CVE-2018-18505: Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages
CVE-2016-5824 DoS (use-after-free) via a crafted ics file
CVE-2018-18501: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 65 and Firefox ESR 60.5
CVE-2018-17466: Buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read in ANGLE library with
TextureStorage11
CVE-2018-18492: Use-after-free with select element
CVE-2018-18493: Buffer overflow in accelerated 2D canvas with Skia
CVE-2018-18494: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and
performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs
CVE-2018-18498: Integer overflow when calculating buffer sizes for images
CVE-2018-12405: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 64, 60.4, and
Thunderbird 60.4
Other bug fixes and changes:
FileLink provider WeTransfer to upload large attachments
Thunderbird now allows the addition of OpenSearch search engines
from a local XML file using a minimal user interface: [+] button
to select a file an add, [-] to remove.
More search engines: Google and DuckDuckGo available by default
in some locales
During account creation, Thunderbird will now detect servers using the
Microsoft Exchange protocol. It will offer the installation of a 3rd party
add-on (Owl) which supports that protocol.
Thunderbird now compatible with other WebExtension-based FileLink add-ons
like the Dropbox add-on
New WebExtensions FileLink API to facilitate add-ons
Fix decoding problems for messages with less common charsets (cp932, cp936)
New messages in the drafts folder (and other special or virtual folders)
will no longer be included in the new messages notification
Thunderbird 60 will migrate security databases (key3.db, cert8.db to key4.db,
cert9.db).
Address book search and auto-complete slowness
Plain text markup with * for bold, / for italics, _ for underline and | for
code did not work when the enclosed text contained non-ASCII characters
While composing a message, a link not removed when link location was removed
in the link properties panel
Encoding problems when exporting address books or messages using the system
charset. Messages are now always exported using the UTF-8 encoding
If the 'Date' header of a message was invalid, Jan 1970 or Dec 1969
was displayed. Now using date from 'Received' header instead.
Body search/filtering didn't reliably ignore content of tags
Inappropriate warning 'Thunderbird prevented the site
(addons.thunderbird.net) from asking you to install software on your
computer' when installing add-ons
Incorrect display of correspondents column since own email address was not
always detected
Spurious
(encoded newline) inserted into drafts and sent email
Double-clicking on a word in the Write window sometimes launched the
Advanced Property Editor or Link Properties dialog
Fixe Cookie removal
'Download rest of message' was not working if global inbox was used
Fix Encoding problems for users (especially in Poland) when a file was sent
via a folder using 'Sent to > Mail recipient'
due to a problem in the Thunderbird MAPI interface
According to RFC 4616 and RFC 5721, passwords containing non-ASCII characters
are encoded using UTF-8 which can lead to problems with non-compliant
providers, for example office365.com. The SMTP LOGIN and POP3 USER/PASS
authentication methods are now using a Latin-1 encoding again
to work around this issue
Fix shutdown crash/hang after entering an empty IMAP password