Mozilla Lightning 0.9

Major Features:

1. Better Thunderbird integration
2. emailtask linkage
3. Integration with the Thunderbird address book
4. iMIP support (meeting invitations)
5. Improved CalDAV support
6. Cached calendar support for offline calendar use
7. Device synchronization

Enhancements:

• 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
• The today pane can now be displayed in calendar mode and task mode as well
• CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers has been improved
• iMip/iTip support (support for email invitations) has been greatly improved
• The application stability and memory consumption has been greatly improved
• Lightning 0.9 is intended to be the last release for the Thunderbird 2 series. For the future we are planning to integrate Lightning fully into the upcoming Thunderbird 3 release
• A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge website

Requirements:

• Software Requirements Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.
• • Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or higher with the following libraries or packages:
  • glibc 2.3.2 or higher
  • XFree86-3.3.6 or higher
  • gtk+2.0 or higher
  • fontconfig (also known as xft)
  • libstdc++5 (Many modern Linux distributions only package libstdc++6, which is incompatible with Lightning. Therefore please install the package "libstdc++5" or "compat-libstdc++" on your system before installing Lightning)
• Minimum Hardware
• • Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ 233 MHz CPU (Recommended: 500MHz or greater)
  • 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
  • 52 MB hard drive space