Lightning 0.9 and Sunbird 0.9 are out!

[Simon Paquet]

Hi guys!

The Calendar Project is proud to report, that the 0.9 release of
Lightning and Sunbird has been completed and is now available via AMO and
the Calendar Project website.

Five and a half months after the 0.8 release we move one step closer to
our 1.0 release, currently planned for early 2009. Notable improvements
of this release are:

* Events spanning days now have a visual indicator indicating them as
connected events
* When reloading a remote calendar a progress indicator is now shown
* The so-called "minimonth" (small calendar month in the upper left) has
been given a visual overhaul
* The calendar views (day, week, multiweek, month) have been given a
visual overhaul
* The today pane can now be displayed in calendar mode and task mode as
well [Lightning-only]
* CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers has
been improved
* iMip/iTip support (support for email invitations) has been greatly
improved [Lightning-only]
* The application stability and memory consumption has been greatly
improved
* Icelandic, Romanian and Traditional Chinese were added as new
languages. Unfortunately no builds in Macedonian or Turkish are
available for 0.9
* Lightning 0.9 is intended to be the last release for the Thunderbird 2
series. For the future we are planning to integrate Lightning fully
into the upcoming Thunderbird 3 release [Lightning-only]
* A full list of all the 397 changes that have gone into this release can
be found on the Rumbling Edge website[1]

Lightning 0.9 and Sunbird 0.9 are available for Windows, Mac OS X
(universal builds), Linux, Solaris (Intel) and Solaris (Sparc) in 31
different languages including English.

Please use the following links to download the release:

* Lightning 0.9 for Windows, Mac, Solaris or Linux (fully localized for
31 languages)[2]
* Sunbird 0.9 in English[3] or other languages[4]

Please read the release notes for Lightning 0.9[5] and Sunbird 0.9[6]
before downloading.

Thank you again to all our developers, contributors, localizers, testers,
and supporters. We would not be able to do this without your assistance!

Cya
The Mozilla Calendar Project Team

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[1] http://www.rumblingedge.com/2008/09/21/sunbird-09-released/
[2] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/download.html
[3] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/download.html
[4] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/l10n_download.html
[5] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning0.9.html
[6] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/sunbird0.9.html

[David Ascher]

Post by Simon Paquet
Hi guys!
The Calendar Project is proud to report, that the 0.9 release of
Lightning and Sunbird has been completed and is now available via AMO and
the Calendar Project website.

W00T! Congratulations!

-david

[Max Spicer]

Great news - congratulations!

What's the status of the Google calendar add on? I can't find mention
of it on the Lightning site.

Max

Post by Simon Paquet
Hi guys!
The Calendar Project is proud to report, that the 0.9 release of
Lightning and Sunbird has been completed and is now available via AMO and
the Calendar Project website.

[petenz]

Post by Max Spicer
Great news - congratulations!
What's the status of the Google calendar add on? I can't find mention
of it on the Lightning site.
Max

Post by Simon Paquet
Hi guys!
The Calendar Project is proud to report, that the 0.9 release of
Lightning and Sunbird has been completed and is now available via AMO and
the Calendar Project website.

There's a concurrent update to 0.5. All good!

[Peter Weilbacher]

Post by Simon Paquet
Lightning 0.9 and Sunbird 0.9 are available for Windows, Mac OS X
(universal builds), Linux, Solaris (Intel) and Solaris (Sparc) in 31
different languages including English.

I send this to Simon already my private mail, but I'm not sure how
often he reads his email...
Could someone be so nice to stage the OS/2 build that I temporarily
put up at http://temp.weilbacher.org/SB09/ If you could then also
change the sunbird0.9.html webpage accordingly as you did for 0.8,
that would be even better. :-)

In the meantime I also noticed that the link titled "Other Systems"
still goes to the 0.8 version of that page.

Btw, guys, thanks a lot for this nicely polished release! I have been
using 0.9pre nightlies on Linux for a while and my own OS/2 builds,
too, and they got nicer all the time. :-)

Cheers,
Peter.

[Marcel Berteler]

Post by Simon Paquet
* Lightning 0.9 is intended to be the last release for the Thunderbird 2
series. For the future we are planning to integrate Lightning fully
into the upcoming Thunderbird 3 release [Lightning-only]

Congrats on the release....

Could you maybe explain what it would entail for current nightly testers
/ users when you move the development efforts to Trunk (TB3)?

- Would TB2 users be able to test nightly builds, or is 0.9 the end and
should we move to TB3 to use nightly builds again?

Marcel

[Simon Paquet]

Post by Marcel Berteler
Congrats on the release....
Could you maybe explain what it would entail for current nightly
testers/users when you move the development efforts to Trunk (TB3)?

I wouldn't expect major hassles, as stuff like the database schema are
the same on branch and comm-central. However, you should expect a lot
of rough edges on hg nightlies, due to the lack of focus on the trunk
during the last 22 months.

Do not expect the hg nightlies to be as polished as the branch
nightlies!

Post by Marcel Berteler
- Would TB2 users be able to test nightly builds, or is 0.9 the end

and should we move to TB3 to use nightly builds again?

0.9 is the end for all TB2 users as far as we are concerned. We will no
longer require people to commit their changes to the branch and we will
remove all branch-specific workarounds within the next few days/weeks.
We will also shutdown our branch build machines.

Interested parties are of course welcome to backport patches from hg
to the 1.8 branch or the Sunbird 0.9 branch, but we will neither
actively support nor hinder that.

Simon