Firefox and Thunderbird 17 long-term maintenance

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On the next, for the 20th November planned versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, there should also be an Extended Support Release (ESR), which wants to maintain the Mozilla Project 54 weeks parallel to the versions of the main development line. The maintenance of the current current ESR series based on version 10 of Firefox and Thunderbird will run for 12 weeks later on 12 From February 2013, as from the ESR FAQs indicate to Firefox and Thunderbird, as well as the current project schedule. The 24er versions should be for the next year inherited the legacy of the 17's series and one ESR.


The temporary parallel maintenance of two ESR lines can be a buffer to switch to the new ESR models, which allows air to adapt if necessary extensions, server software and web interface of the recent versions of the browser and mail client from the Mozilla project, before taking care of the present current ESR series ends. Firefox users who have not until mid-February to switch to a 17er-ESR version is, Firefox will offer to upgrade to version 19, which is revealed in a report by InternetNews.com, the Alex to a statement from the Mozilla Developer Keybl convenes.

Firefox and Thunderbird 10 were the earliest versions, the Mozilla project, under the term "ESR" maintained over a longer period. The Mozilla project was started, the EPR model earlier this year, which was a response to criticism from the institutional environment after Mozilla had switched in mid-2011 on a rolling-release model, where from the main development line every six weeks a new version showing how it was already in Chrome longer the case.

New versions of the ESR branch appear parallel to new versions of the main development line. Firefox 17 is approximately parallel to be released a new version of Firefox ESR 10, which should have a version number like 10.0.9esr (currently Firefox 15 and 10.0.7esr current), and six weeks later, Firefox should be 18, and 10.0 17.0.1esr appear .10 esr; latter ends with then six weeks later the care of the 10 series, if the Mozilla project not seen other versions in between shifts or nachlegt to stuff emerged during this period vulnerabilities quickly.

One for Mozilla project contributing developer has informed  that the project had rejected the plan, Firefox 10 ESR leave from mid-February recommend updating to Firefox 19, instead it will offer users an upgrade to the then current version of Firefox 17 ESR. The corresponding e-mail from Alex Keybl was however only ran through a distributor, of which there would be no public archive.

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