Software Update: Mozilla Thunderbird 45.0

The Mozilla Foundation has released a new version of Thunderbird after a long time that contains more than just some bug fixes. Mozilla Thunderbird is an open source email and newsgroup client, with features such as support for several mail and news accounts, a spam filter, spell checker, and a customizable look and feel. In version 45, among other things, the sender and receiver columns have been replaced by a single correspondent column, the subject line is now also included during the spell check and there are additional options when allowing external content in an email. The complete changelog for version 45.0 looks like this:

New

• Add a Correspondents column combining Sender and Recipient
• Much better support for XMPP chat rooms and commands.
• Remote content exceptions: Improved options to add exceptions.
• Implement option to always use HTML formatting to prevent unexpected format loss when converting messages to plain text.
• Use OpenStreetmap for maps (even allow the user to choose from list of map services)
• Allow spell checking and dictionary selection in the subject line
• Allow editing of From when composing a message.
• Add dropdown in compose to allow specific setting of font size.
• Return/Enter in composer will now insert a new paragraph by default (shift-Enter will insert a line break)
• Allow copying of name and email address from the message header of an email
• Mail.ru supports OAuth authentication.

Fixed

• Fixed: When sending e-mail which was composed using Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters, unwanted extra spaces were inserted within the text.
• Spell checker checked spelling in invisible HTML parts of the message.
• When saving a draft that is edited as new message, original draft was overwritten.
• External images not displayed in reply/forward
• Crashed in some cases while parsing IMAP messages.
• Properly preserve pre-formatted blocks in message replies.
• Copy/paste from a plain text editor lost white-space (multiple spaces/blanks, tabs, newlines)
• “Open Draft”/”Forward”/”Edit As New”/”Reply” created message composition with incorrect character encoding.
• Fixed: Grouped By view sort direction change was broken, plus enabled custom column grouping.
• Fixed: New emails into a mailbox did not adhere to sort order by received.
• Fixed: Box.com attachments failed to upload.
• Fixed: Drag and drop of multiple attachments failed to OS file folder.
• XMPP had connection problems for users with large rosters

Known Issues

• Outlook and Eudora import non-functional.

The following downloads are available:
Mozilla Thunderbird 45.0 for Windows (English)
Mozilla Thunderbird 45.0 for Linux (English)
Mozilla Thunderbird 45.0 for OS X (English)
Mozilla Thunderbird 45.0 for Windows (English)
Mozilla Thunderbird 45.0 for Linux (English)
Mozilla Thunderbird 45.0 for OS X (English)
Mozilla Thunderbird 45.0 for Windows (Frisian)
Mozilla Thunderbird 45.0 for Linux (Frisian)
Mozilla Thunderbird 45.0 for OS X (Frisian)