Thunderbird Stable Releases

First of all I have to apologize for my wording. I should not get so angry. But I cannot stand it when a company is making such mess and is contradicting itself so much...

Thanks Ron for that link! But some time ago I posted already something similar. It is outdated because MZ has in the meantime released TB 115.18.0 ESR which is what I have now.

Thanks JR! Yes, that is what I was referring to. They wrote there:

So, they say on 7 Jan 2025 that bugs are fixed in TB 115.19. But there is NO TB 115.19 !!! I even tried it via the internal updater. My 115.18 is the latest at the moment.

Moreover that link "References" is still not working. It doesn't exist.

I cannot help it. It is not me. It is MZ that is responsibel for this mess.

 

The Jan 7th CVE lists two bugs that were patched in TB 115.19, TB 128.6 among others, but if you notice that there was no TB 128.6 on Jan 7th. TB 128.6 was released on Jan 8th. I am guessing that they planned to release TB 115.19 on Jan 8th as well but due to some last minute issue withheld the release. It should be released soon. And even if TB 115.19 is skipped in favor of TB 115.20 due to that last minute issue, the bug fix from Jan 7th CVE would still be included in the code.

 

Raza,
Give us the link to the public announcement by MZ in which they explain it in detail and the date of such announcement.
Maybe they also explained there why they gave a not existing link (the "References" link).

 

@FanJ, I don't have a link but something similar has happened once or twice with Firefox updates, where a changelog was posted but the actual update was withheld due to a last minute bug.

While reading the release notes for TB 115.18.0esr I noticed the following line: "Thunderbird 115.18.0esr is the final release of Thunderbird 115". I do not closely follow TB development so I am not a 100% sure, but the above statement seems to suggest that 115.18 is the last version of 115 line and there will be no further updates for that line. So this is probably why there was no TB 115.19 released on Jan 8th. I recommend upgrading to TB 128 line to receive further security updates.

 

i wont bet a dime that .19 or .20 will arrive.
first release of tb 115 was june'23
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/thunderbird-stable-releases.377000/page-23#post-3154363

knowing that each esr based build has 12+3 months - tb 115 is now 18 months old and thus 3 months beyond its regular EOL. furthermore mozilla announced that tb wont have the elongated cycle as firefox 115.

although the advisory told us about .19 there exists no rc on server.
to underline this, read here - 4 weeks no new content
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr115/
while 128 is supported
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr128/

i would say: that's it, finished, eol