Mozilla Sunbird

Mozilla Sunbird
Sunbird 0.9 on Windows Vista
Basic data
developer	Mozilla Foundation
Publishing year	February 4, 2005
Current  version	1.0b ( March 30, 2010 )
operating system	Windows , Linux , macOS , OS / 2 , eComStation , Solaris
programming language	C ++
category	Personal Information Manager
License	MPL / GPL / LGPL multiple licensing
German speaking	Yes
www.mozilla.org

Mozilla Sunbird was a stand-alone, platform-independent personal information manager software (PIM software) from the Mozilla project . It was created as a sub-project of Mozilla Calendar , in which the Thunderbird extension Lightning was also developed. As of version 0.3a1, Sunbird uses an SQLite database for internal storage of calendar data, but also supports the iCalendar standard for saving and loading external calendars. There are further import and export filters for various other file formats.

Ultimately, the development was supposed to support both the Mozilla Firefox browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail program and thus made a further contribution to a complete open-source alternative to Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook , but also to those together with macOS ( Apple ) distributed programs Apple Mail , Address Book and iCal .

The development of Sunbird as a stand-alone program was officially discontinued in spring 2010. The version Sunbird 1.0 beta1 released in April 2010 is the last official release of the Mozilla Calendar project. The official project announcement recommends using Lightning based on Thunderbird Version 3 in the future . A continuation of the development of Sunbird as a standalone application can therefore be expected outside the Mozilla project. The project name Sunbird was thus retained, contrary to what had been assumed in the meantime, until the project was terminated.

Stage of development

According to the official interpretation, Sunbird was in the development phase until the end, as an officially productive version was never published. Despite the actual degree of maturity of the software, the developers recommended only one test run. The development of the current version was severely delayed: The last version before the current version, version 0.9, appeared on September 23, 2008 and was already available in many different languages, including German. Version 1.0 was announced for the beginning of 2009, but was only released in 2010 with a delay of over a year and only as a beta version.

At the beginning of April 2009 it was announced that the calendar project will be discontinued in favor of the Thunderbird extension Lightning . With the last version Sunbird 1.0 Beta 1, the project is officially over. For the Windows platform, this version is only published by the Mozilla Foundation in the "unsigned" branch of the binary repository.

history

Gecko - Version	version	publication	Notes and important changes
1.8	Older version; no longer supported: 0.2	February 4, 2005
1.9	Older version; no longer supported: 0.3	October 11, 2006	Storage type of files in iCalendar format for SQLite
	Older version; no longer supported: 0.3.1	February 19, 2007	Time zone update
1.8	Older version; no longer supported: 0.5	June 27, 2007	Stability downgrade from Gecko to version 1.8
	Older version; no longer supported: 0.7	October 25, 2007	Appointments and tasks can be created in different time zones, improved design
	Older version; no longer supported: 0.8	April 4, 2008	improved task list, offline mode
	Older version; no longer supported: 0.9	September 23, 2008
	Current version: 1.0 Beta 1	March 30, 2010	last official release of the project

Portable Sunbird

From version 0.3 there is a special variant that can be started as portable software on PCs from any data carrier without installation.

Functions

• Calendar
• Time management

Web links

Commons : Mozilla Sunbird  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sunbird Project on the Internet pages of the Mozilla Foundation (English)
• German community website for Sunbird

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1. ↑ Mozilla Sunbird. mozilla.org, accessed May 22, 2010 . 
2. ^ Sunbird in various languages. Golem.de, accessed on October 31, 2009 . 
3. ↑ Mozilla calendar Sunbird will not be further developed. Golem.de, April 3, 2009, accessed October 31, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Download Mozilla Sunbird. mozilla.org, accessed May 22, 2010 . 
5. ^ Calendar Project - Release Index. Mozilla Foundation, December 13, 2007, accessed October 31, 2009 . 
6. ↑ Calendar Project - full list, blog post. August 3, 2007, accessed October 31, 2009 .