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SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta releasedSeaMonkey 1.0 Beta releasedPosted Dec 23, 2005 13:08 UTC (Fri) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987)In reply to: SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta released by bk Parent article: SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta released
Well, for one, the Mozilla Foundation told us if we (as a new team) take over the project, we need to 1) chose a different name than "Mozilla", 2) need to use different versioning than Mozilla Application Suite (i.e. the release that would have been Mozilla 1.8 under their governing _must_ have some other version number than "1.8"). Both are needed so that for users, there is a clear distinction between Mozilla-Foundation-governed "Mozilla [Application Suite]" releases and SeaMonkey-Council-governed "SeaMonkey" releases.
As it's a new project (and we need time to mature as such), a new team driving the project and application development, we decided to start all over with a 1.0 version as first release (of course with alpha and beta versions before final, as usual). The Gecko version number one can see in the user agent string is still 1.8 though, the same as you see in the Firefox 1.5 UA string.
That step is not unparalleled, as e.g. Firefox and Thunderbird stepped "back" in their version numbers from the 1.7.x suite to do their respective 1.0 versions about a year ago. And Linux users, as we all are here, should be used to have differently versioned parts of their apps all over the system anyways ;-)
As a side note, Firefox will very likely stay ahead of us in version numbering, as they're working on 2.0 (based on Gecko 1.8.1) and 3.0 (based on Gecko 1.9) in parallel, while we'll be more conservative in version updates, developing SeaMonkey 1.1 and 1.5 from those two strings of development.
Robert Kaiser
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