Coding misstep forces new Firefox release (News.com)

Coding misstep forces new Firefox release (News.com)

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.