Closed Bug 1276381 Opened 8 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Tracking bug for TB 52.0 release notes

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RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: jorgk-bmo, Unassigned)

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Here are bugs which are worth mentioning:

[Bug 1216914] Draft folder database (and possibly others) was deleted when certain
              messages were viewed, resulting in loss of locally stored message metadata
              - beta 47
[Bug 1249153] Dragging and dropping of contacts from the contact list onto an addressbook
              while All Addressbooks is selected moved only one contact
              - beta 47
[Bug 1174485] Falsely reported not enough disk space during compacting - beta 47
[Bug 562266] "Apply columns to..." should honor special folders - beta 47
[Bug 1202165] Delivery Format not preserved for saved drafts - beta 47
[Bug 1274242, bug 1274602] Various Linkify improvements - beta 47
[Bug 333064] Copying CJK text inserts unwanted spaces - beta 47

[Bug 700976] Thunderbird 8.0 folder view switching arrows missing - beta 48
[Bug 777732] Remove compose window recycling - beta 48
[Bug 1106412] Menu items for "Edit draft" functionality missing - beta 48
[Bug 233705, Bug 387687] Plain text composition wrapping issues fixed - beta 48
[Bug 833909, Bug 1179951] Attachment reminder fixes - beta 48
[Bug 1243498] Permanently removed Eudora import - beta 48
[Bug 453196] Instead of endless "Attaching ..." an error will now be shown - beta 48
[Bug 1143744] Double-click on image or table opens properties panel - beta 48
[Bug 640018, Bug 1279869] Message ID problems when editing templates or drafts fixed - beta 48

[Bug 253830] "View as plain text" should display text/plain part - beta 49
[Bug 684455] Import from Becky! Internet Mail - beta 49
[Bug 1273841] Separate Enter key behavior and starting a new message using paragraph format - beta 49
[Bug 1023285, Bug 1146099] Display of certain To/From/Subject headers was garbled and inconsistent - beta 49
[Bug 726281] In-Reply-To: and References: removed from mail saved as Template - beta 49
[Bug 1287126] Problem when editing plain text draft fixed (Regression in TB 45) - beta 49
[Bug 1254666] Don't prefill From on 'edit as new' with original address. Use own identity instead (Regression in TB 45) - beta 49
[Bug 1250376] Problems with user defined headers (Regression in TB 38) - beta 49
[Bug 1290839, Bug 1107209] Recipient addresses shown in wrong colour under some circumstances (Regression in TB 31) - beta 49
[Bug 1289939] display name truncated if no blank at end (Regression in TB 31) - beta 49
[Bug 1276419] embedded image with source URL with ? leads to incorrect image reference - beta 49.
  Note: For TB 45.3 bug 1216914 (beta 47) and bug 1276419 were summarised as:
        Certain messages caused corruption of the drafts summary database.

[Bug 903390] Reply to own e-mail will not reply with the correct identity - beta 50.
[Bug 1169184] Dictionary setting is restored when editing a draft. Content-Language header (RFC 3282) - beta 50
[Bug 1288914] Leave formatting toolbar in place when delivery format is switched to plain text only - beta 50
[Bug 669073] Reply (with selected text containing quote) results in wrong quoting level indication - beta 50
Regressions fixed in TB 50 (things that were broken in TB 49 beta):
[Bug 1281785, Bug 1302651, Bug 1302701] Troubleshooting Information now no longer truncated.
[Bug 1300107] Links in add-on details work again.
[Bug 1303304, Bug 1192739] IMPORTANT CHANGE: Changed address entry so arrow-keys now copy the
                           pop-up value to the input field. Mouse-hovered pop-up value can no longer
                           be confirmed with tab or enter key. This restores the behaviour of TB 24
                           by popular demand.
[Bug 1223371] remove windows search, aka integrated search, from Thunderbird System integration dialog startup prompt - beta 50

[Bug 789679] Remove 4GB of folder size warning - beta 51
[Bug 1318964] Bring back "undisclosed-recipients" (Regression from JS Mime and friends) - beta 51
[Bug 1319299] Fixed "Move to" button on "Search Messages" (Broken since TB 31) - beta 51
[Bug 1265800, Bug 1250805] Editor bugs - beta 51
[Bug 1021843] IMAP caching changes (cache2) - beta 51
[Bug 1026989, was Bug 715823] Charset of reply/edit as new/forward picked up from attachment instead of body - beta 51
[Bug 961983]  Don't ever compose in UTF-16 (caused by reply or attachment, see bug 1026989) - beta 51
Perhaps summarise the two above and bug 1323377 as:
[Bug 1026989, Bug 961983, Bug 1323377] Detect message encoding more reliably and use
              the the correct encoding for replies - beta 51.
[Bug 1328814] Message preview pane non-functional after IMAP folder was renamed or moved - beta 51.

