As promised, our monthly development digest is here! And there are some brief but BIG updates in this one 👀

✅ Thunderbird Sync Update
✅ Taking ownership of the Thunderbird Snap
✅ ThunderCell repo for tracking Rust + Exchange progress

Read Alex’s update here:
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/02/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-february-2024/

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Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest: February 2024

In this month's Development Digest, Alex shares exciting news about Thunderbird Sync, Exchange support, and the Thunderbird Snap on Linux.

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Hi, great news and thanks for your huge work !
Will you, like for Firefox Nightly, propose a ppa and continue to provide an updated deb package, for all users who don't want to use snaps in Ubuntu (as default will become the snap in next version) ? 🫰🏼😄
@valeryan24 @thunderbird We plan to eventually provide our own deb but in the meantime, if you do not want to use snap, you can use our official flatpak:
https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.Thunderbird
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Hi, thanks for your answer, I will check that ! 🙂
I don't use flatpak either, only official or ppa deb packages, it's easier and more homogenous for updates.
For the moment there is a ppa, but I don't know if it will continue and Ubuntu already switched to snap :
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
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