The new version of Thunderbird is available in all supported Ubuntu distributions

Aug 7, 2013 12:04 GMT  ·  By

On August 7, Canonical announced that the new Mozilla Thunderbird arrived in the official repositories for its Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.

According to Canonical, several security issues have been fixed in Thunderbird 17.0.7. The developers have implemented a number of fixes and users should upgrade. The current announcement follows the one for the new and improved Mozilla Firefox 23.0.

For a more detailed description of the security problems, you can visit Canonical's security notification.

Users can simply fix the security flaws by upgrading the operating systems to the latest Thunderbird package, specific to each distribution.

A normal system update, executed with the Update Manager, will implement all the necessary changes. You won't need to reboot the computer, but you will have to restart Thunderbird.

Users can also download Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.8 right now from Softpedia.