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Port details on branch 2025Q3
thunderbird-esr Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail and news that stands above
140.2.1 mail on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 140.2.1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: gecko@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-07-19 13:09:20
Last Update: 2025-08-28 22:01:55
Commit Hash: 37ccd95
Also Listed In: net-im news wayland
License: not specified in port
WWW:
https://www.thunderbird.net/
Description:
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component with the goal of becoming a cross-platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. See the Mozilla Thunderbird project page for more details.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • thunderbird-esr>0:mail/thunderbird-esr
Conflicts:
CONFLICTS_INSTALL:
  • thunderbird
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird-esr/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install mail/thunderbird-esr
  • pkg install thunderbird-esr
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: thunderbird-esr
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1756417394 SHA256 (thunderbird-140.2.1esr.source.tar.xz) = c9e4b98f72db3e9084dc7abe5f0ccf09bfc3e2f327706371dba4c2ee0a14c29b SIZE (thunderbird-140.2.1esr.source.tar.xz) = 766037104

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. nspr>=4.32 : devel/nspr
  2. nss>=3.112 : security/nss
  3. libevent>=2.1.8 : devel/libevent
  4. harfbuzz>=10.1.0 : print/harfbuzz
  5. graphite2>=1.3.14 : graphics/graphite2
  6. png>=1.6.45 : graphics/png
  7. dav1d>=1.0.0 : multimedia/dav1d
  8. libvpx>=1.15.0 : multimedia/libvpx
  9. py311-sqlite3>0 : databases/py-sqlite3@py311
  10. v4l_compat>0 : multimedia/v4l_compat
  11. nasm : devel/nasm
  12. yasm : devel/yasm
  13. zip : archivers/zip
  14. libc++abi.a : devel/wasi-libcxx19
  15. libc.a : devel/wasi-libc@19
  16. wasi-compiler-rt19>0 : devel/wasi-compiler-rt19
  17. rust-cbindgen>=0.28.0 : devel/rust-cbindgen
  18. rust>=1.87.0 : lang/rust
  19. libnotify>0 : devel/libnotify
  20. jack.h : audio/jack
  21. pulseaudio.h : audio/pulseaudio
  22. sndio.h : audio/sndio
  23. gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
  24. llvm-config19 : devel/llvm19
  25. node : www/node24
  26. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  27. python3.11 : lang/python311
  28. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  29. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  30. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  31. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  32. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  33. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  34. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  35. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  36. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  37. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  38. xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
  39. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Runtime dependencies:
  1. libpci.so : devel/libpci
  2. libcanberra>0 : audio/libcanberra
  3. ffmpeg>=6.0,1 : multimedia/ffmpeg
  4. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  5. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  6. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  7. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  8. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  9. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  10. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  11. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  12. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  13. xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
  14. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Library dependencies:
  1. libjson-c.so : devel/json-c
  2. libdrm.so : graphics/libdrm
  3. libepoll-shim.so : devel/libepoll-shim
  4. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  5. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  6. libevent.so : devel/libevent
  7. libffi.so : devel/libffi
  8. libgraphite2.so : graphics/graphite2
  9. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  10. libnspr4.so : devel/nspr
  11. libnss3.so : security/nss
  12. libpng.so : graphics/png
  13. libpixman-1.so : x11/pixman
  14. libvpx.so : multimedia/libvpx
  15. libwebp.so : graphics/webp
  16. libdbus-1.so : devel/dbus
  17. libdbus-glib-1.so : devel/dbus-glib
  18. libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
  19. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  20. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  21. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  22. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  23. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  24. libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
  25. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  26. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
  27. libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for thunderbird-esr-140.2.1: CANBERRA=on: Sound theme alerts DBUS=on: D-Bus IPC system support DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support FFMPEG=on: FFmpeg support (WMA, AIFF, AC3, APE...) LIBPROXY=off: Proxy support via libproxy LTO=off: Use Link-Time Optimization OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=on: Use extra compiler optimizations PROFILE=on: Build with profiling support TEST=off: Build and/or run tests ====> Extra cubeb audio backends (OSS is always available) ALSA=off: ALSA audio architecture support JACK=on: JACK audio server support PULSEAUDIO=on: PulseAudio sound server support SNDIO=on: Sndio audio support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
mail_thunderbird-esr
USES:
tar:xz compiler:c++17-lang cpe elfctl gl gmake gnome iconv llvm:min=17,noexport localbase nodejs:24,build,env pkgconfig python:build desktop-file-utils jpeg
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/candidates/140.2.1esr-candidates/build1/source/
  2. https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/140.2.1esr/source/
  3. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/candidates/140.2.1esr-candidates/build1/source/
  4. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/140.2.1esr/source/
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Number of commits found: 8

