New Update Mozilla Thunderbird (updates and discussion)

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Thunderbird Nebula 128.1.1 (esr)​

What’s Fixed​

  • Compaction of folders greater than 4GB were truncated to 4GB on 32-bit installations of Thunderbird 128esr
  • Some UTF-8 characters were corrupted when using OpenPGP signing with OpenPGP encryption
  • Visual and UX improvements

Known Issues​

Unresolved: "latest" download bouncer aliases are not available for 128.1.1esr at this time
 

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Thunderbird Nebula Version 128.2.0 (esr)​

What’s Fixed​

  • Performance could be degraded when sorting with Quick Filter or Grouped By Sort
  • "Mark All Read" on Quick Filter results marked all emails in folder as read
  • "latest" download bouncer aliases were not available for 128 releases prior to 128.2.0esr
  • Security fixes
 

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Thunderbird Nebula Version 128.2.1 (esr)​

What’s Fixed​

  • Message window froze after clicking 'mailto:' link containing child elements
  • "Grouped By Sort" state was not preserved for unified and virtual folders
  • Repairing local folders caused messages in folder to temporarily disappear
  • Repairing an IMAP folder resulted in incorrect total and unread message counts
  • Quick Filter reset sort type in threaded views sorted by "Order Received" ascending
  • Display names for SMTP servers could be incorrectly formatted as a date
  • Importing profiles from SeaMonkey did not work in certain circumstances
  • Calendar events filter no longer allowed searching past or all events
  • Calendar updates were not added to cache when Thunderbird was offline
  • Visual and UX improvements
 

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Thunderbird Nebula Version 128.2.2 (esr)​

What’s New​

  • Account setup is updated to support OAuth2 granular permissions

What’s Fixed​

  • Thunderbird could crash when using return receipt with OWL add-on
  • Folder pane display was blank due to invalid mail server hostname
  • Some users were unable to log in to Microsoft 365
  • Matrix end-to-end encryption tab in account settings could be shown for XMPP account
  • Participant and message were not populated when user left the room using XMPP
  • Visual and UX improvements
 

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Thunderbird Nebula Version 128.3.0 (esr)​

What’s Fixed​

  • Thunderbird could crash on startup
  • Opening an EML file with a 'mailto:' link did not work
  • Collapsed POP3 account folder was expanded after emptying trash on exit
  • "Mark Folder Read" on a cross-folder search marked all underlying folders read
  • Unable to open/view attached OpenPGP encrypted messages
  • Unable to "Decrypt and Open" an attached OpenPGP key file
  • Subject could disappear when replying to a message saved in an EML file
  • OAuth2 authentication method was not available when adding SMTP server
  • Unable to subscribe to .ics calendars in some situations
  • Visual and UX improvements
  • Security fixes
 
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Thunderbird Nebula Version 128.3.2 (esr)​

Released October 17, 2024

What’s Changed​

  • Reinstated "All future events" to the calendar event filtering

What’s Fixed​

  • Ctrl+Drag moved messages instead of copying them when running on Wayland
  • Fixed startup crash related to mailbox parsing
  • Saving an EML file that was opened from a file did not work
  • Delete confirmation could appear twice when using shift+delete
  • Performance could be degraded when using cards view with tags
  • Stored draft messages were not encrypted when recipients were not specified
  • "Attach this image to the message" checkbox not checked when inserting image
  • Quick filter state was not reset when a special view was chosen
  • Drag and drop to collapsed folders resulted in incorrect collapsed state
  • RSS feed with invalid hostname broke the RSS feed folder
  • New Account creation could fail to add SMTP server
  • Could not drag and drop multiple contacts from address book to destination fields
  • Delayed sending of message could fail when retrying copy to Sent folder
  • ICS calendar import could fail if it contained non-UTF-8 data
  • Searching with "Find Events Pane" failed if an event did not have a title
  • Visual and UX improvements
  • Could not import binary OpenPGP key file ending with whitespace
  • Thunderbird could crash on startup
 

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Thunderbird Nebula Version 128.3.3 (esr)
Released October 22, 2024

What’s Fixed​

  • Files left over from failed folder compactions could use up disk space
  • Message list returned to selected message after action on another message
  • Some faulty messages were downloaded and never stored
  • Messages could become corrupted during folder compaction
  • Searching events by Location, Description, or URL failed
  • "Remove All Shown" saved passwords deleted all logins if filtered without results
  • Calendar event updates were not always sent to attendees
 

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Thunderbird Nebula Version 128.4.0 (esr)
Released October 29, 2024

What’s New​

  • Export Thunderbird account settings to Thunderbird Mobile via QRCode

What’s Fixed​

  • Unable to send an unencrypted response to an OpenPGP encrypted message
  • Thunderbird update did not update language pack version until another restart
  • Security fixes
 

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