{"id":483,"date":"2019-10-23T16:13:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T14:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/?p=483"},"modified":"2019-10-23T16:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T14:49:54","slug":"thunderbird-68-landet-mit-verspaetung-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/2019\/10\/23\/deutsch-thunderbird-68-landet-mit-verspaetung-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird 68 arrives late in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of August 2019 the ESR version 68 (ESR stands for Extended Support Release) of the popular mail client Mozilla Thunderbird <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thunderbird.net\/thunderbird\/68.0\/releasenotes\/\">was released<\/a>. The release is a continuation of a <a href=\"\/en\/2018\/10\/22\/mozilla-thunderbird-enters-new-era-with-build-in-delay\/\">development that started with Thunderbird 60<\/a>. The user interface now comes with the settings moved into a tab (as seen before in Firefox). There is also &#8220;dark theme&#8221; for those who want to read their mail white on black.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more going on under the hood. The switch from XUL add-ons to the new WebExtensions &#8211; now also called MailExtensions on the developer pages -, is going on, unfortunaltely causing some add-ons to be deactivated during the upgrade because they do not yet use the new APIs.<\/p>\n<p>Users must therefore check for themselves whether a compatible version of the extension exists, that may be installed from the extension directory accessible via the add-on menu entry. If the respective developer did not provide for an upgrade, the user is left with nothing.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s basically why Ubuntu did not ship the upgrade directly, but waited until October 2019, when Ubuntu 19.10 was released. One Ubuntu maintainer explicitly mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.ubuntu.com\/t\/thunderbird-68\/12377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">problems with the jsunit and Enigmail packages<\/a> as the reason for the delay. For the LTS releases 16.04, 18.04 and 18.10, which are also still supported, the upgrade took even longer; they remained on version 60 even after the release of Ubuntu 19.10.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/portfolio\/thunderbird\/\">catalog entry for Thunderbird<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of August 2019 the ESR version 68 (ESR stands for Extended Support Release) of the popular mail client Mozilla Thunderbird was released. The release is a continuation of a development that started with Thunderbird 60. The user interface now comes with the settings moved into a tab (as seen before in Firefox). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-thunderbird"],"wp-worthy-pixel":{"ignored":false,"public":null,"server":null,"url":null},"wp-worthy-type":"normal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}