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Thunderbird — Release Notes (115.5.0)

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

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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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Thunderbird — Release Notes (115.5.1)

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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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Thunderbird — Release Notes (115.5.2)

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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

Thunderbird — Release Notes (115.6.0)

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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

Thunderbird — Release Notes (115.6.1)

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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

Thunderbird — Release Notes (115.7.0)

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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

Thunderbird — Release Notes (115.8.0)

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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

Thunderbird — Release Notes (115.8.1)

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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

Thunderbird — Release Notes (115.9.0)

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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

Thunderbird — Release Notes (115.10.0)

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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

Thunderbird — Release Notes (115.10.1)

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