{"id":337,"date":"2009-12-20T06:44:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T06:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillacalendar2.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/20\/lightning_10beta1_release_cand\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T06:44:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T06:44:13","slug":"lightning_10beta1_release_cand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/2009\/12\/lightning_10beta1_release_cand\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning 1.0beta1 release candidate is available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the trouble that we went through to prepare the Lightning and Sunbird builds for 1.0 beta1 (see Philipp&#8217;s posts <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/calendar\/2009\/12\/10_beta_1_progress.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/calendar\/2009\/12\/release_status_lightning_for_t.html\">here<\/a>, we have finally succeeded (at least on the Lightning front).<\/p>\n<p>Candidate builds for Lightning 1.0 beta1 in 37 languages are available as of now for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/calendar\/lightning\/releases\/1.0b1rc1\/win32\/\">Windows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/calendar\/lightning\/releases\/1.0b1rc1\/linux-i686\/\">Linux (32bit)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/calendar\/lightning\/releases\/1.0b1rc1\/mac\/\">Mac OS X<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A corresponding build of the Google Calendar Provider is also available at those locations.<\/p>\n<p>To install these builds in Thunderbird 3, please follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download the build for your operating system to a folder on your hard disk<br \/>\n<strong>UPDATE: Please make sure, that you right-click on the links above and choose &#8220;Save Link as&#8230;&#8221;. Otherwise Firefox will try to install Lightning and you will get an error message like &#8220;Lightning 1.0b1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Open Thunderbird, then open its add-on manager via Tools &#8211;&gt; Add-ons (or the corresponding entry in your language)<\/li>\n<li>Click on the &#8220;Install&#8230;&#8221; button on the lower left and navigate for the lightning.xpi file that you just downloaded.<\/li>\n<li>Restart Thunderbird after the add-on installation has been performed. Voila!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What is missing right now are two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linux builds for the x86-64 platform. We need someone from the community to provide those to us. Please contact our lead developer Philipp Kewisch (contact details are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/about.html\">here<\/a>) if you can help out.<\/li>\n<li>Sunbird builds. We still have problems with those but hope tho have those fixed before Christmas. Watch this space for more information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please tell us what you think of these candidate builds and file bugs in <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\">Bugzilla<\/a> as you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the trouble that we went through to prepare the Lightning and Sunbird builds for 1.0 beta1 (see Philipp&#8217;s posts here and here, we have finally succeeded (at least on the Lightning front). Candidate builds for Lightning 1.0 beta1 in 37 languages are available as of now for: Windows Linux (32bit) Mac OS X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}