Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.16 – December 2010 Firefox 3.6.13 – December 2010 Firefox 4.0b7 – November 2010 Firefox 4.0rc1 – 2nd Half of October behind schedule Firefox 4.0 – Early 2011

C|Net is reporting Mozilla has delayed the release of Firefox 4.0 until early 2011.  Further, sill no definitive word on when Beta 7 is going to be released other than ‘Early November’. Though the nightly builds for the Firefox 4 are being numbered as 4.0b8 pre. The updated schedule for Firefox 4 is also showing there will be Beta 8, Beta 9 and Beta 10 to be released before year-end. The first Release Candidate (RC) build should be sometime in early 2011.

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

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