Re: repositories very out-of-date for Thunderbird version?
Hi,
Am 17.09.19 um 04:08 schrieb home user:
I very recently asked a question in the Thunderbird support forum.
One person
replied
"Find yourself an updated Thunderbird...".
I have version 60.7.0; the person implied that the current version is 68.
That's 8 versions out-of-date. I do a "dnf upgrade" every Thursday.
As Gordon already mentioned Thunderbird 68 was released just a few weeks ago
and the previous version was 60.7.
Thunderbird uses Firefox's version numbers without having the release pace of
Firefox so they will skip some versions.
I did a "dnf check-update thunderbird" this afternoon.. No
new versions are
available. Why are the repositories so far behind on Thunderbird?
Thunderbird 68 is currently in updates-testing:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-32c48d9a5f
You can install it using
sudo dnf update thunderbird --enablerepo=updates-testing
Often Fedora maintainers tend to be a bit more conservative when updating the
"old" Fedora version so F29 might get updates a bit later than F30. Also
updates in F30 tend to get more user testing ("karma"). That helps getting
these updates in the "stable" repository sooner.
=> You can help!
- get a Fedora account
- install the version from updates-testing
- send your comments/karma to bodhi
Also some extensions are not yet compatible with Thunderbird's new technology
so if you use addons better check if they are compatible.
As far as I know the new Thunderbird version is not updated automatically on
Windows for that very reason (IIRC they plan to do that with 68.1).
HTH
Felix