(2.0.0.1-2.0.0.3 skipped to keep the version on par with Firefox?)
Security fixes in this version:
MFSA 2007-15 Security Vulnerability in APOP Authentication
MFSA 2007-12 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption
For more info, see http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/2.0.0.4/releasenotes/
What's New in Thunderbird 2
* Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be
assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and
mail views to make it easier to organize email.
* Visual Theme: Thunderbird 2's theme and user interface have been updated to
improve usability and maximize screen real estate.
* Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through
message history.
* Advanced Folder Views: Customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or
recent folders.
* Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services: Gmail and .Mac users can access
their accounts in Thunderbird by simply providing their user names and
passwords.
* Improved Support For Extensions: Extensions can now add custom columns to the
message list pane in addition to storing custom message data in the mail
database.
* Improved New Mail Notification Alerts: New mail alerts include information
such as the subject, sender and message preview text.
* Folder Summary Popups: Mouse over a folder with new messages to see a summary
of the new messages in that folder.
* Saved Search Folder Performance: Search results for saved search folders are
now cached, improving folder loading performance.
* Find As You Type: Finds and highlights message text as you type.
* Improved Filing Tools: Recent folder menu items for moving and copying
messages to recently used folders. Move / Copy again functionality.
* Updates to the Extension System: The extension system has been updated to
provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
The Rumbling Edge has a more detailed list of notable bug fixes:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/03/tb_2.html
the exact names of the freebl libraries depends on the platform and they
have a habit of changing even on minor releases. This causes these mozilla
packages to be broken quite a lot on platforms other than NetBSD/i386.
Hopefully this fix will last longer than previous ones. pkgrevision bumps
all around.
two issues. The PLIST was incorrect and since the PLIST is used by
the "moz-install" script, anything missing from the PLIST is never
installed even when building from source. When libfreebl* were not
installed it caused the clients to fail to load the security component
and fail with "The browser failed to load its security component".
The second issue is that many installations of solaris-2.9 include
various glib/gtk/gnome libraries in /usr/lib. This causes failures
because the pkgsrc ones were used at link time and the /usr/lib ones
at run time. Work around this by setting a LD_LIBRARY_PATH that includes
the pkgsrc lib directory first.
pkgrevision bumps all around.
mail/thunderbird-gtk1 to 1.5.0.4, and www/seamonkey, www/seamonkey-gtk1
and www/seamonkey-bin to 1.0.2 (salo has already updated www/firefox-bin).
Note that thunderbird skipped one release number (again) to stay on par
with firefox.
These updates provide:
* improvements to product stability,
* several important security fixes (see below).
Fixed in Firefox 1.5.0.4:
MFSA 2006-43 Privilege escalation using addSelectionListener
MFSA 2006-42 Web site XSS using BOM on UTF-8 pages
MFSA 2006-41 File stealing by changing input type (variant)
MFSA 2006-39 "View Image" local resource linking (Windows)
MFSA 2006-38 Buffer overflow in crypto.signText()
MFSA 2006-37 Remote compromise via content-defined setter on object prototypes
MFSA 2006-36 PLUGINSPAGE privileged JavaScript execution 2
MFSA 2006-35 Privilege escalation through XUL persist
MFSA 2006-34 XSS viewing javascript: frames or images from context menu
MFSA 2006-33 HTTP response smuggling
MFSA 2006-32 Fixes for crashes with potential memory corruption
MFSA 2006-31 EvalInSandbox escape (Proxy Autoconfig, Greasemonkey)
Fixed in Thunderbird 1.5.0.4:
MFSA 2006-42 Web site XSS using BOM on UTF-8 pages
MFSA 2006-40 Double-free on malformed VCard
MFSA 2006-38 Buffer overflow in crypto.signText()
MFSA 2006-37 Remote compromise via content-defined setter on object prototypes
MFSA 2006-35 Privilege escalation through XUL persist
MFSA 2006-33 HTTP response smuggling
MFSA 2006-32 Fixes for crashes with potential memory corruption
MFSA 2006-31 EvalInSandbox escape (Proxy Autoconfig, Greasemonkey)
Fixed in SeaMonkey 1.0.2:
MFSA 2006-43 Privilege escalation using addSelectionListener
MFSA 2006-42 Web site XSS using BOM on UTF-8 pages
MFSA 2006-41 File stealing by changing input type (variant)
MFSA 2006-40 Double-free on malformed VCard
MFSA 2006-39 "View Image" local resource linking (Windows)
MFSA 2006-38 Buffer overflow in crypto.signText()
MFSA 2006-37 Remote compromise via content-defined setter on object prototypes
MFSA 2006-35 Privilege escalation through XUL persist
MFSA 2006-34 XSS viewing javascript: frames or images from context menu
MFSA 2006-33 HTTP response smuggling
MFSA 2006-32 Fixes for crashes with potential memory corruption
MFSA 2006-31 EvalInSandbox escape (Proxy Autoconfig, Greasemonkey)
What's new:
* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an
update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a
megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
* Sort address autocomplete results by how often you send e-mail to each recipient.
