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Join UsVersion 91.0beta, first offered to channel users on July 13, 2021
Import/Export Thunderbird profiles (Mac/Linux only)
Suggest replacements for discontinued/incompatible add-ons
Permissions to access calendar and address book are now requested when a GMail account is set up, so that calendar and address book can be accessed without having to re-authorize (see notes)
Calendar: Per-calendar and global notification settings (in addition to alerts set in events)
Tasks: Undo/Redo support for event and task creation and deletion
Mail: Context menu to expand mail list pills in the compose window to the list of recipients
Mail: Quick Find is now available in the multi-message (thread summary) view
Mail: Encrypt mail to BCC recipients (with warning that it will expose the recipients in the list of keys)
Calendar: UI improvements to calendar display
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Mail: UI improvements to the message compose window
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Mail: UI improvements to the message reader UI
Mail: AutoComplete from LDAP directories now searches by substring instead of left-side match
Many Fixes for visibility issues in dark mode and high contrast themes
Changes to the WebExtensions API can be found here
The calendar and other areas were not properly initialized if initial account setup was not completed, making them impossible to use
Address Book: Field "Prefers to receive messages formatted as" in an entry was not displayed correctly
Address Book: Dragging a mailing list from one address book into another would remove all list members.
Address Book: Updates to CardDAV entries would be lost if the server couldn't be found when modifying or deleting entries
Address Book: Username and password were not saved when adding a new CardDAV account
Address Book: Users with LDAP admin rights could delete accounts if trying to delete an entry from an address book backed by LDAP
Calendar: Refreshing the calendar was visually jarring because it refreshed everything instead of just what changed
Calendar: Time zones were not accounted for in agenda list order
Calendar: RSVP replies to invitations sometimes sent from the wrong email address
Calendar: Read-only CalDAV and ICS calendars did not get set as read-only in the UI
Calendar: Could not subscribe to a calendar that does not require credentials on server that incorrectly sets MIME type of response
Mail: IMAP errors shown to the user did not tell you which account the error applied to
Mail: Dragging attachments from a message onto the desktop would sometimes use the mailbox name as filename instead of the actual filename of the attachment
Mail: File uploaded using wrong fileName if attachment was renamed or forwarded and using a cloud provider to store the attachment
Mail: Could not scroll the attachments list when the number of attachments was too many to display in the default size of the box
Mail: Temporary errors from POP3 servers would cause Thunderbird to stop downloading mail until it was restarted
Mail: "New Message from Template" would open the message composer with "Encryption Required" set if it was stored encrypted
The screen location of some dialog windows would not persist between uses
Thunderbird could crash when displaying PDF attachments from a message in an IMAP folder
Add support for "X-Unsent: 1" header, to open a saved email in a compose window for editing
WeTransfer FileLink provider removed
First non-ASCII message displayed on startup was displayed with incorrect encoding
Key size field in the OpenPGP key generation dialog was too small
Import/Export profile feature did not work on Windows
DNS-over-HTTPS preference lacked a default provider value
New IRC accounts were unable to connect to the server
Theme: Make the toolbarbutton/menulist menus more Big Sur like
Escape
keypress or [x] click on no-reply alert triggered Reply anyway
With Display Attachments Inline
, attached email message showed no message headers in inline preview (Mac & Windows only)
OpenPGP: Homebrew's GPG Smartcard libraries not found on M1 Macs
Cancelling account discovery in the Account Manager didn't work
Remove Data checkbox missing in Remove Account dialog
Action popups remained empty on Mac
Clicking on add-on name in the add-on manger improperly opened "Choose Application" dialog
Calendar invitations dialog did not use dark theme
Theme: Some menus in Account Manager menus were not readable in high-contrast themes
Enterprise policies updated
Various printing issues
Outgoing username field was not disabled when adding an SMTP account that does not require authentication
When starting Thunderbird in offline mode, connections to the incoming mail server were opened
Archiving messages from an NNTP account made the target folder unusable
An "Open File" dialog was presented for some NNTP messages instead of displaying the message
Reading VCard names with multiple values failed
Addressbook search fixes
CalDAV calendar autodiscovery did not send entered password causing fallback to manual entry
Location field was not preserved when modifying recurring events stored on a remote calendar
Various UI fixes
End-to-End Encryption "Advanced Settings" are now disabled when encryption is not configured
Keyboard access keys conflicted between the Folder Pane toolbar and main toolbar menu
An erroneous "Sender" header was displayed in the message preview after viewing certain S/MIME signed emails
A Thunderbird icon pinned to the Windows taskbar reverted to a non-functional placeholder after an update
Chat status icon appeared distorted on Linux and macOS
Dark theme colors were not always applied properly when editing an event
The fix for bug 1707360, from Thunderbird 90.0b1, was removed for causing regressions
"Local Folders" were always moved to the end of the account list on startup
Keyboard access keys did not work in the Compact Folder dialog
Details of event inviations were not displayed
"Repair Text Encoding" menu item does not work