{"id":282,"date":"2008-09-23T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillacalendar2.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/23\/lightning_09_and_sunbird_09_ar\/"},"modified":"2008-09-23T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T12:04:16","slug":"lightning_09_and_sunbird_09_ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/2008\/09\/lightning_09_and_sunbird_09_ar\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning 0.9 and Sunbird 0.9 are out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calendar Project is proud to report, that the 0.9 release of Lightning and Sunbird has been completed and is now available via <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/addon\/2313\">AMO<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\">Calendar Project website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Events spanning days now have a visual indicator indicating them as connected events<\/li>\n<li>When reloading a remote calendar a progress indicator is now shown<\/li>\n<li>The so-called &#8220;minimonth&#8221; (small calendar month in the upper left) has been given a visual overhaul<\/li>\n<li>The calendar views (day, week, multiweek, month) have been given a visual overhaul<\/li>\n<li>The today pane can now be displayed in calendar mode and task mode as well <strong>[Lightning-only]<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers has been improved<\/li>\n<li>iMip\/iTip support (support for email invitations) has been greatly improved <strong>[Lightning-only]<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The application stability and memory consumption has been greatly improved<\/li>\n<li>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 <strong>[Lightning-only]<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Icelandic, Romanian and Traditional Chinese were added as new languages. Unfortunately no builds in Macedonian or Turkish are available for 0.9<\/li>\n<li>A full list of all the 397 changes that have gone into this release can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rumblingedge.com\/2008\/09\/21\/sunbird-09-released\/\">Rumbling Edge website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Please use the following links to download the release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/lightning\/download.html\">Lightning 0.9 for Windows, Mac, Solaris or Linux (fully localized for 31 languages)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sunbird 0.9 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/sunbird\/download.html\">English<\/a> or<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/sunbird\/l10n_download.html\">other languages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please read the release notes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/releases\/lightning0.9.html\">Lightning 0.9<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/releases\/sunbird0.9.html\">Sunbird 0.9<\/a> before downloading.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you again to all our developers, contributors, localizers, testers, and supporters. We would not be able to do this without your assistance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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