Thunderbird:Home
Welcome to the Thunderbird project's community page. Below you will find links to commonly requested information.
To learn more, to discuss, to get involved, to help promote Thunderbird, to say "Thanks" see Get Involved.
To make a product suggestion or report a bug please use bugzilla.
Status
Thunderbird is alive and well in 2019! Yes, 2019. Please help us keep it that way!
- The community has continuously shipped releases with bug fixes and enhancements for many years.
- The community holds regular meetings to discuss important matters of common interest, open to all.
- The Thunderbird Council is the governing body for the Thunderbird project, and coordinates legal and fiscal matters on behalf of the community.
General information
- Get help
- Thunderbird Blog
- Thunderbird Communication Channels - How and where to get information.
- Learn how to deploy "Thunderbird in an organization" at Thunderbird for enterprises.
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.
- Donate
- Answer user questions in Thunderbird support forum. (support.mozilla.org aka SUMO is where users like you are supported by users like you.)
- If you answer user questions, join support crew.
- Improve the Knowledge Base (aka KB) documentation, which users refer to for assistance.
- Help with quality assurance and testing.
- Help other translators to localize Thunderbird in your language.
- Contribute patches and fixes.
- Add-ons Guide for Thunderbird 57-60 and Add-ons Guide for Thunderbird 63 and beyond.
- Community members - List of active community members contributing to and supporting Thunderbird.
- Core Team - List of people typically actively involved on a weekly basis, and providing major input into Thunderbird.
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.
Releases
Latest release
- Get the current release of Thunderbird from getthunderbird.com.
- Get the beta from the future of Thunderbird.
Upcoming releases
Thunderbird does not release on specific scheduled dates, because we ship when code is ready and tested. But we roughly track but does not strictly follow** the ESR release schedule of Firefox. See the ESR column of RapidRelease/Calendar.
- We typically release 1-3 weeks after published Firefox dates. But it is can be more 1-3 weeks, or it can be less, because we ship when code is ready and tested. In other words dates cannot be predicted, and if you see a date you should take it with a grain of salt. If you do not see the "newest" version listed at the Thunderbird home page, do not worry, it is just not yet ready. Specific new features and fixes happen as volunteers have time to work on them and fix them - there are no schedules for fixes and features can be communicated to users. 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
Governance
- Council Elections 2017 - Electoral Roll.
- Council Elections 2018 - Electoral Roll.
- Council Elections 2019 - Electoral Roll.
Related and Older links
These links are outdated or from past management teams, and do not reflect current plans and priorities.
- New Release and Governance Model (issued November 2012)
- Thunderbird 38 - Thunderbird 38
- UX - User Experience
- Feature Work - Ongoing work that is expected to land in the Thunderbird core
- Development - General development area.
- Extensions - Information for developers looking to develop extensions for Thunderbird.
- Automated Testing - Automated Testing of Thunderbird.
- Discussion for new features - A place to discuss and consolidate potential new features.
- Thunderbird/Infrastructure - Thunderbird Build & Release Infrastructure.
- Level of support for add-on -- Level of support for add-on.
Others
- Thunderbird Marketing - Help spread the word on Thunderbird.
- Participation - Ongoing work around participation & community
- Archived - Obsolete Thunderbird wiki pages.
- Other projects - Projects related to Thunderbird.
- Open Badges - How Thunderbird might use Open Badges
- Toronto Thunderbird Summit October 15-18, 2014 - Thunderbird 2014 Contributors Summit
- Thunderbird Roles - Thunderbird Roles (Under Development)