A new version of the Mozilla Thunderbird desktop email client has been released and is currently being distributed to mirror servers worldwide. The release has not been made official yet but it is likely that the announcement will be made in the next 24 hours. The update check in the email client is also not picking up the new version just yet.
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.01 is a security and stability release that fixes several issues in the email client. The list of changes lists 124 bugs that have been fixed in the new release including 25 bugs that have received a critical rating and 17 that received a major rating by the developers.
Most of the critical issues that have been fixed are related to crashes but there also have been some security fixes. Users who are planning to install Thunderbird 3.01 should take a look at the known issues before they do so to make sure that they do not run into problems using the email software.
Thunderbird 3.01 is available at the Mozilla ftp server but also at popular download portals such as Softpedia.
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