---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre@mozilla.com Date: 20 December 2017 at 09:42 Subject: Fwd: Announcing the next Extended Support Release of Firefox - ESR60 with policy engine To: "dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org" dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org, mobile-firefox-dev mobile-firefox-dev@mozilla.org
Hello,
Earlier today, we announced on the enterprise ML several changes to ESR.
First, as Dave Camp mentioned during the Firefox All Hands, we are started some developments to improve our support for enterprise users. More information can be found on the wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/EnterprisePolicies
Second, we will branch ESR from 60 instead of 59. This will give us more time to work on the Enterprise policies. Also, In parallel, this means that we will have more time to delete old/dead code before branching. As a disguised advertisement, I am using this email to remind that Marco Castelluccio's tool https://marco-c.github.io/code-coverage-reports/ is your best friend to find dead code [1].
Last but not least, we also warned our enterprise users that ESR52.9 (EOL August 28th) will be the last release supporting legacy add-ons.
The wiki and the ESR FAQ have been updated: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
Sylvestre
PS: Also, for people on these two MLs who are still using Windows XP, you'll get a few more weeks to update ;)
[1] meta bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1415819
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Announcing the next Extended Support Release of Firefox - ESR60 with policy engine Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:06:57 +0100 From: Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre@mozilla.com To: enterprise@mozilla.org enterprise@mozilla.org
The Firefox ESR (extended support release) is based on an official release of Firefox desktop for use by organizations including schools, universities, businesses and others who need extended support for mass deployments. Since Firefox 10, ESR has grown in popularity and many large organizations rely on it to let their employees browse the Internet securely.
We want to make customization of Firefox deployments simpler for system administrators and we’re pleased to announce that our next ESR version, Firefox 60, will include a policy engine that increases customization possibilities and integration into existing management systems.
What is the policy engine? The Policy Engine is a project to build a Firefox desktop configuration and customization feature for enterprise users. The policy engine will work with any tool that wants to set policies and we intend to bring Windows Group Policy support soon. We’ll be initially supporting a limited set of policies but this will be evolving through user feedback. More details on the policy engine can be found here. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/EnterprisePolicies Bug reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1419102
What’s the plan? In order to accommodate the group policy implementation, we are making Firefox 60 our next ESR version and will be following this plan:
* May 8th - ESR 60.0 released (we’d love feedback from early adopters at that point and will be sharing a feedback form through the enterprise mailing list) * July 3rd - ESR 60.1 released * August 28th - End of life for ESR 52 and release of ESR 60.2.0. No further updates will be offered for ESR52 and an update to ESR60.0.2 will be provided through the application update service
Also please keep in mind that Firefox 57, released last month, supports only add-ons built with theWebExtensions API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions. This means that Firefox 52 ESR is the last release that will support legacy add-ons. If you developed an add-on that has not been updated to the WebExtensions API, there is still time to do so.Documentation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Porting_a_legacy_Firefox_add-onis available, and you can ask questions by emailing dev-addons@mozilla.orgor joining the #webextensions channel atirc.mozilla.org http://irc.mozilla.org. If you are supporting users who use add-ons, now is a good time to encourage them tocheck if their add-on works https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/frequently-asked-questions-firefox-addonwith Firefox 57+.
Erin, Felipe, Jeff, Kev, Mike Kaply, Romain, Shell & Sylvestre
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Hi!
Tom Ritter:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre@mozilla.com Subject: Fwd: Announcing the next Extended Support Release of Firefox
- ESR60 with policy engine
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Second, we will branch ESR from 60 instead of 59.
Too bad for Tails, we had already based quite some plans on the assumption that Tor Browser would most likely switch to ESR59 on July 3. Anyways:
I guess this implies that Tor Browser stable releases will likely switch to ESR60 on 2018-08-28, when ESR52 stops being supported. Right?
Is this something we at Tails should rely on, or should we be prepared to the — maybe less likely — possibility that the switch happens earlier, e.g. on 2018-07-03?
Cheers,
intrigeri:
Hi!
Tom Ritter:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre@mozilla.com Subject: Fwd: Announcing the next Extended Support Release of Firefox
- ESR60 with policy engine
[...]
Second, we will branch ESR from 60 instead of 59.
Too bad for Tails, we had already based quite some plans on the assumption that Tor Browser would most likely switch to ESR59 on July 3. Anyways:
I guess this implies that Tor Browser stable releases will likely switch to ESR60 on 2018-08-28, when ESR52 stops being supported. Right?
Yes.
Is this something we at Tails should rely on, or should we be prepared to the — maybe less likely — possibility that the switch happens earlier, e.g. on 2018-07-03?
No. We need as much time as we can get to test Tor Browser 8 between ESR 60 is getting out/being in beta and the need to switch to this new series. So, there is no plan release Tor Browser on 2018-07-03.
Georg
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