After some minor delays, Mozilla has pushed out Thunderbird 7.0 on the Beta Channel on August 26th. Also on August 17th, Thunderbird 8.0 was pushed out the Earlybird Channel and Thunderbird 9.0 out to the Daily Channel. You can move to the next version within your channel (Thunderbird 8 Daily to Thunderbird 9 Daily) by going to Help > About Thunderbird (or Earlybird or Daily). If you want to update manually you can get the builds here: Beta – Thunderbird 7.0 Earlybird/Aurora  – Thunderbird 8.0 Daily/Shredder – Thunderbird 9.0

On Tuesday, August 30th, Mozilla pushed out emergency updates for both Thunderbird 3.1 and 6.0. These updates revoke the root certificate for DigiNotar due to fraudulent SSL certificate issuance [Additional Details]. Thunderbird 3.1 users can update via Help > Check For Updates. Thunderbird 6.0 users can update via Help > About Thunderbird. Also updated versions of Thunderbird 3.1 and 6.0 can be downloaded: Thunderbird 3.1.13 Thunderbird 6.0.1 Note: Since Thunderbird 3.1 uses the old release process, all features, bug fixes, improvements, etc.planned for the upcoming Thunderbird 3.1.13 release on September 27th are being rolled over to Thunderbird 3.1.14. Source: Mozilla…

Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Releases Firefox 7 Final Release – September 27th Firefox 7 for Mobile Final Release – September 27th Firefox 8 Beta (8.0b1) – September 27th* Firefox 9 Aurora (9.0a2) – September 27th* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See the Wiki for more details.

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Just Released Firefox 3.6.20 – August 16th Firefox 6 – August 16th Firefox 6 for Mobile  – August 16th Firefox 7 Beta (7.0b1) – August 17th Firefox 7 Beta for Mobile (7.0b1) – August 17th Firefox 8 Aurora (8.0a2) – August 19th Firefox 8 Aurora for Mobile (8.0a2) – August 19th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Releases Firefox 7 Final Release – September 27th Firefox 7 for Mobile Final Release – September 27th Firefox 8 Beta (8.0b1) – September 27th* Firefox 9 Aurora (9.0a2) – September 27th* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for…

Firefox 9 is now available on the nightly channel. If you are already running Nightly (Firefox 8.0a1), you may be able to update by going to Nightly Button/Menu > Help > About Nightly. Otherwise you may be directed to the Nightly Download Page on Mozilla Central.