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Why does bugzilla.mozilla.org talk about TB 60, when the downloadable ver. is 52.7.0?

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I use Thunderbird ver. 52.7.0 (64-bit) under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and when I go to https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ version 52.7.0 seems to be the newest for all operation systems. Then why does bugzilla.mozilla.org talk about versions up to 60?

I use Thunderbird ver. 52.7.0 (64-bit) under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and when I go to https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ version 52.7.0 seems to be the newest for all operation systems. Then why does bugzilla.mozilla.org talk about versions up to 60?

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Because some users are doing pre-release testing and reporting bugs they find in it.

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Zenos said

Because some users are doing pre-release testing and reporting bugs they find in it.

Yes - OK, but it seems extreme that there are about 8 pre-release versions!

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So it bothers you that they are testing the software and fixing bugs? What is your point of all of this?

The latest general release is 52.7. The next release coming in a month or two is 60.0.

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Airmail said

So it bothers you that they are testing the software and fixing bugs? What is your point of all of this? The latest general release is 52.7. The next release coming in a month or two is 60.0.

Hi Sorry for being so surprised. I just find it strange that there are about 8 versions that will never be released and are just skipped over!

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You have not been paying attention to Thunderbird version numbering then. This is pretty normal. My understanding is that it keeps in line with the more frequent releases of Firefox.

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Airmail said

You have not been paying attention to Thunderbird version numbering then. This is pretty normal. My understanding is that it keeps in line with the more frequent releases of Firefox.

OK. That makes some sense. :-)

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Thunderbird has public major releases roughly every 42 weeks, following Firefox's ESR schedule - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ That is why there are big jumps in the version number.

In between those major releases are many beta releases. At any given point there are at least three Thunderbird versions being shipped, and sometimes four. For example right now we have Thunderbird 52.9.1, 60 beta, 63 nightly.