Mozilla Project Weekly Status: August 3, 2009

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO)

  • 5.0.8 launches this week
  • 5.0.9
    • Bandwagon Phase II
    • Contributions updates aimed at making Contributions more visible without bad surprises
  • Jetpack Gallery
  • AMO and Fennec
    • Wiki created to track changes

FIREFOX

  • Firefox 3.0.13
    • original Firefox 3.0.13 release is now Firefox 3.0.14
    • short cycle release to fix new issues announced at BlackHat and Defcon
    • shipping today
  • Firefox 3.0.14
    • code freeze is tomorrow at 11:59pm
    • targeting early September ship date
  • Firefox 3.5.2
    • release includes fixes for new issues announced at BlackHat and Defcon
    • shipping today
  • Firefox 3.5.3
    • code freeze is in one week on Tuesday, August 11, 11:59pm
    • targeting early September ship date in sync with 3.0.14
  • Firefox 3.6
    • Tree is open, but code freeze is imminent, waiting on the conclusion of the last few blockers.
    • Featuring:
      • interruptible reflow
      • content sink refactoring
      • compositor phase 1
      • performance and responsiveness fixes
      • support for Aero Peek (maybe?)

GECKO

  • Gecko 1.9.2
    • Wrapping up remaining blockers for 1.9.2 alpha freeze.
    • Still putting the final touches on, but Chris Jones is wrapping up the remaining work on Infallible malloc Stage 1. Read more here. Hopefully, this will result in a significant reduction in code size (some say 10%), reduce the need to do OOM checking manually, and can be a security improvement (unhandled malloc() failures can be exploitable, etc)
    • Turned on chrome JIT today (bug 500304).

THUNDERBIRD

  • Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 / Gecko 1.8.1.23
    • hoping to freeze this week
    • possibly shipping at the end of this week, more likely early next week
  • TBird 3.0b3 (Shredder)
    • No Report

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