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No, security updates are still being made. Here's the release notes for recent security fixes in thunderbird: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vul
by notatoad 10y ago
No, security updates are still being made. Here's the release notes for recent security fixes in thunderbird:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird45.7 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...
- shock 10y agoAre the security updates done by Mozilla itself or by the volunteers that continue Thunderbird development?
- chii 10y agowhy do you care where the patches come from?
- kobayashi 10y agoOne might care where the patches come from as a volunteer community could be less reliable over time than the paid Mozilla staff. I know I certainly feel that way.
- raesene9 10y agoBut if you prefer security updates from paid employees of an organization rather than volunteers, surely a commercial product rather than a free one would be more suitable for your needs?
- kobayashi 10y agoNot necessarily. I appreciate the values for which Mozilla stands, and those values are entrenched in their products.
- Endy 10y agoIt doesn't feel that way anymore.
- icebraining 10y agoIn what way? I'm wary of some of Mozilla's decisions, but their allegiance to their mission & manifesto doesn't seem at stake.
- raesene6 10y agoSo you're looking for an organisation who will use non-free employees to give you a product for free?
- kobayashi 10y agoI really don't see your point.
- chimeracoder 10y ago> One might care where the patches come from as a volunteer community could be less reliable over time than the paid Mozilla staff. I know I certainly feel that way. The people who are making these complaints are disproportionately those who have no problem using Debian or Arch, so I don't think that's the crux of the issue for them.
- kbrosnan 10y agoThe security patches are largely from Mozilla's Gecko/SpiderMonkey/Toolkit work. The people who create the patches tend to be Mozilla employees. Looking over the 45.x Thunderbird releases I don't see a single Thunderbird specific security fix. [1] The team that qualifies and does the release work for Thunderbird are volunteers. I believe that the builds are done on Mozilla hosted hardware. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/