Software Update: Mozilla Thunderbird 91.8.0

The Mozilla Foundation has released version 91.8 of Thunderbird. Thunderbird is an open source client for e-mail and newsgroups, with features such as support for various mail and news accounts, a spam filter, spell checker, and a customizable appearance. In version 91 has included a warning when an email is sent to a potentially non-existent address, or if there are too many addresses on the public address line. There is also support for CardDAV and there is a native client for a Mac equipped with an Apple Silicon processor. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this release:

changes

• Google accounts using password authentication will be migrated to OAuth2. see KB Article†

Fixes

• OpenPGP ECC keys created by Thunderbird could not be imported into GnuPG
• Exporting multiple public PGP keys from Thunderbird was not possible
• Replying to a newsgroup message erroneously displayed a “No-reply” popup warning
• Opening mid: URLs on macOS failed
• Address books stored in older formats were loaded as SQLite files, causing a crash
• Replicated LDAP directories were lost after switching Thunderbird to “Offline”`mode
• Importing webcals from the commandline failed if the URI ended with an .ics file extension
• Various security fixes