[CentOS-devel] Fwd: [CentOS] CentOS 7: Missing Thunderbird Updates

Wed Nov 30 17:41:17 UTC 2022
Chris Schanzle <chris.schanzle at nist.gov>

Thanks for the reference, Simon.  [tl;dr: delays due to CentOS folks repeating tremendous effort RH already solved.]  While I am grateful for everyone's time and efforts, it is hard to understand why there isn't more technology transfer within RH to the CentOS folks if they're one big happy family.  And disappointing there is no communication on this issue here.

With vulnerable internet-interacting apps like Thunderbird and Firefox (possibly others), IMHO CentOS 7 is unsafe for general use.  Effectively EOL.  I'm sad, but no time for self pity when there's work to replace the OS on our systems...

Thank you, CentOS team.  Incredible success for many years - I've enjoyed the ride with you.


On 11/30/22 3:45 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
> OK, this is a known issue as seen here:
>
> https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=79706
>
> Seems then that all users of CentOS 7 are at risk if they are using
> Firefox or Thunderbird on it.
>
> And that's for three months now. Not good.
>
> Dear Red Hat, how can you left us in the rain that way?
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>>> [No response on CentOS list, so trying CentOS-devel.]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>> Subject: 	[CentOS] CentOS 7: Missing Thunderbird Updates
>>>> Date: 	Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:33:56 -0500
>>>> From: 	Chris Schanzle via CentOS <centos at centos.org>
>>>> Reply-To: 	Chris Schanzle <christopher.schanzle at nist.gov>, CentOS
>>>> mailing
>>>> list <centos at centos.org>
>>>> To: 	CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Looks like CentOS 7 hasn't shipped Thunderbird updates for a while.
>>>> The
>>>> latest I see in repos is:
>>>>
>>>> Sep  1 15:22 thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
>>>>
>>>> Perusing through the RHEL announcements, that was from the
>>>> RHSA-2022:6169-01 on 2022-08-24.  Seems none of the 102.x versions have
>>>> shipped:
>>>>
>>>> 2022-09-26 RHSA-2022:6710-01 thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
>>>>
>>>> 2022-10-18 RHSA-2022:6998-01 thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
>>>>
>>>> 2022-10-25 RHSA-2022:7184-01 thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And for completeness, just announced today:
>>>>
>>>> 2022-11-21 RHSA-2022:8555-01 thunderbird-102.5.0-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
>>>>
>>> The same seems true for firefox, which is still at
>>> firefox-91.13.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.
>>>
>>> Was it not updated in RHEL7?
>> It was, at least Oracle Linux has firefox-102.5.0-1.0.1.el7_9.src.rpm
>>
>> I was already worried because firefox on CentOS7 as aged a bit...
>>
>> Simon
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