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Port details on branch 2025Q4
thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail and news that stands above
145.0 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 145.0Version 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: 2025-11-07 19:40:26
Commit Hash: 5c7c4e8
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 = 1762542566 SHA256 (thunderbird-145.0.source.tar.xz) = 561e282037a126422c2b603f8bf230f6effcb429e6ab7710c6d282c15e24ae1e SIZE (thunderbird-145.0.source.tar.xz) = 784579256

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
thunderbird
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FreeBSD:13:latest144.0144.0.1--144.0.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly144.0.1144.0.1---n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest144.0144.0.1--144.0.1---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly144.0.1144.0.1----115.7.0-
FreeBSD:15:latest144.0144.0.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly144.0144.0.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest144.0144.0.1n/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: 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/build1/source/
  2. https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/145.0/source/
  3. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/candidates/145.0-candidates/build1/source/
  4. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/145.0/source/
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Number of commits found: 3

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
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
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
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: 3