Thunderbird 128 Nebula: almost there, four channels and ESR

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The Thunderbird team continues its work on the next big version of the open source email client. Thunderbird 128 Nebula is almost ready and the makers have published a support page that reveals information on the upcoming version.

The main topics covered are:

• Thunderbird Sync
  
• Exchange support
  
• Thunderbird 128's ESR label.
  
• Customization support
  

Note: It is not 100% clear when Thunderbird 128 will be released. Previous releases were first offered as standalone installers before they were being made available through the program's automatic updating system.

Thunderbird 128: four release channels



Latest Thunderbird Daily releaseGoing forward, Thunderbird 128 will be offered in four different versions. These are:

• Thunderbird Daily -- Updates daily with changes similar to Firefox Nightly.
  
• Thunderbird Beta -- Gets a major update every four weeks and smaller updates for testing before release to stable.
  
• Thunderbird Release -- The stable version of the email client. Gets major updates every four weeks.
  
• Thunderbird ESR -- The Extended Support Release version. Gets major updates once a year, minor updates and security updates regularly.
  

Thunderbird users who do not want to run development versions have the choice between Release and ESR. The main difference is that ESR is getting major changes once per year while Release once per month.

Thunderbird users who want stability over anything else may pick ESR, even though that means that new features will not be available for several releases.
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