[Vtigercrm-developers] Fwd: Announcing Thunderbird Extended Support Release

[John Crisp]

For those of you not on the list.....

Some sanity returns to the world :-)

B. Rgds
John



Awesome news: we are moving forward with the Thunderbird Extended
Support Release!  Below is the announcement we have posted on
Thunderbird blog. Stay tuned for details within the next few days but at
this stage, I can confirm that Thunderbird ESR will be available on Jan
31st  together with Thunderbird 10.
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Thanks !

Jb


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The Plan for the Mozilla Thunderbird Extended Support Release
January 12th, 2012

We are pleased to announce that Thunderbird is following the Firefox
Extended Support Release plan as documented in proposal for an Extended
Support Release (ESR) of Firefox
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal>.

As mentioned a few months ago in Thunderbird Enterprise specific wiki
pages <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Thunderbird/ExtendedSupport>,
the ESR version of Thunderbird is for use by enterprises, public
institutions, Universities and other organizations that centrally manage
their Thunderbird deployments.
Releases of the ESR will occur once a year, providing organizations with
a version of Thunderbird that receives security updates but does not
make changes to the email client features or Thunderbird Add-ons
platform. We have worked with many organizations to ensure that the ESR
balances their need for the latest security updates with the desire to
have a lighter application certification burden.
Mozilla is committed to providing the best email experience for people
everywhere, and our goal for the Thunderbird ESR is to make it simpler
for companies, public institutions, organizations, and institutions that
manage their desktops to deploy Thunderbird in those environments. Over
the last few months we received great feedback on the initial proposal
from the Mozilla community and strongly believe that the ESR meets that
goal.
Implementation specifics will be posted within a week to the Thunderbird
planning <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/tb-planning> and the
Thunderbird Enterprise mailing lists. If you’re interested in the ESR or
discussions around deploying Thunderbird in a managed environment, we’d
encourage you to join the Thunderbird Enterprise mailing list
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise> and participate in its
discussions. To join this group, please see the Enterprise wiki page
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise#How_to_Participate_and_Post> for
additional information.