Finally!! Lightning 0.5 & Sunbird 0.5 Releases Are Out!

Written by Saman Sadeghi on June 29, 2007 Add comments

Finally, the 0.5 releases are available for all to enjoy! You can read more about Lighting & Sunbird in my review.

These releases have arrived about two months after their scheduled release date, but they were worth the wait - and they’re a huge step closer to the 1.0 release, which is scheduled for the first half of 2008.

Notable improvements of this release are:

Much more polished user interface in the calendar views
Event invitations can be sent and received via iMIP/iTIP (Lightning only)
Working hours are back
Automatic migration of data in Sunbird 0.2, iCal.app, and Evolution
Much improved printing functionality
Better integration of Lightning into Mozilla Thunderbird (Printing, Undo/redo, Copy/paste)
Support for Google Calendar (via the Google Calendar Provider extension)
and much more. A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge weblog.

Download

Lightning 0.5 and Sunbird 0.5 are available for Windows, Mac OS X (universal builds) and Linux in 22 different languages!

You can use the following links to download the latest release:

Lightning 0.5 (fully localized for 22 languages)
Sunbird 0.5 in English or other languages

Review

I have only played with this release for a couple of hours, but I am already blown away - the cleaned up GUI (Graphical User Interface) is reason enough to upgrade and the fancy printing is great too!