May 12, 2008

New Firefox 3 Version Numbering

Back in December, it was announced Firefox 3 would be moving away from the traditional four-part numbering (ex Fx 2.0.0.*) to a three-part numbering (Fx 3.0.*). However at that time the numbering scheme was not yet supported on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). With RC of Firefox 3.0 (3.0Pre) coming available (on Minefield Trunk) AMO has made modifications to accept the new production version numbering. Firefox 2: 2.0 – 2.0.0.* Firefox 3: 3.0 – 3.0.* (Note: that with Firefox 3, it’s a three part version number) News Source: Basil’s Bodacious Blog

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Weekly Update 2008-05-12

Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.15 – Status: In Progress Code freeze: June 6 Builds start: June 9 QA starts: June 10 Release to beta channel: June 17 Final Release: June 24 Firefox 3 RC 1 QA starts: May 12 Release to beta channel: Final Release: Late May Gecko 1.9 RC 1 – No Report Lightning/Sunbird (Calendar Project) – No Report TBird 2.0.0.14 – Status: RELEASED Major Bug: Bug 431819 – IMAP/POP/SMTP with SSL client auth, Thunderbird repeatedly prompts for client certificate Reported: May 2 Confirmed: May 5 Assigned: May 10 TBird 2.0.0.15 – Currently working…

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