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August 2nd, 2006
SeaMonkey 1.0.4 Released
Due to a bug involving playing of media in the browser that slipped into SeaMonkey 1.0.3, it was necessary to release an updated SeaMonkey version. All users should upgrade to SeaMonkey 1.0.4. More information can, as always, be found in the release notes.
July 27th, 2006
SeaMonkey 1.0.3 Security Release
SeaMonkey 1.0.3 is now available. This release contains important fixes for several security vulnerabilities and various stability improvements. Also, a bug introduced in SeaMonkey 1.0.2 that sometimes caused the URL Bar to stop working properly when switching tabs has been fixed. The SeaMonkey Council recommends that all users upgrade. More information can be found in the release notes.
June 1st, 2006
SeaMonkey 1.0.2 Security Release
SeaMonkey 1.0.2 is now available. This release contains important security and stability improvements, and the SeaMonkey Council recommends that all users upgrade. More information is available in the release notes.
April 13th, 2006
SeaMonkey 1.0.1 is here!
SeaMonkey 1.0.1 is now available. All users of previous SeaMonkey versions are encouraged to update, as SeaMonkey 1.0.1 includes multiple security fixes along with other critical bug fixes. Please see the release notes for more information.
January 30th, 2006
SeaMonkey 1.0 Released
The SeaMonkey Council is proud to announce SeaMonkey 1.0, the first end-user release of their internet suite. This open source application, available as a free download from its mozilla.org-hosted website, features a state-of-the-art web browser and powerful email client, as well as a WYSIWYG web page composer and a feature-rich IRC chat client. For web developers, mozilla.org's DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger tools are included as well. SeaMonkey 1.0 is one of the most complete, powerful, and secure internet software packages available today.
SeaMonkey comes with the the look and feel familiar to users of its predecessors, the Mozilla Application Suite and Netscape Communicator packages, but adds many new features as well as back-end changes that improve security, stability and performance. Some highlights are: drag&drop reordering of tabs, phishing e-mail detection, support for a single shared inbox when using multiple accounts, and support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
The SeaMonkey project is a community-based project hosted at mozilla.org that emerged around Mozilla's suite codebase when the Mozilla Foundation announced it would discontinue further development of its suite product. The new project is dedicated to keeping this suite alive and developing it into an even more modern and complete internet software package.
December 19th, 2005
SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta
Today, the SeaMonkey Council announces a new developer release, SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta. Compared to the Alpha version released in September, SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta enhances the product with new features like tab drag and drop, but also is the first release branded with the new SeaMonkey logo, which was unveiled earlier this month. While much of the core code is shared with the popular Firefox 1.5 browser, SeaMonkey comes with the the look and feel familiar to users of its ancestors, the Mozilla Application Suite and Netscape Communicator packages.
SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta features more than just a state-of-the-art web browser, though: the application comes with a powerful email client as well as a WYSIWYG web page composer and a feature-rich IRC chat application. For web developers, mozilla.org's DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger tools are included as well. SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta is one of the most powerful and secure internet software packages currently available, even though this release is only for testing.
This public Beta release includes all features planned for the SeaMonkey 1.0 final release, which is expected for January 2006. Due to a large number of bug fixes, it should also be even more stable and convient to use than the previous Alpha release, and the SeaMonkey Council calls for testers to use the product and report any further glitches they might find, so that the 1.0 release can be not only the best available internet suite in terms of features, but also in quality, security and stability.
The SeaMonkey project is a community-based project hosted at mozilla.org that emerged around Mozilla's suite codebase when the Mozilla Foundation announced it would discontinue further development of its suite product. The new project is dedicated to keeping this suite alive under the name "SeaMonkey" and developing it into an even more modern and complete internet software package.
December 2nd, 2005
New Logo For SeaMonkey
After months of submissions and selection processes, the SeaMonkey Council is announcing a new logo for its project and application. The project's initial call for logo submissions was answered with no fewer than 197 different proposals submitted by Mozilla and SeaMonkey community members. From those 197 logos, amongst which were many good options, the Council selected the new logo after many discussions and a long decision process.
