The Thunderbird Project enjoyed a fantastic 2023. From my point of view – as someone who regularly engages with both the community and our team on a daily basis – the past year brought a renewed sense of purpose, sustainability, and excitement to Thunderbird. Let’s talk about a few of the awesome milestones Thunderbird achieved, but let’s also discuss where we stumbled and what lessons we learned along the way.
When will Thunderbird for Android be released? This is a question that comes up quite a lot, and we appreciate that you’re all excited to finally put Thunderbird in your pocket. It’s not a simple answer, but we’ll do our best to explain why things are taking longer than expected. We have always been a […]
A big Android progress report to carry us into 2024, including some awesome community contributions, Android 14, user experience improvements, improved account setup, and more!
Dear translators, thank you for all the work you’re putting into making K-9 Mail — and eventually Thunderbird for Android — more accessible by translating it to so many languages ❤️
WHY was Thunderbird 115 called “Supernova?” What caused the press to declare Thunderbird dead back in 2012? And how did we turn the ship around? Ryan answers these questions and much more in his personal recollection of Thunderbird’s history.
More improvements to account setup, purging old code, OAuth 2.0 fixes for Yahoo and AOL, and more in our monthly Thunderbird for Android update.
During August 2023, we managed to reach a significant Thunderbird for Android milestone: the beta release of our new account setup interface!
Great forward progress on the New Account Setup, some Material 3 experiments, and more in this month’s Thunderbird for Android progress report.
Apparently our July has been so busy that we didn’t find the time to write up the progress report for June. But a late report is better than no report! Let’s check in on the development of Thunderbird for Android.
Our journey to transform K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android involves more than just improving the user interface and adding new features. K-9 Mail is already an important part of the open source ecosystem on Android, and because it lays the foundation for the future of Thunderbird on Android, we believe it’s important to invest in the security health of the software.
Thunderbird for Android gets one step closer, as K-9 Mail integrates Thunderbird’s Autoconfiguration feature for new accounts.
We asked Jon Hicks, the creator of the original Firefox and Thunderbird logos, to re-imagine his iconic design in light of Thunderbird’s exciting future.
We’re back with another progress report as we continue improving K-9 Mail for its transformation to Thunderbird for Android! We spent most of the previous month preparing for a new stable release. In April 2023, we finally published K-9 Mail 6.600.
Last month we reported on the progress we made in turning K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android. Since then a month has passed, so it’s time for another detailed update. Let’s dive in!
While K-9 Mail / Thunderbird for Android is developed in the open, following its development on GitHub can be somewhat tedious for a casual observer. So we’re trying something new and summarizing the most notable things that happened in the past month.
