Beta Notes

Thunderbird Desktop

Version 84.0beta | Released October 22, 2020

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 notes apply to Thunderbird version 84 beta 3 released December 4, 2020.

System Requirements: Details

  • Windows: Windows 7 or later
  • Mac: macOS 10.12 or later
  • Linux: GTK+ 3.14 or higher

What’s New

new

OpenPGP: "Copy Key Id" option added to Key Manager context menu

1675272

new

Calendar: Support opening of .ics files by double-click

357480

What’s Changed

changed

Thunderbird now only shows quota exceeded indications on the main window

1671748

changed

MailExtensions: message.compose API extended with EditAsNew and Template functions

1670379

changed

MailExtensions: menus API enabled in messages being composed

1670832

What’s Fixed

fixed

"Place replies in the folder of the message being replied to" did not work when using "Reply to List"

522450

fixed

Thunderbird did not honor the "Run search on server" option when searching messages

546925

fixed

OpenPGP: After importing a secret key, Key Manager displayed properties of the wrong key

1667054

fixed

OpenPGP: Key were missing from Key Manager

1674521

fixed

Print preview was blank

1667557

fixed

Autoconfig via LDAP did not work as expected

1662433

fixed

Various visual improvements

1651476 1666882 1672909 1674639 1675000 1676680

fixed

MailExtensions: compose.beginForward did not respect composeDetails argument

1658657

Changed and Fixed in Beta 2

What’s Changed

changed

MailExtensions: getComposeDetails will wait for "compose-editor-ready" event

1675012

changed

MailExtensions: Honor allowScriptsToClose argument in windows.create API function

1675940

What’s Fixed

fixed

Highlight color for folders with unread messages wasn't visible in dark theme

1676697 1678029

fixed

The "Link" button on the large attachments info bar failed to open up Filelink section in Options if the user had not yet configured Filelink

1677647

fixed

New mail icon was not removed from the system tray at shutdown

1664586

fixed

Address book: Printing members of a mailing list resulted in incorrect output

1676859

fixed

Calendar: Auto-detection failed for GSuite accounts

1678302

fixed

Calendar: Pressing Ctrl-Enter in the new event dialog would create duplicate events

1668478

New, Changed and Fixed in Beta 3

What’s New

new

MailExtensions: Added browser.windows.openDefaultBrowser()

1664708

What’s Changed

changed

MailExtensions: APIs that returned an accountId will reflect the account the message belongs to, not what is stored in message headers

1644032

changed

MailExtensions: browserAction, composeAction, and messageDisplayAction toolbar buttons now support label and default_label properties

1583478

What’s Fixed

fixed

Running a quicksearch that returned no results did not offer to re-run as a global search

1663153

fixed

OpenPGP: When signature verification failed on an unencrypted message, Thunderbird incorrectly reported that the message was encrypted and could not be decrypted

1679768

fixed

Address book: Some columns incorrectly displayed no data

1631201

fixed

Address book: The address book view did not update after changing the name format in the menu

1678555

fixed

Calendar: Dark theme was incomplete on Linux

1655543

fixed

Calendar: Could not import an ICS file into a CalDAV calendar

1652984

Known Issues

unresolved

Printing from calendar does not work

1677819

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