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Version 115.5.0, first offered to channel users on November 21, 2023​

Fixed​

  • Initial message was not automatically selected when opened in conversation
  • Newsgroup users using FQDN identity generated message ID headers with incorrect domain name
  • Link previews had poor legibility in dark mode
  • Plasma's task switcher displayed the default icon when running the Thunderbird Flatpak on Wayland
  • Link to Flatpak manifest was incorrect
  • Security fixes
 

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Version 115.5.1, first offered to channel users on November 27, 2023​


Fixed​

  • Advanced GnuPG keys may be protected with an unexpected passphrase
  • OpenPGP signatures rejected due to mismatched signature timestamp now display signature timestamp and clarifying message
  • Advanced address book search did not return results if display name was left blank
  • Clicking on attendee when inviting attendees added the attendee twice
 

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Version 115.5.2, first offered to channel users on December 11, 2023​


Fixed​

  • "Compact" option was missing from folder context menu for IMAP accounts using maildir
  • Message list could not be properly read by screen readers in table view
  • Messages with slow-loading images were delayed being marked as read
  • Messages opened in background tab were incorrectly marked as read
  • Mark All Read did not work for virtual folders
  • Delete (trash icon) in message display did not work in Unified folders
  • Unified folders were missing "Mark Folder Read" option in context menu
  • "Reply to List" was incorrectly disabled in Unified Toolbar since Thunderbird 115.4.1
  • Sorting by column with "Grouped By" enabled then performing a quick filter search caused blank message pane
  • Attachment list did not always appear if remote message content loaded slowly
  • Messages in outbox were not shown as unread by default
  • "Apply columns to" sometimes failed to apply columns to a root folder and its descendants
  • Global search results displayed as a list did not allow threads to be collapsed
  • "Quick Filter" button on toolbar was disabled when viewing search results as a list
  • Folder open hover delay was too short when using drag-and-drop
  • Parent folders with collapsed subfolders did not consistently display new mail indicator or message count for subfolders
  • Message list scroll position could move randomly when switching folders
  • Undoing deletion of local messages required using "Undo" (Ctrl-Z) twice
  • IMAP messages deleted in Thunderbird still appeared in other email clients that don't respect messages marked "\deleted"
  • IMAP folder discovery was slowed by status bar message updates
  • Servers with non-LDH (letters-digits-hyphens) hostnames, such as those containing non-ASCII Unicode characters, could not be found
  • Images could not be copied and pasted from one message into another
  • Troubleshooting page (about:support) did not work on profiles with no outgoing email server, such as news-only profiles
  • Minimize/maximize button order was incorrect when placing window titlebar buttons on left-hand side
  • OpenPGP integraton with smartcard using latest version of Gpg4Win failed
  • Various accessibility improvements
  • Various UX and visual improvements
 

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Thunderbird Supernova 115.6.0​

Fixed​

  • Message selection misbehaved after selecting a sub-message in an expanded thread, collapsing the thread, then pressing up/down to move selection
  • Thunderbird now attempts to reconnect on a new connection after SMTP 4xx errors
  • HTML FileLink attachments used the wrong encoding
  • Security fixes
 

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Thunderbird Supernova 115.6.1​

New​

  • OAuth2 now supported for comcast.net

Fixed​

  • High CPU usage sometimes occurred with IMAP CONDSTORE (conditional STORE) enabled
  • Replying to a collapsed thread via keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+R/Cmd+R) opened a reply for every message in the thread
  • Enabling Grouped By view after reversing sort order of column header caused messages to be grouped incorrectly
  • Opening thread pane context menu via keyboard did not always scroll view to selection
  • New mail indicator for POP3 accounts did not indicate new messages ready to be downloaded
  • Messages could not be moved to folders using Message > Move To if text or a link in the message had been clicked on first
  • MIME part boundaries were not properly terminated
 

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Thunderbird Supernova 115.7.0​

New​

  • Autocrypt Gossip key distribution added

Fixed​

  • When starting Thunderbird, unread message count did not appear on collapsed accounts
  • Blank window was sometimes displayed when starting Thunderbird
  • Thunderbird "--chrome" flag incorrectly opened extra messenger.xhtml
  • Add-ons did not start correctly when opening Thunderbird from other programs
  • Drag-and-drop installation of add-ons did not work if Add-ons Manager was opened from Unified Toolbar
  • Double-clicking empty space in message pane incorrectly opened the currently selected message
  • Canceling SMTP send before progress reached 100% did not stop message from sending
  • PDF attachments open in a separate tab did not always restore correctly after restarting Thunderbird
  • Some OpenPGP dialogs were too small for their contents
  • Account Manager did not work with hostnames entered as punycode
  • Downloading complete message from POP3 headers caused message tab/window to close when "Close message window/tab on move or delete" was enabled
  • Some ECC GPG keys could not be exported
  • Contacts deleted from mailing list view still visible in Details view
  • After selecting contacts in Address Book and starting a new search, the search results list did not update
  • Various UX and visual improvements
  • Security fixes
 

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Thunderbird Supernova 115.8.0​

New​

  • Added option to show packet dump when OpenPGP fails to decrypt

Fixed​

  • Thunderbird slowed down significantly when opening email files (.eml)
  • Inbox view intermittently reverted to default view after moving or deleting messages
  • Size of collapsed folders in folder pane did not include size of subfolders
  • Hovering over folder does not always expand subfolders
  • Switching to thread pane of a folder using keyboard navigation did not focus top message
  • Clicking "Sent unsent messages" in Outbox context menu while in offline mode did not prompt user to go online
  • Mail tab-specific Unified Toolbar buttons received focus incorrectly
  • Quick Filter settings did not persist when Quick Filter bar was turned off
  • Quick Filters were unusually slow
  • OpenPGP Key Manager filtering did not work
  • OpenPGP sometimes attempted to decrypt message with incorrect key
  • Autoconfig failed on servers that did not support OAuth2
  • Opening different attachments with the same name in different messages could cause attachment files to become conflated
  • Overflowed attachment list could not be scrolled
  • Passwords disappeared from password manager list after applying and clearing filters
  • Cookies in cookie manager list disappeared after applying and then clearing filters
  • Security fixes
 

