Spotify is a popular music streaming site that gives you access to all your favorite songs. Spotify has also a Spotify client for Linux, that helps you use the spotify service better.

The latest version available is Spotify 1.x Stable, which brings changes.

Known issues:

• Improper MPRIS support (there is support since 1.0.13, but limited functionality).
• [Linux] Spotify DBus MPRIS2 support not fully working
• Sometimes crashes when streaming and playing local files (these very likely have more than one root cause)
• Linux Client crashing (segfault) on certain songs — Segfaults when playing local files
• Improper package dependencies for installation outside Ubuntu LTS The return of the libssl trouble on Linux
• Missing application menu
• Missing tray icon
• Minimize (to tray)

Installation instructions:

Spotify is available via the official repository, so installing it on Ubuntu and Debian systems is easy. You just need to add the repository and the key to your system, update the local repository index and install the spotify-client package:

$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys BBEBDCB318AD50EC6865090613B00F1FD2C19886
$ echo deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install spotify-client

Optional, to remove spotify, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove spotify-client

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As you may know, Wine Staging is a special version of Wine that provides support for projects like Pipelight. The Pipelight developer forked wine into wine-staging and included some Pipelight-specific enhancements and some other features not present in the regular wine software.

Among others, it brings support for Nvidia graphics cards with support for CUDA, PhysX and NVENC plus CSMT to improve graphics performance and a few others.

The latest version available is Wine Staging 1.9.6, which has been recently released, bringing changes:

• Do not update iosb.Status after FSCTL_PIPE_LISTEN call
• Implement GdipCreateMetafileFromStream
• Implement support for WICPixelFormat32bppGrayFloat
• Fake success in dwmapi.DwmSetWindowAttribute function (Epic Games Launcher)
• Implement support for Vulkan
• Fix pointer to custom dialog control data
• Populate CA certificate store in registry
• Fix handling of GetOverlappedResult when status remains STATUS_PENDING
• Implement semi-stub for ws2_32 DisconnectEx
• Implement wuauserv dummy service
• Fix handling of INTERNET_INVALID_PORT_NUMBER in HttpOpenRequestW
• Implement windowscodecs.WICCreateBitmapFromSection(Ex)
• Implement a better stub for IPicture::SaveAsFile
• Implement query operation in reg.exe

Installation instructions:

Up to date Wine Staging packages are available via the developer’s PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu is easy. Just add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the wine-staging package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging

If you want the 64 bit version of wine-staging also install the wine-staging-amd64 package:

$ sudo apt-get install wine-staging-amd64

Wine Staging can be used along wine because it installs in /opt/wine-staging, while the regular wine can be found in /opt/wine.

The installation instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.

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As you may know, Google has created its own laptops, named Chromebooks, using Chrome OS as the main operating system, instead of Windows or Mac OS X. Like the Nexus devices, the Chromebooks are manufactured by different vendors, including HP, Samsung and Dell and have different hardware configurations, to suite the user’s necessities.

Jacob Gwiazdzinski, has spotted a forum post saying that the next Chromebook Pixel will have multi-colored lightbar and, 16GB of RAM, Intel Skylake CPU and backlit keyboard.

We will see if the forum post was about a next Chromebook Pixel or a new version of the the Android-powered Pixel C tablet.

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As you may know, Albert is an open-source Launcher for Linux, written in C++ and Qt5, with features similar to Synapse. The user is capable of configuring a hotkey for opening the launcher and can easily find software via the searchbar. It can also search on Google and among Chrome and Chromium’s bookmarks.

The latest version available is Albert 0.8.3, which has been recently released.

Installation instructions:

In order to successfully install Albert on Ubuntu, you have to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the albert package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install albert

Optional, to remove albert, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove albert

The installation instructions should work on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems

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As you may know, Double Commander is an open-source two panel (placed side by side) file manager, similar to the good old Total Commander.

