Tout comme sa déclinaison navigateur, Thunderbird de Mozilla est devenu un poids lourd dans le domaine des clients de courrier électronique. Tout d'abord en concurrence avec Outlook Express, ses principaux concurrents étaient également Windows Live Mail sous Windows, l'application Mail de macOS et Evolution sous Linux.
Depuis la version 10.0, Thunderbird permet à ceux qui n'aimaient pas le développement à cycle court (6 semaines) d'avoir une version à support étendu baptisée "ESR" où chaque mise à jour espacée de 6 semaines n'apportent que des corrections de failles de sécurité.
Après avoir mis le développement en "pause" depuis la version 17.0 en mettant en avant la version "ESR" comme version principale du logiciel. C'est la version 135.0 qui ré-inverse les rôles à nouveau. Ainsi, les nouveautés principales seront incluses dans ces versions dites "normales" tandis les versions "ESR" opteront plus sur le côté stable et sécurité.
Mozilla Thunderbird
Version actuelle : 148.0
[🇫🇷] : Windows 10+ 32 bits, 64 bits | macOS | Linux 64 bits
Mozilla Thunderbird ESR
Version actuelle : 140.8.0 - Notes de version
[🇫🇷] : Windows 10+ 32 bits, 64 bits | macOS | Linux 32 bits, 64 bits
Pour Linux, Thunderbird est également disponible en Snap (ESR/stable), FlatPak (ESR) et AppImage
New
- Accessiblity is improved in various tree views
- 'Favorites' added as destination for 'Move To' and 'File' buttons
- Add
mail.openpgp.load_untested_gpgme_versionto load untested GPGME version - NTLM is exposed as an available authentication method for EWS accounts
Changed
- Read folders are now removed from Unread Folders view
- Yahoo, AT&T, AOL accounts are switched to PKCE, a more secure auth protocol
Fixed
- Periodic new mail checks silently stopped after sleep or network outages
- Donation banner stole focus when Thunderbird was running in the background
- Status bar messages displayed unlocalizedd folder names or IMAP mailbox names
- New Folder dialog allowed invalid folder creation without a selected parent folder
- New/unread messages in collapsed thread were not obvious enough
- Invalidly signed unencrypted emails were indicated as worse than unsigned ones
- Untagged messages were not working correctly with quick filter
- Calendar/address book sections were shown in Account Hub when there were none
- Shortcuts could be executed on background mail window while in Account Hub
- Adding a Gmail account prompted for OAuth during auto config
- New password-based Exchange accounts failed to save passwords in login manager
- 'Move Message to' filter action was not logged
- Unknown OAuth providers were not allowed during EWS manual config in AccountHub
- Saved search in unified folder resulted in server error
- EWS password prompt looped endlessly if the password was empty
- Account Hub manual configuration flow for Exchange accounts was incorrect
- Google calendars had broken RSVP logic and wrong organizer on new events
- CalDAV calendars that invited calendar alias did not give all response options
- CalDAV calendar with multiple addresses could crash on multi-attendee invites
- iCal imports misread unknown timezones as GMT, creating events at wrong times
- Visual and UX improvements
- Security fixes
Versions en cours de développement
Anciennes versions
