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Re:Thunderbird 68.0 by balaksakrionon on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @12:35PM (#20821370)
so what's the proper way to upgrade from version: 60.8.0 (64-bit)?

don't want to break anything

Re:Thunderbird 68.0 by stanski on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:12PM (#20821779)
The release notes state that the next release (68.1) will be an update from previous versions. 68.0 stands on its own.

Kind of an interesting way to do it but I suppose it lets the most eager folks dip their toes. Sounds like you're better off waiting for 68.1.

Re:Thunderbird 68.0 by wsmwk on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:43PM (#20826222)
Precisely. We wouldn't want to dump a .0 version on 25 million people - better to get feedback first from a couple hundred thousand.
Re:Thunderbird 68.0 by balaksakrionon on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:23PM (#20821899)
i see, thanks
Re:Thunderbird 68.0 by BuildTheRobots on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @12:40PM (#20821424)
Be wary - my boss is quite upset that this latest version seems to have broken a number of his plugins.
Re:Thunderbird 68.0 by miedpo on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:03PM (#20822337)
Yeah, this has to do with them phasing out the old extensions. They are trying to shift over to web extensions completely. It's not quite done yet though.
Re:Thunderbird 68.0 by balaksakrionon on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @12:48PM (#20821510)
i installed the new version (while retaining the old version 60.8) on my mac, but none of the accounts / settings / etc. have been transferred over. Trying to figure out how to export and import into new version but have not found out how so far
Re:Thunderbird 68.0 by wsmwk on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:46PM (#20826234)
> none of the accounts / settings / etc. have been transferred over

It probably picked the wrong profile. Start with -P switch and pick your default profile. All better?

Re:Thunderbird 68.0 by dhyft on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:30PM (#20821993)
I upgraded from 60.8 to 68 on Windows and it works fine thus far.