Mozilla Sunbird
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Mozilla Sunbird main window running under Windows Vista |
| Developer(s) |
Mozilla Foundation and community |
| Initial release |
1.0 Beta1 |
| Stable release |
1.0 Beta 1 (March 30, 2010 (2010-03-30)) [±] |
| Preview release |
1.0 beta 1 (March 30, 2010 [1]) [±] |
| Written in |
C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript |
| Operating system |
32-bit and 64-bit Windows, Linux, BSD UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, OpenSolaris and OS/2 |
| Available in |
Multilingual,[1] EULA in English only[2] |
| Type |
Personal information manager |
| License |
MPL 1.1, MPL 1.1/GNU GPL/GNU LGPL tri-license |
| Website |
www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/ |
Mozilla Sunbird is a free and open source, cross-platform calendar application that was developed by the Mozilla Foundation, Sun Microsystems and many volunteers.[3] Mozilla Sunbird was described as "... a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language."[4] Announced in July 2003,[5] Sunbird is a standalone version of the Mozilla Calendar Project.
It was developed as a standalone version of the Lightning calendar and scheduling extension for Mozilla Thunderbird. Development of Sunbird was ended with release 1.0 beta 1 to focus on development of Mozilla Lightning.[6][7]
Sun contributions [edit]
Sun Microsystems contributed significantly to the Lightning extension project to provide users with an alternative free and open source choice to Microsoft Office by combining OpenOffice.org and Thunderbird/Lightning.[8] Sun's key focus areas in addition to general bug fixing were calendar views, team/collaboration features and support for the Sun Java System Calendar Server.[9] Since both projects share the same code base, any contribution to one of them is a direct contribution to the other.
Trademark issues and Iceowl [edit]
Although released under a MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license, Mozilla Sunbird suffers from trademark restrictions that prevent the distribution of modified versions with the Mozilla branding.
As a result the Debian project created Iceowl, a virtually identical version without the branding restrictions.
Release history [edit]
| Key: |
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Current Version |
Future Version |
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Sunbird version |
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Significant changes |
| 1.8 |
0.2 |
February 4, 2005 |
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| 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 and includes support for Google Calendar via an extension.[10] |
| 0.7 |
October 25, 2007 |
Cleaner user interface and additional functionality |
| 0.8 |
April 4, 2008 |
International timezones, 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.
- CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers has been improved.
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| 1.9.1 |
1.0b1 |
April 2, 2010 |
- Multiple alarms can be defined for one event.
- CalDAV support is improved.
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| 1.0b2 |
June, 2010 |
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