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Further to our previous announcement, we’re continuing to work through evaluating where we’re at –in terms of meeting our branch criteria– and we’ll have an updated target date posted shortly.
/cbeard

It’s now clear that we’re *not* going to meet our criteria to branch for Gecko 1.8 by 11:59pm pdt on Tuesday, July 26th 2005.
Our original criteria included:
• Deer Park and Thunderbird 1.5 being “Feature Complete” and “String Complete”
• All l10n and build system dependencies resolved
• All major UI work completed
• No major bugs on the […]

We’re announcing this week that the next major release of both Firefox and Thunderbird will be version 1.5, instead of version 1.1 as previously announced. This change has been made to better reflect the level of fixes and feature enhancements which will be included in these releases. (Please note that despite […]

We are getting ready to release Firefox 1.0.6, Thunderbird 1.0.6, and Mozilla Suite 1.7.10 to address some API issues in the Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.5 releases, and we want to gather feedback on extension compatibility. There is a very real chance that some of the general security improvements may impact a number of extensions […]

As previously announced on the Mozilla Roadmap, now that Deer Park Alpha 2 and Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha 2 (1.8b3) have been released, drivers is planning on branching for Gecko 1.8. We will branch in approximately 10 days when we expect to meet the following criteria:

Deer Park and Thunderbird 1.1 are “feature complete” and […]

For increased security, Firefox will enable “XPCNativeWrappers” by default after Deer Park Alpha 2 in preparation for the Firefox 1.1 beta and final release. This may significantly impact extension authors, who may need to make configuration or code changes to securely provide functionality.
To understand XPCNativeWrappers, read the developer.mozilla.org article about securely access content objects from […]

We’ve now officially released Deer Park Alpha 2. Please download your copy now from one of the following links, and provide us with your feedback!
Windows: Deer Park Setup Alpha 2.exe
Linux: deerpark-alpha2.installer.tar.gz
Mac: Deer Park Alpha 2.dmg
This release of Deer Park contains:

Software update system to streamline product upgrades (currently disabled– will be turned on shortly for […]

We’re in the final rundown and barring any major regressions we’ll be releasing Deer Park Alpha 2 from these candidate builds later today:
Windows
Linux
Mac
The trunk will remain closed until the end of the day to allow for Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha 2-approved landings.

On Sunday we posted a set of release candidates for Deer Park Alpha 2 (1.8b3). This release milestone includes all major and significant features, whether pref’d on or off in order to achieve wider testing and to solicit quality feedback. This release will also be targeted at Extension, theme and web application developers […]