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 That's 8 versions out-of-date.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
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