seamonkey-2.53.18.2

[Bruce Dubbs]

New nano version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

These are the following comments for 2.53.18. There do not seem to be release notes for nano (x.y.z.nano) releases.

What's New in SeaMonkey 2.53.18

SeaMonkey 2.53.18 contains (among other changes) the following changes relative to SeaMonkey 2.53.17.1:

• Update Branding info bug 1841167.
• Use BugSplat for SeaMonkey crash reporting bug 1835524.
• Unify notifications and permissions in SeaMonkey bug 1849526.

The following bugs were fixed in our branch of the Gecko source code only:

• Update the NSS and NSPR libraries to the esr 115 versions for the final 2.53.18 release.
• Allow building with system icu again in the final 2.53.18 release bug 1864745.

SeaMonkey 2.53.18 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 2.53.18 uses the same backend as Firefox and contains the relevant Firefox 60.8 security fixes.

SeaMonkey 2.53.18 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 115.5 and Thunderbird 115.5 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. Please try another OS theme first. Some of them are buggy and cause problems with SeaMonkey, Thunderbird and Firefox.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit d5c4c3b544.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Replying to Bruce Dubbs:

These are the following comments for 2.53.18. There do not seem to be release notes for nano (x.y.z.nano) releases.

There is a release note for 2.53.18.2: ​https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.18.2/#new

SeaMonkey 2.53.18.2 contains (among other changes) the following changes relative to SeaMonkey 2.53.18.1:

• Block set-cookie from multipart/x-mixed-replace with pref bug 1864385.
• Check if WorkerRunnable::Run runs on top of WorkerThreadPrimaryRunnable::Run in a worker thread bug 1867982.
• Process pairs in coord list in PolyArea bug 1878211.
• Cherry-pick update to dav1d bug 1881093.
• Land NSS NSS_3_90_2_RTM UPGRADE_NSS_RELEASE bug 1880562.
• Fix DSN for send later bug 815638.
• Catch webNavigation error during tab restore bug 1885748.

And:

Additional important security fixes up to Current Firefox 115.9 and Thunderbird 115.9 ESR plus many enhancements have been backported.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Note that 2.53.18.1 only contains security updates from Firefox and Thunderbird <= 115.7, but 2.53.18.2 contains security updates from Firefox and Thunderbird <= 115.9. Related BLFS SA are 12.1-011, 12.1-008, 12.1-004, 12.0-105, 12.0-104.

[Douglas R. Reno]

SA-12.1-027 issued