Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 release candidate 1 released!

This is a release candidate of Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7, the next version of Clippings which will be compatible with Thunderbird 68. Unless there are any last-minute showstopper bugs, this may become the official release.

This release candidate is being made available for testing purposes, and it should be relatively stable compared to the previous beta releases. Read on to learn what's new in Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7, changes from previous releases, and how to get it.

What's New

• Compatible with Thunderbird 68
• You can now choose how you want the date or time to be formatted for the $[DATE] and $[TIME] placeholders; for example, the date with the day of the week included, or the time given in the 24-hour clock. To add a formatted date or time placeholder to your clipping, open Clippings Manager, turn on the Placeholder Toolbar (Tools → Show/Hide menu), then from the toolbar, click Presets and select Formatted Date/Time
• Special characters (question mark, parentheses, quotation marks, asterisk, common currency symbols, etc.) can now be used in default values for placeholders. Note that the pipe symbol (|), curly braces ({}) and square brackets([]) cannot be used.

Things You Should Know About

• Rearranging clippings and folders in Clippings Manager by drag and drop in the clippings tree is no longer possible. Use the Move toolbar button to select a folder to move or copy to, or right-click and select the Cut, Copy and Paste menu options. To rearrange items within a folder, select the folder, click the Arrange toolbar button, then in the dialog that appears, you can use drag and drop to arrange the items in the selected folder.
• It is no longer possible to drag selected text to the Clippings status bar icon to create a clipping from the selected text. Instead, copy the text to the clipboard and then select New From Clipboard from the status bar icon's context menu.
• To display the extension preferences dialog, open Clippings Manager, then select Tools -> Options. The Clippings preferences dialog is not accessible from Add-ons Manager.
• If a shortcut key is assigned to a synced clipping, and the shortcut key assignment conflicts with another clipping, the synced clipping will lose its assigned key in favor of the other clipping.

Not Compatible With Thunderbird 60

Clippings 5.7 is compatible with Thunderbird 68. It is not compatible with Thunderbird 60.x. Users of Thunderbird 60.x should install Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6, available from the AE Creations website.

How to Get It

Users having a previous beta release of Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 already installed should be automatically updated to 5.7 release candidate 1, if automatic add-on updates are enabled in Thunderbird.

For those who have not installed a beta release and want to try the release candidate, head over to the Clippings 5.7 release candidate 1 page on GitHub. Right-click on the link for clippings-tb-5.7rc1.xpi and select Save As, then choose a folder location on your system (for example, the Desktop). Then follow these step-by-step instructions from the Mozilla Support website to install Clippings in Thunderbird.

Once Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 is officially released, all beta and release candidate users will be automatically upgraded to the official release. Make sure that automatic add-on updates are turned on.

Help and Support

Questions and comments about Clippings should be directed to the AE Creations Help and Support forums, hosted on Google Groups.

If you find a bug, you may file a bug report on GitHub. Please search the issues list first to confirm that your issue has not already been reported.