Mozilla Foundation heeft dinsdag de eerste bètarelease van de volgende generatie van SeaMonkey uitgebracht. SeaMonkey, de voortzetting van de voormalige Mozilla Application Suite, bestaat uit een webbrowser en programma's om te e-mailen en nieuws te lezen. Ten slotte is er nog een eenvoudige html-editor. In tegenstelling tot de Mozilla Application Suite wordt SeaMonkey door de community onderhouden, terwijl de Seamonkey Council het onderhoud overziet. De belangrijkste veranderingen in versie 2.0 zijn dat de webbrowser nu op Firefox 3.5 is gebaseerd, dat de MailNews-applicatie ook rss- and Atom-feeds kan weergeven en dat de password- en downloadmanager sterk zijn verbeterd. Een compleet overzicht van de veranderingen sinds versie 1.1.17 kan hier worden gevonden, terwijl de release notes voor bèta 1 de volgende zijn:
SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1 Previews the Next GenerationIt took a bit longer than previously expected, but that fact makes the SeaMonkey team even more thrilled to announce SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1, previewing the next generation of the successful Internet suite.
Building on the great heritage of the Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Application suites, SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1 combines a state-of-the-art web browser based on the same core as Firefox 3.5.1 with a solid email and newsgroups client and a simple HTML editor, rounding the experience with web development tools and IRC chat.
In addition to the changes in the alpha releases, this version features
- the same browser core and web feature support as Firefox 3.5.1,
- a reworked download manager, including support for cross-session resumable downloads,
- localized builds - Windows/Linux/Mac packages are available in 15 languages officially (two additional ones are experimental) from day 1,
- feed preview and improved feed subscription from the browser,
- fully customizable mail/news toolbars,
- mail archiving support,
- and a lot of other, smaller improvements.
The release notes include a detailed list of improvements in comparison to SeaMonkey 1.1.17, our current stable release.
We welcome any and all discussions on this beta on our newsgroups, or you can even file a bug if you find one. Be sure to check our Known Issues prior to filing bugs.
SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1 is available for free download on the SeaMonkey website. Once you have downloaded and installed this release, we'd like to encourage you to get involved in discussing and reporting problems as well as further improving the product.
Thanks for testing and helping us to make SeaMonkey even better!
