Thunderbird development may stop

Mozilla's popular correspondent has been following Firefox releases so far, making the program already version 13. The foundation has now said no to this spending schedule. 

With the Thunderbird email and news reader client, Mozilla’s idea was to have several smaller programs available to users, omniscient instead of one software, so users could customize what features they wanted to use. Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation, has now announced that they believe the app has already taken the form it can sneak into users ’hearts and they don’t want to expand the program further. This is likely to mean that new versions will not be released so frequently in the future. According to some reports, a so-called Extended Support Release will be released on November 20, for which security fixes will be made for some time to come, but overall, open source mail will be largely left to the community.

Source: Mozilla, legitreviews.com