2025.01.06.1

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• Updated to Phoenix 2025.01.06.1.

• Updated uBlock Origin to 1.62.0.

• Allowed uBlock Origin to run on 'sites with restrictions' by default. This is currently the behavior on Firefox - but since the Thunderbird version of uBO isn't 'Recommended' by Mozilla, we need to manually set it. - extensions.quarantineIgnoredByUser.uBlock0@raymondhill.net -> true

• Set Thunderbird's 'Start Page' to about:config. It's now significantly easier to access the about:config on Thunderbird - simply by navigating to Go -> Mail Start Page in the menu bar, or by pressing Alt + home. - mailnews.start_page.url -> about:config

• Enabled inline spellcheck when composing messages by default. - mail.spellcheck.inline -> true

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Codeberg: See here for more details.

GitHub: See here for more details.

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2025.01.05.1

I'd like to officially announce a brand new community Matrix Space (Recommended) and Discord Server! Feel free to join if you'd like to discuss Dove, need support, have any questions or concerns, would like to help with development... or simply want to chat. :)

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• Updated to Phoenix 2025.01.05.1 - See here for more details.

• Updated uBlock Origin to 1.62.0.

• Enabled more preferences from Firefox's Strict tracking protection (Specifically, we set network.cookie.cookieBehavior.optInPartitioning & privacy.socialtracking.block_cookies.enabled to true).

• Unlocked various preferences so that users may configure them if desired - See https://codeberg.org/celenity/Dove/commit/434ed28ec957a40ce001063005ce1322f8309712 for specifics.

• Thunderbird's Allow Antivirus clients to quarantine individual incoming messages feature is fully disabled, due to privacy & security risks (We don't want 3rd party programs to easily intercept messages...) - (Set mailnews.downloadToTempFile to false).

• When fetching an Auto Config from your email provider - we no longer send the username by default (Set mailnews.auto_config.fetchFromISP.sendEmailAddress to false).

• Toggled more preferences to ensure we never send read receipts (Set mail.mdn.report.not_in_to_cc, mail.mdn.report.outside_domain, mail.mdn.report.other, mail.server.default.mdn_not_in_to_cc, mail.server.default.mdn_other, & mail.server.default.mdn_outside_domain to 0 + set mail.server.default.mdn_report_enabled to false).

• We now expose advanced E2EE settings by default (Set temp.openpgp.advancedUser to true).

• We now enforce that E2EE is never automatically disabled (Set mail.e2ee.auto_disable to false).

• We prevent accepting insecure S/MIME signatures (Set mail.smime.accept_insecure_sha1_message_signatures to false).

• Outgoing emails are now signed by default (Set mail.identity.default.sign_mail to true).

• We ensure users are always warned when using a deprecated version of GnuPG (Set temp.openpgp.warnDeprecatedGnuPG to true).

• Similar to Phoenix, we now have Dove applied prefs to allow for easy debugging & testing, to ensure that our changes are actually applied to Thunderbird.

• Similar to Phoenix, we now have a mail.dove.version pref to allow easily checking Dove's version from within Thunderbird.

• Emails are now spellchecked before sending by default (Set mail.SpellCheckBeforeSend to true).

• We now enable dark mode in Thunderbird's message pane by default (Set mail.dark-reader.enabled to true).

• Various other minor tweaks, fixes, & enhancements.

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Codeberg: See here for more details.

GitHub: See here for more details.

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20241229-1

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• Update to Phoenix 20241229-1 - See there for more details.

• Disabled SVG, due to security reasons - https://codeberg.org/celenity/Dove/commit/325280b6e59f498902b61aad2e38343da03eb406 (svg.disabled).

• Password Manager is now disabled by default instead of locked... meaning users may enable it if they wish to do so.

• Users may now enable Thunderbird's Calendar Extraction Service if they wish to do so - though it is still disabled by default (calendar.extract.service.enabled).

• Users may now disable GnuPG if they wish to do so - though it is still enabled by default. (mail.openpgp.allow_external_gnupg).

• Users may now set custom reply headers, though this is NOT recommended - https://codeberg.org/celenity/Dove/commit/4cfe214b1c8a772fd47e11cf5bbb43d6bffa24c8 (mailnews.reply_header_authorwroteondate, mailnews.reply_header_authorwrotesingle, mailnews.reply_header_ondateauthorwrote, & mailnews.reply_header_type).

• Various other minor tweaks, fixes, & enhancements.

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Codeberg: See here for more details.

GitHub: See here for more details.

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20241216-1

Welcome to the new Dove! 🎉

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Built off of Phoenix 20241216-1, this is a major update, with fundamental changes to Dove's design & how it operates.

The most notable difference is that Dove is now entirely local. You can see details here as to why this decision was made & the major benefits it will provide in terms of privacy, security, performance, usability, etc.

This is currently available for users of Arch Linux, Fedora Linux, & macOS. Debian installations are currently broken anyways at the moment :/ and are being re-worked in the near future, as a top priority.

Simply run the upgrade script for your platform, and it'll handle everything for you:

sudo bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://dove.celenity.dev/upgrade.sh)"

Once it's complete, you should be good to go!

Can't wait to see what you think :) - looking forward to any and all feedback!

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Codeberg: See here for more details.

GitHub: See here for more details.

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20241211-1

IMPORTANT: To continue receiving updates, macOS users must migrate to the new centralized Homebrew Tap and reinstall the dove-policies package.

To migrate, please enter the following commands:

brew remove dove-policies

brew untap celenity/dove-policies-macos

brew tap celenity/tap https://codeberg.org/celenity/tap

brew install dove-policies

dove-up

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Notes

• Synced with Upstream - Phoenix 20241211-1 - See release notes here
• Other minor tweaks & enhancements

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