Thunderbird to flap twice as fast from September

Email client follows Firefox onto two-week release treadmill

Thunderbird is moving to fortnightly releases to keep pace with Firefox's accelerated schedule.

Mozilla and its subsidiary MZLA updated their flagship apps this week, releasing Firefox 154 and Thunderbird 154, respectively.

Since last month's version 153 releases are the latest Extended Support Releases, users who prefer a slower pace can remain on them for the next year. "ESR" is Mozilla's term for what Canonical calls LTS, Long Term Support. The new 154 versions are therefore short-term, or interim, releases. As we reported, the Mozilla Firefox release schedule speeds up from next month to new versions every two weeks, instead of every four weeks.

According to a message from MZLA's Corey Bryant, Thunderbird will adopt the same cadence in September.

Firefox picks up a few extras

Firefox does get some new features, although most are of little interest to FOSS fans....

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