Now that Fedora is using the (monthly) release channel for Thunderbird, is it possible for more timely releases like for Firefox? On Fedora 44, the latest package is currently 149.0.1 even though 151.0 has been released.
Thanks 
Thanks for the reminder,
I’m updating now
firefox x86_64 0:151.0.1-1.fc44 updates 274.3 MiB
replacing firefox x86_64 0:150.0.3-1.fc44 updates 270.1 MiB
My update is a 0.1 ahead of your sources 
What’s interesting is that Fedora’s Flatpak version, which is based on its RPM counterpart AFAIK, is on version 1.5.0 already. Thunderbird from Flathub is obviously on the latest version:
$ flatpak search thunderbird --columns=name,application,version,remotes
Name Application ID Version Remotes
Thunderbird org.mozilla.thunderbird 151.0 flathub
Thunderbird net.thunderbird.Thunderbird 150.0 fedora
[...]
EDIT: Thunderbird as Flatpak might be built from rawhide:
$ dnf list thunderbird --refresh --showduplicates --releasever=rawhide
Updating and loading repositories:
Fedora rawhide - x86_64 - Updates 100% | 4.6 KiB/s | 13.1 KiB | 00m03s
Fedora rawhide openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 100% | 687.0 B/s | 986.0 B | 00m01s
Fedora rawhide - x86_64 100% | 15.9 KiB/s | 13.1 KiB | 00m01s
Repositories loaded.
Available packages (available for reinstall, available for upgrade)
thunderbird.x86_64 150.0.2-1.fc45 fedora
thunderbird.x86_64 150.0.2-1.fc45 updates
I don’t think the OP is asking about Firefox, but rather about Thunderbird’s non-ESR release. They just referenced for comparison purposes Firefox’s frequent update approach within Fedora, which keeps up with upstream’s releases.
Yea, I misread the question, my Thunderbird is 149.0.1
We often get this question.
The Koji server shows Fedora 45 has a build for 151.0-1 just recently (Build Started May 21)
So Fedora 44 is likely to get it soon too
I completely misread OP’s question.
Sorry for that. I reverted the tags and deleted my off topic post.
btw, this would be a question for Project Discussion
Hopefully what you say is true for this particular release, but my point is that updates have been somewhat inconsistent (i.e. some have been skipped) and others have taken a lot longer than the corresponding Firefox release. As it turns out I found a few Koji builds of 150.0.2 for Fedora 44 but for some reason these were never pushed to Bodhi for testing.
Sorry for the poor wording of my original post.
I don’t suppose it’s possible to move this thread to that category?
We have limited tags we can use in that category. We could use package-maintainers, but that would notify all of them.
The Thunderbird maintainers are aware of peoples want for a faster cadence, they may have reasons for why it is as it is.
Mozilla now has a repo for the latest Firefox, maybe Thunderbird in in there too?
There is a lot of activity:
in both 150 and 151, I don’t see a reason why they’d only upgrade Fedora 45 but not 44
My Thunderbird is 140.10.2esr (64-bit), installed from Flathub. How do I get a more updated version?
You would need to uninstall the ESR version and install the release version. Unfortunately the app metadata doesn’t provide different descriptions to these, so in the software managers one just sees multiple similar entries for Thunderbird, and would have to select each one, on order to identify which one is which.
Or you could issue the following terminal command:
$ flatpak uninstall org.mozilla.Thunderbird && \
flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.thunderbird
Be careful with that because 149+ uses a different format to store your e-mails and stuff. It is also no longer in the directory org.mozilla.thunderbird but in net.thunderbird.Thunderbird. Once you start using that newer version there is no way back.
Right, but given that the ESR and the release version of Thunderbird use different app IDs, this shouldn’t be an issue, as long as messages are stored on the mail server as well and connected via IMAP. I see how this can be a problem for local folders/messages though.
For the sake of accuracy, net.thunderbird.Thunderbird is the app ID used by Fedora for the release version. Upstream (Flathub) uses org.mozilla.thunderbird for the same version, and both Fedora and Flathub use org.mozilla.Thunderbird for the ESR version.
An esr suffix in the app ID would have been a better choice IMO, but this is not really a solution now, given that the app has been distributed with the current app ID.
