Mozilla-Thunderbird Update for Slackware
Posted on: 11/15/2010 09:59 AM
A mozilla-thunderbird security update has been released for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues.
New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues.
Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-3.0.10-i686-1.txz: Upgraded. This upgrade fixes some more security bugs. For more information, see: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird30.html (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+
As noted in the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog, this is a major update there: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-3.0.10-i686-1.txz: Upgraded. With Thunderbird 2.x unmaintained, it seems like a good idea to provide a upgrade to Thunderbird 3.x for security reasons. This will bring with it quite a bit of changed functionality, so be prepared... one hint is that it will now make local copies of remote mailboxes by default, so you will need to have enough disk space to handle that. For more information, see: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird30.html (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+
Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+
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