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Thunderbird 5.0 has been released, the new features are as follows:

• More responsive and faster to start up and use
• Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 5 engine
• New Add-ons Manager
• Revised account creation wizard to improve email setup
• New Troubleshooting Information page
• Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to different windows
• Attachment sizes now displayed along with attachments
• Plugins can now be loaded in RSS feeds by default
• There are several theme fixes for Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Support for Mac 32/64 bit Universal builds (Thunderbird no longer supports PowerPC on Mac)
• Over 390 platform fixes that improve speed, performance, stability and security

Thunderbird 3.1.7 has been released, the update fixes the following issues:

• Several fixes to improve handling of large folder files stored locally
• Several fixes to improve corruption in local copy of IMAP mailboxes
• MFSA 2010-78 Add support for OTS font sanitizer
• MFSA 2010-75 Buffer overflow while line breaking after document.write with long string
• MFSA 2010-74 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.13/ 1.9.1.16)

Thunderbird 3.1.6 has been released, the update fixes the following issues:

• Fixes a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution

Thunderbird 3.1.5 has been released, the update fixes the following issues:

• Several fixes to improve the user interface and add-ons experience
• MFSA 2010-72 Insecure Diffie-Hellman key exchange
• MFSA 2010-71 Unsafe library loading vulnerabilities
• MFSA 2010-70 SSL wildcard certificate matching IP addresses
• MFSA 2010-69 Cross-site information disclosure via modal calls
• MFSA 2010-67 Dangling pointer vulnerability in LookupGetterOrSetter
• MFSA 2010-66 Use-after-free error in nsBarProp
• MFSA 2010-65 Buffer overflow and memory corruption using document.write
• MFSA 2010-64 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.11/ 1.9.1.14)

Thunderbird 3.1.3 has been released, the update fixes the following issues:

• Several fixes to improve stability and security, see the Security Advisory
• Several fixes to improve stability
• Several fixes to the user interface

Thunderbird has been updated to 3.1, so it’s time to upgrade. You should now find that Thunderbird can search faster, has a new migration assistant and improvements to the mail setup wizard. Check out the Release Notes if you want more details.

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