[Bug 214548] add possibility to copy (clone/duplicate) whole filter - beta 52
[Bug 274452] When accounts are removed, allow to remove files associated with that account - beta 52
[Bug 1263357] Editor bug - beta 52
[Bug 629738] IMAP part caching - beta 52
[Bug 308148, Bug 1320832] Messages in IMAP folders read on external device are now filtered by default - beta 52
[Bug 387687, bug 1288911, bug 1328093, bug 1330796] Long lines in plain text replies properly wrapped - beta 52.
[Bug 1315480 and others] LibreOffice/MS Office integration. Copy images onto clipboard as "data"
             so they can be copied to word processors - beta 52
[Bug 1322155 and dependents] Remove references to files and other messages from compose window.
             Avoids "Attaching ..." problems - beta 52.
[Bug 770022] Links with international characters can't be clicked - beta 52, build 3
[Bug 795418] Paste as quotation doesn't always work - beta 52, build 3
[Bug 1336531] No more undesired white-space before signature in paragraph mode - beta 52, build 3

Bug 787369 - XMPP: Support SRV records - beta 49
Bug 1267649 - XMPP: Support SASL SCRAM authentication mechanism - beta 50
Bug 955307 - XMPP Resource collisions - beta 50
Bug 964070 - Support Jabber/XMPP Message Carbons (XEP-280) - beta 51

Bug 955642 - Twitter direct messages (DMs) - beta 52

Bug 1316000 - Remove Yahoo! Messenger support - beta 52

Bug 77304 - Cannot reply to From: when Reply-To: field appears in header - beta 50
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I wonder if some sort of notice should be added that 52 will be the last TB release to support XP/Vista?
I'm not sure if this serves any purpose at this point, given that it's roughly a year out when ESR 52 would be finished. Relnoting that for the release which actually retires XP/Vista seems to be better (including the betas).
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(In reply to aleth [:aleth] from comment #1)
> I wonder if some sort of notice should be added that 52 will be the last TB
> release to support XP/Vista?

I've added:
Note that Thunderbird 52 is the last release to support Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.
The reference to the Yahoo protocol removal should probably give a reason (Yahoo completely changed its protocol) and possibly link to https://web.archive.org/web/20160730080614/https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-messenger-for-web/SLN26860.html.
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Related topic on the support side, we will soon need the version 52 equivalent of https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-Migrate-and-Update/New-in-Thunderbird-45-0/ta-p/38985
So these all moved:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-thunderbird-38
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-thunderbird-45
https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/novedades-en-thunderbird-450

That seems quite unfortunate. The "in product link" "What's new", at least in my Spanish TB 45.7, doesn't work any more. That's a crazy redirection via
pref("mailnews.start_page.override_url","https://live.mozillamessaging.com/%APP%/whatsnew?locale=%LOCALE%&version=%VERSION%&os=%OS%&buildid=%APPBUILDID%");
Andrei, in your TB 45, can you try Help > What's new? Does that work? Can you then download and install (to a different directory) a Spanish version of TB 45 and try the same: Ayuda > Qué hay de nuevo. That doesn't work for me, when it used to.

I'll be preparing the "What's new" page for TB 52 today, so we need to make sure that works for all localisations. I might help with the German and Spanish one, and I can let you know when it's done.
Flags: needinfo?(sancus)
Right, that's because there's no Spanish What's New article.

https://support.mozilla.org/es-ES/kb/new-thunderbird-45 doesn't exist.
https://support.mozilla.org/es-US/kb/new-thunderbird-45 does exist.

I'm not sure I believe this EVER worked -- unless support.mozilla.org falls through to en-US when it doesn't find a translation, it never should have worked. Unless it used to and SUMO made a change on their side. We've been using the same URLs for a long time.

I don't know if these are supposed to ever get translated or if we can just redirect everything to en-US. Perhaps the SUMO folks know whether there is supposed to be language fall-through or whether or not we're using incorrect URLs or something?

I can investigate a bit tomorrow if you like.
Flags: needinfo?(sancus)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-thunderbird-45 is what I meant of course on the second line. :)
When linking to SUMO the url should not contain the locale,  that will be detected by SUMO and filled as appropriate.

So the SUMO logic can apply to https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-thunderbird-45  and redirect as appropriate.

https://support.mozilla.org/es-ES/kb/new-thunderbird-45c leaves no room for the SUMO locale detection.  We3 do see issues at time with English versions in Spain say linking to the spanish versions of the web pages.  So I assume at least some of the links are not absolute with regard to locale
(In reply to Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus] from comment #8)
> Right, that's because there's no Spanish What's New article.
Yes, there is since I wrote it. See comment #6.
Was at: https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/novedades-en-thunderbird-450
Now at: https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Templates/Novedades-en-Thunderbird-45-0/ta-p/30929

> I'm not sure I believe this EVER worked
You can believe what you want, but I have seen it working ;-)

