Here a few highlights from this week’s Weekly Update Meeting.
- Fx 2.0.0.5 & TBird 1.5.0.13/2.0.05 – Target official release date 07/31/07. Beta release 07/24/07
- Major Update (Fx 1.5.0.12 to 2.0.0.4) – Roll out delayed until 06/28/07 due to some issues with users losing home page and default search engine preferences.
- Fx 3 (A6)
- Places (Places team)
- down to the last few blockers for A6 freeze
- patch expected soon to hook up full text indexing to places
- UI specs being finalized, implementation already started
- lots of plumbing and blockers
- Site Specific Prefs (myk)
- Framework landed, available to UI and extensions
- Text zoom persistence landed
- Password Manager (dolske)
- Blocker fixes getting done, rewrite of FillDocument done (last of the problematic and baroque code)
- Tons of new test coverage
- mozStorage (sdwilsh)
- Updated sqlite to 3.3.17, lots of fixes and perf wins
- Addons Manager (Rob Strong, Mossop, mwu)
- better l10n support (bug 257155), still waiting on review, basically done
- backend for unifying plugin management (bug 382367), has new approach worked out between jst and mwu, work ongoing and expected for b1
- working securing updates in bug 378216, feedback welcome and encouraged
- Web Content Handling
- multiple patches in the pipeline (sdwilsh, myk, dmose)
- currently in progress: GET vs. POST discussion, prefs dialog updating
- Gecko 1.9
- GFX, Layout: Textframe enabled last week. Reflow regression fixes. Blocker focus continues.
- Thank you to those in the community who have helped to find leaks. Your efforts really help out. See this for more information on reporting leaks.
- Mac news: The Mac Focus bug in next on Josh’s list.
- A6 Code freeze is still planned for tomorrow (June 26).
- Welcome to Eli Friedman (elif)!
- TBird 3
- Mailnews no longer builds xpcom_obsolete (including nsFileSpec)! Kudos to bienvenu, Mark Banner, Phil and others who helped with the effort.
- Work continues on making mailnews support frozen linkage. This week: finding a frozen linkage replacement for nsTextFormatter (Bug #384979).
