We’re happy to announce that Mozilla Messaging has released Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 today. It’s available for download here. More information about Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 is here.
Thx to everyone that helped with this release. I’d like to specially thank some folks that made my job of being the release driver easier – Gozer for his build and IT work, Wayne for all his QA work, Raphael for his help with the web-site content, and Standard8 for his excellent documentation and help, which more than made up for his setting the bar so high with Alpha 3 
- David
[...] We released Thunderbird 3.0 beta 1 [...]
………..Although it hasnt been that long it feels like Ive been tracking the release of Thunderbird 3 forever. As things are looking now though its not going to be in that state much longer. As a whole TB 3.0 didnt look much different than 2.0 but thats not necessarily a bad thing.