Main features:

• Support for Unicode
• The operations run in the background only
• Support for tabs
• The ZIP, TAR GZ, TGZ, LZMA and also BZ2, RPM, CPIO, DEB, RAR archive formats are treated as subdirectories, enabling the users to easily copy files to and from the archives
• Search function

The latest version available is Double Commander 0.7.1, which brings the below changes:

• [Language translation] Updated Slovenian translation
• [File operations] Error while Search Text in files (ALT+F7) if using UCS
• [Graphical user interface] Ukrainian translation of selected files count
• [Graphical user interface] GUI stops responding to mouse input after overriding file over ftp
• [Language translation] Translating the pop-up comment on the shortcut
• [Default] doublecmd.desktop “Categories” in group “Desktop Entry” contains a deprecated value “Application”
• [Language translation] updates greek translation, DC .7.0 beta compatibility
• [Language translation] german translation against 0.70 latest beta
• [Default] doublecmd FTBFS on arm64
• [File operations] Clicking on “Go to file” button when search in progress causes doublecmd crash

Installation instructions:

In order to successfully install doublecmd on Ubuntu, you have to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the needed package.

All you have to do is add the ppa to your system and update the local repository index:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexx2000/doublecmd
$ sudo apt-get update

And install the doublecmd:

For GTK based desktop environments:

$ sudo apt-get install doublecmd-gtk

For Qt based desktop environments:

$ sudo apt-get install doublecmd-qt

The installation instructions should work on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x and Elementary OS 0.3 Freya.

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As you may know, Nmap is a command-line network exploration tool that supports ping scanning to determine the online hosts, port scanning techniques and TCP/IP fingerprinting for remote device identification.

The latest version available is Nmap 7.11, which brings the below changes:

• Added support for diffie-hellman-group-exchange-* SSH key exchange methods to ssh2.lua, allowing ssh-hostkey to run on servers that only support custom Diffie-Hellman groups.
• Added support in sslcert.lua for Microsoft SQL Server’s TDS protocol, so you can now grab certs with ssl-cert or check ciphers with ssl-enum-ciphers.
• Fix a crash when setting default window geometry:
• Fix a crash when displaying the date from an Nmap XML file due to an empty or unknown locale.
• Fix a crash due to incorrect file paths when installing to /usr/local prefix.

Installation instructions:

In order to install Nmap on Ubuntu, you need to do is add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the nmap package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pi-rho/security
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nmap

Optional, to remove nmap,do:

$ sudo apt-get remove nmap

The installation instructions should work on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x and Elementary OS 0.3 Freya.

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As you may know, MKVToolNix is a Matroska (mkv) multimedia manipulation tool pack. You can edit mkv video files, split files, sync audio with video.

It contains the following command-line tools:

• mkvmerge – a tool for creating Matroska files from other formats
• mkvinfo – a tool that the users to get information about the tracks in a Matroska file
• mkvextract – a tool that extracts tracks from Matroska files to other formats

The latest version available is MKVToolNix 9.0.0, which has been recently released, bringing a huge list of changes.

Installation instructions:

The installation instructions are very straight-forward, because the latest MKVToolNix builds are available via repository for Ubuntu, Debian and derivative systems.

How to install MKVToolNix on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf systems:

$ wget -q -O - https://www.bunkus.org/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.txt | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://www.bunkus.org/ubuntu/wily/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui

Optional, to remove mkvtoolnix and mkvtoolnix-gui, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui

How to install MKVToolNix on Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17.3, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint 6, Peppermint 5, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2 and derivative systems:

$ wget -q -O - https://www.bunkus.org/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.txt | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://www.bunkus.org/ubuntu/trusty/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui

Optional, to remove mkvtoolnix and mkvtoolnix-gui, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui

How to install MKVToolNix on Debian 8 Jessie and derivative systems:

$ wget -q -O - https://www.bunkus.org/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.txt | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo " deb http://www.bunkus.org/debian/jessie/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui

Optional, to remove mkvtoolnix and mkvtoolnix-gui, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui

How to install MKVToolNix on Debian 7 Wheezy and derivative systems:

$ wget -q -O - https://www.bunkus.org/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.txt | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo " deb http://www.bunkus.org/debian/jessie/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui

Optional, to remove mkvtoolnix and mkvtoolnix-gui, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui

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As we have previously written, UbuntuBSD is an Ubuntu fork that replaced the GNU/Linux Kernel with the GNU/kFreeBSD Kernel.

A few days ago, UbuntuBSD 15.10 Beta 3 has been released, fixing an LightDM bug and brought support for Virtual Text Consoles.

UbuntuBSD is suitable for both desktop and server computers, uses XFCE as the default desktop environment and ZFS (Z File System), as the main filesystem and shares code with Ubuntu, Debian and FreeBSD. The installer is similar to Debian’s text-based one, targeting advanced users.

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As you may know, Grub Customizer is a nice application, that allows the user to edit the menu entries from the GRUB booting screen, set the default operating system, change the installed OS via a livecd.

