The official landing page for pre-release builds is https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/channel/ which has links to both Earlybird and Betas. However, since that page is maintained by Mozilla, it doesn't seem to be linked to from anywhere, and they got rid of any version numbers as well (you'll have to hover over the button to see it in the link).
Again and again: Not "released" yet in the official sense (https://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/ still shows 38.5.1), but looks like we are getting very close to an actual release.
Help > About in 38.5.1 claims it's up to date, thus not propagated to the update servers yet.
rsx11m wrote:Again and again: Not "released" yet in the official sense (https://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/ still shows 38.5.1), but looks like we are getting very close to an actual release.
Help > About in 38.5.1 claims it's up to date, thus not propagated to the update servers yet.
i only noticed it cause they mentioned it being released on Distrowatch mentioning it, so you blame them, not me
It's always a good idea to double-check your sources (which is fairly straight-forward in this case).
Linux distributions sometimes provide the new versions in their build service repositories a bit ahead of the official release if the builds look good to them (e.g., SeaMonkey 2.40 is available in OpenSUSE already despite the official release still struggling with the infrastructure changes to Amazon's S3 servers).
rsx11m wrote:It's always a good idea to double-check your sources (which is fairly straight-forward in this case).
Linux distributions sometimes provide the new versions in their build service repositories a bit ahead of the official release if the builds look good to them (e.g., SeaMonkey 2.40 is available in OpenSUSE already despite the official release still struggling with the infrastructure changes to Amazon's S3 servers).
yeah, Seamonkey 2.40 hasnt even been built for Fedora AFAIK . but usually i do check koji.fedoraproject.org if its been built, which it hasnt but i dunno where jhorak lives ( in what country ) but if its not him its usually Martin Stransky that builds it but i saw on Distrowatch that it had been released so i mentioned it here. i dont follow any of the Mozilla TB or Firefox Google Groups
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