Changelog:
What's New
New GMail supports OAuth2 authentication, removing the need to manually select "allow less secure applications" in Google options for the account. (bug 849540)
New Ship Lightning calendar addon with Thunderbird and enable with an opt-out dialog (bug 1113183)
New Filter sent messages (bug 11039)
New Filter messages when archived (bug 479823)
New Enable search in multiple/all address books (bug 170270)
New Add support for Yahoo Messenger in Chat (bug 955574)
New Support Internationalized domain name URLs for RSS feeds (Bug 1018589)
New Show expanded columns in folder pane (bug 464973)
New Allow file-per-message (maildir) local message storage (bug 845952)
New Add a Learn more link to the support page in feeds subscribe dialog (bug 1053782)
New Add reading position marker line to conversations (bug 760762)
New The editor for twitter should show inputtable character count (bug 736002)
Changed Thunderbird will no longer use SHA-1 to sign messages (bug 1018259)
Changed Removed rarely used character sets: T.61-8bit, non-encoding Mac encoders, VISCII, x-viet-tcvn5712, x-viet-vps x-johab, ARMSCII8 , map us-ascii to windows-1252, ISO-8859-6-I and -E and ISO-8859-8-E, (bug 1068505 and others.)
Changed Disable CONDSTORE support for IMAP to prevent discrepancies in IMAP message status (deleted, unread) on some servers (bug 912216)
Changed Make OpenSearch queries open in the user's default browser (bug 1120777)
Changed Default to using SSL for XMPP and IRC. This might cause issues for self-signed certificates (bug 1122567, bug 1122666)
Fixed Replied/forwarded icons disappear after folder repair, detach/delete (bug 840418)
Fixed Attachment "Save As" files are displayed in Tools/Saved Files (bug 914517)
Fixed Adding unknown email addresses to Mailing list, then deleting ghost duplicate entries from contacts pane, caused dataloss in mailing list (bug 628035)
Fixed Web site from RSS feed was not rendered correctly (bug 662907)
Fixed Email address with leading/trailing whitespace displayed wrongly with added quotes when composing ["foo"@bar.com] (bug 286760)
Fixed Force display of Sender header if S/MIME sender is the signer (bug 332639)
Fixed Addressing autocomplete widget: Typed text in red despite results/matches found if suggestions change by last input (bug 1042561)
Fixed Status bar not accessible (bug 934875)
Fixed Wrong folder may be deleted when requesting junk delete (bug 1018960)
Fixed Severe UI stutter or freezes getting new mail for very large folders (bug 870556)
Fixed Automatically rejoin multi-user conversations on reconnect for XMPP (bug 1014472)
Fixed Various improvements when using IRC on moznet (bug 1083768 and others)
Fixed Significantly improve XMPP support (bug 1085022 and others)
Fixed Fixes for connecting to non-standard IRC networks (bug 870556 and others)
Fixed Automatically reclaim IRC nicks during a reconnect (bug 1087566)
Fixed Changing location in editor doesn't preserve the font when returning to end of text/line (bug 756984)
Fixed Inline spell checker loses red underlines after a backspace is used (bug 1100966)
Known Issues
unresolved Automatic addon compatibility update checks were not completed, so existing addon compatibilities may not be accurate.
