Firefox Adopts a 6-8 Week Variable Release Schedule (mozilla.org)

AmiMoJo writes: Four years ago Mozilla moved to a fixed-schedule release model, otherwise known as the Train Model, in which we released Firefox every six weeks to get features and updates to users faster. Now Mozilla is moving to a variable 6-8 week cycle, with the same number of releases per year but some flexibility to 'respond to emerging user and market needs' and allow time for holidays. The new release schedule looks like this:

• 2016-01-26 – Firefox 44
• 2016-03-08 – Firefox 45, ESR 45 (6 weeks cycle)
• 2016-04-19 – Firefox 46 (6 weeks cycle)
• 2016-06-07 – Firefox 47 (7 weeks cycle)
• 2016-08-02 – Firefox 48 (8 weeks cycle)
• 2016-09-13 – Firefox 49 (6 weeks cycle)
• 2016-11-08 – Firefox 50 (8 weeks cycle)
• 2016-12-13 – Firefox 50.0.1 (5 week cycle, release for critical fixes as needed)
• 2017-01-24 – Firefox 51 (6 weeks from prior release)

Comments

Re:Dumb

[PsychoSlashDot]

You're mostly right. I'm sure they have a very detailed plan for what features to remove at each release. By end-of-year 2017 the goal is to have Firefox resemble Notepad, only without mouse, keyboard, or clipboard input support.

Re:It's not a 'six-week' release schedule.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a 42-day release schedule.

It's a small but important difference.

Cool, just in time to to pose the question to life, the universe and everything else.

Seriously?

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

My children will be using Firefox ver 7,462,354,846.01

They'll need to buy more memory just to keep the version number from using up all the RAM.

Real schedule

[Anonymous Coward]

2016-01-26 – Firefox 44, completely new UI

2016-03-08 – Firefox 45, stumbleupon now built-in

2016-04-19 – Firefox 46, removed api for adblocking

2016-06-07 – Firefox 47, settings dialog now based on firefox os

2016-08-02 – Firefox 48, made yandex default search engine

2016-09-13 – Firefox 49, built in chrome bridge