{"id":428,"date":"2018-11-16T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/?p=428"},"modified":"2018-11-26T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T10:22:09","slug":"thunderbird60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/2018\/11\/16\/thunderbird60\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird 60 and Nexus365 calendars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been brought to our attention that a recent update to Thunderbird &#8211; bringing the version number up to v60 &#8211; has the unfortunate side-effect of breaking Nexus365 calendars. Experimentation within the Nexus team has shown that\u00a0the only calendar functionality that remains intact during testing is the use of one&#8217;s own calendar and, bizarrely, a single meeting room.<\/p>\n<p>Calendar issues aside, this upgrade to the application is worthwhile. Testers within the Nexus team described it as\u00a0 &#8220;&#8230;definitely snappier and more responsive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla have made a big jump with the plug-in architecture for Thunderbird (as\u00a0happened\u00a0for Firefox about a year ago), so to continue to use Nexus365 calendars within Thunderbird we will have to wait for the developers of the exchangecalendar plug-in to get their heads around the new design. In the meantime Outlook Web App (<a href=\"http:\/\/outlook.office.com\">http:\/\/outlook.office.com<\/a>) gives calendar functionality via almost any modern browser.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla have provided the following guidance regarding calendar issues post upgrade:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/calendar-updates-issues-thunderbird\">https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/calendar-updates-issues-thunderbird<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may also be useful:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thunderbird.net\/en-US\/thunderbird\/60.3.1\/releasenotes\/\">https:\/\/www.thunderbird.net\/en-US\/thunderbird\/60.3.1\/releasenotes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EDIT:\u00a0Version &#8216;v5.0.0-alpha2&#8217; of the exchangecalendar add-on was released in the last 24 hours. Testing within the Nexus team has shown that with this version delegate calendars re-appear. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ExchangeCalendar\/exchangecalendar\/releases\">https:\/\/github.com\/ExchangeCalendar\/exchangecalendar\/releases<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been brought to our attention that a recent update to Thunderbird &#8211; bringing the version number up to v60 &#8211; has the unfortunate side-effect of breaking Nexus365 calendars. Experimentation within the Nexus team has shown that\u00a0the only calendar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/2018\/11\/16\/thunderbird60\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/nexus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}