The latest version available is Grub Customizer 5.0.5, which has been recently released, bringing small changes only:

• fixed some errors on entry editor
• fixed error on trash view when selecting rule behind submenu

Installation instructions:

In order to successfully install Grub Customizer on Ubuntu, you have to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the grub-customizer package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

Optional, to remove grub-customizer, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove grub-customizer

The installation instructions should work on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems.

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As you may know, OpenShot is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editing software, written in C++ and PyQt5.

The latest version available is OpenShot 2.0.7 (Beta 4), which comes with the below changes:

• support for image sequences;
• added a new file properties dialog which displays all known audio/video details about a file;
• initial support for opening legacy 1.x OpenShot project files;
• faster timeline performance;
• improved project saving;
• ImageMagic support is now optional;
• various bug fixes.

Installation instructions:

In order to successfully install OpenShot on Ubuntu, you have to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the openshot-qt package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openshot-qt

Optional, to remove openshot, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove openshot-qt

The installation instructions should work on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems.

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Canonical’s Dustin Kirkland, the person responsible with the Product and Strategy department of Ubuntu, has attended the Microsoft Build 2016 developer conference where he has announced the “Ubuntu on Windows” project.

“Ubuntu on Windows” integrates the Windows 10 cmd with Ubuntu’s bash shell, in order to provide a better environment for the developers of cross-platform applications.

When you type bash in the Windows 10 Start menu, a cmd.exe console will open, running the /bin/bash binary from Ubuntu. This is awesome because Windows will get tools like apt, ssh, rsync, find, grep, vim, emacs, awk, sed, ruby, tar, sort, php, mysql, perl, python, wget, md5sum, gpg, curl, apache, gcc on their system.

I don’t fancy with the geeks that don’t find this project useful, because I would kill to have the find, grep, ssh and wget on Windows!

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WeeChat is an open-source, multi-platform lightweight and extensible chat client, having a text user interface only. Having support for scripts and plugins that can be loaded either at startup or dynamically, the app has support for IRC.

Also, it permits multiple connections to multiple servers, has support for UTF-8 and can use multiple character sets for encoding/decoding messages.

The latest version available is WeeChat 1.4, which brings the below new features:

New features:

• core: add a parent name in options, display inherited values if null in /set output, add option weechat.color.chat_value_null
• core: add tag “term_warning” in warnings about wrong $TERM on startup
• core: add option weechat.look.paste_auto_add_newline
• core: display a more explicit error when a filter fails to be added
• api: add function string_hex_dump()
• api: add argument “length” in function utf8_is_valid()
• alias: display completion in /alias list
• fifo: add /fifo command
• irc: evaluate content of server option “addresses”
• irc: move option irc.network.alternate_nick into servers (irc.server.xxx.nicks_alternate)
• irc: track real names using extended-join and WHO
• irc: add support of SNI (Server Name Indication) in SSL connection to IRC server
• irc: use current channel and current server channels first in completions “irc_server_channels” and “irc_channels”
• irc: add support of “cap-notify” capability
• irc: add command /cap
• irc: add hex dump of messages in raw buffer when debug is enabled for irc plugin (level 2 or more)
• logger: display system error when the log file can not be written
• relay: add option relay.irc.backlog_since_last_message
• script: add completion with languages and extensions, support search by language/extension in /script search
• script: add option script.scripts.download_timeout
• doc: add Czech man page and quickstart guide
• build: add scripts version.sh and build-debian.sh, separate stable from devel Debian packaging
• tests: check if all plugins are loaded

Bug-fixes:

• core: fix execution of empty command name (“/” and “/ ” are not valid commands)
• core: fix memory leak when using multiple “-d” or “-r” in command line arguments
• core: don’t complain any more about “tmux” and “tmux-256color” $TERM values when WeeChat is running under tmux
• core: fix truncated messages after a word with a length of zero on screen (for example a zero width space: U+200B)
• api: fix handle of invalid escape in function string_convert_escaped_chars()
• alias: do not allow slashes and spaces in alias name
• irc: fix channel forwarding when option irc.look.buffer_open_before_{autojoin|join} is on
• irc: add a missing colon before the password in PASS message, if the password has spaces or begins with a colon
• irc: fix charset decoding in incoming private messages
• irc: display the arrow before server name in raw buffer
• irc: fix display of messages sent to server in raw buffer
• irc: fix display of invalid UTF-8 chars in raw buffer
• relay: display the arrow before client id and protocol in raw buffer
• ruby: fix load of scripts requiring “uri” (
• ruby: fix Ruby detection when pkg-config is not installed
• tests: fix locale used to execute tests

Installation instructions:

WeeChat is available via PPA, so the Ubuntu users can get the latest versions of the app on their systems easily. Just add the ppa to the system, refresh the repository index and install the weechat package.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nesthib/weechat-stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install weechat

If you are unhappy with weechat, you can remove it:

$ sudo apt-get remove weechat

The instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf,Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x and Elementary OS 0.3 Freya.

