seamonkey-2.53.14

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[pierre]

What's New in SeaMonkey 2.53.14

SeaMonkey 2.53.14 contains (among other changes) the following major changes relative to SeaMonkey 2.53.13:

Updates to the following DOM HTML element interfaces: Embed, Object, Anchor, Area, Button, Frame, Canvas, IFrame, Link, Image, MenuItem, TextArea, Source, Select, Option, Script and Html. Please test add-ons.
Continue the switch from Python 2 to Python 3 in the build system.
Add ESR 102 links to debugQA bug 1779028.
Remove about plugins from help menu bug 1779031.
Remove url whitelist from SeaMonkey bug 1779037.
Dead links in cs_nav_prefs_advanced.xhtml [en-US] bug 1783558.
Dead links in cs_nav_prefs_advanced.xhtml bug 1786030.
Remove obsolete chat services from SeaMonkey address book bug 1779034.
Address Book: "Get Map" button is not shown for home addresses bug 1779319.
Added compatibility for rust 1.63

SeaMonkey 2.53.14 contains (among other changes) the following major changes relative to SeaMonkey 2.49.5:

The Bookmarks Manager has switched its name to Library, and now also includes the History list. When History is invoked, the Library will be shown with the History list selected. The extensive modifications were needed because of Mozilla Gecko platform API changes.
Download Manager has been migrated to a new API. Although it looks pretty much the same as before, the search option is missing and some other minor details work differently. The previous downloads history is removed during the upgrade.
The layout panel was added to the CSS Grid tools.
TLS 1.3 is the default SSL version now.
Support for all NPAPI plugins like Flash, Java and Silverlight has been removed. For displaying pdf files in the browser you can use pdf.js-seamonkey from Isaac Schemm.
SeaMonkey now uses a new api for formatting regional data like time and date. Default is to use the application locale of the current SeaMonkey build. If you use a language pack or a different OS formatting this is usually not desired. You can change the formatting from the application locale to the regional settings locale (OS) in the preferences dialog under "Appearance".

SeaMonkey 2.53.14 uses the same backend as Firefox and contains the relevant Firefox 60.8 security fixes.

SeaMonkey 2.53.14 shares most parts of the mail and news code with Thunderbird. Please read the Thunderbird 60.8.0 release notes for specific security fixes in this release.

Additional important security fixes up to Current Firefox 91.11 and Thunderbird 91.11 ESR plus many enhancements have been backported. We will continue to enhance SeaMonkey security in subsequent 2.53.x beta and release versions as fast as we are able to.

SeaMonkey-specific changes

SeaMonkey now uses gtk3 on Linux. If you experience a problem because of this please file a bug and link it to bug 1367257. Please try another OS theme first. Some of them are buggy and cause problems with SeaMonkey, Thunderbird and Firefox.

Other details at ​https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.14/

[pierre]

Fixed at b5cd03d

[pierre]

Note: this release seems to build ok without GTK+-2.