= About This Roadmap And Branches/Releases =
This roadmap describes the planned capabilities of the Mozilla platform, often known as "Gecko", in the 1.9 release. The product delivery vehicle for this platform will be explored, discussed, and refined in another roadmap process, to which this document will soon link in the very near future. This So, this is the "platform" roadmap. The other document is , the "product" roadmap, builds on this one to detail the plans for Firefox 2 and Firefox 3. Products such as Thunderbird, and projects such as Sunbird, will likely adapt their roadmaps to match the product/platform pair centered on Firefox and Gecko.
The work described in this document will be performed -- in several cases it is already <i>being</i> performed -- on the trunk of Mozilla CVS, with the 1.8 branch preserved largely intact. Some of the features listed below may be pulled forward into that 1.8 branch if needed for product releases off that branch, but you shouldn't count on it. We will preserve all API (frozen or not) compatibility on the 1.8 branch, so only selected additional APIs are thinkable.