The final version of the desktop email client Thunderbird 5.0 has been released by Mozilla. The new version has not been publicly announced yet on the official Mozilla website, and Thunderbird users who are already running the program will not receive update notifications at this point in time. It is however only a matter of time before the official announcements are published.
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Techspot: Mozilla, the non-profit foundation responsible for the popular Firefox browser has announced the release of version 13 of their Thunderbird email client, bringing a number of changes including hundreds of bug fixes and the addition of a new custom email address creation feature.