Calendar:0.3 Lightning Release Notes
Mozilla Lightning 0.3 Release Notes
What's New in Mozilla Lightning 0.3
Mozilla Lightning 0.3 is the latest release of our calendar extension to Mozilla Thunderbird™.
Here's what's new (since 0.1) in Lightning 0.3:
- Basic handling of events received in email allows you to easily add iMIP events to your default calendar.
- Reloading network calendars is now possible.
- The Agenda view rolls over at midnight.
- 24-hour views show you your entire day, not just a few hours.
- Reliable alarms ensure you are notified about events or tasks.
- Improved localization support
- Vastly improved reliability makes it much more difficult to lose data.
- Many performance improvements
Release Date: October xx, 2006
Downloading Lightning 0.3
Mozilla.org provides Lightning for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of languages. To get Lightning 0.3, download it [#|here] or browse the [#|FTP site]. 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 to either Thunderbird 1.5.x or Thunderbird 2.0 builds.
- Download Lightning from the FTP site.
- From Thunderbird, select Tools->Extensions (or Tools->Add-Ons).
- Click Install, choose the Lightning.xpi file you downloaded
- Restart Thunderbird
Lightning with integrated Sun Java System Calendar Server (WCAP) support
Enhanced builds of Lightning with integrated WCAP support are available for the following platforms. Please refer to the Calendar:WCAP Guide for further information about the enhancements.
- Lightning/WCAP for Windows
- Lightning/WCAP for Linux
- Lightning/WCAP for Mac OS X
- Lightning/WCAP for Solaris x86
- Lightning/WCAP for Solaris SPARC
(Solaris builds contributed by Sun Microsystems.)