Firefox and Thunderbird updates for armv7hl

Posted on July 13, 2025 by marja

Written by katnatek.

This is an unusual post… As we warned in the past updates MGASA-2025-01951, MGASA-2025-01972 and MGASA-2025-02013, the updates for Firefox and Thunderbird could not be delivered for armv7hl for a long time.

The issue had two causes. The first one, noticed during the QA process for the linked Security Advisories, was produced by a bug in the tools used to build Firefox for this architecture4.

The second one was harder to squash, and we were on the verge of informing you that we could not continue updating these software products in Mageia 9 for the armv7hl architecture.

But then, Pascal Terjan (one of our packagers), found a patch in the Debian community for exactly the same issue (a Rust component was using the fat link time optimization)

Firefox is now updated in all architectures, in both Mageia 9 and Cauldron, to the 128.12.0 ESR version – an upgrade from 115.13.0 on armv7hl – and Thunderbird will follow once version 128.12 is ready.

  1. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0195.html ↩︎
  2. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0197.html ↩︎
  3. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0201.html ↩︎
  4. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34422 ↩︎

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3 Responses to Firefox and Thunderbird updates for armv7hl

  1. MageiaTJ, Mageia QA Team Leader says:
    July 13, 2025 at 10:41 pm

    Many thanks to katnatek, recently certified as a Mageia developer, for sticking with this issue until a solution was found and implemented.

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