https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/144.0/releasenotes/
Category: Thunderbird
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Thunderbird 138.0.2 fixes:
- Messages could not be viewed if the profile used a UNC path
- Standalone message windows/tabs no longer responded after folder compaction
- Compacting folders with certain pending operations caused unnecessary warnings
- Security fixes
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/138.0.2/releasenotes/
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What is fixed:
- Thunderbird could crash when importing Outlook messages
- Messages were permanently deleted if Trash folder had non-ASCII Unicode characters
- Visual and UX improvements
- Security fixes
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“It’s basically a complete redesign of how you add accounts (like email, calendars, etc.) in Thunderbird. The old setup system worked, but it looked a bit dated, could be confusing with its tab-based approach (easy to accidentally close!), and wasn’t very consistent across different account types.
The Account Hub aims to fix all that. It provides a single, unified, modern-looking wizard inside a pop-up window (modal) to guide you through setup. For brand new users, this modal will guide them without letting them get lost before their first account is ready.”
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New features
- Messages are automatically adapted to dark mode with a quick toggle in the header.
- New “Appearance” Settings UI to globally control message threading/sorting order.
Changes
- Criteria for closing idle message databases.
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/136.0/releasenotes/
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- Mercurial is the version management system that is used by Mozilla and it is necessary. (in my case: sudo pacman -S mercurial)
> hg version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 6.9)
(see https://mercurial-scm.org for more information)
Copyright (C) 2005-2024 Olivia Mackall and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- Make the working directory with: mkdir tb-build && cd tb-build
- wget https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/raw-file/tip/python/rocboot/bin/bootstrap.py (downloads the Python bootstrap script)
- chmod +x bootstrap.py (gives executable file permissions to the script)
> ls -l
total 16
-rwxr-xr-x 1 chris chris 16025 Jan 17 18:13 bootstrap.py
drwxr-xr-x 1 chris chris 2264 Jan 17 18:14 mozilla-unified
- ./bootstrap.py (actually runs the script). The first problem I encountered was the rustup version. It was solved with rustup install stable and rustup default stable
- Build the sources with ./mach build and then run with ./mach run
The whole building process lasted approximately 8 minutes on my AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core Processor and required 30.1 GiB (32,355,790,419), 1,401,719 files, 138,437 sub-folders
More details at https://developer.thunderbird.net/thunderbird-development/building-thunderbird
- Mercurial is the version management system that is used by Mozilla and it is necessary. (in my case: sudo pacman -S mercurial)
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“On December 7, 2004, Thunderbird 1.0 was released.”
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Will introduce Mozilla Sync in a later minor release.
“The client code is finished, everything is in place and we’re testing syncing server data against a temporary staging server. We’re still working on spawning our own production server, which turned out more challenging than expected.
This means that potentially we won’t enable Sync by default for the first ESR release and instead keep it hidden temporarily, with the objective of enabling it in a future point release (maybe 128.1 or 128.2) depending on when the production server will be ready.”
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We live in 2024 and Thunderbird still does NOT support RSS notifications and a tray icon natively. I am simply annoyed, frustrated and pissed…
/root 