> I can investigate a bit tomorrow if you like.
Yes, please, since as I said, TB 52.0 is coming this week and we'll have similar articles in English, German and Spanish soon.
(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, NI for questions) from comment #5)
> Related topic on the support side, we will soon need the version 52
> equivalent of
> https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-Migrate-and-Update/New-in-Thunderbird-
> 45-0/ta-p/38985
I visited https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-Migrate-and-Update/tkb-p/Install-Migrate-Update in order to write
"New in Thunderbird 52.0" and the first thing I noticed is that I couldn't log on any more. So I reset my password to the exact same password. Now I can log in. But I can't find where to add a new article. Looks like I was classified a "New Contributor". Jolly good.
Wayne got me going, but editing articles on the new SUMO is a real pain. My first draft is here:
https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-Migrate-and-Update/New-in-Thunderbird-52-0/ta-p/1371577/message-revision/1371577:2
(In reply to Matt from comment #10)
> When linking to SUMO the url should not contain the locale,  that will be
> detected by SUMO and filled as appropriate.

Thanks, didn't know how this was supposed to work on SUMO.

I wrote a small patch to fix this issue. https://github.com/thundernest/live-redirects/commit/51fbc6e867eb5c04c8bd64efbf0a4bf2d6ad0c39 and https://github.com/thundernest/live-redirects/commit/3e0ffecd680834125974ef6ef3ad1bd041f4c222 fixes it for all versions of TB45 as well. I tested it in my version of TB.

Unfortunately my SVN account was disabled for inactivity so I can't commit it right this second, it looks like Fallen has been maintaining these redirects so I'll CC him here and he can take this account for the TB52 rewrites.

Can you double check this is good and then commit, Fallen? The fix is already live on my testing domain live.sancus.ca, you can change the pref to point to "https://live.sancus.ca/thunderbird/whatsnew/?locale=es-ES&version=45.7.1&os=WINNT&buildid=20170206074256" instead of live.mozillamessaging.com for testing.
Flags: needinfo?(philipp)
(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+1) from comment #13)
SUMO article, I'm up to version 5:
https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-Migrate-and-Update/New-in-Thunderbird-52-0/ta-p/1371577/message-revision/1371577:5
The Lithium HTML editor is terrible, see bug 1345099. There doesn't seem to be a link to the overall article, so check the history to get to the latest version.
https://github.com/thundernest/live-redirects/commit/c7e4d82c2e0fa87926cc11ebabcc0d14cffbf8bd

I rewrote the redirects patch a bit, there is just one generic redirect now for all minor versions of TB45 to the whatsnew pages. This single diff contains all changes also.
(In reply to Matt from comment #10)
> So the SUMO logic can apply to
> https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-thunderbird-45  and redirect as
> appropriate.

This doesn't seem to actually work, unfortunately, https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-thunderbird-45 404's and to make matters worse, it seems like this is a known bug, and Accept-Language rewrites are completely broken, among a number of other CRITICAL bugs tracked by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1324400 most importantly https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1324426

So it seems like Lithium went live with COMPLETELY BROKEN language redirection. Not sure how that happened but um... we can kludge a fix here by linking directly to the articles with our own rewrites if you want.

Do we have a complete list of localized What's New translations for TB45 and 52?
Hmm, https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-thunderbird-45 still works and so does https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/novedades-en-thunderbird-450. What am I missing? - just click those links. From memory, there were 20 of them or so, sadly hard to guess. Here are some more I worked on:
https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/neuigkeiten-thunderbird-45 and https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/nouveautes-de-thunderbird-450 (sorry, I can only speak four languages).

As for the 52 article: The English version isn't approved yet, there are no translations, so this will be an issue next week.
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-thunderbird-45 only works if your Accept-Language is set to en-US. If it's not set, it 404s, and if it's set to a different language, it redirects to the generic support page. See:

curl -IL https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-thunderbird-45
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

curl -IL https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-thunderbird-45 -H 'Accept-Language: en-US'
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
location: /t5/Install-Migrate-and-Update/New-in-Thunderbird-45-0/ta-p/38985
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

curl -IL https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-thunderbird-45 -H 'Accept-Language: es'
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Mozilla-Support-English/ct-p/Mozilla-EN

curl -IL https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-thunderbird-45 -H 'Accept-Language: es-ES'
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Mozilla-Support-English/ct-p/Mozilla-EN

(note: I deleted a lot of the curl output so as not to spam the bug, full output: https://pastebin.mozilla.org/8981457)
Flags: needinfo?(philipp)
I guess that's bad :-(

Sorry, being 100% ignorant of the finer points, I just clicked those links in the browser (and they worked and redirected to the new SUMO pages).
The page says it is not accessible ("Article Not Found"). Maybe we do not have permissions to see a WIP article?
Right, I can't open the page in another browser where I'm not logged in either. Ah well.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Type: defect → task
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Version: Trunk → 52 Branch
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