Beta Notes

Thunderbird Desktop

Version 85.0beta | Released December 18, 2020

Check out the notes below for this version of Thunderbird. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, or file a bug in Bugzilla.

These notes apply to Thunderbird version 85 beta 3 released January 4, 2021.

System Requirements: Details

  • Windows: Windows 7 or later
  • Mac: macOS 10.12 or later
  • Linux: GTK+ 3.14 or higher

What’s New

new

If a message fails to send, a message is now logged in the console tab of the Developer Toolbox which identifies which message failed to send

new

Address book: Added support for OAuth2 CardDAV providers

new

Calendar: Thunderbird now informs the operating system that it knows how to open webcal: and webcals: URLs

new

MailExtensions: Added the capability to query a specific headerMessageId via extension API which is persistent across application restarts

new

MailExtensions: new functions: accounts.getDefault() and accounts.getDefaultIdentity(accountId)

What’s Changed

changed

The UI Customization controls formerly in the Customize submenu have all been moved into the View menu

changed

Address book: CardDAV is now enabled by default (it was previously behind a hidden preference and off by default)

changed

Calendar: Opening an event in the Today pane now opens the event summary

changed

Calendar: When creating a new calendar, CalDAV is now used by default when supported by the server

changed

MailExtensions: setComposeDetails and begin* functions of compose API now use body and plainTextBody as compose mode selectors

changed

MailExtensions: Variable names for accessing notifications have changed

changed

MailExtensions: Read-only address books now accessible

changed

MailExtensions: messages.list(folder) on a non-existent folder now throws an ExtensionError exception

What’s Fixed

fixed

Various printing bugfixes

fixed

Various message search toolbar fixes

fixed

Address book: Read-only CardDAV address books were writable

fixed

Address book: Autocomplete suggestions did not appear next to the field when editing address book entries with an IME enabled

fixed

Address book: Default address book preference was not honored

fixed

Compose window: The user-configured style for quoted text was not honored

fixed

Compose window: Recipient addresses that had not yet been autocompleted were lost when clicking Send button

fixed

Compose window: New message is no longer marked as "changed" just from tabbing out of the recipient field without editing anything

fixed

Calendar: System timezone was not always properly detected

fixed

Calendar: The toolbar in the invitation details dialog was not honoring the theme colors

fixed

Account settings: When creating a new account, some already entered settings did not copy to the Advanced Config dialog

fixed

Account settings: When updating the title of a news & blogging type account, the title of the tab did not change

fixed

Chat: Could not add TLS certificate exceptions for XMPP connections

fixed

MailExtensions: browserActions moved to a different toolbar are now properly displayed after restarting Thunderbird

fixed

MailExtensions: browser.compose.beginNew was not properly honoring plaintext vs HTML settings

fixed

MailExtensions: browser.compose.setComposeDetails did not properly handling Windows-style line endings

fixed

MailExtensions: windows.create and windows.update did not honor the titlePrefix parameter

fixed

MailExtensions: messages.getFull() did not return all parts with OpenPGP enabled

Fixed in Beta 2

What’s Fixed

fixed

Sending messages and saving drafts with attachments that were copy & pasted into the compose window could fail

fixed

Calendar: Descriptions were sometimes blank when editing a single occurrence of a repeating event

fixed

LDAP address book stability fix

fixed in Beta 3

What’s Fixed

fixed

Very long subject lines distorted the message compose and display windows, making them unusable

fixed

Messages with invalid vcard attachments were not marked as read when viewed in the preview window

fixed

OpenPGP: Embedded newlines in an inline OpenPGP message failed to verify

fixed

Visual consistency and theme improvements

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