Release Notes

Thunderbird Desktop

Version 60.3.2 | Released November 30, 2018

Check out the notes below for this version of Thunderbird. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, ask for help, or file a bug in Bugzilla.

If you have installed Lightning, Thunderbird's Calendar add-on, it will automatically be updated to match the new version of Thunderbird. Refer to this Calendar troubleshooting article in case of problems.

System Requirements: • Window: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or later • Mac: Mac OS X 10.9 or later • Linux: GTK+ 3.4 or higher. Details here.

Please refer to Release Notes for version 60.0 to see the list of improvements and fixed issues.

What’s Fixed

fixed

Under some circumstances Thunderbird on Mac will send attachments using the so-called AppleDouble format which can lead to problems with mail servers and recipients

fixed

Encoding problems when exporting address books or messages using the system charset. Messages are now always exported using the UTF-8 encoding.

fixed

If the "Date" header of a message was invalid, Jan 1970 or Dec 1969 was displayed. Now using date from "Received" header instead.

fixed

Body search/filtering didn't reliably ignore content of tags

fixed

Inappropriate warning "Thunderbird prevented the site (addons.thunderbird.net) from asking you to install software on your computer" when installing add-ons

fixed

Incorrect display of correspondents column since own email address was not always detected

fixed

Spurious 
 (encoded newline) inserted into drafts and sent email

fixed

New email not inserted in correct sort order in threaded unified view or search folder

Known Issues

unresolved

CalDav access to some servers not working. Workaround: Set preference network.cookie.same-site.enabled to false.

unresolved

Chat: Twitter not working due to API changes at Twitter.com

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