Release Notes

The latest release is available on the download page.

2008-07-01 - 0.7.8
  • Google: feature to sync postal address with Thunderbird
  • Google: use https for data transfer by default
  • Google: improvements to conflict reporting
  • Zimbra: support for zimbra.free.fr
  • bugfix: Google: some sequences of conflicts require a reset
  • bugfix: Google: Cannot request contacts belonging to another user - fixed
  • bugfix: Google: large addressbook triggers stop/continue dialog
  • bugfix: Google: assertion when conflict and contact PrimaryEmail and DisplayName are empty
  • bugfix: Zimbra: assertion failure in the presence of a Thunderbird “zindus/” addressbook
  • bugfix: Zimbra: some bad login URLs cause assertion instead of graceful failure
  • bugfix: Zimbra: zimbra 4.5.4 doesn’t return a SOAP header in certain circumstances
  • bugfix: intermittent: PrefId unavailable immediately after creating a tb addressbook
  • bugfix: log the OS and other platform details to help debug platform-specific issues
  • bugfix: SyncWindow wasn’t opened modally
  • bugfix: break up slow sync twinning to avoid stop/continue dialog on slow computers
  • bugfix: cancel immediately after Sync Now could trigger a race condition
  • bugfix: avoid use of variable/function names likely to clash with other extensions
  • bugfix: misconfigured proxy setting results in an assertion failure instead of a “check proxy” message
2008-05-21 - 0.7.7
  • some users saw an assertion failure after upgrade to 0.7.6 - default preference missing
2008-05-20 - 0.7.6
  • Thunderbird 3.0a1
  • “manual sync only” preference replaced with “auto sync”
  • Zimbra: performance improvements: fewer network requests
  • Zimbra: contact merge
  • bugfix: digital signing of zindus.com .xpi updates was broken
  • bugfix: cancel sometimes doesn’t clean up
  • bugfix: test login fails in certain circumstances
  • bugfix: Google: DEL/MOD conflict causes sync failure
  • bugfix: Zimbra: MOD of a non-Thunderbird attribute triggers assertion failure
2008-04-30 - 0.7.5
  • bugfix: second MOD lost when two remote MODs in a row
  • bugfix: avoid use of const kPersonalAddressbookURI - also used in other extensions
  • bugfix: test login fails in certain circumstances
  • bugfix: Google: contact transformations should apply during slow sync
  • bugfix: Google: passwords containing certain RFC 3986 reserved characters didn’t work
  • bugfix: Google: usernames that aren’t email addresses can authenticate but not GET
2008-04-18 - 0.7.4 (AMO only)
  • bugfix: Google: empty contacts don’t sync
  • bugfix: Google: contact fields require leading+trailing whitespace trim
  • bugfix: Google: informative error messages when server responds with 4xx
2008-04-16 - 0.7.3
  • bugfix: timer does not correctly initiate Google sync
2008-04-16 - 0.7.2
  • bugfix: timer does not correctly initiate Zimbra sync
  • bugfix: preference timerDelayOnStart wasn’t being respected
2008-04-15 - 0.7.1
  • Google: initial release
  • Zimbra: shared addressbooks
  • Zimbra: soapURL support
  • bugfix: progress dialog report misses a step
  • bugfix: sync failure in presence of mailing list
  • bugfix: contact versioning incorrect in certain circumstances
  • bugfix: deleting certain contact fields in zimbra left the thunderbird contact unchanged
  • bugfix: incorrectly ignoring mailing lists and their cards
  • bugfix: MOD/DEL conflict caused data inconsistency
2008-02-28 - 0.6.19
  • bugfix: duplicate after slow sync when thunderbird contact NickName populated
  • bugfix: sync lost after adding a folder and moving a contact into it
  • bugfix: sync lost after mod/del folder X and contact moved into a new folder Y
2008-02-21 - 0.6.18
  • preference to enable/disable zindus>GAL addressbook
  • “Emailed Contacts” addressbook is localized in the following locales: da, de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, pl, pt, ru, sv, zh_CN, zh_HK
  • bugfix: SyncGalRequest always called with no token
  • bugfix: adding user on server makes the zindus>GAL addressbook shrink
2008-01-07 - 0.6.17
  • support for Zimbra 5.x
  • copy the logfile before Reset
  • <UserAgent> element provided in in SOAP header
  • bugfix: DEL/sync/sync - the last sync “gets” the deleted contacts even though they are in the Trash
  • bugfix: moving a folder to Trash causes internal consistency failure
  • bugfix: contacts in a folder in the Trash are unnecessarily retrieved
  • bugfix: graceful handling of trailing ‘/’ in soapURL
  • bugfix: assertion failure when ‘immutable’ Contacts folder on server changes
2007-12-14 - 0.6.16
  • bugfix: use localized “Personal Address Book”
  • bugfix: ldap addressbook throws uncaught exception
  • bugfix: deleting thunderbird Emailed Contacts causes assertion failure when immutable on server
  • bugfix: thunderbird address book with the same name as a zimbra shared addressbook causes infinite loop
  • new: localization support
2007-12-04 - 0.6.15
  • the “verbose logging” preference now defaults to “true”.
2007-12-02 - 0.6.14
  • preference keys are now extensions.zindus.* Old zindus.* preferences are migrated.
  • bugfix: time appeared to go backwards on Linux startup forcing a sync sooner than scheduled
  • the update manifest for xpi’s downloaded from zindus.com is now digitally signed (updateKey)
2007-11-06 - 0.6.12
  • public release (beta)