Thunderbird moving to monthly updates in March

The Thunderbird project has announcedthat it is making its Releasechannel the default download beginning with the 135.0 release inMarch. This will move users to major monthly releases instead of theannual major Extended Support Release (ESR) that is the currentdefault.

One of our goals for 2025 is to increase active installations on therelease channel to at least 20% of the total installations. At lastcheck, we had 29,543 active installations on the release channel,compared to 20,918 on beta, and 5,941 on daily. The release channelinstallations currently account for 0.27% of the 10,784,551 totalactive installations tracked on stats.thunderbird.net.