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Join UsVersion 102.0, first offered to channel users on June 29, 2022
Thunderbird will now display a message when an upgrade migration task is taking a long time to complete
es-MX localized build now available
What's new link displayed in About: dialog
Profile Import/Export UI refreshed and moved to a tab
Commandline tools now included for OpenPGP debugging
Thunderbird may now be built with OpenPGP support and a system librnp
Added menu option to permanently decrypt OpenPGP encrypted messages to a folder
OpenPGP: Public keys from email attachments and autocrypt headers now cached for future use
Expired OpenPGP recipient keys now indicated in compose window
OpenPGP Key Assistant enabled by default
OpenPGP Key Properties now supports refreshing keys from key server
Spaces vertical toolbar for easier in-app navigation
Compose toolbar button for OpenPGP & S/MIME signing available via "Customize Toolbar"
"Select all addresses" now supported from composer pill context menu
Multiple active spelling dictionaries now supported in compose window
Add dictionaries
item added to Spelling
button in compose window
Added config option to more aggressively warn sender about having many public recipients to an email (mail.compose.warn_public_recipients.aggressive
)
Exporting current profile now supported on importing tab
Back/Forward keyboard shortcuts added to Addon Manager
New Address Book UI and significant backend overhaul
Importing sqlite address books now supported
Importing addressbooks via CSV file now supports semi-colon (;) delimited files
Opening a news:// URL now works if an account is not configured for that news server
Google Talk chat accounts now support logging in with OAuth2
Matrix chat support enabled by default. This is a beta feature.
Printing using the system dialog without preview now supported; Set print.prefer_system_dialog
to true
Removing events from a calendar now prompts for confirmation
Upcoming events in the Today Pane show how far away they are
Icons now displayed on recurring events and modified events within a recurring series
SMTP client will now ignore socket errors after QUIT
command is sen
Javascript POP implementation enabled by default
Buttons on "Update Failed" popup now open Beta and Release specific pages on Thunderbird website
Replace "About Junk Mail" dialog with a link to the support page
[macOS] Account settings moved to application menu
New profiles will default to using "Threaded" message view
"Discover OpenPGP Key" context menu item is no longer displayed when a key is already available
Duplicated OpenPGP encrypted attachments were shown when display-attachments-inline
was enabled
Replaced Security compose toolbar button with Encryption toggle and Encryption options buttons
OpenPGP dialog for key "acceptance per email" now displayed in more circumstances
OpenPGP Key Manager
dialog layout improvements
Writing OpenPGP keyring data will block Thunderbird shutdown to prevent data loss
When automatically attaching OpenPGP keys to emails, Thunderbird will strip key certificates
A notification bar in the compose window will be displayed if encryption is possible but not enabled
Inline attachment filenames now sent without data-uri encoding
Per-recipient and per-domain email format preferences removed; Sending options moved to Compose Settings
Thunderbird can now be used without setting up a mail account
NNTP account set up moved to its own wizard; "Other accounts" wizard removed
Account Manager UI updated
Email account provisioner moved to a tab
Link to create a new email address in Account Setup now hidden if "Email address" contains a value
Addon Search will no longer display addons that are incompatible
Searching from the Themes
page of Addon Manager will now limit search results to only include themes
Additional fields for download limits, expiration, and password protection added to FileLink template
FileLink will check the provider for sufficient space before uploading
"PreferMailFormat" property removed from addressbook
Address book contact data is now stored in the vCard format. The change isn't backwards-compatible; backups are stored in the profile directory.
