Why Is It Beta ?

Geezer

Geezer

Just done a poudriere bulk build, and all went fine. Looked at the various versions to see what has changed.

Thunderbird is now version 137.0, but it is Thunderbird Beta.

I didn't ask for beta.

It seems as though there are four versions of Thunderbird: ESR, Release, Beta and Daily. Why has the port been changed to Beta?

With Firefox, there is the choice of ESR as a different port, which I prefer to use. If the default version of Thunderbird was not going to be Release, it would have been nice to have an option for ESR.

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See change for UPDATING file, it's explained.


Diff: 
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index c68511978e67..0e38367e946c 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ they are unavoidable.
 You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time
 you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.

+20250327:
+  AFFECTS: users of thunderbird
+  AUTHOR: cmt@FreeBSD.org
+
+  The mail/thunderbird port switched to Thunderbird's new release train,
+  with frequent major releases (ca. 4-weeks-cycle). Users wanting to
+  stay with the 128-releases for now and the ESR releases in general
+  should switch to the mail/thunderbird-esr port.
+
 
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