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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I haven't see much participation from others in the "What's
new" page
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-thunderbird-45">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-thunderbird-45</a>), so I
mainly put all the changes I knew about there, including all
changes visible in the UI.</p>
<p>Perhaps others want to chip in. Patrick noted XMPP here
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1240609#c53">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1240609#c53</a>).<br>
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<p>Not visible but very important is that the "Asian Crisis" was
fixed in this release. It was Kent's most hated bug that CJK
composition simply didn't work correctly.</p>
<p>Also notable is that TB 45.1 will ship with IcalJS, a JS
replacement of the old C++ calendar. This is a big step forward
for the future of TB. BTW, I switched to IcalJS recently and
haven't seen a problem yet.<br>
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<p>As for the numbers: The thing is very clear: Mozilla Firefox do
a release about every six weeks, every seventh release is an
ESR. Since managing releases consumes a lot of manpower,
Thunderbird which is staffed solely by overworked and underpaid
(read: unpaid) volunteers havs decided to only do the ESR
releases and to carry other released to the beta stage for those
users who want to ride the bleeding edge. Of course there are
also Earlybird releases, but the are mostly unmanaged, so you
get the luck of the draw ;-)<br>
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<p>Jörg.<br>
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On 21/04/2016 11:47, Axel Grude wrote:<br>
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<p>One more thing, <br>
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<p>if I get around to writing a blog entry this weekend, could
you provide a paragraph (and maybe link to a more detailed
explanation) on the current ESR approach and what it means for
the code line? I think the yearly version jump (38 => 45)
may raise a few eyebrows, and I wonder how to sum it up in a
correct explanation for public consumption.</p>
<p>By the way, for the Tb45 items I used in the video I pretty
much exclusively used this list that Jörg pointed to: <a
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href="http://www.jorgk.com/misc/TB45-GUI-changes.pdf">TB45-GUI-changes.pdf</a>
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<p>Big advantage of these is that I could just point to UI for
the obvious change and I did not have to explain technically
complex facts.<br>
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<p>If there are any other significant changes related to this
ESR that you would think should be mentioned I would like to
know.</p>
<p>thanks,<br>
Axel</p>
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