Beta Notes

Thunderbird Desktop

Version 92.0beta | Released August 13, 2021

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.

These notes apply to Thunderbird version 92 beta 5 released September 2, 2021.

System Requirements: Details

  • Windows: Windows 7 or later
  • Mac: macOS 10.12 or later
  • Linux: GTK+ 3.14 or higher

What’s New

new

Tags are now colored in mail filter editor

What’s Fixed

fixed

Thunderbird registered Accessibility Handlers using same GUIDs as Firefox, causing performance issues for NVDA users

fixed

Focus lost when reordering accounts by keyboard in the Account Manager

fixed

Recipient autocomplete always preferred the primary email address for a contact

fixed

Improvements to the Import/Export feature

fixed

LDAP performance improvements

fixed

OTR chat encryption failed on 32-bit Windows builds

fixed

Status checkmark on View > Calendar > Calendar Pane > Show Calendar Pane was reversed

fixed

Filtering tasks in the Today Pane did not work

fixed

Email based event scheduling displayed the date and time in a format unreadable by humans

fixed

Various theme, UX, and visual fixes

fixed

Folder icons could be overridden by linked favicons in HTML messages

fixed

Various theme and UX fixes

fixed

New chat messages were not visible (white text on white background) in dark mode

fixed

Various theme and UX fixes

New, Changed, and Fixed in Beta 2

What’s New

new

Preference for disabling the unread message count badge on Windows taskbar icon added: mail.biff.show_badge

What’s Changed

changed

Context menu items related to OpenPGP and attachments are now hidden when not applicable

What’s Fixed

fixed

Extensions listed on the Recommended Addons did not have a clear way to view details in a browser

fixed

mid: URLs in calendar invites did not open the linked mail message

Fixed in Beta 3

What’s Fixed

fixed

Compose window attachment pane did not close when disabling signing of an OpenPGP message

fixed

Unread message count badge on Windows tray icon did not update after moving messages to the Junk folder

fixed

Using "Reply to List" with some list emails incorrectly opened a "no-reply" warning

fixed

Unified folders showed no messages when underlying folders were removed

fixed

Folder pane toolbar did not always persist after restarting Thunderbird

fixed

Creating a new account with manual setup failed

fixed

Account setup UX issues with Exchange autodiscover

fixed

Account settings did not display non-UTF-8 server descriptions correctly

fixed

Thunderbird sometimes sent an unnecessary "SMTPUTF8", causing some servers to reject mail

fixed

Various CardDAV setup and auto-detection fixes

fixed

Dates (such as birthday) stored in contacts may display the wrong date; a one-time manual fix may be needed for dates that are incorrect.

fixed

No mouseover pop was displayed with event details for non-all-day events in the Today Pane

New, Changed, and Fixed in Beta 4

What’s New

new

Menu item for disabling subject encryption for a single message added

What’s Changed

changed

VCard attachments now sent with "text/vcard" instead of "text/x-vcard"

What’s Fixed

fixed

Account setup did not use provider display name for setting up calendars

Changed and fixed in beta 5

What’s Changed

changed

Enable "print message" only when one message is selected

What’s Fixed

fixed

New mail notifications did not properly take subfolders into account

fixed

Enabled/Disabled state of message filters did not persist as expected

fixed

Printing a message did not print a list of its attachments

fixed

Images attached from a web page were not sent as expected

fixed

LDAP address books using Kerberos/GSS-API authentication did not authenticate

fixed

Calendar event editor did not honor mail.spellcheck.inline

Known Issues

unresolved

Thunderbird may hang when sending a message if "Check spelling before sending" is enabled in Preferences

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