“Feature freeze” means no new features will be added, so your Beta experience should be quite stable. But we need your help so that everything gets thoroughly tested under your unique “real world” conditions.
Thunderbird 102 will have several great new features, so there’s plenty of goodness to explore including:
- New Address Book
- New Import/Export Wizard
- Matrix Chat Support
- Message Header Redesign
- New Icons and Default Folder Colors
- Use Thunderbird without an email account (for example, as an RSS reader)
- Numerous OpenPGP improvements
- Calendar parser converted to javascript
- Today Pane calendar UI refresh
- POP3 implemented in javascript
- Account settings moved to macOS application menu
- PLUS: Application-wide font size control, Theme fixes, FileLink fixes, Accessibility fixes, improved vCard integration, improved calendar startup performance, Calendar fixes including correct order of week view headers and days for right to left locales.
- Download and have fun using the beta.
- Follow along as bugs are reported during the 102 testing and initial release by CCing yourself to Bug 1772703 aka "tb102found" - Bugs found during testing and release of TB102.
- When you find bugs during testing, report them to bugzilla.
- General product ideas not related to the beta can be posted at Connect.
- If you have difficulty with or questions about beta, see the beta support article and the beta forum.
Join us in other community activities -
- bugday bug triage every second and fourth Wednesday
- Community Office Hours the first and third Wednesdays of each month (for one hour only, same schedule as bugdays).