The last checkin for known issues in 1.5rc1 completed tonight at around 7PM PDT. Work will now begin on final testing, certification, packaging, and completion of l10n builds. This should take approximately 4 days - putting the 1.5rc1 release date at Tuesday, Nov 1.
The branch is currently locked down for all but approved checkins. We are still tracking a handful of changes here that need to land before we have candidate builds. Three of those bugs (313040, 304857, 313605) do not affect the client code and thus won’t block Firefox candidate builds. That leaves […]
Reminder that this Sunday at 11:59 PDT is the code lockdown for 1.5rc1. We are almost there - just 12 bugs left on the blocker list and most of them have patches under review.
Now that Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5 beta 2 have been released, extension authors should begin checking their extensions for compatibility, and update the extension maxVersion number appropriately for the 1.5 final release.
Security and stability releases of Firefox and Thunderbird will be numbered
1.5.0.1
1.5.0.2
1.5.0.3
These security/stability releases will be API-compatible with Firefox 1.5; extensions that are compatible with […]
The Release Candidate should contain no known bugs that would prevent it from being released as the 1.5 final. This means we truly need to resolve all blocker bugs before the release candidate or defer those bugs into a release post 1.5 final.
Our schedule for rc1 was posted previously here:
http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2005/08/30/9-days-untill-15-beta/
The […]
Hey Folks,
Friendly reminder that 11:59pm tonight (Monday) we are locking down the tree for 1.5b2. 1.5b2 is scheduled to be released this Weds, October 5, 2005.