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With KDE Plasma 5.6 released, the developers are now making plans for Plasma 5.7. According to https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5, the major release will become available starting with July 5, 2016, three maintenance releases for KDE Plasma 5.6 being scheduled until then.

The repository freeze will be reached on the June 2, the final freeze on June 16, when the beta version will get released as well.

After that, KDE Plasma 5.7.1 will be released on July 12, KDE Plasma 5.7.2 on July 19, KDE Plasma 5.7.3, on August 3, KDE Plasma 5.7.4 on August 23and KDE Plasma 5.7.5 on September 27.

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As we have previously written, Debian 8.4 Jessie has been released in all the traditional flavors: Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, LXDE and Gnome.

After that, the installation-only ISO images were created and after one more day, the Debian Project has managed to generate all the Debian GNU/Linux 8.4 Live flavors.

If you have Debian Jessie on your system, you can get the latest upgrades by running the upgrade command:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

But if you don’t have a version of Debian Jessie installed, but want to try it, you need the Live Images, which are available here.

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As you may know, RedNotebook is a journal app, with calendar support. Among others, it allows the users to add tags, use bold and italic characters, has support for images, spell check features, automatic saving and backup functions, and many others.

The latest version available is RedNotebook 1.12, which has been released recently, coming with changes.

• Add option to hide right-hand tags pane
• Never overwrite externally changed month files
• Remove support for Python 2.6.

Installation instructions:

Up to date packages are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu systems is easy. Add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the rednotebook package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rednotebook/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install rednotebook

Optional, to remove rednotebook, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove rednotebook

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As you may know, Wine Staging is a special version of Wine that provides support for projects like Pipelight. The Pipelight developer forked wine into wine-staging and included some Pipelight-specific enhancements and some other features not present in the regular wine software.

Among others, it brings support for Nvidia graphics cards with support for CUDA, PhysX and NVENC plus CSMT to improve graphics performance and a few others.

The latest version available is Wine Staging 1.9.7, which has been recently released, bringing changes:

• Enable the correct dialog owner in DIALOG_DoDialogBox
• Implement support for converting 16 bit depth to 24 bit in msvidc32
• Allow 320×240 as supported resolution in desktop mode
• Fix implementation of ICGetDisplayFormat
• Handle stack guard pages on x86_64
• Improve compatibility of IMILBitmapSource interface
• Fix IStream::Read() return value for partial reads
• Implement image hash verification in WinVerifyTrust
• Implement oleaut32.OleLoadPictureFile (GoodSync)
• Fix return value of RegNotifyChangeKeyValue for pending events
• Add support for paste in item context menu
• Fix implementation of cut file operation
• Recognize cut/copy/paste verb strings in context menus
• Add ‘New’ context menu handler registry entry for directories
• Add implementation for fsutil.exe hardlink command
• Add stub for ntoskrnl.IoGetDeviceAttachmentBaseRef
• Return stub interface from mf.MFCreateMediaSession

Installation instructions:

Up to date Wine Staging packages are available via the developer’s PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu is easy. Just add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the wine-staging package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging

If you want the 64 bit version of wine-staging also install the wine-staging-amd64 package:

$ sudo apt-get install wine-staging-amd64

Wine Staging can be used along wine because it installs in /opt/wine-staging, while the regular wine can be found in /opt/wine.

The installation instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.

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Qmmp is a popular open-source, cross-platform multimedia player, similar to Winamp and written in Qt. It has support for popular multimedia file formats, including MPEG1 layer 2/3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Opus, Native FLAC/Ogg FLAC, Musepack, WavePack, WMA, Midi.

