Status Update #228 — Monday May 3, 2004

Maintained by Alex Bishop <alex@mozillazine.org>

Previous Updates

Mozilla 1.7 Release Candidate 1

Mozilla 1.7 Release Candidate 1, is now available. Two more release candidates are expected before the final version of 1.7 is launched. A localization freeze will come into force when RC 2 is released.

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 has been released. This latest version of the standalone mail and newsgroups client features an installer for Windows users, a new default theme on Mac OS X, an improved junk mail detection algorithm, new brand artwork, support for the IMAP IDLE command, server-wide newsgroup filters, Secure Password Authentication using NTLM for POP, IMAP and SMTP and many other enhancements.

Camino

Camino has branched for 0.8. Nightly builds from the branch are now available (look for the directories ending -0.8 in ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/camino/nightly/) and a beta is expected shortly.

Default Build

On Friday, the default build configuration will be changed from a debug build to an optimized build (bug 54828).

Extensions for Mozilla Firefox 0.9+ and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7+

Ben Goodger has posted a preliminary document that describes how to package extensions for the new extension system being introduced with Mozilla Firefox 0.9 and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.

Newsgroups

While the Mozilla Foundation has the required hardware to begin hosting the Mozilla newsgroups itself (they are currently run by Netscape), it does not have the necessary resources. Experienced news admins should volunteer in bug 215294.

RDF

The RDF module is now owned by Axel Hecht, who is joined by new peers Benjamin Smedberg and Ben Goodger.

Filters

Server-wide newsgroup filters are now supported (bug 19403).

Find in This Page…

The Find in This Page… feature now locates text in and