14 DAY TRIAL // After months and months of hard work, Mozilla has finally released today a major version of its email, news aggregator, calendar, and chat client, Thunderbird, for all supported operating systems.
Mozilla Thunderbird was stuck on the 31.x branch for quite some time now, and despite the fact that Mozilla was quietly working on bringing new features to the popular email client, they stated a while ago that the application would no longer receive major improvements.
Guess the voice of the users is stronger than Mozilla's plans, because they have now released Mozilla Thunderbird 38.0 (it is actually 38.0.1, as Mozilla never released a 38.0 version) for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
"Version 38.0.1, first offered to Release channel users on June 11, 2015. Thunderbird 38.0.1 contains underlying code that is based off of Firefox 38.0.1esr. There was no Thunderbird 38.0 release," says Mozilla.
Here's what is new in Mozilla Thunderbird 38.0
Prominent features of Mozilla Thunderbird 38.0 include integrations of the Lightning calendar add-on, OAuth2 authentication for GMail accounts, support for filtering sent messages, support for filtering archived messages, support for Yahoo! Messenger in the Chat component, and support for internationalized domain name URLs in the RSS component.
Additionally, the new Thunderbird version, which is now on par with its big brother, Mozilla Firefox, lets users search multiple or all address books at once, displays expanded columns in the folder pane, allows file-per-message local message storage, adds support for marking the reading position in conversations, and it adds a character counter to the Twitter editor.
Download Mozilla Thunderbird 38.0.1 for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems right now via Softpedia or directly from the project's website, whichever suits you best.