Penelope is an extension for the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client software implementing some features of Eudora.
History
On October 11, 2006, Qualcomm announced [1] that development of the existing Eudora e-mail client software had ended, and that future versions of Eudora would be based on the same technology platform as Mozilla Thunderbird and be open source. The codename for this project is "Penelope," with that name being used for the extension provided for Thunderbird, and the Eudora name kept for all-in-one releases. Development began on November 22, 2006 with the first patch being submitted to Bugzilla[2]. Further development of Penelope and Eudora continued, with the first beta version of Eudora 8.0 released on August 31, 2007; the most current releases, Eudora 8.0b7 and Penelope 0.5a4, were released on September 4, 2009[3][4][5].
Release history
| Release date |
Eudora |
Penelope |
Notes |
| On or before April 16, 2007 |
None |
0.1a16 |
- First known public release of Penelope
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| April 26, 2007 |
None |
0.1a19 |
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| August 31, 2007 |
8.0.0b1 |
0.1a21 |
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| December 11, 2007 |
8.0.0b2 |
0.1a22 |
- Based on Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 pre-release code
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| February 22, 2008 |
8.0.0b3 |
0.1a22 |
- First version available for Linux
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| November 3, 2008 |
8.0.0b4 |
0.5a1 |
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| January 16, 2009 |
8.0.0b5 |
0.5a2 |
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| April 8, 2009 |
8.0b6 |
0.5a3 |
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| September 4, 2009 |
8.0b7 |
0.5a4 |
| Sources: MozillaWiki[3][4][7], Eudora 8.0 Release Notes[5] |
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