New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog:Thunderbird Update (SSA:2018-082-01) for Slackware
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patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-52.7.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.7.0/releasenotes/
(* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project!
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-52.7.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-52.7.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/mozilla-thunderbird-52.7.0-i586-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/mozilla-thunderbird-52.7.0-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.2 package:
54d9a11ffca049f6e0147909c991a60b mozilla-thunderbird-52.7.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
ce0df97f68ea21379a4470b33ff81edf mozilla-thunderbird-52.7.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
aec72658060591434d69698807f2a654 xap/mozilla-thunderbird-52.7.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
edfb210a99a47a609216652927819571 xap/mozilla-thunderbird-52.7.0-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-52.7.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
