Thunderbird 60?
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Thunderbird 60?
Hi,
I'm an IT journalist, and one of my upcoming subjects is supposed to be on the new version of Thunderbird. ESR closely follows Firefox, which moved to version 60. I know there can be some delay, but do we have any ETA on Thunderbird 60? If not, how close is the beta to the final version? Will the release be basically identical apart from a few bug fixes? I'm unsure as to whether I should leave this article till last and hope it will be released, go off the beta version, or negociate replacing it with a different subject...
Thanks for any info!
I'm an IT journalist, and one of my upcoming subjects is supposed to be on the new version of Thunderbird. ESR closely follows Firefox, which moved to version 60. I know there can be some delay, but do we have any ETA on Thunderbird 60? If not, how close is the beta to the final version? Will the release be basically identical apart from a few bug fixes? I'm unsure as to whether I should leave this article till last and hope it will be released, go off the beta version, or negociate replacing it with a different subject...
Thanks for any info!
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
i dont think there is any " ETA " when TB60 will be released, it'll be released when its ready, look at the release notes of TB60 an you'll see whats New
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
There is no more Thunderbird ESR as it just gets Released in ESR fashion since Thunderbird 17.0.
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
The next Thunderbird release version may very well be 52.8.0, given that there is always an overlap of usually two cycles between Gecko ESR versions, depending on whether or not 60.0 is deemed ready "enough" for release.
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
ETA for 60 is now early June
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
? We need another target date that they will not meet...wsmwk wrote:ETA for 60 is now early June
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
the Best Monthj would be possibly Late July or Early August i would guesskronckew wrote:? We need another target date that they will not meet...wsmwk wrote:ETA for 60 is now early June
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Perhaps the goal is quality, and not a date ;)kronckew wrote:? We need another target date that they will not meet...wsmwk wrote:ETA for 60 is now early June
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
Aspirational goals, not a schedule milestone, subject to change without notice, the cheque is in the mail... very governmental. when I was working in Saudi, the std. reply for any query on timing for completion of any task was ' Inshallah Boukrah' - "Tomorrow if it is God's will.". Sounds better than 'I don't have clue'.wsmwk wrote:Perhaps the goal is quality, and not a datekronckew wrote:? We need another target date that they will not meet...wsmwk wrote:ETA for 60 is now early June
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
> Aspirational goals, not a schedule milestone
Depends on whether you are on the recieving end of a serious bug affecting 6M users.
> subject to change without notice
Nearly the definition of ETA, is it not?
Depends on whether you are on the recieving end of a serious bug affecting 6M users.
> subject to change without notice
Nearly the definition of ETA, is it not?
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
going by this https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird ... andidates/ it looks like TB Team are getting ready to release TB60
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
That was a week ago and nothing since build 2.Mouse4 wrote:going by this https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird ... andidates/ it looks like TB Team are getting ready to release TB60
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
they could be waiting for Firefox ESR 60.1.0 released when they actually release TB60. better off to ask someone that knows exactly whats going on as im pretty sure TB an Firefox aint released exactly on same datesRobertJ wrote:That was a week ago and nothing since build 2.Mouse4 wrote:going by this https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird ... andidates/ it looks like TB Team are getting ready to release TB60
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Re: Thunderbird 60?
Build 3 is available for testing.
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