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Thunderbird 78.14 for focal?

Asked by Holger Flörke on 2021-11-09

Will the security update of thunderbird - version 78.14 - integrated into the official focal-repositories?

There is a new upstream release for thunderbird and the update is also available in http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu. Do I have to integrate the mozillateam launchpad repository to get the security fixes or will it be integrated into the standard repositories for LTS?

Holger

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu thunderbird Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Solved by:: Manfred Hampl

Solved:: 2021-11-15

Last query:: 2021-11-15

Last reply:: 2021-11-15

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said on 2021-11-09:

The description in the PPA for Ubuntu Mozilla Security Team tells
"Staging PPA for Mozilla and other browser-related security updates. Unless you are testing updates, you should NOT install packages from this PPA."

I advise against adding that PPA unless you want to do testing, and recommend that you are patient. I expect that a new version of thunderbird will be published in the standard repositories sooner or later. Maybe they are skipping 78.14.0 and directly jump onto a higher version (e.g. 91.3.0, already in jammy)

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said on 2021-11-09 (last edit on 2021-11-09):

Sorry, my fault. The quote about "do not use unless testing" belongs to a different PPA.
In any case, the summary (please be patient), however. stays the same for all PPAs.