its official...mozilla will cease all further developments for its application suite and v. 1.7.6 will be the last version of mozilla suite released....even though the alpha builds of mozilla suite 1.8 have been doing rounds for some time now, the final version of Mozilla Suite 1.8 wont be released.
Mozilla Application Suite - Transition Plan
March 10, 2005
In 2003 we announced our intention to shift development focus from the integrated Mozilla Application Suite (commonly referred to as "Seamonkey") to a new generation of applications -- the Mozilla Firefox browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and news client. That shift in focus occurred almost immediately, as the Mozilla Foundation was formed and we hired the lead developers for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. At that time we also stated our intention to maintain a long-lived, stable 1.7.x version of Seamonkey. We noted that a number of commercial distributors ship Seamonkey and will need the means to maintain it for their customers. There is also a user and developer base that is fond of Seamonkey and would like to maintain it. We have continued with this maintenance plan as well, with a 1.7.6 release scheduled for the next few weeks.
In the last few months we have also been releasing a series of 1.8 alpha and beta releases. The goal of these releases has been to test the changes to the back-end aspects of our codebase. Most users are familiar only with the "front-end" of our code -- the actual end user applications that provide browsing and mail functionality. But underneath this layer of code is a deep, complex layer of infrastructure that makes things work behind the scenes. There's no reason for end users to be aware of this foundation, just as most of us aren't aware of the details of the foundation of the skyscrapers we visit. But it is critical, and continued development and testing of this layer is vital to keeping our applications healthy.
read more: *www.mozilla.org/seamonkey-transition.html
Mozilla Application Suite - Transition Plan
March 10, 2005
In 2003 we announced our intention to shift development focus from the integrated Mozilla Application Suite (commonly referred to as "Seamonkey") to a new generation of applications -- the Mozilla Firefox browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and news client. That shift in focus occurred almost immediately, as the Mozilla Foundation was formed and we hired the lead developers for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. At that time we also stated our intention to maintain a long-lived, stable 1.7.x version of Seamonkey. We noted that a number of commercial distributors ship Seamonkey and will need the means to maintain it for their customers. There is also a user and developer base that is fond of Seamonkey and would like to maintain it. We have continued with this maintenance plan as well, with a 1.7.6 release scheduled for the next few weeks.
In the last few months we have also been releasing a series of 1.8 alpha and beta releases. The goal of these releases has been to test the changes to the back-end aspects of our codebase. Most users are familiar only with the "front-end" of our code -- the actual end user applications that provide browsing and mail functionality. But underneath this layer of code is a deep, complex layer of infrastructure that makes things work behind the scenes. There's no reason for end users to be aware of this foundation, just as most of us aren't aware of the details of the foundation of the skyscrapers we visit. But it is critical, and continued development and testing of this layer is vital to keeping our applications healthy.
read more: *www.mozilla.org/seamonkey-transition.html
