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

Hello,

On 10/01/2015 11:12 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:
> Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
>> 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 complains it is outdated.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!

The proposed seamonkey 2.38 update is now available for testing in the
13.2-test repository: http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-test/

If functionality of these could please be confirmed we can make an
update release very soon.

Andreas

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