Hello again Thunderbird Community! Despite the winter seeming to last forever and the world being in a state of flux, the Thunderbird team has been hard at work both in development and planning strategic projects. Here’s the latest from the team dedicated to making Thunderbird better each day: Monthly Releases are here! The concept of […]
Hello again Thunderbird Community! As January drew to a close, the team was closing in on the completion of some important milestones. Additionally, we had scoped work for our main Q1 priorities. Those efforts are now underway and it feels great to cross things off the list and start tackling new challenges. As always, you […]
UPDATE (March 4, 2025): The Release Channel is now default! See our update post on how to make the switch with a manual install and what’s new in 136. We have an exciting announcement! Starting with the 136.0 release in March 2025, the Thunderbird Desktop Release channel will be the default download. If you’re not […]
Happy New Year Thunderbirders! With a productive December and a good rest now behind us, the team is ready for an amazing year. Since the last update, we’ve had some successes that have felt great. We also completed a retrospective on a major pain point from last year. This has been humbling and has provided […]
Hello Thunderbird Community! Another adventurous month is behind us, and the team has emerged victorious from a number of battles with code, quirks, bugs and performance issues. Here’s a quick summary of what’s been happening across the front and back end teams as some of the team heads into US Thanksgiving: Exchange Web Services support […]
Hello Thunderbird Community! I’m Toby Pilling, a new team member and I’ve spent the last couple of months getting up to speed, and have really enjoyed meeting the team and members of the community virtually, and some in person! September is now over (and so is the summer for many in our team), and we’re […]
Hello Thunderbird Community! It’s August, where did our summer go? (or winter for the folks on the other hemisphere). Our August has been packed with ESR fixes, team conferences, and some personal time off, so this is gonna be a bit of a shorter update, tackling more upcoming efforts than what recently landed on daily. […]
In this month’s Thunderbird Development Digest, Alex shares updates on a 25-year-old bug, the Linux system tray, Exchange support, and more.
Welcome back to our Meet The Team series. I recently had a very entertaining conversation with Sol Valverde, one of the creative minds behind Thunderbird’s user experience and interface design. Sol explained how growing up around developers influenced her career path, and discusses the thought process behind designing and improving Thunderbird’s visuals.
A new mobile team member. more progress on Material 3 and Android 14, and behind-the-scenes work to enable a smoother transition to Thunderbird for Android. Welcome to the June 2024 progress report.
The new ESR is almost here! In this month’s Thunderbird Development Digest, Alex shares updates on Account colors, Mozilla Sync, and the Thunderbird 128 beta.
VIDEO: Wayne and Daniel shed light on Thunderbird’s build and release process, run through an informative presentation, and walk us through a live demo
Material 3 improvements, better developer documentation, and more in our May 2024 progress report for K-9 Mail / Thunderbird for Android.
In this month’s Thunderbird Development Digest, Alex shares updates on native Linux system tray support, custom account colors, Exchange support, and more.
Welcome to our monthly report on turning K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android! Last month you could read about how we found and fixed bugs after publishing a new stable release. This month we start with… telling you that we fixed even more bugs. Fixing bugs After the release of K-9 Mail 6.800 we dedicated […]
