[b_b]

If you are on verions<52, just know that this update won't be shown on the "About Thunderbird" page that checks for updates.

I was just in the same situation, and simply downloaded the installer from their main webpage [1] (after backing up my data in my profiles folder[2] and closing any running instances of Thunderbird), and it simply worked! I have to say, at least on Windows, the update looks much better, feels quite refreshing! Almost makes me want to actually check all the new emails :)

[1] = https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ [2] = https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderb...

[russdill]

Also a bit curious on this, Debian and Ubuntu have been on 52 for a long time now.

[b_b]

Yeah, unfortunately I don't have Linux (only WSL but I doubt that would really compare since I don't use the GUI environments avilable), so I don't know whether upgrading like this will be safe. I'd personally wait until they the repository developers bring it in, since there's no guarantee of what might happen.

[reidrac]

Any pointers on why is this that?

It says "currently only offered as direct download", does that mean that it'll be available as an update later on?

[1wd]

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2018-May/0060... says "Manual updates of 60.0 will be the initial update mode, as we often do for a new release, because of the breadth of fixes and improvements. Manual-only updates (and updates via downloads) allows us to do a slow rollout to users, to get more user feedback than is possible during the beta period. Automatic updates will be enabled when we are satisfied that we have sufficient numbers of users and a sufficient level of quality - a process that typically takes some weeks."