Beta Notes

Thunderbird Desktop

Version 54.0beta | Released June 2, 2017

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

These release notes apply to Thunderbird version 54 beta 3 released June 2nd, 2017.

What’s New

new

Better support for Charter/Spectrum IMAP: Thunderbird will now detect Charter's IMAP service and send an additional IMAP select command to the server. Check the various preferences ending in "force_select" to see whether auto-detection has discovered this case.

new

Individual feed update interval.

What’s Changed

changed

Thunderbird now uses Mozilla's latest proxy technology (add-on FoxyProxy now supported).

What’s Fixed

fixed

Embedded images not shown in email received from Hotmail/Outlook webmailer.

fixed

Detection of non-ASCII font names in font selector.

fixed

Attachment not forwarded correctly under certain circumstances.

fixed

Attached message sometimes not saved or forwarded correctly.

fixed

Mailing list (group) not accessible from macOS or Outlook address book(not working in Thunderbird version 52).

fixed

Multiple requests for master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled.

fixed

Chat working again (fixed in Thunderbird version 54 beta 2, wasn't working in beta 1).

fixed

Clicking on links with references/anchors not working, clicking on links with references/anchors where target doesn't exist in the message not opening in external browser (fixed in Thunderbird version 54 beta 3, wasn't working in beta 1 and 2).

fixed

Large number of blank pages being printed under certain circumstances when invalid preferences were present (fixed in Thunderbird version 54 beta 3).

fixed

Messages sent via the Simple MAPI interface are forced to HTML.

fixed

Calendar: Invitations can't be printed.

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