Changes

The XULRunner 1.8.0.x series of 1 and 1.8.0.4 releases are were ''stable developer previews''. They are were based on the same gecko branch code as the Firefox 1.5.0.x series and they will contain all the security and stability fixes from that codebase. However, they do not contain all of the functionality that is planned for the final XULRunner releases, including code to manage application installationThey are no longer being actively produced or maintained, uninstallation, and upgrade. The first though building XULRunner release is numbered 1.8.0.1 and was released in February 2006, concurrent with Firefox 1.5.0.1. Subsequent releases will occur every 6-8 weeks or as necessary for critical security fixes. It is expected that various vendors will ship applications based on from the XULRunner 1.8.0.x series (i.e., [http://www.songbirdnest.org/ Songbird]). In most cases these vendors MOZILLA_1_8_0_BRANCH should install their XULRunner privately within the application (a [[MDC:XULRunner:Deploying XULRunner 1.8|tutorial]] is available)continue to work.

There will probably be a release The Mozilla Foundation/Corporation are not planning official releases of XULRunner from the Mozilla 1.8.1 concurrent with the release of [[Firefox2|codebase (used to make Firefox 2]] (Q4 2006). This release will contain additional planned features of XULRunner, including an installer/upgrader/uninstallerHowever, the developer kitEclipse AJAX Tools Framework is using this codebase to embed Gecko into Eclipse, and additional embedding interfacesvolunteers from that community have produced [http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla. The status and featureset org/xulrunner/releases/1.8.1.3/contrib/ contributed builds] of this release depends on the needs of existing and potential XULRunner clients.

XULRunner continues to improve on the Mozilla 1.9 codebase. It is possible that Firefox 3 will be the first ''production'' release of XULRunner, and will be used and shipped by [[Firefox3MDC:XULRunner:Deploying_XULRunner 1.8|Firefox 3built on top of a "private" XULRunner]] (Q2 2007) and [[SeaMonkey:Home_Page#Status|SeaMonkey 1i.5]]e. The full planned featureset of XULRunner including will be installed in the Firefox application management directory, and embedding APIs will not be available in this releaseshared with other applications).

[[Category:XULRunner|XULRunner Roadmap]]