Release Notes

Thunderbird Desktop

Version 45.0 | Released April 12, 2016

Check out the notes below for this version of Thunderbird. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, or file a bug in Bugzilla.

What’s New

new

Add a Correspondents column combining Sender and Recipient

new

Much better support for XMPP chatrooms and commands.

new

Improved options for remote content exceptions (but previous settings based on the sender's email address are not migrated, so these need to be added again by users).

new

Allow spell checking and dictionary selection in the subject line

new

Add dropdown in compose to allow specific setting of font size.

new

Return/Enter in composer will now insert a new paragraph by default (shift-Enter will insert a line break)

new

Implement option to always use HTML formatting to prevent unexpected format loss when converting messages to plain text.

new

Mail.ru supports OAuth authentication.

new

Allow copying of name and email address from the message header of an email

new

Allow editing of From when composing a message.

new

Use OpenStreetmap for maps (even allow the user to choose from list of map services)

What’s Fixed

fixed

Fixed: When sending e-mail which was composed using Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters, unwanted extra spaces were inserted within the text.

fixed

XMPP had connection problems for users with large rosters

fixed

Spell checker checked spelling in invisible HTML parts of the message.

fixed

When saving a draft that is edited as new message, original draft was overwritten.

fixed

External images not displayed in reply/forward

fixed

Crashed in some cases while parsing IMAP messages.

fixed

"Open Draft"/"Forward"/"Edit As New"/"Reply" created message composition with incorrect character encoding.

fixed

Copy/paste from a plain text editor lost white-space (multiple spaces/blanks, tabs, newlines)

fixed

Properly preserve pre-formatted blocks in message replies.

fixed

Fixed: Grouped By view sort direction change was broken, plus enabled custom column grouping.

fixed

Fixed: New emails into a mailbox did not adhere to sort order by received.

fixed

Fixed: Box.com attachments failed to upload.

fixed

Fixed: Drag and drop of multiple attachments failed to OS file folder.

fixed

Various security fixes

Known Issues

unresolved

Outlook and Eudora import non-functional.

unresolved

UI elements become larger when moused over on retina displays/monitor on Mac OS X or windows moved between lowdpi/hidp.

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