Coding misstep forces new Firefox release (News.com) [LWN.net]

News.com follows the story behind recent and upcoming releases of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. "The open-source Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client will be updated for the second time in a week because of code changes that have unintentionally stopped some third-party extensions from functioning correctly. The updates will take Firefox and Thunderbird to version 1.0.6, while the Mozilla Suite will be updated to version 1.7.10 ..."

Coding misstep forces new Firefox release (News.com)

Posted Jul 18, 2005 23:43 UTC (Mon) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link] (1 responses)

Why will Seamonkey be updated to 1.7.10? They didn't even bother putting out a 1.7.9 release to fix the security issues that were present in 1.7.8 as well as Firefox 1.0.4.

Which, of course, really speaks volumes about their attitude in itself - but the point is, why call it 1.7.10 when there's no 1.7.9?

Coding misstep forces new Firefox release (News.com)

Posted Jul 19, 2005 0:57 UTC (Tue) by JoeF (guest, #4486) [Link]

Well, my understanding is that 1.7.9 has the same problems. They learned about their mishap before they released it and to avoid any confusion they are bumping up all the version numbers.
On the enigmail mailing list, they were quoted as this:
Hey guys, we royally screwed up on Thunderbird 1.0.5 and we are truly truly sorry about it. We detected the Enigmail breakage, quickly rebuilt with the change backed out, and then in the confusion shipped the original broken version. (We intended to ship the 2005-07-12 afternoon builds, but released the 2005-7-11 bits instead).
I have actually read that there are different FF/TB 1.0.5 versions out. Suse apparently used the "correct" version for their package system.

Coding misstep forces new Firefox release (News.com)

Posted Jul 20, 2005 1:26 UTC (Wed) by JoeF (guest, #4486) [Link]

Both FF and TB 1.0.6 are now out.