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Sunbird 0.5 Release Notes

What's new in Sunbird 0.5

Sunbird 0.5 is the latest release of our standalone calendar application. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.

  • Much more polished user interface in the calendar views
  • Working hours are back
  • Automatic migration of data in Sunbird 0.2, iCal.app, and Evolution
  • Much improved printing functionality
  • Support for Google Calendar (via the Google Calendar Provider extension)
  • Vastly improved reliability
  • Many performance improvements
  • Many usability improvements

Downloading and Installing

System Requirements

Before installing, make sure your computer meets the system requirements. Mac OS X users must have Mac OS X 10.2 or greater, and Windows users must have Windows 98 or later. Windows users should read the known issues for their operating system.

Downloading Sunbird 0.5

Mozilla.org provides Sunbird for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of languages. To get Lightning 0.5, download it here.

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

Installing Sunbird

Once you have downloaded Sunbird, follow these instructions to install:

Windows

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WINDOWS USERS: Install the updated timezones for Windows. Information on obtaining the updated timezones can be found in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 928388. Not updating your Windows timezones will result in unreliable and erroneous display and entry of time data! Be sure to do this!

Before installing, uninstall any previous versions of Sunbird you may have. From the Start menu, choose Control Panel. When the Control Panel appears, double click Add/Remove Programs. Select "Mozilla Sunbird" in the list and click Remove to uninstall.

Then, double click the installer to start the install.

Mac OS X

Once you have downloaded the Sunbird 0.5.dmg file, double click the Sunbird Disk Image to open it in Finder, and then drag the Sunbird application onto your hard disk. Drag the icon to your Dock if you want it to appear there.

Linux/GTK2

Extract the tarball in the directory where you want to install Sunbird:

tar -xjvf sunbird-0.3.1.tar.bz2

This will create a sunbird subdirectory of that directory.

Other Platforms

Extract the compressed archive and run sunbird.

Uninstalling Sunbird

To uninstall Sunbird, follow these instructions:

Windows

From the Start menu, choose Control Panel. When the Control Panel appears, double click Add/Remove Programs. Find "Mozilla Sunbird (0.5)" in the list and click Remove to uninstall.

Mac OS X

Drag the Sunbird application to the Trash.

Others

Remove the sunbird folder.

These instructions leave your profile in place in case you install Sunbird again in the future. If you wish to remove your profile folder, remove the location described below in the "Profile Folder" section. Note that by doing this you are destroying all of your calendars, saved passwords, settings and other information and should you decide to use Sunbird again you will be starting with a clean profile.

Other Information

Profile Folder

Sunbird stores your user data in one of the following locations:

ico-win.png Windows 2000, XP Documents and Settings\<UserName>\ApplicationData\Mozilla\Sunbird
ico-osx.png Mac OS X ~/Library/Application Support/Sunbird
ico-tux.png Linux and Unix ~/.mozilla/sunbird

Known Issues

Before using Lightning 0.5, it is strongly encouraged that you read the following limitations that apply to this release. Other important known problems in this release are listed on this page. Please read both lists before reporting any new bugs.

Windows

Due to the lack of official timezone updates from Microsoft for the following Windows releases

  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows NT 4.0
  • Windows 2000

you may experience that events will be shown off by an hour.

Troubleshooting

  • Poorly designed or incompatible Add-ons can cause problems with Sunbird, including making it crash and slowing down calendar display. If you encounter strange problems relating to parts of Sunbird no longer working, Sunbird not starting, windows with strange or distorted appearance, degraded performance, etc, you may be suffering from Add-on trouble. Restart Sunbird in Safe Mode. On Windows, start using the "Safe Mode" shortcut created in your Start menu or by running sunbird.exe -safe-mode. On Linux, start with ./sunbird -safe-mode and on Mac OS X, run the following command in Terminal: /Applications/Sunbird.app/Contents/MacOS/sunbird-bin -safe-mode When Sunbird is started in Safe Mode, all Add-ons are disabled. Disable the Add-on that is causing trouble and then start normally.


Other Resources and Links

The following resources contain useful information about Lightning:

Localizations

Thanks to the hard work of our localization teams, Sunbird 0.5 is available in over 20 languages. You can download Sunbird 0.5 in other languages on this page.


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.

Other Systems

Builds for platforms other than the trio officially offered by Mozilla.org can be found on the FTP site.

Previous versions of the Release notes: 0.3.1 | 0.3 | 0.3a2 | 0.3a1

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