Solved Regression in Thunderbird package version?

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20-100-2fe

Hi,

A couple of weeks ago, I have installed Thunderbird and found out it was version 68.
Ok, I have set my machine up accordingly and everything was working well.
Now, I've reinstalled the same machine from scratch with FreeBSD 12.0 and Thunderbird 60.9.0 gets installed...
The ports database says it should be 68, though.
My question is: is there a problem with the package, or (more likely) have I misunderstood something?
 
pkg search thunderbird
Quarterly:
thunderbird-60.9.0 Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail and news that stands above
Latest:
thunderbird-68.1.1_1 Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail and news that stands above
 
Thanks, for the hint! :)
I've tested many versions lately (12.0, 12-STABLE, 13, 12.1-BETA*), hence the confusion.
 
Today I did pkg upgrade, and there's new Thunderbird 68. Lost my LDAP addressbook and all of my addons. Wonderfull.
 
Geezer said:
Don't know what it 'stands above' though.
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For me it does, being able to run on all platforms I ever use(d) -- FreeBSD, Macos, Windows, Linux -- so I have consistent user experience everywhere, and it's a matter of habbit, of course.
 
yuripv said:
For me it does, being able to run on all platforms I ever use(d) -- FreeBSD, Macos, Windows, Linux -- so I have consistent user experience everywhere, and it's a matter of habbit, of course.
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For me another outstanding feature is the ability to import (almost losslessly) outlook mailboxes on a given windows client into its more standardized mbox kind of format, and this would be then available to a world of other different e-mail clients as well. Although, personally I use a different mail client on a daily basis, because it comes with the OS and does everything what I need, Thunderbird is/was always my choice on other platforms, and I only can recommend Thunderbird to everybody.
 
ivosevb said:
Today I did pkg upgrade, and there's new Thunderbird 68. Lost my LDAP addressbook and all of my addons. Wonderfull.
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Yes, there's an incompatibility between addons for 60.x and 68.
Once I've upgraded my addons, I didn't loose any data, though.

There's also another important change: site-wide addons are now located in /usr/local/lib/thunderbird/distribution/extensions and are copied into each user's ~/.thunderbird directory, complicating site-wide addons update.

However, the old mechanism still works and you can mv /usr/local/lib/thunderbird/distribution/extensions /usr/local/lib/thunderbird to restore it.
 
Thanks, my mistake. I didn't lost anything, but LDAP addressbook just stop working, couldn't make TLS connection anymore. Certificate is from Digicert. Anyway, didn't have time to go through all this, just revert back to 60.9.
 
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