Firefox/Planning/2009-11-04

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Square Conference Room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Upcoming Product Releases

Firefox 3.5.5 / Firefox 3.5.4

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

Firefox 3.6 Beta

• shipped late Friday, Oct 30
• currently over 150,000 ADUs, tracking well
• met with Marketing to discuss further promotion
• will be doing "beta refreshes" frequently (probably twice before RC)
• next refresh to include the DLL blocking patches (may cause 3rd party software compatibility issues)

Firefox 3.6 RC

• code freeze target is November 18th
• release target is November 26th

Fennec 1.0x beta 5

• candidate build complete

Product Development

Firefox 3.6 / mozilla-1.9.2

• all teams now focusing on remaining blockers and nominations
• session restore optimization will land for Firefox 3.6
• we will be turning off Aero Peek Preview Per Tab by default (bug 525475) due to implementation problems (bug 520807, bug 520943 and bug 522262)

future / mozilla-central

• [[Gecko:Layers|Layers API developed] - Framework for hardware acceleration, 3D transforms, retained buffers for elements, cross-process rendering, off-main-thread compositing, animation and video playback. Please send feedback to roc or in mozilla.dev.platform.
• WOFF file format may be implemented by Microsoft sooner rather than later
• Fennelectroysis lives! and out of process plugin work will be landing on mozilla-central fairly soon (preffed off by default)

• more detail in the full notes online

Release Engineering

• Ready to go on 3.5.5 and 3.6b2.