The new
artwork centers around an abstract figure resembling a "Sea Monkey",
colored in a light, cyan/blue color, standing out from a dark blue circle with
a wave pattern in the middle. This design, created by Alex Butin, not only
looks professional and polished, but also fits perfectly as an icon on a modern
computer desktop and is easily recognizable even in small sizes. Additionally,
the look matches the rest of the mozilla.org family (Firefox, Thunderbird,
Camino, Sunbird) quite well. And while the soft shapes and color shades create
a very polished impression, the waves and the figure make people feel the new
dynamic the internet suite application has gained through the new project.
SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta, the first testing release including that artwork, is planned for release within the next few weeks, with a final SeaMonkey 1.0 release soon after that. Development versions, so-called "nightly builds", should have the new logo and artwork available within the next few days.
September 15th, 2005
SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha
The SeaMonkey Council is pleased to announce its first release, SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha. Developed from the codebase of the previously successful Mozilla Application Suite, SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha contains lots of new features, and numerous enhancements and bugfixes compared to the last Mozilla suite versions. Internally, much of the core code is shared with the current Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 browser, but from the outside, it represents the look and feel that long-time Mozilla and Netscape users have learned to love.
SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha features more than just a state-of-the-art web browser, though: the application comes with a powerful email client as well as a WYSIWYG web page composer and a feature-rich IRC chat application. For web developers, mozilla.org's DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger tools are included as well. SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha is one of the most powerful and secure internet software packages currently available, even though this release is only for testing.
Note that SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha does not presently include official SeaMonkey artwork, as the SeaMonkey project is still open to logo submissions from its community. The new logo will be selected from these submissions and integrated into the upcoming SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta, which will be the last version before SeaMonkey 1.0 ships later this year.
The SeaMonkey project is a community-based project at mozilla.org that emerged around Mozilla's suite codebase when the Mozilla Foundation announced it would discontinue further development of its suite product. The new project is dedicated to keeping this suite alive under the name "SeaMonkey" and developing it into an even more modern and complete internet software package.
July 28th, 2005
Submit Your SeaMonkey Logo!
Project seeking for new community-created artwork
While current experimental "nightly" builds of the SeaMonkey application as well as the upcoming SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha testing release feature a rather primitive logo, the project seeks more professional artwork for the future. Everyone with sufficient graphical skills is invited to help, as the new logo will be selected from community submissions. For more about criteria, and information on how to submit your proposal, please see the SeaMonkey artwork page.
July 2nd, 2005
SeaMonkey Project Continues Internet Suite
Former "Mozilla Application Suite" Code sees new development from independent group
When the Mozilla Foundation announced its "transition plan" for the long-lived Mozilla-branded application suite, this move meant not only a refocus of the Foundation to its new premier products Firefox and Thunderbird, but also a transition of new suite code development to an independent group. This group now is proud to announce its existence and its new project name, "SeaMonkey".
The SeaMonkey name was adopted by the project leading group (dubbed "SeaMonkey Council") after considering a long list of community-proposed names - it was decided that the long-lived internal code name still suited the project best. It was no easy decision, but it has a certain appeal - the suite is already known by SeaMonkey within the developer community. The council is working on having this name trademarked with the help of the Mozilla Foundation.
While the Foundation doesn't consider the new SeaMonkey application to be an officially supported upgrade path for Mozilla suite users, it provides the newly founded project with assistance in the form of much-needed project infrastructure, and cooperates with SeaMonkey developers. Development of SeaMonkey produces many improvements which are contributed back to the Mozilla codebase, much of which is shared with products including Firefox and Thunderbird.
The group is planning to deliver an Alpha version of its first release, SeaMonkey 1.0, within the next few weeks. Users of Mozilla 1.7.x or even the Mozilla 1.8 Alpha and Beta releases will see a new, improved version of the application they are used to. Netscape 7.x users will also feel at home with the new SeaMonkey suite.
SeaMonkey contains a state-of-the-art web browser and a feature-rich mail and newsgroups client, along with a simple yet powerful HTML editor, web development tools and an IRC chat application.
On the web, the SeaMonkey project can currently be found at its mozilla.org address, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ - the project leading team (SeaMonkey Council) can be contacted via email at seamonkey-council@mozilla.org.