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# What's New in [% rnote.basename %]

This document outlines a few of the new features implemented in [% rnote.basename %], important bugfixes and any new problems. Please note that these changes are relative to [% rnote.relativeto.stable.name %].

## New Features and Fixes

Major Changes

- OS X 10.6 is now the minimum supported Mac version (bug 783554).

Fixes in 2.14.1

- The Select Addresses dialog came up blank if opened from a Compose window with a single To/Cc/Bcc field filled in (bug 814770).
- A change to the User Agent string has been reverted since it caused some website incompatibilities (bug 816749).
- Information failed to show on the message header pane under certain circumstances (bug 803322).
- The display quality of fonts could be perceived as bad when Cleartype was turned off on Windows (bug 814101).
- The permissions database was not read completely if it included an invalid entry (bug 814554).

Fixes in Beta 5 / Final

- Plugins can be set to click-to-play (instead of blocked completely) automatically through the blocklist now (bug 773761).
- MailNews downloaded some IMAP messages over and over again (bug 806760).
- The displayed feed and feed item list could get cleared when feeds refreshed (bug 787186).
- If a plugin was shown in click-to-play mode and its area contained a link, keys and shortcuts stopped working (bug 806136).
- The legacy User Agent string (containing Gecko/20100101) is now used for some possibly-broken online banking sites (bug 809517).

Fixes in Beta 4

- Quoted fields in CSV files could get cropped upon address book import (bug 803835).

Fixes in Beta 3

- Previewing broken images in Page Info triggered a JavaScript error (bug 806144).
- The Preferences UI for HTTP Keep-Alive has been removed (bug 804657).
- Feed previews would stop working when JavaScript was disabled (bug 804411).
- Missing favicons failed to load (bug 792735).
- Local IMAP mail files could grow excessively (bug 803843).
- NNTP error messages were no longer shown (bug 797600).

Fixes in Beta 2

- Moodle showed plain textareas instead of the rich text editor (bug 801318).
- Scripts could get confused by clicks on plugin placeholders (bug 803847).

Features in Beta 1

- Added support for new light coloring on Mac OS X (bug 771284, bug 783822).
- The MailNews message storage scheme now supports Gmail IMAP extensions X-GM-MSGID (unique message ID), X-GM-THRID (thread ID) and X-GM-LABELS (labels) in addition to XLIST (bug 721316).
- Clicking the offline error page Try Again button goes online again now (bug 782892).
- The mouse wheel Preferences pane has been rewritten (bug 782143).
"Number of messages" and "Size on disk" are now shown in Folder Properties (bug 768621).
- A Set Desktop Background dialog has been implemented (bug 632585).

Fixes in Beta 1

- Edited contacts could not be saved if the address book contained lists (bug 801615).
- If a folder renaming fails during the compact process, removing folder files should be avoided now (bug 674742).
- The feed validator failed to work with locations that need to be encoded (bug 789053).
- Messages could show wrong content (body text) after a move to another folder (bug 790912).
- Feeds that did not provide a last modified date failed to work (bug 790534).
- Resetting Sync now handles add-ons properly (bug 792990).
- All bookmarks were deleted and reset to default bookmarks if all bookmarks-*.json backup files were deleted (bug 779716).
- The highlight behind the selected search term in the Filter Rules, Search Messages and Search Addresses windows has been removed (bug 202036).
- The "Reply with template" filter action now gets hidden when no usable templates exist (bug 300930).
- An ID has been added to the Web Development menu separator to make it easier for extensions to hook into the Tools menu (bug 785581).
- The account manager no longer permanently disables unrecognized extension-added accounts (bug 592710).
- Moving/copying feed subscriptions could stop downloads from happening (bug 781871).
- The number of actions in the Filter Rules window is now unlimited (bug 778324).
- Storing junk filter settings could fail for deferred email account due to invalid spamActionTargetAccount/Folder preferences (bug 536768).
- The account manager Return Receipts pane now includes a Global Preferences button (bug 360891).
- Uploading files larger than 2GB failed (bug 215450).
- The display of the Sidebar Tabs menu button has been improved (bug 780278).
- A delete confirmation dialog has been added to the MailNews Identity list editor (bug 360926).
- If there is no sort order on an address book column, the first click on header now sorts ascending (bug 541934).
- PDF attachments could not be opened from certain mails (bug 659355).
- The compose window progress dialog now better differentiates between sending and saving of a message (bug 255050).
- Support for closing inactive databases (folders).
has been added in order to help improve memory footprint and file handle limit issues (bug 770559).
- Double clicking a column header in the History window opened the selected history item (bug 776052).
- The Most visited list on the Bookmarks Toolbar could contain repeat entries (bug 765689).
- The layout of elements in the Filter Rules window now uses the space available in the dialog more efficiently and consistently (bug 743974).
- Set Desktop Background now works with GNOME (bug 774130, bug 779300).
- Move, Copy and Delete to Local Folders performed poorly with data stored on a network file system (bug 769346).

See Firefox 17.0 Notes for the corresponding Firefox release, and Thunderbird 17.0 Notes for Thunderbird.

## New Issues

- Select Addresses is blank if opened from Compose window with To/Cc/Bcc filled in (bug 814770).
- Windows:
  - Display quality of fonts may be perceived as bad if ClearType is disabled (bug 814101).
    Workaround: Toggle gfx.content.azure.enabled to false in about:config, or disable hardware acceleration (Preferences / Appearance / Content).