MX-17/18 Repository: The Thunderbird Thread

[bwhawk]

I installed it over version 60.9. As prophesied, the Lightning Calendar extension failed to work, even though I had also selected that in the Test repo. Fortunately, following the instructions at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ca ... hunderbird restored it:

1. Go to the Advanced section of Thunderbird Preferences and click on Config Editor...
2. Copy or start typing extensions.installedDistroAddon.{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103} into the search box
3. When extensions.installedDistroAddon... is listed in the preferences list, right-click on it and choose Reset from the context menu - the preference now isn't bold anymore and its value is empty
4. Close the editor, leave the Thunderbird options, open Thunderbird's add-ons manager and switch to the list of installed extensions
5. If Lightning is listed there, click on Remove to the right of the list item
6. Restart Thunderbird

After Thunderbird has been relaunched, Lightning will be back and you will have access to your calendar data.

TB 68+ no longer supports complete themes that update all the UI colors. Fortunately, the functionality can still be duplicated by extensions. So far, I've only found a couple, and both of them are dark. Still, either one is an improvement on TB's native themes. And you can always tweak them if you're comfortable unzipping the XPI and editing the CSS.

If you're interested, the two extensions are Monterail Full Dark 2 for TB>68 and DeepDark for Thunderbird.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Thanks for testing and the tip.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

thunderbird-68.6.0 is now in test.

* There was 5 High & 3 moderate security issues fixed in this release.

Check out the release notes page for all the scoop on this release.

As always, please post any testing results here.

- mike

[bwhawk]

Thanks for the update! I've installed it, and everything looks okay so far.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Thanks for the testing post.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

thunderbird-68.7.0 is now in test.

* There was 6 security issues fixed in this release.

Check out the release notes page for all the scoop on this release.

As always, please post any testing results here.

- mike

[bwhawk]

I attempted to install the new Thunderbird and Lightning, but there appears to be a version conflict.

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Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 lightning : Depends: thunderbird (>= 2:68.7.0-1mx19+1) but 2:68.7.0-1mx17+1 is to be installed
 thunderbird : Depends: lightning (= 2:68.7.0-1mx17+1) but 2:68.7.0-1mx19+1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Perhaps the repositories I'm using aren't up-to-date yet?

[mmikeinsantarosa]

standby...

edit: the conflict issue has been resolved - mike

[mmikeinsantarosa]

thunderbird-68.8.0 is now in test.

* There was 3 critical security issues fixed in this release.

Check out the release notes page for all the scoop on this release.

- mike

[mmikeinsantarosa]

thunderbird-68.10.0 is now in test.

* There have been 12 high security issues fixed since 68.8.

Check out the release notes page for all the scoop on this release.

- mike