On Sun, 07 Aug 2011, Luc Menut wrote: > Hi, > > Thunderbird 3.1.10 in Mga 1 has some vulnerabilities and should be updated. > http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird31.html > > Unlike Firefox 4, the Thunderbird 3.1.* branch seems still maintained by > mozilla; 3.1.12 is planned for 16/08/2011 > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Thunderbird_3.1.12 . > > So we can stay with the 3.1.* branch, and update Thunderbird to 3.1.11 (the > version that we have in cauldron since 21/06), or try to update to the last > version 5.0 (we have a request for Thunderbird 5 in bugzilla > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088). > > Personnaly, I would prefer that we stay for now with 3.1.11 (and probably > 3.1.12) in Mga 1, and that we update to Thunderbird 5 only in cauldron, and > test it for some weeks.
Yes, if updates are available for the 3.1.* branch, we should use this version. Updating to newer versions is only an exception allowed when the previous version is no longer supported.
