{"id":1723,"date":"2024-11-05T21:36:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T21:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2024-11-05T21:37:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T21:37:31","slug":"thunderbirds-new-monthly-release-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/2024\/11\/05\/thunderbirds-new-monthly-release-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird&#8217;s New Monthly Release Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that Thunderbird Desktop will soon offer monthly releases through the Release channel as a supported alternative to the ESR channel. This means a new major version of Thunderbird will be available every month, providing the following benefits for our users:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Frequent Feature Updates<\/b>: New features will be available each month, rather than waiting for the annual Extended Support Release (ESR).<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Smoother Transitions<\/b>: Moving from one monthly release to the next will be less disruptive than updating between ESR versions.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Consistent Bug Fixes<\/b>: Users will receive all available bug fixes, rather than relying on patch uplifts, as is the case with ESR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Expanding Thunderbird&#8217;s Channels<\/h2>\n<p>Currently, Thunderbird offers three release channels: Daily, Beta, and ESR. With the addition of the Release channel, we\u2019ll soon provide stable, monthly releases. Over time, this Release channel will become the default channel.<\/p>\n<h2>Current Status<\/h2>\n<p>The Thunderbird Release channel is currently available for testing purposes only. We have been publishing monthly releases for a few months now, and we will continue publishing new releases as we progress toward officially supporting the Thunderbird Release channel.<\/p>\n<h2>Translation Support<\/h2>\n<p>We are immensely grateful to our translators for their ongoing contributions in localizing Thunderbird. If you have any questions regarding translations for Thunderbird, please feel free to reach out to <a href=\"mailto:corey@thunderbird.net\">corey@thunderbird.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that Thunderbird Desktop will soon offer monthly releases through the Release channel as a supported alternative to the ESR channel. This means a new major version &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/2024\/11\/05\/thunderbirds-new-monthly-release-channel\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12672],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}