Mozilla Sunbird
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| Mozilla Sunbird | |
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 Mozilla Sunbird main window |
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| Developed by | Mozilla Foundation and community |
| Initial release | ? |
| Stable release | 0.8 (April 4, 2008) [+/−] |
| Preview release | none (n/a) [+/−] |
| Written in | C++ |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Multilingual,[1] EULA in English only[2] |
| Genre | Personal information manager |
| License | MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license |
| Website | Project Homepage |
Mozilla Sunbird is a free, open source, cross-platform calendar application developed by the Mozilla Foundation, Sun Microsystems and many volunteers.[3] Announced in July 2003[4], Sunbird is a standalone version of the now discontinued Mozilla Calendar Extension.
It is currently developed as a standalone version of the Lightning extension for Mozilla Thunderbird that provides a calendar to the mail management application.
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[edit] Versions
The latest version is 0.8[5]. Version 0.3 of Sunbird, and its "sister project", Lightning, were scheduled to be released simultaneously in late September 2006[6], but a release candidate was not made until October.[7] Mozilla Sunbird is described as "...a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language."[8] Version 0.8 of Sunbird is also available in a portable version [9].
Version 0.5 was released June 27, 2007[10] and includes support for Google Calendar via an extension[11].
[edit] Sun contributions
Sun Microsystems has been contributing significantly to the Lightning extension project [12] to provide users with an alternative free and open source choice to Microsoft Office by combining OpenOffice.org and Thunderbird/Lightning. Sun's key focus areas in addition to general bug fixing are calendar views, team/collaboration features and support for the Sun Java System Calendar Server [13]. Since both projects share the same code base, any contribution to one of them is a direct contribution to the other.
[edit] Release history
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| Old Version | Current Version | Future Version |
| Gecko version | Version | Release date | Significant changes |
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| 1.8 | 0.2 | February 4, 2005 | |
| 1.9 | 0.3 | October 11, 2006 | Calendar storage moved from flat .ICS files to SQLite |
| 0.3.1 | February 19, 2007 | Timezones updated for DST change | |
| 1.8.1 | 0.5 | June 27, 2007 | Moved to Gecko 1.8.1 for added stability |
| 0.7 | October 25, 2007 | Cleaner user interface and additional functionality | |
| 0.8 | April 4, 2008 | Foreign timezones, experimental offline support and task mode | |
| 0.9 | |||
| 1.0 |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Sunbird - International Downloads. mozilla.org. Retrieved on 2007-06-12.
- ^ Mozilla Sunbird End-User Software Licensing Agreement. mozilla.org. Retrieved on 2007-06-12.
- ^ Mozilla contributors list, Mozilla.org
- ^ Mozilla Sunbird Standalone Calendar Project Launches - MozillaZine Talkback - MozillaZine article announcing the Sunbird Project
- ^ Sunbird 0.8 Release Notes
- ^ Calendar:0.3 Release Status - MozillaWiki - Mozilla Wiki page describing the release status.
- ^ Sunbird Development Blog
- ^ The Sunbird Project - Standalone Calendar - Main project page describing the project.
- ^ Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives
- ^ Sunbird 0.5 Release Notes. Mozilla (2007-06-27). Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
- ^ Philipp Kewisch (2007-05-20). Provider for Google Calendar. Mozilla. Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
- ^ Calendar Weblog
- ^ Interview On Mozilla Lighting and OpenOffice.org
[edit] External links
- The official Sunbird website and MozillaWiki
- The Sunbird development blog
- Sunbird Portable by PortableApps.com
- The Rumbling Edge: Sunbird release changelogs
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