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main has just been updated with thunderbird-60.8.0-2

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source, cross-platform email client, news client, RSS, and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

* There were 4 High & 1 Critical security issues fixed in this release.

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

Just updated it in testing, thanks :)

thanks Eadwine

Our main repository has just been updated with thunderbird-60.9.0

* There were 7 High & 1 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

thunderbird-68.2.1 is now in test.

Check out the release notes page for the full details of this release.

We could use some testing feedback on this release to determine if it's good enough to go into main.

I saw a couple issues

Then upgrading a 64bit version of Thunderbird version 60 to version 68, a new profile will be created. Workaround: Select the correct profile by visiting about:profiles in the Troubleshooting Information.

When upgrading from Thunderbird version 60 to version 68, add-ons are not automatically updated during the upgrade process. They will however be updated during the add-on update check. It is of course possible to reinstall combatible add-on via the Add-ons Manager or via addons.thunderbird.net.

LDAP lookup not working when SSL is enabled. Workaround: Disable SSL or switch off option "Query OSCP responder servers" in the certificate settings in advanced options.

- mike

I'm trying it out now, looks good, a bit better than version 60. Looks like a whole bunch of add-ons aren't working yet, but I only use Lightning calendar, and that's working. If you need add-ons, I would not upgrade right now.

I did have to do the thing of pointing my profile to the correct folder. Otherwise it was starting to try to download all my emails all over again. The Troubleshooting page is accessed under the Help menu. Just point to your profile folder, close the folder, and restart Thunderbird, and you should be back on the correct profile.

Sending and receiving is working fine so far. Dark theme looks nice. You can strip it down to a pretty nice looking window.

Thanks for the testing post

Hi everyone, first post and reason for joining the MX forum.

I've been using MX Linux since version 17 and I've even created my own custom MX distro (German Language) for Non-Linux people here in Germany. Day before yesterday I installed MX 19 on a newly formatted partition. Then I moved everything over from another home/user folder of another MX setup. With but one exception everything is working absolutely fine.
THUNDERBIRD LIGHTNING Calendar.
Accounts, Emails, Email Archive, everything else is fine.

Lightning addon was included in my Thunderbird, but can't be found anywhere as far as being able to open and use it. I checked synaptic and lightning showed up as having been installed there as well (even though it's now supposed to be bundled so I'd imagine that a separate lightning installation wouldn't even be required)? So I uninstalled lightning, rebooted the computer, but no change. I then re-installed lightning, rebooted the computer, but still no change. Can't even find any reference to Lightning anywhere in Thunderbird. :(

I know that when Mozilla initially bundled lightning with Thunderbird, most people without the xul-ext-lightning file installed had the same issue, lightning not showing up as being physically present & usable. So I looked for xul-ext-lightning in Synaptic, but only found a reference to that file there. Could not install it to see if that would correct the issue. I'd really hate to revert to an earlier version of MX Linux, but Lightning is indispensable to me. There are hundreds of entries for appointments, birthdays, billing cycles, etc. etc. etc. I really really need for Lightnign to work. Any idea on how to have it show up and work for me?
I have an HP 745 G2 Laptop with AMD A8 7150B Quadcore processor, 16GB RAM and a 2TB SATA 3 disk.

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I found the solution here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ca ... a-versions

The first option worked for me.

Thanks, tried it with a lot of hope, but Step one did not work for me.
It's as I mentioned above, in an earlier version I needed to install xul-ext-lightning.
Apparently the developers of MX have not made it possible to install this file since I get a "not available in the repository" (or similar) message.

MX Linux Developers, please help with this! According to Mozilla, my hands are tied, I really need my lightning back ...

Open Thunderbird add-ons manager
Delete Lightning extension
Install package: xul-ext-lightning: sudo apt install xul-ext-lightning
Restart Thunderbird and calendar should be there
If the above doesn't work for you, please consult your distribution's documentation for the exact package name or the commands needed for step 3.

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