Thunderbird

[karlchen]

Good night, folks.

• Upgraded from Thunderbird 68.12.0 to 78.3.1 using MX Package Installer
• Now I am eagerly waiting for Thunderbird 78.4.0 to become available in the MX test repo.

After reading this,

thunderbird-78.4.0

in the thread: Packages being worked on by the Repo Team, I'll be watching the MX Updater panel icon 24/7 ...

--Addendum--
Did not have to watch for long. Thunderbird updated from 78.3.1 to 78.4.0.

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2020-10-27  23:24:51  upgrade  thunderbird                            amd64  2:78.3.1-2mx19+1                     2:78.4.0-1mx19+1
2020-10-27  23:24:50  upgrade  thunderbird-l10n-de                    all    2:78.3.1-2mx19+1                     2:78.4.0-1mx19+1
2020-10-27  23:24:50  upgrade  lightning-l10n-de                      all    2:78.3.1-2mx19+1                     2:78.4.0-1mx19+1
2020-10-27  23:24:50  upgrade  lightning                              all    2:78.3.1-2mx19+1                     2:78.4.0-1mx19+1

Too late for testing it tonight.

Cheers,
Karl

[Sparky]

do you mean updated from the flatpak?
I dont see it in MXPI.

[tony37]

I dont see it in MXPI.

version 78 is in the Test repo

[Sparky]

I dont see it in MXPI.

version 78 is in the Test repo

Thanks Tony! I prefer not to mess with the test repo.

[metreo]

Well v78 is the latest stable security release so it should be a recommended install.

[Eadwine Rose]

Nope it should not because it breaks things.

At least that is the in-short what I understood about that version. I don't want to go dig that post up about it, but it is somewhere in a post or thread or something that explains things.


Or has the consensus on that changed and I missed the memo?

[mmikeinsantarosa]

There are some notes in the thunderbird thread for MX-19 starting about here regarding upgrading to the new 78 series releases. I'm still on 68.12 - Mike

[Eadwine Rose]

Thanks Mike :)

[karlchen]

Hi, folks.

As can be told from my posts, that list, which Thunderbird related packages have been updated, from 68.12 to 78.3.1 [1] and from 78.3.1 to 78.4.0 [2], all through MX Package Installer from the MX test repo (no flatpaks involved), on my MX 19.2 systems, it is only Thunderbird and Lightning (both plus German language support).
Nothing, absolutely nothing has been broken for me, when making the big leap forward from 68.12 to 78.3.1 here. At least I have not noted anything, which had worked before and stopped doing so on 78.3.1 and 78.4.0.

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My personal point of view:
Based on the official "Fixes" lists of the Thunderbird versions 78.3.0, 78.3.1, 78.3.2, 78.3.3 and 78.4.0:

• Thunderbird 78.3.0 Fixes
• Thunderbird 78.3.1 Fixes
• Thunderbird 78.3.2 Fixes
• Thunderbird 78.3.3 Fixes
• Thunderbird 78.4.0 Fixes

my impression is that
+ early Thunderbird 78.x releases introduced a number of issues
+ some of which may have affected users specifically, who had upgraded from 68.x to 78.x
+ but starting with 78.3.1 and more so with 78.4.0 most of these issue should be history
+ nonetheless users keep on picking on the initial issues introduced by early Thunderbird 78.x releases (pre-78.3.1)
+ without realizing that quite a few bugs & deficiencies have been resolved by now.

Best regards,
Karl

[mmikeinsantarosa]

I'll need to double-check but I believe the 78.n series also needed at least one depends from test. It'll take more testing before we move it into main. - Mike