Release Notes

Thunderbird Desktop

Version 52.2.0 | Released June 14, 2017

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.

System Requirements:
• Window: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or later
• Mac: Mac OS X 10.9 or later
• Linux: GTK+ 3.4 or higher

Details here.

Please refer to Release Notes for version 52.0 to see the list of improvements and fixed issues.

What’s Fixed

fixed

Embedded images not shown in email received from Hotmail/Outlook webmailer.

fixed

Detection of non-ASCII font names in font selector.

fixed

Attachment not forwarded correctly under certain circumstances.

fixed

Multiple requests for master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled.

fixed

Large number of blank pages being printed under certain circumstances when invalid preferences were present.

fixed

Messages sent via the Simple MAPI interface are forced to HTML.

fixed

Calendar: Invitations can't be printed.

fixed

Mailing list (group) not accessible from macOS or Outlook address book.

fixed

Clicking on links with references/anchors where target doesn't exist in the message not opening in external browser.

fixed

Various security fixes.

Known Issues

unresolved

Links in news messages including "remove all expired articles" not working.

unresolved

On Windows, "Send to > Mail recipient" does not work. Workaround: Install the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 redistributable runtime library or the Universal C Runtime for Windows Server.

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