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Welcome to the Thunderbird Project's community page, with links to commonly requested information.

To get help or ask question please visit Thunderbird Support (SUMO).
To learn more, to discuss, to get involved, to help promote Thunderbird, to say "Thanks" see our participation information.
To make a product suggestion or report a bug please see: post and vote on ideas and bugzilla.

Status

Thunderbird is alive and well in 2024! Please help us keep it that way!

The Thunderbird product is developed and managed by the Thunderbird Project, which is collectively the community (both paid staff and volunteers) and the Thunderbird Council:

  • The community has continuously shipped releases with bug fixes and enhancements for many years. Read more at the Thunderbird Blog.
  • The Thunderbird Council is the governing body for the Thunderbird Project, and coordinates legal and fiscal matters on behalf of the community, and provides overall product strategy.
  • The Mozilla Foundation is the project's legal and fiscal home.

General information

Releases

Thunderbird version numbers for releases match to Mozilla Firefox ESR numbers. For example Thunderbird (ESR) releases 102, 115, 128, etc. Thunderbird also provides consecutive betas between the ESR numbers, for example 92-101, 103-114, etc. which match to Firefox's monthly releases.

Latest release

Upcoming releases

  • Version 128.0 was made available in July 2024.

  • Thunderbird roughly tracks the ESR release schedule of Firefox. See the ESR column of RapidRelease/Calendar.
    • Thunderbird ESR Releases typically happen the same week of the published Firefox dates. But it is sometimes later, because we ship when code is ready and tested. Do not worry if you do not see the "newest" version listed at the Thunderbird home page, the new version is just not yet ready.
    • If you want new features sooner, then please help us test and code, or use the beta mentioned above.
    • Release Driving - How releases move towards completion

Past releases

Contributing

How YOU can help and get involved ... Thunderbird is self-supported by its user community. We need and welcome you. Please give back to the community.

To get more information or talk to a human, or just to introduce yourself, see Thunderbird Communication Channels, especially the IRC channel. Again, we need users like you to help in one of the above areas. Please inquire today.

Governance

The Thunderbird Council is an elected body of 7 members. See about the Council and Community for more information. See more information about the council elections.

Past Councils

  • 2022:
    • Election results: Andrei Hajdukewycz, Ben Bucksch, Berna Alp (Chair), Dirk Steinmetz, Magnus Melin, Patrick Cloke, Philipp Kewisch
    • 2022 Electoral Roll
  • 2021:
    • Election results: Andrei Hajdukewycz, Ben Bucksch, Berna Alp (Chair), Dirk Steinmetz, Magnus Melin, Patrick Cloke, Philipp Kewisch
    • 2021 Electoral Roll
  • 2020:
    • Election results Berna Alp, Patrick Cloke (Secretary), Philipp Kewisch (Chair), Christopher Leidigh, Magnus Melin, Ryan Sipes (Treasurer), Dirk Steinmetz
    • 2020 Electoral Roll
  • 2019:
    • Election results: Berna Alp, Patrick Cloke, Philipp Kewisch (Chair), Jörg Knobloch, Magnus Melin, Wayne Mery (Secretary), Ryan Sipes (Treasurer)
    • 2019 Electoral Roll
  • 2018:
    • Election results: Patrick Cloke, Philipp Kewisch (Chair), Jörg Knobloch, Philippe Lieser, Magnus Melin, Wayne Mery, Ryan Sipes (Treasurer)
    • 2018 Electoral Roll
  • 2017:
    • Election results: Ben Bucksch, Patrick Cloke, R Kent James (Chair) Philipp Kewisch, Jörg Knobloch, Magnus Melin, Wayne Mery
    • 2017 Electoral Roll.
  • 2014:
    • The initial Thunderbird Council was elected at the first Thunderbird Summit held in Toronto, Canada in the fall of 2014: Mike Conley, Joshua Cranmer, R Kent James (Chair), Philipp Kewisch, Magnus Melin, Wayne Mery, Florian Quèze.

Related and Older links

These links are outdated or from past management teams, and do not reflect current plans and priorities

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