Thunderbird Stable Releases

Sep 17, 2024
Andrei Hajdukewycz
Director of Infrastructure & Services
Thunderbird 115 support ending with 115.15
https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/gr...31/thunderbird-115-support-ending-with-115-15

Quoting:
"As you may know, Firefox has decided to extend support of 115 only for Windows 7/8 and macOS 10.12-10.14 until March 2025.

We will not be extending support of Thunderbird 115 in the same way. It will end as normally scheduled, so the last version will be 115.15.x (there may be one more minor update after 115.15.0)."

Emphasis by me.

 

Mozilla Thunderbird 128.2.3esr stable has been released. (20-September-2024)

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Spoiler

fixed

Reverted OAuth2 changes from 128.2.2esr due to authentication timeout after upgrade.

 

FWIW

Despite Mozilla's general warning on the thunderbird.net page, at some point, version 131.0 appeared in their release directory.

I, and likely others, normally identify the release directory as stable when not individually characterized as a beta.

HTH

 

Hello @JRViejo

I fully accept your quoted link, though I wonder if that document is in the process of change. Yet, what seems to muddy the waters is that Mozilla has also published release notes with thirty (30) v131.0 fixes and a Security Advisory with eleven (11) additional fixes. It seems like documents such as those don't ordinarily get published for beta releases.

Perhaps one Mozilla group isn't quite in lockstep with others… I was willing to update to v131.0 on a system I would not usually run a beta. Crossing my fingers.

Thank you always, @JRViejo

 

If anyone using RSS feeds with TB notices any problems like I did, look here for bug and work-around

 

Will there be a TB version 115.16?
At DSLR there is some speculation, here:
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r3...rbird-v115-16-0-bb33-Superstar-1-October-2024
It says that there is BetterBird v115.16.0-bb33 and assumed is there that there must be somewhere a TB version 115.16.0 as well.
There is indeed BetterBird v115.16.0-bb33 , see here:
https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/index.php

But whether that indeed means that there is and/or will TB 115.16.0 ? Only time will tell, I guess.

 

It looks like that version 115.16.0 ESR is released.

Release Notes:
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.16.0esr/releasenotes/

Index of /pub/thunderbird/releases/115.16.0esr/
https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/115.16.0esr/

from there to https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/115.16.0esr/win64/en-US/

But I'll wait awhile ...

 

And are there really Release Notes for 115.16.0 ESR ?
I don't see them at the moment. I maybe wrong of course (so correct me if I'm wrong!).
As far as I can tell at this moment:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird115.16 is only giving the Release Notes for 115.15 and not for 115.16

Who knows more? Let us know SVP.

 

I was wrong:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-52/
It mentions also 115.16.0
So I stand corrected.