Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 2 Is Now Available!

[mscott]

Download Links can be found here:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunder ... -beta.html

Be sure to read the release notes including the known issues list for the beta:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunder ... beta2.html

-Team Thunderbird

P.S. For those of you that are using software update and are running beta 1, we will be pushing out binary updates from beta 1 to beta 2 in a couple days, so feel free to wait a couple days and we'll upgrade for you with only a 700K download!

[netquik]

hi

why on
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunder ... beta2.html

is shown the same changelog of Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 1

???

[[BISI]]

That's not a changelog (look at the title of the page).
Release notes contain all the new features worth mentioning in the Thunderbird 1.5 release and because we are in the beta state, there are no new features (but the release notes always mention features that were developed in one release cycle - e.g. 1.5 release cycle - and not just the difference between two releases -- changelog is for that). If you look at the "known issues" section, you'll see that the page was modified for the beta2 release. The Rumbling Edge blog will probably publish an unofficial beta 2 changelog or you can check the differences between beta 1 and beta 2 in bugzilla.

[FB|PuppetMaster]

The changelog on Rumbling Edge is not yet out, but will be available here:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumbling ... beta2.html

[Olli81]

Successfully updated to Beta 2, but I can confirm this bug :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308822

Hope this can be fixed for the final.

[Mat]

will there be localized Beta2's? (i know i can get the nightly from that Day, but i'd like to have one that is in the "Beta" Update Channel)

[moerl]

It's been a few days since the release of Beta 2. I'm just checking if I have to worry about getting the Beta 2 update to my Beta 1 installation through the auto updater built into the Beta 1 release? Any progress on that? The new updating feature is really beautiful btw.. tiny file for updating.. and it makes a lot more sense than what it used to be like.. namely the app downloading the whole, normal setup file and launching it. Great work, guys

[mscott]

I'll check on the update issue today at work.

[jsb]

I noticed the following issue in 1.5 Beta 1, and upon installing 1.5 Beta 2, noticed that it persists. It's similar to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306238 but not quite the same. To me it seems like a bug, but if it's the intended behavior, someone please let me know.

[edit]This behavior did not occur in TB 1.0.7[/edit]

Issue: no dropdown to choose alternate email addresses for contacts

version 1.5 Beta 2 (20051006) on WinXP

Steps to reproduce:
1) Create an address book entry for Joe Smith with email Joe1@joe.com and additional email Joe2@joe.com.
2) Compose a new message and type "joe" (without the quotes, of course) in the to: line.

Expected result: dropdown allowing choice of both email addresses. [edit]ths is how TB 1.0.7 functions[/edit]

Actual result: TB assumes you want Joe1@joe.com

However, if you create a second address book entry for Joe Smith with an email address of Joe3@joe.com, the autocomplete dropdown seems to work normally, showing all three addresses.

Should I have to add a new addressbook entry with the same name (and a third address) in order to be able to get a dropdown showing a contact's primary and secondary email addresses?

Thanks.

[moerl]

Still no auto-update... oddly, with Firefox, it only took ONE SINGLE DAY for the auto update from B1 to B2 to work. For TB, it's already been like 4 days, and still no auto update. I'm not trying to whine, just saying. I never saw the changelog to understand what improved in B2 over B1 anyway...

[GordMcFee]

Haven't seen one here either.

[mscott]

We only have one build person and he's very busy.

Been working on firefox l10n bits for beta 2, followed by thunderbird l10n bits for beta 2 and then software update.

Only so many hours i nthe day folks.

[GordMcFee]

Believe me sir, I was not complaining. You are my best friend, I love you, Thunderbird rocks, and so on. In fact, it's so good, we go nuts wating for new versions.

[hansen]

I dig Scott and David too

[ChrisI]

We only have one build person and he's very busy.

Just as these Betas are a chance for more people to find and report bugs for the final release, I hope Mozilla.org considers this a bug.
Bug ####: Need more than one build person for major releases.
Either that or...
Bug ####: Need more hours in the day.

If there's anything we can do to help get it out quicker, just say the word.