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Thunderbird Supernova 115.8.1​

Fixed​

  • Settings: Updating tags failed if Automatic Updates were disabled
  • Size of collapsed folders in folder pane did not include size of subfolders
  • Reversing sort order of Grouped By views in quick search did not reverse
  • Removing threaded messages in a unified folder sometimes resulted in an incorrect number of levels in the thread
  • Thread collapsing did not behave correctly when copying thread messages in multi-folder view
  • S/MIME encryption failed to encrypt if unsupported certificate type was encountered
  • Decrypting a copy of an S/MIME encrypted, opaque-signed message created an unreadable message
  • Thunderbird sometimes changed the subject of messages selected while simultaneously decrypting a large PGP-encrypted message
  • "Quote message" menu item in compose window did not work when replying to message opened in separate tab
  • Toolbar customization window contents overflowed the window width
  • Security fixes
 

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Thunderbird Supernova 115.9.0​

Fixed​

  • Opened ignored messages in a message thread/subthread were not marked as read in IMAP folders
  • Multi-language spellcheck sometimes skipped languages
  • Thread tree did not update when live language switching
  • Visual improvements to "Reorder Attachments" popup
  • Sort order was sometimes incorrect in Grouped By views
  • Selecting "Match all messages" in Filter Rules dialog did not disable all search criteria
  • S/MIME-only signed messages sometimes incorrectly displayed signature as invalid
  • OpenPGP keys uploaded to an HKP keyserver were sent with the wrong Content-Type header
  • Keyboard navigation within search toolbar did not work
  • Flatpak builds only had the en-US spell check dictionary available
  • Security fixes
 

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Thunderbird Supernova 115.10.0​

Fixed​

  • Creating a tag in General Settings with a number as the tag name did not work
  • Quick Filter button selections did not persist after restart
  • Collapsing and expanding message list headers sometimes caused header to scroll out of view
  • Single message with no children inside a parent thread sometimes displayed incorrectly as a thread with a duplicate of itself as its child
  • "Get selected messages" menu items did not work
  • "Download and Sync Messages" dialog was too short when using Russian locale, obscuring OK button
  • After changing password on an IMAP account, the account could become locked due to too many failed login attempts
  • Retrieving multiline POP3 message from server failed if message chunk ended in newline instead of carriage return and newline
  • IMAP, POP3, and SMTP Exchange autoconfiguration did not support encryption configuration
  • Non-empty address book search bar interfered with displaying/editing contacts
  • Deleting attendees from "Invite Attendees" view removed attendees from view, but not from invite
  • Splitter arrow between task list and task description did not behave as expected
  • Performance improvements and code cleanup
  • Security fixes
 
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Thunderbird Supernova 115.10.1​

Fixed​

  • Thunderbird processes did not exit cleanly; user intervention was required via task manager

Known Issues​

Unresolved
  • After changing password on an IMAP account, the account could become locked due to too many failed login attempts
 

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Thunderbird Supernova 115.11.0​

Version 115.11.0, first offered to channel users on May 14, 2024

Fixed​

  • Splitter arrow between task list and task description did not behave as expected
  • Calendar Event Attendees dialog had incorrectly sized rows
  • Security fixes
 

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Thunderbird Supernova 115.12.1​

What’s Fixed​

  • POP error messages from server were not displayed
  • Some OpenPGP messages were incorrectly reported as being partially signed or encrypted
  • Autocrypt header was missing from some encrypted messages due to case-sensitive email address matching
  • "Convert to Table" dialog content was formatted incorrectly
  • Opening Theme Settings reverted the current theme to the startup theme
  • Security fixes
 

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Welcome to Thunderbird 128 “Nebula”​

On behalf of the entire team, the Thunderbird Council, and our global community of contributors, I’m excited to announce the initial release of Thunderbird 128 “Nebula.” This annual Extended Support Release (ESR) builds on the solid foundation established by Supernova last year.

Nebula ushers in significant improvements to Thunderbird’s code, stability, overall user experience, and the speed at which we can deliver new features to you.

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Thunderbird Nebula 128.1.0 (esr)

What’s Fixed​

  • Could not add override for a certificate with the wrong hostname
  • Auto-detection of CalDAV calendars and CardDAV address books failed in certain scenarios
  • Potential memory leak in local folder repair
  • Selecting messages and then switching to a new folder with no selected messages did not clear selected messages count
  • When using an external installation of GnuPG, Thunderbird occassionally sent/received corrupted messages
  • Users of external GnuPG were unable to decrypt incorrectly encoded messages
  • UTF-8 encoded messages became garbled when encrypted using inline OpenPGP
  • Could not access the contents of an S/MIME encrypted message wrapped in a digital signature
  • Occasional crash occurred shortly after startup
  • Flatpak created a duplicate unpinned icon in Linux dock after launching Thunderbird
  • Flatpak release notes URL was incorrect
  • Spell checker dictionary was not available for Flatpak install
  • Digital signatures on signed-only OpenPGP messages were broken with some providers
  • Visual and UX improvements

Known Issues​

unresolved: "latest" download bouncer aliases are not available for 128.1.0esr at this time
 

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