* Spell check as you type.
* Saved Search Folders can now search across multiple accounts.
* Built in phishing detector to help protect users against email scams.
* Podcasting and other RSS Improvements.
* Deleting attachments from messages.
* Integration with server side spam filtering.
* Reply and forward actions for message filters.
* Kerberos Authentication.
* Auto save as draft for mail composition.
* Message aging.
* Filters for Global Inbox.
* Improvements to product usability including redesigned options interface,
and SMTP server management.
* Many security enhancements.
For a more detailed list of changes, see http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2006/01/1-5.html
Ok with wiz.
Here are some of the new features to look for in Thunderbird:
* Adaptive Junk Mail Controls
* RSS Integration
* Saved Search Folders
Saved Search Folders display messages based on previously set search
criteria. For example, instead of filtering messages into a new
folder, you can create a Saved Search Folder that lists all the
messages received from a certain person over the past 30 days, even if
those messages are stored in different folders and subfolders.
* Global Inbox Support
POP3 users can now combine all of their POP3 accounts into a single
global inbox under local folders.
* Message Grouping
You can now group messages in a folder by attributes such as date,
sender, priority or a custom label. For instance, a folder grouped by
date will group messages from today, yesterday, last week, etc. into
self-contained groups in the message list pane. (View > Sort By >
Grouped By Sort)
* Privacy Protection
In order to help protect your privacy, Thunderbird now automatically
blocks remote image requests in emails from senders you don't know.
* Comprehensive Mail Migration from other Mail Clients
Switching to Thunderbird has never been easier since Thunderbird can
now migrate all of your email data including settings, mail folders
and address book data from common mail applications such as the
Mozilla 1.x Suite, Outlook Express, Outlook and Eudora.
2)sync patches from www/mozilla.
- update patch-ab
from commit log
>> date: 2004/08/31 02:37:57; author: danw; state: Exp; lines: +13 -6
>> darwin fixes (tested against firefox-gtk2)
- update patch-ac
- update patch-bx
- add patch-bz
- add patch-ca
- add patch-cb
from commit log
>> date: 2004/07/07 09:08:31; author: aymeric; state: Exp; lines: +14 -7
>> . on PowerPC, update files so that Mozilla works properly when compiled with
>> gcc version 3+.
>> . generally reduce diffs to Linux version
>> . retain compatibility with older ABI (AIX-like) thanks to useful comments
>> from Charles Hannum
>>
>> Thanks to Matthew Green for the fruitful discussion. This should address
>> PR#23240 as far as mozilla is concerned.
- remove patch-bn
enable HAVE_SOCKLEN_T
- update patch-br
from commit log
>> date: 2004/10/04 11:52:45; author: grant; state: Exp; lines: +10 -6
>> bring across a patch in Firefox for using thread-safe resolver library
>> functions on NetBSD >=2.0F.
- update patch-cc
make mozilla work on NetBSD-current/alpha
3)bump PKGREVISION
Here are the highlights for this Thunderbird release:
* Saved Search Folders
- Saved Search Folders display messages based on previously set search
criteria. For example, instead of filtering messages into a new
folder, you could create a Saved Search Folder that lists all the
messages received from a certain person over the past 30 days, even if
those messages are stored in different folders and subfolders.
* Message Grouping
- You can now group messages in a folder by attributes such as date,
sender, priority or a custom label. For instance, a folder grouped by
date will group messages from today, yesterday, last week, etc. into
self-contained groups in the message list pane. (View > Sort By >
Grouped By Sort)
* Other New Features
- Messages with attachments now get marked as such in the message list
pane immediately and not when the message is displayed.
- Improvements to Thunderbird's Global Inbox support for POP3 users.
