The next version of Spicebird, the version 0.8 was launched yesterday. It is mostly is a sync to the latest Mozilla code and hence gets all the goodies from Thunderbird 3. The 0.8 also includes many fixes from our side which make it a much more stable release compared to the 0.7 series.
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The Spicebird project started more than two years ago and then had a decently well planned Roadmap. However, a lot has changed in the last couple of years and I think its time to re-think the next steps - this time we hope to involve the community in helping us decide what is important and [...]
Just want to give a heads up on the Spicebird release. We are expecting to release Spicebird 0.8 on 22nd or 23rd of this month.
The Spicebird team is happy to announce that Spicebird 0.8 is ready for release and is going through the pre-release testing and fixing cycle. If everything goes as planned, this new version should be out before mid June.
For the technically inclined, Spicebird 0.8 is based on Thunderbird 3. It brings good things like indexed message [...]
We had a hardware problem at our hosting provider due to which we are facing a downtime for the older SVN code repository, the newer mercurial repository as well as the Spicebird Bugzilla. They are expected to be up in a couple of days.
Spicebird Beta 0.7.1 is a maintenance and bug-fix release of Spicebird Beta 0.7 - It fixes various bugs in the 0.7 release that prevented Spicebird from starting up in a few GNU/Linux distributions, a few crashers as well as identified a workaround for a “cause-not-yet-found” memory leak in the Google Maps applet on Windows.
The announcement [...]
The Spicebird team fixed a good number of bugs since the 0.7 release. Sunil is taking care of this release and he will be announcing a string/code freeze soon. If everything goes well, Spicebird 0.7.1 is expected to be released in less than 10 days!
The release will include the much awaited ICQ and AOL messenger [...]
The release announcement from spicebird.com.
Spicebird is a collaboration client that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is based on projects like Thunderbird, Lightning and Telepathy and adds more [...]
The Spicebird team is happy to announce that the next Beta of Spicebird will be released on the 20th of November, 2008. Over the next five days, I will keep blogging about the various things that the Spicebird team has worked on to make Spicebird 0.7 more stable and better set for the later releases.
The next release has been round the corner for quite a while, here is the current status
7 bugs blocking the release (code)
5 of the 7 bugs already have patches up for review
The other two being a build bug and another in calendar that we are struggling to reproduce!
So what’s left before the release?
Setting up the [...]