Software Update: Mozilla Thunderbird 68.6.0

The Mozilla Foundation has released version 68.6.0 of Thunderbird. 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 68 we see a 64bit version for Windows for the first time and from this version it is now also possible to migrate a 32bit version to the 64bit version. Furthermore, the program can now also be managed via policies within corporate environments, filters can now be started periodically and multiple folders can be marked as ‘read’ at the same time. In version 68.6.0, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

What’s New

• Thunderbird now displays a popup window when starting up on a new profile

changes

• Thunderbird now provides partial updates resulting in smaller downloads
• Searching in message bodies led to false negatives under some circumstances in quoted-printable encoded HTML bodies
• “Get New Messages for All Accounts” not working for OAuth2-authenticated IMAP accounts
• Various security fixes