Released This Month Thunderbird 3.0.9 – October 19, 2010 Thunderbird 3.1.5 – October 19, 2010 Thunderbird 3.0.10 – October 27, 2010 Thunderbird 3.1.6 – October 27, 2010 Schedule Next Month NONE Future Releases Thunderbird 3.0.11 – December 2010 Thunderbird 3.1.7 – December 2010
October 2010
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Just Released Firefox 3.5.15 – October 27, 2010 Firefox 3.6.12 – October 27, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.16 – Early December Firefox 3.6.13 – Early December Future Release Firefox 4.0b7 – 2nd Half of September behind schedule Firefox 4.0rc1 – 2nd Half of October behind schedule Firefox 4.0 – TBA
Mozilla Messaging has released emergency updates to both Thunderbird 3.0 & 3.1 on October 27th. From Mozilla Developer’s News, “These releases fixed a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution. This issue does not affect email or newsgroups but could be triggered through browser-like features or add-ons.“ For more information and to download: Thunderbird 3.0.10 Release Notes. Thunderbird 3.1.6 Release Notes. IMPORTANT! Support for Thunderbird 3.0 is ending soon. Upgrade to Thunderbird 3.1
Mozilla released an emergency update for Firefox 3.5on October 27th. From Mozilla Developer’s News: These releases fix a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution. We have received reports from several security research firms that exploit code leveraging this vulnerability has been detected in the wild. Thanks to Mozilla’s industry-leading open security process the fix has been created, tested, and released to users within 48 hours of first notification about the vulnerability. See the Release Notes for more information. Auto-updates should be occurring in the next 24-48 hours, otherwise users may get the latest update by going…
Mozilla has released an emergency update to Firefox 3.6 on October 27th. From Mozilla Developer’s News: These releases fix a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution. We have received reports from several security research firms that exploit code leveraging this vulnerability has been detected in the wild. Thanks to Mozilla’s industry-leading open security process the fix has been created, tested, and released to users within 48 hours of first notification about the vulnerability. See the release notes for more details. User should soon be prompted to upgrade but can also can by going to the Help…
Back in January we reported, Mozilla had (and still does) indicated on the Firefox 3.5 download page “Firefox 3.5.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until August 2010.” At that time we were speculating that Firefox 3.7 (now 4.0) would be released by August 2010. With the release of 3.5.14 earlier this week we thought this was going to be the final release on the 3.5.X builds. Apparently not as seen in today’s Release Recap. Firefox 3.5.15 is scheduled (tentatively) for early December. Will this be the final build? That more than likely depends if Firefox 4 is…
Just Released Firefox 3.5.14 – October 19, 2010 Firefox 3.6.11 – October 19, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.15 – Early December Firefox 3.6.12 – Early December Future Release Firefox 4.0b7 – 2nd Half of September behind schedule Firefox 4.0rc1 – 2nd Half of October behind schedule Firefox 4.0 – TBA
Support for Thunderbird 3.0 will be ending with the release of Thunderbird 3.0.10 later this year. See Sunset Plan Announcement For Thunderbird 3.0.x for more details.
The other day I had a customer who’s site would not load in Internet Explorer. It would load in Firefox, but Internet Explorer would just choke and given an usual error saying it could not load the site. At first I thought may be it was a time-out issue as I could not duplicate on our internal network. Then the customer told me they tried to load their site at their local library and with Internet Explorer with the same results. I took a look at the site on the computer we have that is not connected to our internal…
While Mozilla did push out releases of updates for both Firefox 3.5 (likely the last) and Firefox 3.6 on October 19th, there still no word on when Firefox 4 Beta 7 is going to be released. Also, looks like Mozilla is going to miss the target for an October release of Firefox 4 Release Candidate 1 as originally projected.