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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140.2.1
28 Aug 2025 22:01:55
commit hash: 37ccd9567cc23b987e4c3862c0f49fac03f54362commit hash: 37ccd9567cc23b987e4c3862c0f49fac03f54362commit hash: 37ccd9567cc23b987e4c3862c0f49fac03f54362commit hash: 37ccd9567cc23b987e4c3862c0f49fac03f54362 files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.2.1 (rc1)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.2.1esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit 953f6ae8a84b05410c3d3e6d05be33f2dfc209cf)
140.2.0_2
19 Aug 2025 20:19:20
commit hash: 956c4b3436c764b96408e9e600e9da92533320ffcommit hash: 956c4b3436c764b96408e9e600e9da92533320ffcommit hash: 956c4b3436c764b96408e9e600e9da92533320ffcommit hash: 956c4b3436c764b96408e9e600e9da92533320ff files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.2.0 (rc3)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.2.0esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit 3cf8407aa74779e2b86ea269f98f4378f40d8732)
140.2.0_1
19 Aug 2025 13:59:05
commit hash: 81bf80f96d2a28ff3ccd83f7088676b38c72f672commit hash: 81bf80f96d2a28ff3ccd83f7088676b38c72f672commit hash: 81bf80f96d2a28ff3ccd83f7088676b38c72f672commit hash: 81bf80f96d2a28ff3ccd83f7088676b38c72f672 files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.2.0 (rc2)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.2.0esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit 7583b8f97afdcba5f435138ac2f99063023508ce)
140.2.0
15 Aug 2025 11:29:33
commit hash: 62ebcf1bd3e3d39d1358e459f1d4a474a144786ecommit hash: 62ebcf1bd3e3d39d1358e459f1d4a474a144786ecommit hash: 62ebcf1bd3e3d39d1358e459f1d4a474a144786ecommit hash: 62ebcf1bd3e3d39d1358e459f1d4a474a144786e files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.2.0 (rc1)

and update WWW (while here)

Release Notes (soon):
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.2.0esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit b783205e9ed054426029eb884459ada0218546f1)
140.1.1_1
05 Aug 2025 18:17:32
commit hash: d4ebe625d290a0d3fe6782a1f8362be7ef3415c0commit hash: d4ebe625d290a0d3fe6782a1f8362be7ef3415c0commit hash: d4ebe625d290a0d3fe6782a1f8362be7ef3415c0commit hash: d4ebe625d290a0d3fe6782a1f8362be7ef3415c0 files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.1.1 (ga)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.1.1esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit 1376ca6ab253a3161afa540dd5105fd10fd44416)
140.1.1
31 Jul 2025 22:18:03
commit hash: 2f7c41eb312300ea2af84d307d6fa4d7f5cbdd04commit hash: 2f7c41eb312300ea2af84d307d6fa4d7f5cbdd04commit hash: 2f7c41eb312300ea2af84d307d6fa4d7f5cbdd04commit hash: 2f7c41eb312300ea2af84d307d6fa4d7f5cbdd04 files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.1.1 (rc1)

Release Notes (soon):
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.1.1esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit 20760e991e377c000e014fe4803969d43e933d9c)
140.1.0_1
27 Jul 2025 21:36:32
commit hash: f74e339a8bbdeec6ce15a41726368c73e3b508ebcommit hash: f74e339a8bbdeec6ce15a41726368c73e3b508ebcommit hash: f74e339a8bbdeec6ce15a41726368c73e3b508ebcommit hash: f74e339a8bbdeec6ce15a41726368c73e3b508eb files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
www/firefox{,-esr} mail/thunderbird{-esr}: fix runtime on arm64

reports of crashes on arm64 with aslr enabled.

PR:		271081
Reported by: markj@

(cherry picked from commit c0f77d931c522aac38cef997652826967e451bea)
140.1.0
19 Jul 2025 13:07:32
commit hash: f4902a2468968780d725958c3f07cc3a0ce50fb0commit hash: f4902a2468968780d725958c3f07cc3a0ce50fb0commit hash: f4902a2468968780d725958c3f07cc3a0ce50fb0commit hash: f4902a2468968780d725958c3f07cc3a0ce50fb0 files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.1.0 (rc1)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.1.0esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit f2335dc6452f58e233759618dc4da5b7aafa7244)

Number of commits found: 8