What's New in Lightning 1.0 beta4

Lightning 1.0 beta4 is the latest release of our calendar extension for Mozilla Thunderbird®. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.

The following features have been added to Lightning 1.0 beta4:

• Accept/Decline Events and Tasks directly via context menu
• Improves CalDAV's webdav-sync robustness and scalability
• Event creation is now possible via click and drag in the time scale, even with a full schedule
• Reminder window is now sorted ascending, the most important alarms are at the top
• When moving events in the day and week view, you can now use shift to move by single minutes instead of 15 minute intervals.
• Some representation problems have been fixed
• Some problems with events and calendar have been fixed
• New design, especially for Vista/Win7 with Aero support
• A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge website.

Release Date: June 28, 2011

Downloading and Installing

Downloading Lightning 1.0 beta4

Before installing, make sure your computer meets the system requirements. Mozilla.org provides Lightning for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X in a variety of languages. Windows users must have Windows XP or later.

IMPORTANT: Install the updated timezones for Windows XP or later. Information on obtaining the updated timezones can be found in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 955839.
Not updating your Windows timezones will result in unreliable and erroneous display and entry of time data! Be sure to do this!

To get Lightning 1.0 beta4, download it here.

For builds for other systems and languages not provided, see the Contributed Builds section at the end of this document.

Installing Lightning

Lightning runs as an extension for Mozilla Thunderbird 5.x.
Older versions of Thunderbird are no longer supported. Please use the earlier 1.0b1 (Thunderbird 3.0), 1.0b2 (Thunderbird 3.1) or 0.9 (Thunderbird 2.0) release if you still use an earlier version of Thunderbird.

1. Right-click (Control-click on Mac) the download link and choose "Save Link As..." to download and save the .XPI file to your your hard disk
2. In Mozilla Thunderbird, under the "Tools" menu, open the "Add-ons Manager"
3. Click the "Install" button, locate and select the .XPI file you downloaded in step 1, and click "OK"
4. Restart Mozilla Thunderbird

If you are using Seamonkey, the current Lightning release supports versions 2.1 and 2.2.

Known Issues

This list covers the major known issues with Lightning 1.0 beta4. Please read this list before reporting any new bugs.

All Systems

• There is a critical error in Lightning 1.0b4 that makes some reminders undismissable. A new release will be published within the next few weeks.
• Lightning 1.0 beta4 will attempt to guess your timezone on startup. As this is only a best guess, you must manually set the timezone in the Thunderbird Preferences/Options dialog before entering data. Not doing so may cause events to appear at the wrong time
• The experimental support for viewing remote calendars offline has various known issues in the area of performance and calendar data display. It does not support the offline editing of events and tasks, although work is in progress here.
• It is impossible to load several calendars with different passwords on the same server. (bug 247486)
• "By weekday" and "by day" recurrence types (such as "recur on the last weekday of the month") are not supported. (bug 322458)
• There are intermittent issues when modifying occurrences of recurring events via iMIP and Copy/Paste. (bug 354578)
• Multiple windows of the same single event can be opened from the Agenda, the task list and the unifinder. (bug 373251)
• E-Mail invites sent out by Lightning in Outlook 2000/2002/XP compatibility mode, will only be shown by Outlook 2000 if the Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been installed. (bug 377761)
• Popup alarms/reminders don't work with WCAP server (bug 380423)
• Adding events or tasks to a CalDAV calendar whose display has been turned off, will not re-enable the display of that calendar. (bug 421986)
• Lightning cannot send out task invitations and you cannot accept or decline task invitations from within your e-mail inbox. (bug 445982)
• There are interoperability issues with versions of the DAViCal (RSCDS) CalDAV server prior to release 0.9.5. People using earlier releases of DAViCal are advised to stay with Lightning 0.8 until they can upgrade their DAViCal installation to the current version. (bug 448453)
• Events with an UID that contains '/' are not displayed (bug 465853)
• Lightning breaks viewing RSS feeds when changing layout mode (wide, vertical, ...) (Bug 532071)

Windows

• Printing a calendar does not work on the first attempt, but will work on the following attempts. (bug 351581)

Other Resources and Links

The following resources contain useful information about Lightning:

• Lightning Help
• Developer Information

Getting Support

To get support, please visit Mozilla Messaging's support page. If possible, please tag your question, idea or problem with "Lightning".

Localizations

Thanks to the hard work of our localization teams, Lightning 1.0 beta4 ships with the following locales pre-installed:

• Albanian - Gjuha shqipe
• Basque - Euskara
• Catalan - Català
• Chinese (Simplified) - 中文 (简体)
• Chinese (Traditional) - 中文 (繁體)
• Czech - Čeština
• Danish - Dansk
• Dutch - Nederlands
• English (Great Britain)
• English (United States)
• Estonian - Eesti keel
• Finnish - Suomi
• French - Français
• Frisian - Frysk
• German - Deutsch
• Hungarian - Magyar
• Indonesian - Bahasa Indonesia
• Irish - Gaeilge
• Italian - Italiano
• Icelandic - íslenska
• Lithuanian - lietuvių
• Norwegian (Bokmål) - Norsk bokmål
• Norwegian (Nynorsk) - Norsk nynorsk
• Japanese - 日本語
• Polish - Polski
• Portuguese (Portugal) - Português (Europeu)
• Punjabi - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
• Russian - Русский
• Scottish Gaellic - Gàidhlig
• Serbian - српски
• Slovak - Slovenský
• Spanish (Latin America) - Español (de América)
• Spanish (Spain) - Español (de España)
• Swedish - Svenska
• Turkish - Türkçe
• Ukrainian - украї́нська мо́ва

Contributed Builds

These are unofficial builds and may be configured differently than the official mozilla.org builds. They may also be optimized and/or tested for specific platforms.

Solaris builds

• Lightning 1.0 beta4 for OpenSolaris

Previous versions of the Release notes: 1.0b2 | 1.0b1 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.3.1 | 0.3 | 0.1

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• Known Issues
• Other Resources and Links
• Localizations
• Contributed builds