A quick reminder as part of the blog re-design on March 10th, the Upcoming Firefox & Thunderbird Releases are no longer listed in the side bar. They are now on their own dedicated page under the Upcoming link in the header (just below the logo).
Monday, March 19, 2007
Reminder: Upcoming Releases Moved
Major Update Status
Thought I should let y’all know about the status of The Major Update, you know that wonderful (at least ideally it is) feature which is suppose to allow users to go from Fx 1.5.0.X to 2.0.0.X as an update. Well, I have no idea what is going on with this. Discussion on this feature seems to have disappeared from the Weekly Update meetings a couple weeks ago. When I was looking around on the mozillaZine forums I came across this humorous (but sadly true) post from the the-edmeister in the Update to v 2.0.0.2 does not work thread. This was in reference to the previous poster pedestrian who had commented the latest date was mid-late March.:
The date has been mid-something since mid-December
Fx 3.0a3/Gecko 1.9a3???
A couple weeks ago during the Fx 3 2007/03/06 Update, it was mentioned that Fx 3.0a3/Gecko 1.9a3 was being targeted for March 20th. Doesn’t look like that is going to happen. Actually, the 20th is really and odd date when you consider it falls on a Tuesday this month and that is the day Mozilla holds the Fx 3 status meetings. Further reviewing last weeks Fx 3 Status and the Gecko 1.9a3 Meeting notes I saw no mention of a release date. The only thing I did see was a couple patches, one of those was for the memory leak regressions and that was planned for Friday (March 16th). The next Fx 3 meeting is tomorrow (March 20th), so may be then there will be new info as to when Alpha 3 will be released.
Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 Due 03/20
Note: Fx 1.5.0.11/2.0.0.3 are security updates which include fixes for six major issues including the Password Manger Vulnerability bug.
As mentioned earlier today in the Weekly Update 2007-03-19 post, Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 RC’s were pushed out to users on the “Beta” (update) channel last week. Everything has gone well with these release thus far so Mozilla plans on making the final releases on Tuesday (03/20). They plan to go live with Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 around 4:00 PM Pacific (7:00 PM Eastern) which means this is when getfirefox.com will be updated to show the most recent version as the 2.0.0.3 build as well as the all-older link reflects 1.5.0.11
However, these builds may be placed out on the FTP server earlier in the day. While these may be the “final builds” it is best to wait until it has been updated on getfirefox.com or the all-older sections. Further if you are on the “release” (update) channel, you likely won’t be offered an upgrade until may be Wednesday or Thursday. The delay in the auto-update is done to prevent users from experiencing errors due to high traffic on the servers while trying to obtain the update.
Also, as is standard practice (why I am not sure) Release Notes are usually published the following day (in this case Wednesday, March 21st). However, once you have successfully installed the update you should (never seems to work on the nightlies) get a What’s New Page when they restart Firefox after installing the update.
One final note, tomorrow’s release only applies to Firefox. There will not be a Thunderbird 1.5.0.11 (there will be a TB 1.5.0.12 in the coming weeks) release.
Weekly Update 2007-03-19
Big news from today’s Weekly Update meeting:
- Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 – A release candidate (RC) was pushed out to users who were on the ‘Beta’ update channel last week. These users had downloaded a ‘Beta’ version of Firefox 2 in the past. The reports from these users have been good so far. So, if all goes as planned, Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 will be released tomorrow afternoon/evening (around 4:00 PM Pacific/7:00 PM Eastern).
- Fx/TB 1.5.0.12 & Fx 2.0.0.4 - Development has begun and should know more about the release schedule by next week’s meeting. These will be the next regular security/stability releases.
- Fx 3.0a3/Gecko 1.9a3 – Fx 3 and Gecko 1.9 meetings are Tuesday and Wednesday (in that order).
- Thunderbird 2 – Building of an RC is set to begin this Wednesday, not sure when this will be released or if it too will be pushed out over the ‘Beta’ channel.
Info Source: Mozilla Weekly Update