Default install directory for Thunderbird Beta changed to not conflict with release versions
Tab icons updated
Message Header toolbar buttons will not display a border when set to show icons only
New message detection for non-INBOX IMAP folders improved
New Javascript NNTP implementation enabled by default; Set mailnews.nntp.jsmodule
to false
to disable
Preference for OTR encrypted conversation logging moved to Protocol settings
Thunderbird will not try to use OTR Chat encryption if the protocol supports native encryption
Invitations to IRC and XMPP chat rooms will now prompt the user if they would like to join
Today Pane UI refreshed
Thunderbird will not support "Secondly" or "Minutely" recurring calendar events
Default action of Edit
button in recurring event dialog changed to display submenu
Support for importing and exporting calendars from Outlook CSV format was removed
Thunderbird will now delay refreshing cached calendars at start-up
Javascript Ical parser (ical.js) enabled by default
Opening "cid:" links failed
Message download progress was calculated incorrectly
Ctrl+mouse wheel
did not zoom in the message source window
Open message in containing folder
did not work for standalone windows
Multi-message view was not fully scrollable
Messages did not reload in all open windows after Junk status was changed
Detached attachments were opened from a temporary copy instead of the selected save location
IMAP folder subscription changes on servers using OAuth2 authentication were not reflected in folder pane until Thunderbird was restarted
Improved error reporting for external GnuPG configurations
Incorrect OpenPGP preferences were used for secondary identities
Adding an expiry date to an OpenPGP key that did not have one was not possible
UI showed old OpenPGP key expiry date after changing it
Importing large OpenPGP key files failed
OpenPGP "Repair Message" button did not work with some emails
Importing OpenPGP public keys without a blank line following the header failed
Dragging and dropping multiple email attachments between windows did not always copy all attachments
Attachment bar in message compose window was not keyboard accessible
Triggering recipient pill creation in the compose window incorrectly used the entire field as input
Compose notification bars were not easily accessible via keyboard
"Save message" confirmation dialog buttons were not navigable using arrow keys
Focus jumped in compose window when closing the contacts sidebar
Save dialog was incorrectly shown when closing empty composer windows
Incorrect access key used for File->New->Message
menu item
Changing focus in the compose window with multiple recipient pills selected did not always deselect the pills
Sending a message with non-ascii characters in recipient local parts failed unexpectedly when the server did not support SMTPUTF8
LDAP Autoconfig could block Thunderbird startup
Improvements to the Import/Export feature
Configuring multiple SMTP accounts using the same server was not possible
Empty Trash on Exit
did not work with IMAP accounts using OAuth2 authentication
IMAP server hostname changes were not reflected in Folder Properties
dialog
Addons automatically updated when Thunderbird updated despite Addon updates being turned off
Message size calculations incorrectly included FileLink attachments
After converting a FileLink attachment back to an e-mail attachment, the privacy notification persisted
A failed FileLink provider change removed the attachment completely
Subscribing to CardDAV address books from Account Setup tab did not subscribe to all selected address books
Adding CardDAV address books failed if an addon-provided address book was present
Messages with Message-Id headers longer than 332 characters could not be forwarded
SMTP send progress bar could trigger high CPU usage when the server connection failed
Improved POP server authentication detection during Account Setup
News folders did not display biff indicator
IMAP flag changes from another client were not seen after some inactivity
Recipients were not de-duplicated before sending, leading to sending errors
Chat conversations' context menu did not recognize links
Chat username splitting in the account wizard did not work after changing protocols
Removing obsolete proprietary chat accounts did not work
OTR encrypted chat did not work on FreeBSD
Event edit toolbar button was not disabled when an invitation was selected
Event view headers and content were not lined up consistently for RTL locales
Mini-month views did not properly update at midnight
Some labels in Calendar were displayed in multiple languages
Thunderbird permitted inline editing of read-only event titles
Calendar view reloaded when switching tabs
It was possible to create annual calendar events with invalid days
Detection of attached vCalendar files improved
Reminders for events created by another user could not be closed
MS Teams meeting event descriptions were unreadable when stored on Google Calendar
Adding a Google calendar with a non-gmail or googlemail e-mail address failed
Accepting a recurrence exception to an event accepted event associated with the original recurring event rather than the exception
Various security fixes