** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security
** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1796126
Title:
Thunderbird is out of date for two months when Thunderbird 60 was
released
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Thunderbird is one of the most used email clients. Thunderbird 60 has
been released on 2018-08-06 what is two months ago
(https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.0/releasenotes/). As
usual there have also been fixes for at least eight critical and high
security bugs (https://www.mozilla.org/en-
US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-19/).
1) $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04
$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
Installiert: 1:52.9.1+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Installationskandidat: 1:52.9.1+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Versionstabelle:
*** 1:52.9.1+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:52.7.0+build1-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
3) Firefox and Thunderbird have been updated quite closely to the
upstream releases even for old LTS releases.
4) Thunderbird got no update since 2018-07-03
(http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/t/thunderbird/thunderbird_52.9.1+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1/changelog)
despite the new version 60. For upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 there even is an
older version 52.7 version available
(https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/thunderbird). Debian Sid has a
60ish version (https://packages.debian.org/sid/thunderbird) that may
be reused.
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