The Mozilla community has just released a new update for the Thunderbird email client and the developers have made a couple of important changes to the application and corrected a few security problems.

Mozilla announced a while ago that it would no longer actively develop Thunderbird and this task is now taken care of by the community. The version number no longer follows the one from Firefox, but there is a good reason for that. Very few features are added to the application now, and there is no need to advance the version too much.

Even if Mozilla no longer believes in the future of the email client, that doesn't mean that the community feels the same way. It could be hard to imagine what features you could possibly add after so many years, but it looks like there is still some room for improvement, as this latest iteration of Thunderbird has shown.

Thunderbird gets some interesting changes

Even if Mozilla's email remained pretty much the same in the past couple of years, some important changes can be made nonetheless and proof of that is the 31.4.0 version that was made available. These are the two modifications made to the app.

"The previous issues with jp mac builds have now been fixed, and Thunderbird will no longer need to be run in 32-bit mode, and installing extensions within Thunderbird no longer requires download and installing as a file," reads the official changelog.

The devs also explained that various memory safety issues have been fixed, the sendBeacon requests now have the Origin header, and a problem with cookie injection has been corrected.

More details about this release can be found in the official changelog. Check out our review of the RSS function of Thunderbird. You can download the Thunderbird 31.4.0 source package right now from Softpedia.