Main features:

• XMMS and Winamp 2.x skins support
• 10-band equalizer
• MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+ streams support
• video playback via Mplayer
• lyrics (using lyrics.wikia.com)
• cover art
• CUE sheet support
• embedded CUE support (for FLAC and WavPack)
• multiple playlists
• playlist formats: m3u, pls, xspf
• ReplayGain support
• Last.fm/Libre.fm scrobbler
• audio formats conveter
• external programs execution on track change
• ReplayGain scanner

The latest version available is Qmmp 1.0.5, which brings the below changes:

• added ffmpeg 3.0 support;
• added support for theme change event in the qsui plugin;
• fixed sendig multiple play commands when opening several files for playback;
• fixed memory leaks;
• fixed Qt 5.6 support (1.0.7 only).

Installation instructions:

The latest Qmmp builds are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu should be a piece of cake. You just need to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the qmmp and qmmp-plugin-pack packages:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack

Optional, to remove qmmp and qmmp-plugin-pack, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack

The instructions should work on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems.

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Due to the fact that I do not have enough time to keep the website up to date, I plan to sell it to somebody capable of doing better work than me.

The website has 6700+ articles, including tutorials and news and about 5000-6000 unique visitors daily.

The website și approved by Google Adsense and Media.net and has not been banned on any other “ad site”.

I sell the domain name and the content, allowing the buyer to move it to a new hosting account. Also, I will give the buyer all my 500+ Linux, tech and related bookmarks.

Feel free to make price offers via email. razvan.lupitu at gmail.com

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As you may know, Thunderbird is an open-source e-mail client and chat client developed by Mozilla. Among others, it has support for email addresses, newsgroup, news feed and chat (XMPP, IRC, Twitter) Client, managing multiple accounts. Also, it has support for different themes and its power can be extended by plugins.

The latest version available is Thunderbird 45.0, which brings changes and new features.

New:

• Add a Correspondents column combining Sender and Recipient
• Much better support for XMPP chatrooms and commands.
• Remote content exceptions: Improved options to add exceptions.
• Implement option to always use HTML formatting to prevent unexpected format loss when converting messages to plain text.
• Use OpenStreetmap for maps (even allow the user to choose from list of map services)
• Allow spell checking and dictionary selection in the subject line
• Allow editing of From when composing a message.
• Add dropdown in compose to allow specific setting of font size.
• Return/Enter in composer will now insert a new paragraph by default (shift-Enter will insert a line break)
• Allow copying of name and email address from the message header of an email
• Mail.ru supports OAuth authentication.

Fixed:

• Fixed: When sending e-mail which was composed using Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters, unwanted extra spaces were inserted within the text.
• Spell checker checked spelling in invisible HTML parts of the message.
• When saving a draft that is edited as new message, original draft was overwritten.
• External images not displayed in reply/forward
• Crashed in some cases while parsing IMAP messages.
• Properly preserve pre-formatted blocks in message replies.
• Copy/paste from a plain text editor lost white-space (multiple spaces/blanks, tabs, newlines)
• “Open Draft”/”Forward”/”Edit As New”/”Reply” created message composition with incorrect character encoding.
• Fixed: Grouped By view sort direction change was broken, plus enabled custom column grouping.
• Fixed: New emails into a mailbox did not adhere to sort order by received.
• Fixed: Box.com attachments failed to upload.
• Fixed: Drag and drop of multiple attachments failed to OS file folder.
• XMPP had connection problems for users with large rosters

Installation instructions:

Mozilla does not provide a repository for  Thunderbird, but the installation steps are quite easy anyway and should not create difficulties on any Linux distribution.

The latest versions of Thunderbird are available as pre-compiled libraries via the Mozilla FTP, so we need to download the archive (i386 or i686 for 32 bit systems and amd64 or x86_64 for 64 bit systems), extract  it and run the thunderbird file. Also, it is advised to remove previous versions of Thundebird, move Thunderbird to /opt and create a symlink, for an easier usage.

The below instructions should work on all the popular Linux systems, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc.

How to install Thunderbird on 32 bit Linux systems:

$ wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/45.0/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-45.0.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf thunderbird*.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird*
$ sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird

To start Thunderbird, just open a terminal, type thunderbird and hit enter.

How to install Thunderbird on 64 bit Linux systems:

$ wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/45.0/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-45.0.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf thunderbird*.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird*
$ sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird.beta
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird.beta/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird

To start Thunderbird 38, just open a terminal, type thunderbird and hit enter.

Note: This will replace the version of Thunderbird you have already on your system with Thunderbird 38.

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