Download Mozilla Lightning 1.0 Beta 1

The first beta release of version 1.0 of the Mozilla calendar application came out on Tuesday. The software is available as a standalone program under the name Sunbird and as an extension for the mail and newsgroup client Mozilla Thunderbird under the name Lightning. New in version 1.0 of Mozilla Lightning includes that it is now compatible with version 3.0 of Thunderbird and 2.0 of SeaMonkey, and the calendar and tasks are now displayed in separate tabs. Furthermore, multiple alarms can now be set for a single event and support for CalDAV improved. The full changelog of this release looks like this:

The following features have been added to Lightning 1.0 beta1:

• Seamless integration into the new Thunderbird 3.0 user interface
• The different modes (calendar view, task view) are now displayed in tabs
• Lightning now supports SeaMonkey 2.0 as a host application
• You can now define multiple alarms for a single event
• CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers have been improved
• The application stability, performance and memory consumption have been improved
• A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge website