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Port details on branch 2026Q1
thunderbird-esr Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail and news that stands above
140.9.0 mail on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port This port version is marked as vulnerable. Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 140.12.1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: gecko@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-01-24 11:21:04
Last Update: 2026-03-21 11:13:49
Commit Hash: 5a6590d
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:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
There is no configure plist information for this port.
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 = 1774039735 SHA256 (thunderbird-140.9.0esr.source.tar.xz) = b0a2cc5cf903a604db3be7f3aea699bdddc561110aeac035c0abd145e8cc522f SIZE (thunderbird-140.9.0esr.source.tar.xz) = 758790528

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
thunderbird-esr
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest140.10.0_1140.10.1_1--140.10.0_2n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly140.10.0_1140.10.0_1--140.10.1_1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest140.12.0140.12.0------
FreeBSD:14:quarterly140.12.0140.12.1--140.12.1---
FreeBSD:15:latest140.12.0140.12.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly140.12.0140.12.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest--n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
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>=0.29.1 : devel/rust-cbindgen
  18. rust>=1.92.0 : 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-140.9.0: 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/140.9.0esr-candidates/build1/source/
  2. https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/140.9.0esr/source/
  3. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/candidates/140.9.0esr-candidates/build1/source/
  4. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/140.9.0esr/source/
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Number of commits found: 5

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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140.9.0
21 Mar 2026 11:13:49
commit hash: 5a6590dd94471a8993f57c7575d95718a604cfa7commit hash: 5a6590dd94471a8993f57c7575d95718a604cfa7commit hash: 5a6590dd94471a8993f57c7575d95718a604cfa7commit hash: 5a6590dd94471a8993f57c7575d95718a604cfa7 files touched by this commit This port version is marked as vulnerable.
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.9.0 (rc1)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.9.0esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit c0a6d689bae1035993ff4ba5e68b28a42691ccc4)
140.8.1
06 Mar 2026 20:53:09
commit hash: 9e5a13d91315147609f1755e579d374ef1074244commit hash: 9e5a13d91315147609f1755e579d374ef1074244commit hash: 9e5a13d91315147609f1755e579d374ef1074244commit hash: 9e5a13d91315147609f1755e579d374ef1074244 files touched by this commit This port version is marked as vulnerable.
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.8.1 (rc1)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.8.1esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit 9b7ade6bbc93df251147316ec600719cd5e6e251)
140.8.0
20 Feb 2026 20:06:50
commit hash: 761770e999b0126ae00c15713c77fe0e50434ab6commit hash: 761770e999b0126ae00c15713c77fe0e50434ab6commit hash: 761770e999b0126ae00c15713c77fe0e50434ab6commit hash: 761770e999b0126ae00c15713c77fe0e50434ab6 files touched by this commit This port version is marked as vulnerable.
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.8.0 (rc1)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.8.0esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit f2f83f7ea4d2afa7b201916d8316025e63c8417c)
140.7.2
14 Feb 2026 14:56:39
commit hash: 5a21f59dd9de7aae66bc86a079f71d53634d7d66commit hash: 5a21f59dd9de7aae66bc86a079f71d53634d7d66commit hash: 5a21f59dd9de7aae66bc86a079f71d53634d7d66commit hash: 5a21f59dd9de7aae66bc86a079f71d53634d7d66 files touched by this commit This port version is marked as vulnerable.
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.7.2 (rc1)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.7.2esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit 87e11aa9654a89e4debd7a764b1700dbd61b4ac2)
140.7.1
24 Jan 2026 11:20:33
commit hash: 131a148fe9ae3877c7629326afc6b65dba465f12commit hash: 131a148fe9ae3877c7629326afc6b65dba465f12commit hash: 131a148fe9ae3877c7629326afc6b65dba465f12commit hash: 131a148fe9ae3877c7629326afc6b65dba465f12 files touched by this commit This port version is marked as vulnerable.
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird-esr: update to 140.7.1 (rc1)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.7.1esr/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit 7eba0f0a1e75f1e21be6968f33ee9746cc808017)

Number of commits found: 5