AlbertPacino
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Asa Dotzler has posted some plans for the forthcoming Mozilla Firefox 1.1, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.1 and XULRunner releases to the netscape.public.mozilla.seamonkey newsgroup. Firefox 1.1 will be the first major update to the Mozilla Foundation's flagship Web browser since November. Similarly, Thunderbird 1.1 will be the first major revision to the email, newsgroups and RSS/Atom client since its 1.0 release in December. XULRunner is a relatively new technology that is designed to make it easier to develop and deploy standalone Mozilla-based applications.
At the moment, the main Mozilla development trunk is frozen, meaning that only changes approved by drivers@mozilla.org can be checked in. The next milestone is Gecko 1.8 Beta 2, which will form the basis of the next Firefox, Thunderbird and XULRunner test releases. The Firefox test release from this cycle, previously referred to as the Firefox 1.1 Developer Preview or Firefox 1.1 Alpha, will be called the Deer Park Developer Preview (Deer Park is the codename for Firefox 1.1). This name is intended to discourage end users from downloading it. The Deer Park Developer Preview will aimed primarily at developers and any major extension development or Web development changes should be finalised by then.
The trunk will remain frozen as progress continues towards the Gecko 1.8 Beta 3 milestone, which is scheduled for around five weeks after the Deer Park Developer Preview. At this point, Firefox 1.1, Thunderbird 1.1 and XULRunner should be feature complete. In addition, a localisation freeze will come in to effect, meaning that changes to user interface text will be restricted. The Firefox and Thunderbird previews delivered from Gecko 1.8b3 will be more public with names like the Firefox General Preview. Both developers and interested end users will be encouraged to download and test them. A more public preview of XULRunner may also be released.
Following this, the trunk will remain frozen and no major changes to Firefox 1.1, Thunderbird 1.1 and XULRunner will be allowed. When the release team is confident that no major problems have arisen from the General Preview testing, a 1.8 branch will be created, allowing the trunk to reopen for 1.9 development. The final releases of Firefox 1.1, Thunderbird 1.1 and XULRunner will come from this branch, with a series of release candidates made available for testing first. The Firefox 1.1 release is likely to occur before the Thunderbird 1.1 and XULRunner releases.
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At the moment, the main Mozilla development trunk is frozen, meaning that only changes approved by drivers@mozilla.org can be checked in. The next milestone is Gecko 1.8 Beta 2, which will form the basis of the next Firefox, Thunderbird and XULRunner test releases. The Firefox test release from this cycle, previously referred to as the Firefox 1.1 Developer Preview or Firefox 1.1 Alpha, will be called the Deer Park Developer Preview (Deer Park is the codename for Firefox 1.1). This name is intended to discourage end users from downloading it. The Deer Park Developer Preview will aimed primarily at developers and any major extension development or Web development changes should be finalised by then.
The trunk will remain frozen as progress continues towards the Gecko 1.8 Beta 3 milestone, which is scheduled for around five weeks after the Deer Park Developer Preview. At this point, Firefox 1.1, Thunderbird 1.1 and XULRunner should be feature complete. In addition, a localisation freeze will come in to effect, meaning that changes to user interface text will be restricted. The Firefox and Thunderbird previews delivered from Gecko 1.8b3 will be more public with names like the Firefox General Preview. Both developers and interested end users will be encouraged to download and test them. A more public preview of XULRunner may also be released.
Following this, the trunk will remain frozen and no major changes to Firefox 1.1, Thunderbird 1.1 and XULRunner will be allowed. When the release team is confident that no major problems have arisen from the General Preview testing, a 1.8 branch will be created, allowing the trunk to reopen for 1.9 development. The final releases of Firefox 1.1, Thunderbird 1.1 and XULRunner will come from this branch, with a series of release candidates made available for testing first. The Firefox 1.1 release is likely to occur before the Thunderbird 1.1 and XULRunner releases.
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