Mozilla Messaging has release the sixth update for Thunderbird 3.0 on July 20th. The new Thunderbird 3.0.6 update includes several security and stability updates [Thunderbird release notes]. Thunderbird 2.0 and older users should upgrade by downloading Thunderbird 3.0.6 directly here. Thunderbird 3.0.5 users should be prompted to update within the next 48-hours or can do so manually via Help >> Check For Updates… Source: Mozilla Developers News
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Released This Month Thunderbird 3.0.5 - June 17, 2010 Schedule This Month Thunderbird 3.1 - Mid to Late June 2010 Future Releases Thunderbird 3.0.6 - TBD
Mozilla Messaging has release the fifth update for Thunderbird 3.0 on June 17th. The new Thunderbird 3.0.5 update includes several security and stability updates [Thunderbird release notes]. Thunderbird 2.0 and older users should upgrade by downloading Thunderbird 3.0.5 directly via https://getthunderbird.com. Thunderbird 3.0 users should be prompted to update within the next 48-hours or can do so manually via Help >> Check For Updates… Source: Mozilla Developers News
The latest news from Mozilla Messaging is Thunderbird 3.1 is expected to ship mid to late June 2010. Thunderbird 3.0.5 is dependent on the release of Firefox 3.5.10 which seems to be stuck in a perpetual delay.
Whilst checking on the upcoming Firefox releases I noticed Mozilla has posted a possible release date for Thunderbird 3.0.5 as the week of May 24th. Well post update when I have more info.
Released Last Month None Schedule This Month Thunderbird 3.1b2 - May 4, 2010 Future Releases Thunderbird 3.0.5 - TBD
Got an email from a family member in regards to their Thunderbird. They switched ISP and email providers and when their email account was setup in Thunderbird, it had its own folder structure. My first thought was the account had been setup as IMAP, but I checked on the provider’s website determined they didn’t support IMAP. I thought may be this was they way Thunderbird 3 handled POP accounts. Wouldn’t really know since I use IMAP exclusively. After a little hunting I discovered you can still have Thunderbird to deliver all the messages in your POP accounts to the Global Inbox…
When Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 Released back in mid-March, this was the last planned update for the 2.0.0.X trunk. Mozilla Messaging confirmed yesterday that there will indeed be no further updates for Thunderbird 2. Users are encouraged to upgrade to Thunderbird 3. Source: dmose’s blog
Last month I received an email for a nearly dedicated Thunderbird user. I say nearly dedicated because they were still using Eudora to send out monthly club emails. The club has a strict policy that their email addresses will not be shared. They were unable to find an easy way to send out to the group where all the recipients were BCC (Blind Carbon Copy). Sure each recipient added to the message could be changed to ‘Bcc’, but with around 50 recipients this was time consuming and a good chance of accidentally leaving one or more of the recipients set…
Editors Note: Due to the slow release of Thunderbird builds, Release Recaps will not be published on a weekly basis. Released this Month Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 - March 16th Thunderbird 3.0.3 - March 1st Thunderbird 3.1b1 - March 9th Thunderbird 3.0.4 - March 30th Schedule this Coming Month Thunderbird 3.1b2 - TBD Future Releases Thunderbird 3.0.5 - TBD