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Port details on branch 2026Q4
thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail and news that stands above
158.0 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 158.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: gecko@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-10-08 20:15:22
Last Update: 2026-10-08 20:12:30
Commit Hash: 87773ca
Also Listed In: net-im news wayland
License: not specified in port
WWW:
https://www.thunderbird.net/
Description:
Thunderbird is a free and open source email, newsfeed, chat, and calendaring client, that's loaded with great features, easy to set up and customise. Core principles include the use and promotion of open standards.
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
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.
NOT_FOR_ARCHS: i386
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1791480114 SHA256 (thunderbird-158.0.source.tar.xz) = 6f586b18edcbad00e875ce4ce9d1c6df8dfda454fbd8a891c5da8a0ec06ec0c6 SIZE (thunderbird-158.0.source.tar.xz) = 961411644

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
thunderbird
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest150.0150.0.1_1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly150.0150.0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest156.0.1157.0.1------
FreeBSD:14:quarterly156.0.1157.0----115.7.0-
FreeBSD:15:latest157.0157.0.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly157.0.1157.0n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest-157.0.1n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. nspr>=4.32 : devel/nspr
  2. nss>=3.130 : security/nss
  3. libevent>=2.1.8 : devel/libevent
  4. png>=1.6.45 : graphics/png
  5. dav1d>=1.0.0 : multimedia/dav1d
  6. libvpx>=1.15.0 : multimedia/libvpx
  7. py312-sqlite3>0 : databases/py-sqlite3@py312
  8. v4l_compat>0 : multimedia/v4l_compat
  9. nasm : devel/nasm
  10. yasm : devel/yasm
  11. zip : archivers/zip
  12. libc++abi.a : devel/wasi-libcxx19
  13. libc.a : devel/wasi-libc@19
  14. wasi-compiler-rt19>0 : devel/wasi-compiler-rt19
  15. rust-cbindgen>=0.29.4 : devel/rust-cbindgen
  16. rust>=1.98.0 : lang/rust
  17. libnotify>0 : devel/libnotify
  18. jack.h : audio/jack
  19. pulseaudio.h : audio/pulseaudio
  20. sndio.h : audio/sndio
  21. gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
  22. llvm-config19 : devel/llvm19
  23. node : www/node24
  24. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  25. python3.12 : lang/python312
  26. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  27. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  28. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  29. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
  30. xcomposite.pc : x11/libXcomposite
  31. xdamage.pc : x11/libXdamage
  32. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  33. xfixes.pc : x11/libXfixes
  34. xrandr.pc : x11/libXrandr
  35. xrender.pc : x11/libXrender
  36. xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
  37. 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. libaom.so : multimedia/aom
  7. libdav1d.so : multimedia/dav1d
  8. libevent.so : devel/libevent
  9. libffi.so : devel/libffi
  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-158.0: 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/158.0-candidates/build1/source/
  2. https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/158.0/source/
  3. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/candidates/158.0-candidates/build1/source/
  4. https://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/158.0/source/
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
158.0
08 Oct 2026 20:12:30
commit hash: 87773ca1719d7b6067e3efb1d0f16db2a053a8afcommit hash: 87773ca1719d7b6067e3efb1d0f16db2a053a8afcommit hash: 87773ca1719d7b6067e3efb1d0f16db2a053a8afcommit hash: 87773ca1719d7b6067e3efb1d0f16db2a053a8af files touched by this commit
Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt) search for other commits by this committer
mail/thunderbird: update to 158.0 (rc1)

Relesae Notes (soon):
  https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/158.0/releasenotes/

Includes fix for DEBUG-enabled builds

PR:			298373
Submitted By:	Bartosz

(cherry picked from commit 3ea970ce29dafbd23cfa5266b7e17f903e0f78fb)

Number of commits found: 1