Well, I didn’t see this coming, mainly because I use the Beta builds as my default Thunderbird build on my desktop machine. I do run the Release version of Thunderbird on my laptop, but since I am on break from school, have not even turned on the laptop this week. On December 23, 2011, Mozilla released an update for Thunderbird 9. Thunderbird 9.0.1, according to the (vague) release notes fixed an issue with Windows XP users not being able to run Thunderbird in some cases. Took a little hunting but this was related to Bug 712960. This is unrelated to…
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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.
Thunderbird 9 has been released on December 20th, 2011. Current Thunderbird 8.0.0 users can update via Help > About Thunderbird. Lightning users, after you have updated to Thunderbird 9.0, your calendars will be broken. To fix this go Tools > Add-ons and then in your add-ons list, at the top of the list click the gear button and select Check for Updates. Lightning will update to version 1.1 (other add-ons may be updated at this time as well) and once you restart Thunderbird, your calendars will be working again. What’s new in Thunderbird 9.0: Thunderbird is based on the new…
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.
Starting with Thunderbird 9.0 Beta 3 (released November 25, 2011) hardware acceleration is now turned off by default. While the premise was good to allow Thunderbird 5.0 and newer to utilize video hardware acceleration, for many user it caused issues including blurry fonts. Thunderbird 9 Beta can be downloaded from the Mozilla Thunderbird builds page.
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…
From today’s meeting it was announced, unlike Firefox there will not be a 8.0.1 release for Thunderbird and 9 Beta 1 should be released on November 16th.
In today’s Mozilla Weekly Update meeting it was announced Thunderbird 9.0 Beta is delayed, but is coming. While there is no official release date yet for Thunderbird 9.0 Beta, could be as early as today (November 15th). When we checked last night, we were already seeing Linux and Mac candidate builds, but so far nothing for Win32.
Just Released Thunderbird 3.6.24 - November 8th Thunderbird 8 - November 8th Thunderbird 10 Earlybird (10.0a2) - November 11th Coming Soon To Be Announced Thunderbird 9 Beta (9.0b1) 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…