Lightning 0.7 & Sunbird 0.7 have been released

[Simon Paquet]

I am happy to report, that the 0.7 of Lightning and Sunbird has been
completed and is now available via AMO and the Calendar Project website.

Just 1.5 weeks after our originally scheduled release date, Lightning 0.7
and Sunbird 0.7 bring us a huge step closer to our 1.0 release, which we
hope to release in 2008.

Notable improvements of this release are:

* It is now much easier to switch between the mail and calendar parts of
Thunderbird thanks to a user interface redesign
* A redesigned event/task dialog has been enabled to gather feedback from
the community. It offers a much cleaner user interface and additional
functionality including:
o Events/Tasks can be created in different timezones
o Attendees can be added from a local or corporate LDAP directory
o Free-Busy information is available for users of the Sun Java
Calendar Server
o Integrated display of recurrence patterns, reminders and attendees
o Custom recurrences and reminders
o Clear separation between tasks and events
* The new event summary dialog lists all the details of tasks and events
for calendar which are read-only
* The Today Pane gives a quick overview over your current tasks and
upcoming events. The Today Pane can be enabled/disabled by a toolbar
button
* Colliding events (events in the same time slot) are shrunk so that they
fit into the display of a day. This no longer affects other events on
the same day
* Localized releases of Lightning and Sunbird in Chinese (simplified),
Georgian, Lithuanian, Portuguese (European), Spanish (Argentina)
and Turkish
* A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found
on the Rumbling Edge webiste:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/07/sb_0-7.html

Lightning 0.7 and Sunbird 0.7 are available for Windows, Mac OS X
(universal builds) and Linux in 27 different languages including English.

Please use the following links to download the release:

* Lightning 0.7 (fully localized for 27 languages)
https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2313/
* Sunbird 0.7 in English
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/download.html
* Sunbird 0.7 in all 26 other languages
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/l10n_download.html

Please read the release notes for Lightning 0.7 and Sunbird 0.7 before
downloading:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning0.7.html
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/sunbird0.7.html
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/common0.7.html

Thank you again to all our developers, contributors, localizers, testers,
and supporters. We would not be able to do this without your assistance!

Simon
--
Calendar l10n coordinator
Calendar Website Maintainer: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar
Calendar developer blog: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar