[tbb-dev] Fwd: Announcing the next Extended Support Release of Firefox - ESR60 with policy engine

[Georg Koppen]

intrigeri:
> Hi!
> 
> Tom Ritter:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at 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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