diff --git a/mail-client/betterbird-bin/Manifest b/mail-client/betterbird-bin/Manifest
index a81dd0eb74..d0faa50371 100644
--- a/mail-client/betterbird-bin/Manifest
+++ b/mail-client/betterbird-bin/Manifest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DIST betterbird-140.12.0esr-bb24.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz 71144740 BLAKE2B c80828fc5977d90452340a7cecb22b43227d775144986c410b120b22bbea80ed1d5a249dfaa976ffbd61667abf1c73d009f4f5025876c79e6d5e61acc8ea34d8 SHA512 078dd0ad4e9733eb3858eb2bd644a4920b2e68d3fd1e362604d7f691da75ddda4f006ab1953bbab2bebd286b34a83e60bc7dafd3bd384dc037800eb060cc7e88
+DIST betterbird-153.2.0esr-bb8.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz 81680228 BLAKE2B 4d8593a1999252bcc881681f8daca576fc1d45cbc80ce1b7ea7c51964d4b120e431f5a00e924d7e37b4b8a5b75f9f0d5956dcbf5a01d248b721efef4349ffee6 SHA512 5e3c70de58642f65b237b68d9e61df90fb8bd4f3c3e963ed2ad7826e673779314dd459472fb68b695914c97cee46d12dd23667a8ceab0cb5235e598c28143ab2
diff --git a/mail-client/betterbird-bin/betterbird-bin-140.12.0.ebuild b/mail-client/betterbird-bin/betterbird-bin-153.2.0.ebuild
similarity index 94%
rename from mail-client/betterbird-bin/betterbird-bin-140.12.0.ebuild
rename to mail-client/betterbird-bin/betterbird-bin-153.2.0.ebuild
index bf73e820e9..242823d291 100644
--- a/mail-client/betterbird-bin/betterbird-bin-140.12.0.ebuild
+++ b/mail-client/betterbird-bin/betterbird-bin-153.2.0.ebuild
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-# Copyright 2024-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2024-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
 
 inherit desktop xdg
 
-DESCRIPTION="Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird."
+DESCRIPTION="Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/ https://betterbird.eu/"
-SRC_URI="https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/betterbird-${PV}esr-bb24.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz"
+SRC_URI="https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/betterbird-${PV}esr-bb8.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz"
 
 S="${WORKDIR}"
 LICENSE="MPL-2.0"
diff --git a/mail-client/betterbird-bin/metadata.xml b/mail-client/betterbird-bin/metadata.xml
index ff065e4e64..0af85c536d 100644
--- a/mail-client/betterbird-bin/metadata.xml
+++ b/mail-client/betterbird-bin/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
                 <email>justin026@protonmail.com</email>
                 <name>Justin</name>
         </maintainer>
+        <maintainer type="person">
+                <email>nado@troglodyte.be</email>
+                <name>nado</name>
+        </maintainer>
         <upstream>
                 <remote-id type="github">Betterbird/thunderbird-patches</remote-id>
         </upstream>