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*Restoration of drag and drop editing in the day/week views
*Restoration of drag and drop editing in the day/week views


In addition to showcasing and testing the new views, Sunbird 0.3a2 aims to provide users of Sunbird 0.3a1 with a new release that contains a large number of bug fixes for many of the issues identified in that release. This includes:
In addition to showcasing and testing the new views, Sunbird 0.3a2 aims to fix many bugs identified in Sunbird 0.3a1. Some highlights are:
*Ability to modify individual elements of a recurring event
*Ability to modify individual elements of a recurring event
*Fewer import/export errors
*Fewer import/export errors
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*A new, more intuitive New Event dialog
*A new, more intuitive New Event dialog
*Better Mac support
*Better Mac support
*and lots of other minor bug fixes
*Many other minor bug fixes


===Limitations and Known Bugs===
===Limitations and Known Bugs===
Before using Sunbird 0.3 alpha2, it is '''strongly''' encouraged that you read the following limitations that the release possesses.
Before using Sunbird 0.3 alpha2, it is '''strongly''' encouraged that you read the following limitations that apply to this release.


*'''Dataloss may occur if you attempt to use Sunbird with calendar files created by other calendaring programs.'''
*'''Dataloss may occur if you attempt to use Sunbird with calendar files created by other calendaring programs'''
*CalDAV support remains extremely basic
*CalDAV support remains extremely basic
*Shutting down Sunbird immediately after a change has been made (within 5 seconds) may result in the change not being recorded.
*Shutting down Sunbird immediately after a change has been made (within 5 seconds) may result in the change not being recorded
*Sunbird 0.3a2 does not work for dates before 1970 or after 2031
*Sunbird 0.3a2 does not work for dates before 1970 or after 2031
*Snooze functionality is not currently present.
*Snooze functionality is not currently present
*Alarms for recurring events may not be reliable.
*Alarms for recurring events may not be reliable
*After upgrading to Sunbird 0.3a2 you can't downgrade to Sunbird 0.3a1 anymore, because of an update to the internal SQLite database
*Sunbird 0.3a1 profiles are upgraded automatically to Sunbird 0.3a2, but are then no longer compatible with Sunbird 0.3a1 due to updates to the internal SQLite database
*Sunbird 0.3a2 will not automatically migrate your old calendar files from Sunbird 0.2. You will have to manually import them from your [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile#Sunbird profile folder] or resubscribe to your remote calendar files>


Additionally, many of the [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning:0.1:Known_Issues#Surprising_Behavior Surprising Behaviors] of Lighting apply to Sunbird 0.3a2.
Additionally, many of the [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning:0.1:Known_Issues#Surprising_Behavior Surprising Behaviors] of Lighting apply to Sunbird 0.3a2.
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===Regressions from 0.3a1===
===Regressions from 0.3a1===
As development is ongoing, a few items remain in a worse state than they were in the 0.3a1 release:
As development is ongoing, a few items remain in a worse state than they were in the 0.3a1 release:
*If you have conflicting events at one time in the calendar, other, non-conflicting events on the same day appear narrower than they should
*If you have conflicting events at one time in the calendar, other, non-conflicting events on the same day appear too narrow
*Location/Description information is no longer shown in the day/week views.
*Location/Description information is no longer shown in the day/week views
*All day events simply appear with no time, rather than having a Star icon
*All day events simply appear with no time, rather than having a star icon
*It is not possible to select multiple events in the views.  It still remains possible to select multiple events in the unifinder.
*It is not possible to select multiple events in the views.  It still remains possible to select multiple events in the unifinder
* Similarly, 'Select All' in the 'Edit' menu does not work.
*Similarly, 'Select All' in the 'Edit' menu does not work
*Sunbird 0.3a2 reports many 'Failed to load XPCOM component' errors in the JavaScript console upon startup, however no functionality is lost


===The Next Step===
===The Next Step===
The current roadmap for Sunbird development lists this release as the last alpha release on the way to Sunbird 0.3.  The next planned release of Sunbird is planned to be Sunbird 0.3 beta, which only has the goal of fixing bugs identified in this release, in an effort towards creating a final, production quality release.  While new features are not directly planned for Sunbird 0.3 beta, ongoing parallel development of Lightning 0.2 may result in additional features being implemented in this next release as well.
The current roadmap for Sunbird development lists this release as the last alpha release on the way to Sunbird 0.3.  The next planned release of Sunbird is planned to be Sunbird 0.3 beta, which only has the goal of fixing bugs identified in this release, in an effort towards creating a final, production quality release.  While new features are not directly planned for Sunbird 0.3 beta, ongoing parallel development of Lightning may result in additional features being implemented in this next release as well.


Users wishing to follow the progress towards this beta release should feel free to download nightly builds. As always, testing and good bug reports are always greatly appreciated.
Users wishing to follow the progress towards this beta release should feel free to download nightly builds. As always, testing and good bug reports are always greatly appreciated.
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