- The new quick search bar introduced in 0.8 now features a clear
button when search text is present inside the quick search box.
- Fixed a regression introduced in 0.8 where a user could not change
the local folder path in the Account Manager.
- Improved offline support including fixes for common offline-related
problems.
- Improved privacy controls block remote content in e-mail messages
from senders not in your address book.
- Long file attachment names are no longer truncated in the message
pane.
- Bug fixes too numerous to mention!
What's new from Release Notes:
* Global Inbox
POP3 users can now combine all of their POP3 accounts into a single
global inbox under local folders.
* Comprehensive Data Migration
Switching to Thunderbird has never been easier since Thunderbird can
now migrate all of your e-mail data including settings, mail folders
and address book data from common mail applications such as the
Mozilla 1.x Suite, Outlook Express, Outlook and Eudora.
* RSS Integration
Thunderbird now features a built in RSS reader which allows you to
easily subscribe to and read news and weblogs that support RSS.
* Improved Privacy Controls
In order to help protect your privacy, Thunderbird now automatically
blocks remote image requests in e-mails from senders you don't know.
* Improved Quick Search
Thunderbird now makes it even easier to manage your e-mail. Quick
search now supports many different types of search criteria including
the ability to search message body text. Thunderbird can also
highlight the quick search terms in the message body.
* Other New Features
Support for using a master password to encrypt saved e-mail account passwords.
Linux GNOME users can now make Thunderbird their default e-mail client
(Tools > Options > General).
If your network uses proxy authentication for HTTP, Thunderbird now
correctly prompts for proxy authentication instead of silently
failing.
Bug fixes too numerous to mention!
---
Several security holes have been fixed. See the page bellow for
detail.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
Here are the highlights for this release of Thunderbird:
* Smaller and Faster
The Windows Installer is now only a 5.9MB download. Significant
performance improvements on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!
* New Themes and Extension Manager
Provides a convenient and secure way to manage and update the many
add-ons that set Thunderbird apart from other e-mail clients.
* Crash Analysis Tools (Talkback)
Help us help you! Integration with Mozilla Talkback allows users to
submit crash reports which makes it easier for us to find Thunderbird
top crashes.
* Other New Features...
New user interface for viewing vCards.
New Profile Manager which also supports running from a USB device.
Color quoting for quoted message parts.
Thunderbird now supports a user interface for creating multiple
identities per e-mail account. This makes it easy to have several
e-mail addresses which end up going into the same account.
* Recently Fixed Bugs
Fix for an occassional hang when reading IMAP mail over SSL.
Our LDAP support works against older version 2 LDAP servers again in
addition to version 3.
Thunderbird can handle mailto urls that contain raw spaces in the
subject.
Other bug fixes too numerous to mention!
What's new from release notes:
* Improved Junk Mail Controls
The algorithm for the adaptive junk mail controls has been heavily
redesigned to learn faster and catch more spam.
* New Brand Identity
To be consistent with the Mozilla Foundation's goal of brand identity,
Thunderbird has a new logo and supporting artwork thanks to the fine
work of the Mozilla Visual Identity team.
* Other New Features...
- IMAP users can now benefit from support for the IMAP IDLE command
which allows the mail server to push notifications such as new mail
arriving as soon as it arrives.
- Thunderbird supports server-wide news filters that apply to all
newsgroups on a server.
- Thunderbird includes Secure Password Authentication using a new
cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.
- Mail filters can now mark messages as junk.
- Tools > Options > Compose > HTML Options allows you to set up
default HTML compose options such as font, size and color.
- Attachments can be opened directly from the compose window to verify
their contents before sending.
- Thunderbird now supports the notion of multiple identities per mail
account. This makes it easy to have several e-mail addresses which end
up going into the same account. Read More about how to set this up.
* Recently Fixed Bugs
- In the case of a failure when copying a message to an online Sent
folder, Thunderbird will now ask if you would like it to try again.
- Pasting data from an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet no longer pastes
random HTML garbage before the actual spreadsheet data into HTML
compose.
- Fixed several situations where LDAP connections were left open when
using LDAP auto complete or performing searches on LDAP directories.
- Improved view source behavior.
- Mail notification for POP3 messages that are marked deleted or
marked read by mail filters no longer occurs.
- The "Mark All Read" keyboard shortcut now works for Linux GTK2.
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The
goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using
the XUL user interface language.
