Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 Released

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 has now available for download. This latest release is a minor update to the standalone mail and news program that fixes some security issues and improves stability. It is recommended for all 1.0.x users as an essential upgrade and can be downloaded from the Thunderbird product page or the 1.0.5 directory on ftp.mozilla.org.

The Thunderbird 1.0.5 Release Notes have more information, with the security fixes detailed in the Thunderbird 1.0.5 section of the known vulnerabilities page. Unofficial development weblog The Rumbling Edge has some further details about Thunderbird 1.0.5.

Despite being version 1.0.5, this is actually only the second post-1.0 update to Thunderbird, with the other one being 1.0.2. The Mozilla Foundation decided to skip some version numbers (specifically, 1.0.1, 1.0.3 and 1.0.4) to keep the Thunderbird numbering in line with Firefox (Firefox 1.0.5 came out earlier this week).

A Thunderbird 1.0.1 release was planned but its fixes were rolled into 1.0.2 when a Firefox update with the same version number became necessary. The 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 releases of Firefox fixed issues that did not affect Thunderbird in its default configuration, so no equivalent Thunderbird releases were made.

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