Firefox Moving To a Faster 4-Week Release Cycle

'Mozilla announces in a blog post:

We typically ship a major Firefox browser (Desktop and Android)
release every 6 to 8 weeks. Building and releasing a browser is
complicated and involves many players. To optimize the process, and
make it more reliable for all users, over the years we've developed a
phased release strategy that includes 'pre-release' channels: Firefox
Nightly, Beta, and Developer Edition. With this approach, we can test
and stabilize new features before delivering them to the majority of
Firefox users via general release.

And today we're excited to announce that we're moving to a four-week
release cycle! We're adjusting our cadence to increase our agility,
and bring you new features more quickly. In recent quarters, we've had
many requests to take features to market sooner. Feature teams are
increasingly working in sprints that align better with shorter release
cycles. Considering these factors, it is time we changed our release
cadence. Starting Q1 2020, we plan to ship a major Firefox release
every 4 weeks. Firefox ESR release cadence (Extended Support Release
for the enterprise) will remain the same. In the years to come, we
anticipate a major ESR release every 12 months with 3 months support
overlap between new ESR and end-of-life of previous ESR. The next two
major ESR releases will be ~June 2020 and ~June 2021.'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/09/17/1750247

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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