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Port details on branch 2025Q4
thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail and news that stands above
145.0_2 mail on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port An older version of this port was marked as vulnerable. Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 145.0_2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: gecko@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-10-10 21:27:04
Last Update: 2025-11-13 19:20:10
Commit Hash: b012a5f
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>0:mail/thunderbird
Conflicts:
CONFLICTS_INSTALL:
  • thunderbird-esr
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install mail/thunderbird
  • pkg install thunderbird
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: thunderbird
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1763060464 SHA256 (thunderbird-145.0.source.tar.xz) = 4c24f99c45ac909e79f71072549ffcc2866097a6f5fab1dfd41c51918978b9b1 SIZE (thunderbird-145.0.source.tar.xz) = 782126204

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
thunderbird
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest144.0145.0--145.0_1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly144.0.1145.0---n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest144.0145.0_1--145.0_1---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly145.0145.0----115.7.0-
FreeBSD:15:latest144.0.1145.0_2n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly144.0.1145.0n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest144.0145.0_1n/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>=3.117 : 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>=1.89.0 : 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-145.0_2: 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
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/145.0-candidates/build2/source/
  2. https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/145.0/source/
  3. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/candidates/145.0-candidates/build2/source/
  4. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/145.0/source/
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Number of commits found: 4

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
145.0_2
13 Nov 2025 19:20:10
commit hash: b012a5f7f0a3655ee1ebc32165654c8250852cafcommit hash: b012a5f7f0a3655ee1ebc32165654c8250852cafcommit hash: b012a5f7f0a3655ee1ebc32165654c8250852cafcommit hash: b012a5f7f0a3655ee1ebc32165654c8250852caf files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird: update to 145.0

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/145.0/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit b6519756338353bb91d932ae661f420460bcf019)
145.0
07 Nov 2025 19:40:26
commit hash: 5c7c4e8ecce937a542ca46b3c00de4262d279b89commit hash: 5c7c4e8ecce937a542ca46b3c00de4262d279b89commit hash: 5c7c4e8ecce937a542ca46b3c00de4262d279b89commit hash: 5c7c4e8ecce937a542ca46b3c00de4262d279b89 files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird: update to 145.0 (rc1)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/145.0/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit 3031d9c2d354121531f145393b781ffc7e14223b)
144.0.1
16 Oct 2025 16:32:55
commit hash: a20286ae1ef01d262ff0c46da312ee5e65e3d84ccommit hash: a20286ae1ef01d262ff0c46da312ee5e65e3d84ccommit hash: a20286ae1ef01d262ff0c46da312ee5e65e3d84ccommit hash: a20286ae1ef01d262ff0c46da312ee5e65e3d84c 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: update to 144.0.1

Release Notes (soon):
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/144.0.1/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit 54e3fddf20f19ef824bc7773932a26d599b6866a)
144.0
10 Oct 2025 21:24:29
commit hash: 3b244b2ecbea10caa0f3e089389c43754ebc5628commit hash: 3b244b2ecbea10caa0f3e089389c43754ebc5628commit hash: 3b244b2ecbea10caa0f3e089389c43754ebc5628commit hash: 3b244b2ecbea10caa0f3e089389c43754ebc5628 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: update to 144.0 (rc1)

Release Notes:
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/144.0/releasenotes/

(cherry picked from commit e7c7ffdbc3586001b024efa4a04b68d0ab75d302)

Number of commits found: 4