M9 Soon, Then Straight On To M11Thursday August 19th, 1999The tree has already been opened up to M10 builds, and a finalized M9 release is due soon. According to Jim Everingham of the mozilla development team, M10 feature work will continue, but there will be no M10 release, and they will continue work towards an M11 release. The M10 featureset should be completed by the end of August; M11 and a feature-freeze should occur September 21. The new plan is codenamed "Porkjet". Why? You can find out by reading Jim's newsgroup post. Thanks to Asa Dotzler for the news. why aren't they renaming M11 to M10 then?? ok this is not a very intelligent post but, I mean... it's jsut natural after 9, 10 Like the post says - it's a milestone, not a "milestone release". The milestone is still there, they just won't spend the time to polish it up. I don't recall M1 and M2 being released, not under that name anyway. Am I the only one who gets the joke? I wonder how many mozilla drummers have spontaneously combusted... If AOL really does intend to release Navigator 5.0 in December, that means about 3 months for optimization and bug quashing. I wonder how long for the beta, or if that's what's targeted in December. Drooling, drooling... According to the newsgroup post linked above, M11 is esentially Beta 1. I hope that means full release is still on track for December. The idea looks compressed somhow, and it bothers me that I can't even read the news post because it is not rendered enen reasonably by M8. And it is not really that complicated a page. So when will these be put to work? Encryption is (thanks to RSA and ITAR) going to be a propriatary feature (but see Cryptozilla.org (AU site :-)). As for Java, OJI will let the public plug in Japhar, whilst Netscape/Sun plugs in the Sun JVM. Does anyone know if the Java Blackwood features are planned for the final Mozilla release in December? Also, how well are people responding to the Bugathon? Anon, I don't really know what's happening with Blackwood (if anything), but you can read about BugZilla's progress thorugh the end of June on mozilla.org's Updates page. (http://www.mozilla.org/update.html) More recent info is likely available in the Moz newsgroups. Feature freeze September 21? That soon? Pretty good for a dead project, don't you think? Long live the lizard! Will they release a statically-linked binary to us glibc2.0 users? |