Thunderbird Feature Roadmap


 Thunderbird 1.0
 Thunderbird 1.1
 Thunderbird 1.5
 Thunderbird 2.0
timing
 December, 2004
 June 30, 2005
 November 15, 2005
 June 1, 2005
marketing themes
  • Reclaim your inbox


end-user features
  • Adaptive junk mail filters
  • Quick search
  • RSS reader
  • Newsgroups
  • Address book
  • Mail filters
  • Vertical layout
  • Mail views
  • Labels/Flags
  • Offline IMAP
  • Return Receipts
  • Import wizards
  • Anti-scam detection
  • Inline spell checking
  • RSS improvements, podcasting (attachments support)
  • Preferences reorganization
  • Improvements to attachments
  • Auto save as draft
  • Anti-virus integration/support
  • software update
  • archiving?
other ideas/other needs



platform enhancements
 Mozilla 1.7.5
  • POP3
  • IMAP
  • SMTP
  • S/MIME
  • LDAP
  • vCard
  • SSL
  • TLS (for SMTP)
  • HTML 4.0
  • CSS 1 & 2
  • DOM 1 & 2
  • RDF
  • XML 1.0
  • XML Namespaces
  • SOAP 1.1
  • XSLT
  • XPath 1.0
  • XHTML
  • xmlHTTP request
  • JavaScript 1.5
  • .gif, .jpg, .png, .ico, .bmp
 Mozilla 1.8
  • CSS 2 (quotes, url cursors, outline)
  • CSS 3 (columns, overflow)
  • SVG 1.1 (partial)
  • canvas
  • XML improvements
  • NPAPI, scripting plugins
  • Increase cookie size
  • Greater IE compatability in quirks mode
  • E4X
 Mozilla 1.9
  • tbd
 Mozilla 2.0
  • cairo