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…
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Mozilla Messaging has released the next version of Thunderbird on January 31st, 2012. Thunderbird 10.0 includes these changes: New ability to search the Web Improvements to email search Several fixes when drafting email and several other platform fixes Existing Thunderbird user can update from within Thunderbird via Help > About Thunderbird or can manually download and install the latest version via getthunderbird.com site. Thunderbird 10 is also going to the build the new Thunderbird Extended Support Release (ESR) aka Thunderbird for Enterprise users are based upon. Lightning Users: You will need to update to Lightning version 1.2 for Thunderbird 10….
Just Released None Coming Soon January 31st, 2012 Thunderbird 3.1.18 Thunderbird 10.0 Thunderbird 11 Beta (11.0b1)* Thunderbird 12 Earlybird (12.0a2)* Future Releases March 13th, 2012 Thunderbird 3.1.19 Thunderbird 11 Final Release Thunderbird 12 Beta (12.0b1)* Thunderbird 13 Earlybird (13.0a2)* * 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. See the Wiki for more details.
Mozilla has announced Thunderbird will follow the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) plan. The current plan is the first Firefox ESR will be based off of the upcoming Firefox 10 release coming at the end of this month. With that release comes a 12-week ‘grace-period’ for continued support of the Firefox 3.6 release which would put the final release on April 24th, 2012. However, Thunderbird has been a bit slower to adapt to new release processes (the first rapid release cycle release was Thunderbird 6). It is uncertain at this time if the first Thunderbird ESR will be based off…
Just Released December 20th Thunderbird 3.1.17 Thunderbird 9.0 December 23rd Thunderbird 9.0.1 Thunderbird 10 Beta (10.0b1) Thunderbird 11 Earlybird (11.0a2) Coming Soon January 31st, 2012 Thunderbird 3.1.18 Thunderbird 10 Final Release Thunderbird 11 Beta (11.0b1)* Thunderbird 12 Earlybird (12.0a2)* Future Releases March 13th, 2012 Thunderbird 3.1.19 Thunderbird 11 Final Release Thunderbird 12 Beta (12.0b1)* Thunderbird 13 Earlybird (13.0a2)* * 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. See the Wiki for more details.
Mozilla has merged Thunderbird 10 on the to the Beta developmental channel on December 23rd, 2011. Existing Thunderbird Beta users can update via Help > About Thunderbird. New users can get Thunderbird Beta from Mozilla’s Future of Thunderbird site. What’s New in Thunderbird Beta New ability to search the Web Improvements to searching email Create a new email account Several fixes when drafting email and several other platform fixes Thunderbird 10 is scheduled for release on January 31st, 2012. Lighting users: You will need to go here and get the version 1.2 of Mozilla Lightning.
Just Released None Coming Soon December 20th Thunderbird 9 Final Release Thunderbird 10 Beta (10.0b1)* Thunderbird 11 Earlybird (10.0a2)* Future Releases January 31st, 2012 Thunderbird 10 Final Release Thunderbird 11 Beta (11.0b1)* Thunderbird 12 Earlybird (12.0a2)* * 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. See the Wiki for more details.
Mozilla has completed the merge for Thunderbird 9 on the Beta release channel on November 16, 2011. The latest version of Thunderbird Beta has the following changes: Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Thunderbird Better keyboard handling for attachments Windows users can hide the menu bar (and show it with the “alt” key) Several user interface fixes and improvements and numerous other platform fixes Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You can get Thunderbird 9 Beta (as well as Thunderbird 10 Earlybird) here. Lightning…
Bug 701875 was created a few days ago to address a major issue with Windows and Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4.0+/Thunderbird 5.0+). omni.jar is a core file for Gecko 2.0 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. From MDN: Firefox 4 and Thunderbird 3.3 achieve performance improvements by moving many of their internal parts from being standalone files or sets of JAR files into just one JAR file called omni.jar; this reduces the amount of I/O needed to load the application. This issue is no fault of Mozilla’s rather Microsoft Windows. It seems the Window’s System Restore does not backup .jar files. Trying…
Add-on Compatibility Reporter has been updated to version 0.9.3 earlier today. This update addressees issues with the Add-on compatibility checking not being disabled when updating to Firefox 10 Aurora and/or Thunderbird 10 Earlybird builds. Simply go into the Aurora or Earlybird Add-ons manager, right-click on Add-on Comparability Reporter and select Find Updates. You can also update via AMO.