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== What is Firefox Nightly? ==
Every day, Mozilla developers write code that is merged into a common code repository (mozilla-central) and every day that code is compiled so as to create a pre-release version of Firefox based on this code for testing purposes, this is what we call a Nightly build. Once this code matures, it is merged into stabilization repositories (Aurora, also known as Dev EdigtionEdition, and later Beta) where that code will be polished until we reach a level of quality that allows us to ship a new final version of Firefox to hundreds of millions of people. This development process used to ship a new version of Firefox every 5 to 8 weeks is called the Train Model.
{| style="border: 1px solid darkgray; width: 50em"
| style="background-color: black;text-align: center" | Nightly
| style="background-color: darkblue;text-align: center" | Aurora
| style="background-color: orange;text-align: center" | Beta
| style="background-color: green;text-align: center" | Release
| style="background-color: transparent" |
|}
After April 18, 2017, [http://release.mozilla.org/firefox/release/2017/04/17/Dawn-Project-FAQ.html the Aurora channel ceases to exist] and the train model takes this form:
{| style="border: 1px solid darkgray; width: 50em"
|+ style="font-weight: bold;" |Firefox channels after April 18, 2017
|- style="color: black; background-color: white;"
! | 55
! | 54
! | 53
! | 52
|- style="color:white;"
| style="background-color: black;text-align: center" | Nightly
| style="background-color: orange;text-align: center" | Beta
| style="background-color: green;text-align: center" | Release
| style="background-color: transparent" |
| style="background-color: transparent" |
|- style="color:white;"
| style="background-color: transparent;text-align: center" |
| style="background-color: black;text-align: center" | Nightly
| style="background-color: orange;text-align: center" | Beta
| style="background-color: green;text-align: center" | Release
