Re: Re: [security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2015:1658-1: important: Security update for MozillaFirefox

Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 01.10.2015 um 11:03 schrieb Michael Ströder:
>> Rob Janssen wrote:
>>>
>>> Why are the updates for Firefox and Chromium tracked continuously, while
>>> Seamonkey is
>>> updated only very occasionally?   The version on openSUSE 13.1 is still 2.33.1
>>> and Seamonkey
>>> complains it is outdated.
> 
> Seamonkey is not able to keep up with the releases. Sometimes they skip
> them, usually they are quite delayed after the related Firefox release.

Which sadly was true for a couple of months.
But 2.35 and 2.38 were released in a rather short timespan.
So it seems they're trying to catch up pretty soon nowadays.

>> Good question. Especially since Seamonkey 2.38 was released a couple of days
>> ago which is AFAIK based on the same components like Firefox 41. So if Firefox
>> 41 is an important security update then Seamonkey 2.38 would also be an
>> important security update.
> 
> I'll submit it soon. I just submitted Thunderbird 38.3 which also was
> only available after quite some delay.

Looking forward to the update. Thank you!

Ciao, Michael.