Update to freedesktop in Thunderbird flatpak

NMR_Don — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:41:34 GMT

Will the next version of Thunderbird be based on a new version of freedesktop? The current version of freedesktop is 23.08 which is end-of-life.

Error message when updating flatpaks on my nixos linux machine:

Info: runtime org.freedesktop.Platform branch 23.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
  org.freedesktop.Platform 23.08 is no longer receiving fixes and security updates. Please update to a supported runtime version.
Info: applications using this runtime: org.mozilla.Thunderbird
Info: runtime org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default branch 23.08-extra is end-of-life, with reason:
  org.freedesktop.Platform 23.08 is no longer receiving fixes and security updates. Please update to a supported runtime version.
Info: applications using this extension: org.mozilla.Thunderbird
Info: runtime org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default branch 23.08 is end-of-life, with reason:
  org.freedesktop.Platform 23.08 is no longer receiving fixes and security updates. Please update to a supported runtime version.
Info: applications using this extension: org.mozilla.Thunderbird

Thanks

Re: Update to freedesktop in Thunderbird flatpak

wsm — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:30:34 GMT

Yes, should be fixed in esr 144.4.0 and release 145.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1952100

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