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Mozilla Sunbird

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Mozilla Sunbird
Developer(s)Mozilla Foundationand community
Final release1.0 Beta 1 (March 30, 2010;14 years ago(2010-03-30))[±]
Preview release1.0 Beta 1 (March 30, 2010;14 years ago(2010-03-30)[1])[±]
Written inC++,XUL,XBL,JavaScript
Operating systemWindows,Linux,BSD UNIX,OS X,Solaris,OpenSolarisandOS/2
Available inMultilingual,[which?][1]EULA in English only[2]
TypePersonal information manager
LicenseMPL1.1, MPL 1.1/GNU GPL/GNU LGPLtri-license
Websitewww.thunderbird.net/en-US/calendar/

Mozilla Sunbirdis a discontinuedfree and open-source,cross-platformcalendar applicationthat was developed by theMozilla Foundation,Sun Microsystemsand many volunteers.[3]Mozilla Sunbird was described as "a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla'sXULuser interface language ".[4]Announced in July 2003,[5]Sunbird was a standalone version of theMozilla Calendar Project.

It was developed as a standalone version of theLightningcalendar and scheduling extension for theMozilla ThunderbirdandSeaMonkeymail clients. Development of Sunbird was ended with release 1.0 beta 1 to focus on development ofMozilla Lightning.[6][7]The latest development version of Sunbird remains 1.0b1 from January 2010, and no later version has been announced. Unlike Lightning, Sunbird no longer receives updates to its time zone database.

Sun contributions

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Sun Microsystems contributed significantly to the Lightning extension project to provide users with a free and open-source alternative toMicrosoft Officeby combiningOpenOffice.organd Thunderbird/Lightning.[8]Sun's key focus areas in addition to general bug fi xing were calendar views, team/collaboration features and support for theSun Java System Calendar Server.[9]Since both projects share the same code base, any contribution to one is a direct contribution to the other.

Trademark issues and Iceowl

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Main article:Debian–Mozilla trademark dispute

Although it is released under aMPL,MPL/GPL/LGPLtri-license, there are trademark restrictions in place on Mozilla Sunbird which prevent the distribution of modified versions with the Mozilla branding.

As a result, theDebianproject createdIceowl,a virtually identical version without the branding restrictions.

Release history

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Key:
Old Version Current Version Future Version
Geckoversion Sunbird version Release date Significant changes
1.8 0.2 February 4, 2005
1.9 0.3 October 11, 2006 Calendar storage moved from flat.ICS files toSQLite
0.3.1 February 19, 2007 Time zones updated for DST change
1.8.1 0.5 June 27, 2007 Moved toGecko1.8.1 for added stability and includes support forGoogle Calendarvia an extension.[10]
0.7 October 25, 2007 Cleaner user interface and additional functionality
0.8 April 4, 2008 Internationaltime zones,experimental offline support and task mode
0.9 September 23, 2008
  • Events spanning days now have a visual indicator indicating them as connected events.
  • When reloading a remote calendar a progress indicator is now shown.
  • The so-called "minimonth" (small calendar month in the upper left) has been given a visual overhaul.
  • The calendar views (day, week, multiweek, month) have been given a visual overhaul.
  • CalDAVsupport and interoperability with various CalDAV servers has been improved.
1.9.1 1.0b1 April 2, 2010
  • Multiple alarms can be defined for one event.
  • CalDAV support is improved.
1.0b2 June, 2010

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Sunbird - International Downloads".mozilla.org.Retrieved2007-06-12.
  2. ^"Mozilla Sunbird End-User Software Licensing Agreement".mozilla.org.Retrieved2007-06-12.
  3. ^Mozilla contributors list,Mozilla.org
  4. ^The Sunbird Project - Standalone Calendar- Main project page describing the project.
  5. ^Mozilla Sunbird Standalone Calendar Project Launches - MozillaZine Talkback- MozillaZine article announcing the Sunbird Project
  6. ^Sunbird 1.0 beta1 Release Notes:"This is the last public Sunbird release by the Calendar Project." Retrieved 2010-04-01.
  7. ^Calendar Project at a critical junctureArchived2010-01-26 at theWayback Machine,Calendar Weblog. Retrieved 2010-04-01.
  8. ^Paquet, Simon (2006-10-05)."Calendar Weblog".Weblogs.mozillazine.org. Archived fromthe originalon 2010-02-12.Retrieved2010-04-07.
  9. ^"Interview On Mozilla Lighting and".Openoffice.org.Retrieved2010-04-07.
  10. ^Philipp Kewisch (2007-05-20)."Provider for Google Calendar".Mozilla.Retrieved2007-06-29.
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