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Thunderbird: The Build and Release Process Explained

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Our Community Office Hours session for May 2024 has concluded, and it was quite informative (especially for non-developers like me)! Wayne and Daniel shed light on Thunderbird’s build and release process, ran through a detailed presentation, answered questions, and treated us to live demos showing how a new Thunderbird build gets pushed and promoted to release.

Below you’ll find a lightly edited recording of the session, and the presentation slides in PDF format.

We’ll be announcing the topic of our June Office Hours session soon, so keep an eye on the Thunderbird blog.

PDF Presentation | Build & Release: How It’s DoneDownload

Links and Further Reading

ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Have you ever wondered what the release process of Thunderbird is like? Wanted to know if a particular bug would be fixed in the next release? Or how long release support lasts? Or just how many point releases are there?

In the May Office Hours, we’ll demystify the current Thunderbird release process as we get closer to the next Extended Security Release on July 10, 2024. 

May Office Hours: The Thunderbird Release Process

One of our guests you may know already: Wayne Mery, our release and community manager. Daniel Darnell, a key release engineer, will also join us. They’ll answer questions about what roles they play, how we stage releases, and when they know if releases are ready. Additionally, they’ll tell us about the future of Thunderbird releases, including working with add-on developers and exploring a monthly release cadence.

Join us as our guests answer these questions and more in the next edition of our Community Office Hours! You can also submit your own questions about this topic beforehand and we’ll be sure to answer them: officehours@thunderbird.net

Catch Up On Last Month’s Thunderbird Community Office Hours

While you’re thinking of questions to ask, watch last month’s office hours where we chatted with three key developers bringing Rust and native Microsoft Exchange support into Thunderbird. You can find the video on our TILvids page.

Join The Video Chat

We’ll be back in our Big Blue Button room, provided by KDE and the Linux Application Summit. We’re grateful for their support and to have an open source web conferencing solution for our community office hours.

Date and Time: Friday, May 31 at 17:30 UTC

Direct URL to Join: https://meet.thunderbird.net/b/hea-uex-usn-rb1

Access Code: 964573

Tags: Office Hours

8 responses

CKL wrote on

BRAVO THUNDERBIRD! MAIS DOMMAGE, L’AVANT DERNIER TéLéChargment ne proposait plus les étiquettes de courrier.
Je ne sais pas encore si le dernier téléchargement me le propose et/ou le contient, je verrai, ce n’est pas grave.,;.

Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

Bonjour ! S’agit-il de la dernière version de la 115 ? Vous n’arrivez toujours pas à utiliser les balises (j’utilise la version 115.11.0 et je peux accéder aux balises dans le menu ‘Plus’ d’un message et dans le menu du clic droit dans la liste des messages). (via DeepL)

MICHAEL MORRA wrote on

Upon Thunderbird start up, it and everything else on my computer freezes or is inoperable. It repeatedly asks for my passwords. I also cannot shut off T-bird or anything else unless I “end task” on Task Manager. I also abhor the little tabs all lined up on a horizonal bar at the top of my non working email. It has also similary effected my T-Bird emails and all on my other computer. I HAVE A SCREEN SHOT OF PROBLEM BUT DON’T KNOW HOW TO SEND IT.
Michael M./inferno9@comcast.net
Please call me 845-745-5122

Mark wrote on

maybe slightly offtopic, but in lack of other online support channels like #irc.

I would like to ask what the the current status of the 115.12.0 release is?
I see that there is a build3 candidate with a timestamp younger than the supposed to be release build…

There are release notes with a release date of June 13th, so I would guess that a critical bug was discovered at the last minute?

Michael D. Putorti wrote on

I am not receiving emails mike@firstclassproducts.com Please help

CEG wrote on

why has my thunderbird totally disappeared? The app is still here, but, it does NOT recognize the emails set up and is asking me to reset up everything?
What has happened to all the emails that I was storing?

Pierre Heitz wrote on

Nouveaux Sujets :
1 – Comment appliquer la fonction “Remplacements de texte” dans le rédaction de mail Thunderbird.
Ex : dans la fonction “Remplacements de texte” sur mon Mac Book Air, il y a : <> mais quand je tape bve dans le corps d’un mail Thunderbird, le remplacement ne se fait pas. Donc comment le mettre en place ?
2 – Pourquoi le copier-coller de Word à la rédaction dans le corps d’un mail Thunderbird ne permet pas de choisir la mise en forme de destination ? Comment mettre en place cette option ?
3 – Dans la dernière Version Thunderbird, dans la rédaction d’un mail, la touche Entrée implique un saut de ligne. Comment enlever ce saut de ligne et permettre le passage à la ligne sans le saut ?
Merci de votre aide. Pierre

Tobias wrote on

Since the web site layout was updated, I can no longer find the beta release notes – neither under download nor under release notes 🙁

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