Lanikai Beta 1 preview release is now available for download

[Mark Banner]

Lanikai Beta 1 is now available for download:

http://stage.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/downloads/

Lanikai Beta 1 is built on top of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. While this
milestone is considered to be stable, it is intended for developers and
members of our testing community to use for evaluation and feedback.
Users of this latest alpha version of Thunderbird should not expect all
of their add-ons to work properly with this milestone.

The main goals of this release is to find out about possible problems
caused by the changes in the underlying platform. Notable changes include:

* Several fixes to improve upgrading from Thunderbird 2.
* Several fixes for auto complete, tabs, and activity manager.
* Several design improvements and corrections to the interface.
* Stability and memory improvements.

For a more detailed list of bug fixes, see the the full bug list:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;resolution=FIXED;target_milestone=Thunderbird%203.1b1

The Rumbling Edge has a more detailed list of notable bug fixes:

http://www.rumblingedge.com/2010/03/08/thunderbird-3-1-beta-1-released/

Downloading

Please read the release notes before downloading for more information
about this release including known issues:

http://stage.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.1b1/releasenotes/#issues

Testers can download Lanikai Beta 1 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in
English:

http://stage.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/downloads/

Community chat about Lanikai can be followed at
http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/ideas/popular and on
http://irc.mozilla.org in #thunderbird.