unresolved Copy/Paste into plain text editor deletes newlines from quoted text (bug 1143570)
unresolved Importing data from Outlook or Eudora crashes (bug 917961)
Security:
Fixed in Thunderbird 38.0.1
2015-58 Mozilla Windows updater can be run outside of application directory
2015-57 Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages
2015-54 Buffer overflow when parsing compressed XML
2015-51 Use-after-free during text processing with vertical text enabled
2015-48 Buffer overflow with SVG content and CSS
2015-47 Buffer overflow parsing H.264 video with Linux Gstreamer
2015-46 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.0 / rv:31.7)
* Update enigmail to 1.7
Changelog:
NEW
Autocompleting email addresses now matches against any part of the name or email (bug 529584)
NEW
Composing a mail to a newsgroup will now autocomplete newsgroup names (bug 61491)
FIXED
Insecure NTLM (pre-NTLMv2) authentication disabled (see 828183)
Fixed in Thunderbird 31
MFSA 2014-66 IFRAME sandbox same-origin access through redirect
MFSA 2014-65 Certificate parsing broken by non-standard character encoding
MFSA 2014-64 Crash in Skia library when scaling high quality images
MFSA 2014-63 Use-after-free while when manipulating certificates in the trusted cache
MFSA 2014-62 Exploitable WebGL crash with Cesium JavaScript library
MFSA 2014-61 Use-after-free with FireOnStateChange event
MFSA 2014-59 Use-after-free in DirectWrite font handling
MFSA 2014-58 Use-after-free in Web Audio due to incorrect control message ordering
MFSA 2014-57 Buffer overflow during Web Audio buffering for playback
MFSA 2014-56 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:31.0 / rv:24.7)
Fixed in Thunderbird 24.1.1
MFSA 2013-103 Miscellaneous Network Security Services (NSS) vulnerabilities
TODO: put sdk common files into their own PLIST in order to simplify updates to
PLIST.enigmail and PLIST.lightning.
Changelog:
24.1.
FIXED
Fixed an issue where signatures were shown in too lighter grey making them difficult to read (bug 917906)
FIXED
Fixed an issue where Auto CC for reply might not work if the cc address is the same as the sending address (bug 917231)
FIXED
Security fixes can be found here
Fixed in Thunderbird 24.0
MFSA 2013-92 GC hazard with default compartments and frame chain restoration
MFSA 2013-91 User-defined properties on DOM proxies get the wrong "this" object
MFSA 2013-90 Memory corruption involving scrolling
MFSA 2013-89 Buffer overflow with multi-column, lists, and floats
MFSA 2013-88 compartment mismatch re-attaching XBL-backed nodes
MFSA 2013-85 Uninitialized data in IonMonkey
MFSA 2013-83 Mozilla Updater does not lock MAR file after signature verification
MFSA 2013-82 Calling scope for new Javascript objects can lead to memory corruption
MFSA 2013-81 Use-after-free with select element
MFSA 2013-80 NativeKey continues handling key messages after widget is destroyed
MFSA 2013-79 Use-after-free in Animation Manager during stylesheet cloning
MFSA 2013-77 Improper state in HTML5 Tree Builder with templates
MFSA 2013-76 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:24.0 / rv:17.0.9)
24.0
NEW
Message threads can now be ignored or watched
NEW
Emails can now be sent to IDN based email addresses
NEW
Zoom functionality is now available in the compose window
CHANGED
In the Compose window, ctrl/cmd + and ctrl/cmd - now change the zoom setting rather than the font size
CHANGED
In Twitter, replying to a tweet now replies to all users, just like on the Twitter website
FIXED
Interactions in the filter list dialogs have been improved
FIXED
In Chat user nicknames are now highlighted when mentioned
FIXED
In IRC, long messages will now be sent in multiple parts instead of being cut off
FIXED
Various security fixes
Fixed in Thunderbird 24.1
MFSA 2013-102 Use-after-free in HTML document templates
MFSA 2013-101 Memory corruption in workers
MFSA 2013-100 Miscellaneous use-after-free issues found through ASAN fuzzing
MFSA 2013-98 Use-after-free when updating offline cache
MFSA 2013-97 Writing to cycle collected object during image decoding
MFSA 2013-96 Improperly initialized memory and overflows in some JavaScript functions
MFSA 2013-95 Access violation with XSLT and uninitialized data
MFSA 2013-94 Spoofing addressbar though SELECT element
MFSA 2013-93 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:25.0 / rv:24.1 / rv:17.0.10)
* Remove unused option.
* Update enigmail to 1.4.1
Changelog:
* Global Search results now include message extracts in the results
* Various security fixes
* Various improvements to RSS feed subscription and general feed handling
* Thunderbird now supports add-ons that provide different types of
local mail storage
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
- 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
The 2.x version is still available in mail/thunderbird2.
Major changes:
- New Mail Account Setup Wizard
- Redesigned Mail Toolbar
- Tabbed Email Messages
- Smart Folders
- New Message Summary View
- Column Headings
- Message Archive
- Activity Manager
- New Add-ons Manager
- Improved Address Book
- Improved Gmail Integration
Full release notes:
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0rc1/releasenotes/
