14 DAY TRIAL // Mozilla has officially released Thunderbird 24.4.0, an email and RSS client, for all the available platforms, including Linux.
A new version has been released in the Thunderbird 24.x branch, but there is nothing to be excited about, a fact that has unfortunately become the norm for new Thunderbird releases.
If you aren’t up to speed with what's happening with Thunderbird, then you must know that Mozilla has pretty much abandoned the project. It's now in the hands of the community, and the current developers are only interested in making sure that all the security problems are taken care of. The days of Thunderbird are probably numbered.
The release comes with just a major fix for the application. According to the changelog, the handling of BCC when replying to messages has been improved.
All the rest of the fixes are just security-related. They are important, of course, but not as interesting. For example, a use-after-free issue in TypeObject has been fixed, an out-of-bounds write through TypedArrayObject after neutering has been corrected, and privilege escalation using WebIDL-implemented APIs has been prevented.
More details about this release can be found in the official announcement. Don't forget to check out our review of the RSS function of Thunderbird.