Mozilla Messaging competed the merge for Thunderbird 13 Beta on April 26th and Thunderbird 14 Earlybird on April 27th. Existing Earlybird and Beta users can update (within the same build) to the newest version by going to Help > About Thunderbird (or Earlybird). Users wanting to move from the Earlybird to Beta, Beta to Earlybird or do not currently have a version of Thunderbird Earlybird or Beta installed will need to manually update via The Future of Thunderbird site. Planned Release Dates (subject to change): Thunderbird 13: June 5th, 2012 Thunderbird 14: July 17th, 2012
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Just Released March 14th Thunderbird 3.1.20 Thunderbird ESR 10.0.3 Thunderbird 11.0.0 March 15th Thunderbird 12 Beta (12.0b1)* Thunderbird 13 Earlybird (13.0a2)* Coming Soon April 24th Thunderbird 3.1.21 *LAST RELEASE ON 3.1.x BRANCH* Thunderbird ESR 10.0.4 Thunderbird 12 Final Thunderbird 13 Beta (12.0b1)* Thunderbird 14 Earlybird (13.0a2)* Future Releases June 5th Thunderbird ESR 10.0.5 Thunderbird 13 Final Thunderbird 14 Beta (14.0b1)* Thunderbird 15 Earlybird (15.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days….
One of the big new features (as far as the developers were concerned) with Thunderbird 11 was having the tabs on top. It is suppose to “facilitates navigation and make it more contextual”. Um…what the heck is that suppose to mean? Okay, so Firefox has had this feature since the release of Firefox 4 last spring, so why shouldn’t Thunderbird? I have been using Thunderbird 11 since the Beta release at the beginning of February and hadn’t given much notice to the new (and not improved) UI. Now that Thunderbird 11 has been officially release, the complaints are rolling in…
Mozilla Messaging has completed the merge of Thunderbird 12 to the Early Bird developmental channel. Existing Earlybird user may be able to update within the application via Help > About Earlybird (at press time the updater was not working) otherwise you can manually download and install Earlybird from here. Thunderbird 12 is scheduled for release on April 23, 2012. Lightning Users: You will need to manually update to Lightning 1.4b1 via the Calendar Versions site.
Mozilla Messaging has completed the merge of Thunderbird 11 to the Beta channel. What’s new in Thunderbird 11 Beta: Tabs are now shown above the toolbar New wizard to sign up for new accounts More trust options added to junk settings (Bogofilter, DSPAM, POPFile) and several other platform fixes Existing Thunderbird Beta users should be able to update from within Thunderbird via Help > About Thunderbird. Otherwise users can download Thunderbird Beta 11 and manually update here. Lightning Users: You will need to manually update Lightning to 1.3b1 which can be obtained from the Calendar Versions site. Thunderbird 11 is…
Back in July we wrote that support for Windows 2000 and XP SP1 would be ending with the Thunderbird 8 release (November 8, 2011) due to Mozilla moving to C++ 2010 compiler. Thunderbird 10 was released on January 31st and still supports Windows 2000 as well as all versions of Windows XP. Bug 563318 (switch Firefox trunk builds to use Visual C++ 2010) has had landed on the Firefox 13 Nightly builds (has been temporarily backed out to address some crash issues). This also means the Comm-Central (Thunderbird Daily) channel would have had the same update. So those who are…
There has been a lot happening this week with Thunderbird and a result a lot of activity on this blog recently. Here is a brief summary of what has happened so far: Thunderbird 3.1.18 Released Thunderbird 10.0 Released Thunderbird ESR (10.0.0) Released Thunderbird 3.1.x support ending April 24, 2012 Mozilla-Central (Firefox Nightly) Channel moving to MSVC2010 / No more support for Windows 2000 or Windows XP RTM/SP1 (Firefox 13+) As promised, more information on the Thunderbird ESR. Thunderbird ESR was created to address concerns with the current Rapid Release Process by Enterprise Users. The first…
I realize the last post, Thunderbird ESR Released was a bit brief. I had been waiting to post about the new ESR build until I knew for sure they were going to be released. I had seen in a couple places that they were scheduled for release on January 31st. I had not seen much about this most of the day and I just happened to be lurking around the Builds forums during a break in my Networking Class tonight when I saw they had been released. I will be having more information about these builds tomorrow and some other…
As we had reported last night, the next build was going to contain a patch to fix the issue with mozglue.dll error message. After installing a fresh copy of the 2012-01-28 Earlybird build, everything is working again. Users will need to update manually to the newest build of Earlybird by downloading and installing a fresh copy from Thunderbird Channels page. There is no reason to uninstall the prior build, simply just install over with today’s build.
There is a critical bug in the January 27, 2012 build of Thunderbird Earlybird (11.0a2) which is preventing the application from launching on Windows. This is believed to be the result of the check in of Bug 701371 - Rename mozutils to mozglue, and move it to top-level. A patch has been created and uploaded for the next build. Users who have already updated to the broken build will get the message below along with a Windows ‘Program Stopped Working/Responding’ message. You will need to manually reinstall Earlybird by downloading Earlybird from the Thunderbird Builds page. We will post an…