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This is interesting... seeing that the change list does indeed only show that bug 574905. What I'd find more interesting though, would be to find out why they

by shdon 16y ago

This is interesting... seeing that the change list does indeed only show that bug 574905. What I'd find more interesting though, would be to find out why they decided to skip Fx 3.6.5. There has been quite a number of bugs that was marked fixed with that code. I wonder if those are included in 3.6.6: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20status1.9.2%3A.5-fixed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20s...

shdon 16y ago
Hm. It looks like I get to answer the second part of my own question. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538909 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538909 is marked as .5-fixed, but the behaviour hasn't changed compared to 3.6.4
DEinspanjer 16y ago
3.6.5pre has been in dev and testing and not all of the changes put in it were validated so it isn't ready to ship yet. Rather than pushing out code that wasn't fully tested, or releasing a version called 3.6.5 that included different code from 3.6.5pre, they branched around it and released 3.6.6 with just the one change needed. I imagine they'll retire 3.6.5pre and move everything over to 3.6.7pre where they will continue working on the next release.
mbrubeck 16y ago
Firefox point releases are versioned to match Gecko platform releases: Gecko 1.9.2.4 -> Firefox 3.6.4 Gecko 1.9.2.6 -> Firefox 3.6.6 The Gecko 1.9.2.5 branch was created for a Mobile Firefox security release (Fennec 1.0.1). This did not affect Firefox 3.6, so there was no Firefox 3.6.5 release: http://christian.legnitto.com/blog/2010/06/09/heads-up-the-next-firefox-platform-version-is-1-9-2-6-instead-of-1-9-2-5/ http://christian.legnitto.com/blog/2010/06/09/heads-up-the-n... [Note: I am a member of the Mozilla Mobile team.]
- DEinspanjer 16y ago
  Interesting. guess I should keep my half baked theories to myself. :) That said.. I wonder what in the world the browsers reporting themselves as 3.6.5pre actually are...
  - mbrubeck 16y ago
    The "pre" version numbers are used for nightlies and are not always kept up to date. For example, current nightlies are still labeled "3.7a6pre" even though Firefox 3.7 was renamed Firefox 4 weeks ago, and the next release will probably be Firefox 4.0b1.

by shdon 16y ago

shdon 16y ago

Hm. It looks like I get to answer the second part of my own question. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538909 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538909 is marked as .5-fixed, but the behaviour hasn't changed compared to 3.6.4

DEinspanjer 16y ago

3.6.5pre has been in dev and testing and not all of the changes put in it were validated so it isn't ready to ship yet. Rather than pushing out code that wasn't fully tested, or releasing a version called 3.6.5 that included different code from 3.6.5pre, they branched around it and released 3.6.6 with just the one change needed. I imagine they'll retire 3.6.5pre and move everything over to 3.6.7pre where they will continue working on the next release.

mbrubeck 16y ago

Firefox point releases are versioned to match Gecko platform releases: Gecko 1.9.2.4 -> Firefox 3.6.4 Gecko 1.9.2.6 -> Firefox 3.6.6 The Gecko 1.9.2.5 branch was created for a Mobile Firefox security release (Fennec 1.0.1). This did not affect Firefox 3.6, so there was no Firefox 3.6.5 release: http://christian.legnitto.com/blog/2010/06/09/heads-up-the-next-firefox-platform-version-is-1-9-2-6-instead-of-1-9-2-5/ http://christian.legnitto.com/blog/2010/06/09/heads-up-the-n... [Note: I am a member of the Mozilla Mobile team.]

DEinspanjer 16y ago
Interesting. guess I should keep my half baked theories to myself. :) That said.. I wonder what in the world the browsers reporting themselves as 3.6.5pre actually are...
- mbrubeck 16y ago
  The "pre" version numbers are used for nightlies and are not always kept up to date. For example, current nightlies are still labeled "3.7a6pre" even though Firefox 3.7 was renamed Firefox 4 weeks ago, and the next release will probably be Firefox 4.0b1.