These Release Notes cover what's new, download and installation instructions and known issues for Lightning 1.1 Please read these notes and the bug filing instructions before reporting any bugs to Bugzilla.
What's New in Lightning 1.1
Lightning 1.1 is the latest release of our calendar extension for Mozilla Thunderbird®. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.
The most important bugfix in this release is:- Making Lightning compatible with Thunderbird 9.0a2 and 10.0a1
Release Date: December 16th, 2011
Downloading and Installing
Downloading Lightning 1.1
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 1.1, 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 9.x.
Older versions of Thunderbird are no longer supported. Please use the earlier
1.0b7 (Thunderbird 7) or
1.0b5 (Thunderbird 5 and 6) or
1.0b2 (Thunderbird 3.1) or
0.9 (Thunderbird 2.0) release if you
still use an earlier version of Thunderbird.
- 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
- In Mozilla Thunderbird, under the "Tools" menu, open the "Add-ons Manager"
- Click the "Install" button, locate and select the .XPI file you downloaded in step 1, and click "OK"
- Restart Mozilla Thunderbird
If you are using Seamonkey, the current Lightning release supports version 2.6.
Known Issues
This list covers the major known issues with Lightning 1.1. Please read this list before reporting any new bugs.
All Systems
- Lightning 1.1.1 builds on the ftp server differ from files hosted via AMO (bug 716316)
Other Resources and Links
The following resources contain useful information about Lightning:
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 1.1 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
- German - Deutsch
- English (Great Britain)
- English (United States)
- Estonian - Eesti keel
- Spanish (Spain) - Español (de España)
- Finnish - Suomi
- French - Français
- Frisian - Frysk
- Galician - Galego
- Hungarian - Magyar
- Indonesian - Bahasa Indonesia
- Icelandic - íslenska
- Irish - Gaeilge
- Italian - Italiano
- Japanese - 日本語
- Lithuanian - lietuvių
- Norwegian (Bokmål) - Norsk bokmål
- Norwegian (Nynorsk) - Norsk nynorsk
- Polish - Polski
- Punjabi - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
- Portuguese (Portugal) - Português (Europeu)
- Russian - Русский
- Scottish Gaellic - Gàidhlig
- Slovak - Slovenský
- Slovenian - Slovenščina
- Serbian - српски
- 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.
