A year after the publication of the last significant release release of the email client , developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies. The new release is classified as a long-term support version, with updates released over the course of a year. Thunderbird 68 is based on the ESR release codebase . The release is available only for direct , automatic updates from previous releases to version 68.0 are not provided and will only be created in version 68.1.
Key :
- The FileLink mode has been improved, where attachments are saved in external services, with only links to the external storage being sent as part of the email. When re-adding an attachment, the associated file is no longer copied to the storage again, but the already received link to the same file is used. In addition to the ability to save attachments through the default service WeTransfer, the possibility of connecting other providers via extensions has been added, for example and ;
- The interface for external and detached attachments has been changed, which are now displayed as links. There is a new option to 'detach' an attachment to save it in an arbitrary local directory while updating the links in the email. The context menu includes an option to open the directory with the detached attachment 'Open Containing Folder';
- The ability to mark all mail folders for a specified account as read has been added;
- Periodic execution of filters has been ensured, and filter application logging has been improved;
- Support for connecting to the Yandex mail service with authentication via OAuth2 has been added;
- An advanced settings section for selecting language packs has been added. To connect additional languages, the option intl.multilingual.enabled must be enabled (it may also be necessary to set the option extensions.langpacks.signatures.required to false);
- A 64-bit installer and an MSI package have been prepared for Windows;
- A policy management engine has been added for centralized configuration in enterprises using Windows Group Policy or through JSON settings transfer;
- For the IMAP protocol, TCP keepalive support has been provided to maintain a persistent connection;
- For MAPI interfaces, full Unicode support and the support of the function ;
- Protection has been added to prevent the use of a new release profile in older versions of Thunderbird due to potential issues.
When trying to use a profile from an older version, the message will now state , which can be bypassed by specifying the option "--allow-downgrade"; - In the calendar scheduler, timezone data now encompasses past states and future changes (all known changes in time zones from 2018 to 2022 are taken into account). The event assignment dialog has been revamped. The version scheme of the Lightning add-on has been synchronized with Thunderbird;
- The chat now includes an option to select different languages for spell checking in different rooms;
- The add-on installation interface has been modified;
- The unified menu in the panel has been redesigned (the "hamburger" button);
- Tools for theme preparation have been expanded, and the option to use a dark theme for the message list panel has been added;
- The interface for entering, selecting, and deleting recipients in the message composition window has been improved;
- The ability to select arbitrary colors in the message composition window and for tags has been added, without being limited to the proposed 10x7 color table;
- The default sending of selected text and background colors for messages has been disabled; to send color information, the option "Tools > Options, Composition" must be activated;
- Enhanced tools for detecting phishing attempts in messages. Notification of possible fraudulent activities has been improved;
- File naming in Maildir now uses message identifiers and the "eml" extension;
- The threshold for automatic archiving of messages has been raised from 20 to 200 MB;
- Only support for add-ons, themes, and dictionaries translated to WebExtension has been retained;
- The separate configuration window has been removed; all settings are now displayed in a tab.
Source: opennet.ru
