Thunderbird 2.0 Roadmap
Scott MacGregor released Thunderbird 1.0 in 2004 and has been overwhelmed with the excitement and interest that has come from the release. He is now turning our focus towards our Thunderbird 2.0 including how we are going to get there.
Structure
The 2.0 plan intentionally looks very similar to Firefox 2.0. The work will be divided over two milestones, 1.1 (June 2005) and an unscheduled 2.0 release. All development work will be done on the Mozilla trunk, and these releases will coincide with Gecko version revs.
Milestones
| Milestone | Release Date | Summary |
| 1.0 | 2004-12-06 | Inaugural Release |
| 1.1 Developer Preview | End of March 2005 | Non-Feature Complete Preview ("Alpha" in Old-Lingo) |
| 1.1 Preview Release | May 2005 | Feature Complete ("Beta" in Old-Lingo) |
| 1.1 | Late June 2005 | Finished 1.1 Release |
| 2.0 | ??? 2005 | Second major half of 2.0 development. |
1.1 Goals
- Inline spell checking (spell as you type)
- Improved spell check engine. Update our version of myspell to the current version used by Open Office.org
- Deleting attachments from e-mail
- Auto Save As Draft
- Phishing Detector: Thunderbird will attempt to detect email scams, warning users before they visit possible Phishing sites
- Improved RSS Support including new subscriptions UI, OPML import, and podcasting
- Software Auto Update
- Options dialog re-organization based on the work being done for Firefox 1.1
- Improved integration with anti-virus applications for POP3 users
- Improved UI for managing SMTP servers
2.0 Goals
- Working closely with the Lightning Project which adds calendar support to Thunderbird.
- Trying to solve the information overload problem by looking into two things: Support for tabs (for folders and e-mail) and mail navigation history.
- Most of the 2.0 goals that are not scheduled for 1.1 are still under discussion....
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