMonkey 2.53.2:
The LaTex tool TexZilla, used for inserting Math, has been
upgraded to 1.0.2.
It is now possible to customize the toolbars in Composer and
the formatting toolbar in Mailnews composition.
All folders of an account can now be marked as read.
There is now an option for not advertizing SeaMonkey at all in
the user agent.
The preference for hiding the toolbar and menubar grippies can
now be changed from "Preferences->Appearance".
The tab bar is now shown by default when only one tab is open
bug 1634879. This change was needed as new users did not see
either the tab bar or its "Open a new tab" button on a fresh
installation. Existing users of the option "Hide the tab bar
when only one tab is open" will need to make a one time only
change in "Preferences->Browser->Tabbed Browsing" if they want
to go back to the old setting.
Update of help page content and links.
SeaMonkey language packs are now version specific and will be
disabled as part of the profile upgrade following the installation
of a later version.
Search Engines have been centralized and updated in bug 1300198.
Address book now has updated IM fields, improved layout for
card view pane, improved multi-word search, ability to search
across multiple address books, more granular prompts when
deleting items, print on the context menus and print button on
the toolbar.
Multimedia support has been updated in preparation of supporting
more audio video formats in the next releases. For enhanced
security the Rust multimedia parser is now used for this and
the libstagefright package has been removed.
SeaMonkey 2.53.3 contains (among other changes) the following major
changes relative to SeaMonkey 2.49.5:
The Bookmarks Manager has switched its name to Library, and
now also includes the History list. When invoking History, the
Library will be shown with the History list selected. The
extensive modifications were needed because of Mozilla Gecko
platform API changes.
Download Manager has been migrated to a new API. Although it
looks pretty much the same as before, the search option is
missing and some other minor details work differently. The
previous downloads history is removed during the upgrade.
The layout panel was added to the CSS Grid tools.
TLS 1.3 is the default SSL version now.
The only NPAPI plugin which will work with SeaMonkey 2.53.3 is
Flash. Support for other NPAPI plugins like Java and Silverlight
has been removed. For displaying pdf files in the browser you
can use pdf.js-seamonkey from Isaac Schemm.
SeaMonkey now uses a new api for formatting regional data like
time and date. Default is to use the application locale of the
current SeaMonkey build. If you use a language pack or a
different OS formatting this is usually not desired. You can
change the formatting from the application locale to the regional
settings locale (OS) in the preferences dialog under "Appearance".
SeaMonkey 2.53.3 uses the same backend as Firefox and contains the
relevant Firefox 60.4 security fixes.
SeaMonkey 2.53.3 shares most parts of the mail and news code with
Thunderbird. Please read the Thunderbird 60.0 release notes for
specific changes and security fixes in this release.
Additional important security fixes up to Current Firefox 77 and
a few enhancements have been backported. We will continue to enhance
SeaMonkey security in subsequent 2.53.x beta and release versions
as fast as we are able to.
This allows rust-bin and rust to coexist in bulk builds (for testing, etc),
but the packages still may not be installed at the same time.
rust.mk as a solution for picking the correct rust variant was suggested
by gdt@. It is intended to be included directly by packages that do not
use cargo.mk, and indirectly by packages that do use cargo.mk.
rust.mk provides one user-settable variable:
RUST_TYPE
as before, whether to bootstrap rust from source or use
official binaries. may be "src" or "bin"
And two package-settable variables:
RUST_REQ
the minimum version of Rust required by the package.
defaults to "1.20.0"
RUST_RUNTIME
whether Rust is a runtime dependency, may be "yes" or "no"
ERROR: Only GCC 6.1 or newer is supported (found version 5.5.0).
Note that GCC_REQD must be added above any .include lines since otherwise
it is silently ignored. This needs to be fixed in mk/compiler.mk.
Changelog:
SeaMonkey 2.53.2 contains (among other changes) the following major changes relative to SeaMonkey 2.53.1:
Scrollbars have been switched over to the native gtk3 theme in bug 1625754. If your theme does not show scrollbar buttons and you would like to see them try editing ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and adding the following:
* {
-GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: 1;
-GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: 1;
}
The download progress dialog has been fixed and is now showing the correct status for downloads. Some downloads may not show the transferred count. This problem is under investigation.
SeaMonkey is now translated and available in Finnish and Georgian.
Because of website compatibility issues and privacy concerns the Lightning version is no longer appended to the user agent string and has been removed from the preferences dialog.
Advanced Layers has been activated on Windows. This should boost performance on some websites. If you experience graphics problems please disable it by setting the pref "layers.mlgpu.enabled" to false.
Whether the native app chooser is used in Linux is now controlled via a preference setting in the Helper Applications preference pane.
In the Modern theme, popup notifications have improved styling and column headers now display sort direction arrows.
The column picker and folder view have been reinstated for the bookmarks panel.
Introduced the ability to close all tabs to the right of the current tab.
Whether mailnews tabs open in the background is controlled by a separate preference to browser tabs via General Settings section of main Mail & Newsgroups preference pane.
Fixed an issue with the recipient being missing when using Reply to Sender and Group button in Newsgroup discussions.
SeaMonkey now prevents address books from having duplicate names.
SeaMonkey 2.53.2 contains (among other changes) the following major changes relative to SeaMonkey 2.49.5:
The Bookmarks Manager has switched its name to Library, and now also includes the History list. When invoking History, the Library will be shown with the History list selected. The extensive modifications were needed because of Mozilla Gecko platform API changes.
Download Manager has been migrated to a new API. Although it looks pretty much the same as before, the search option is missing and some other minor details work differently. The previous downloads history is removed during the upgrade.
The layout panel was added to the CSS Grid tools.
TLS 1.3 is the default SSL version now.
The only NPAPI plugin which will work with SeaMonkey 2.53.2 is Flash. Support for other NPAPI plugins like Java and Silverlight has been removed.
SeaMonkey now uses a new api for formatting regional data like time and date. Default is to use the application locale of the current SeaMonkey build. If you use a language pack or a different OS formatting this is usually not desired. You can change the formatting from the application locale to the regional settings locale (OS) in the preferences dialog under "Appearance".
SeaMonkey 2.53.2 uses the same backend as Firefox and contains the relevant Firefox 60.3 security fixes.
pkglint -r --network --only "migrate"
As a side-effect of migrating the homepages, pkglint also fixed a few
indentations in unrelated lines. These and the new homepages have been
checked manually.
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.
