Re: 3.6 discontinued?

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hopefully an IceCat 5.0 will be out in the next days.

In the meanwhile, you can try the alpha version and report problems
while using it:

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/5.0/

Cheers,
Giuseppe



Henry Jensen <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Upstream released 3.6.18. Are there any plans to continue the 3.6 line
> of GNU Icecat? In the moment there is no vulnerability-free version of
> Icecat available, since there is no 5.0 yet and 3.6.16 is the last
> available version of the 3.6 line.
>
> Since Upstream now follows the rapid release model with a new version
> every three months it will be clearly harder to stay up-to-date for
> Icecat. So it might be better to support the 3.6 line as long as it
> exists - I don't know how long that might be, but there are discussions
> and a IRC meeting at 2011-06-28 @ 10:00 am PDT) to discuss EOL of 3.6,
> see
> https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/2b42f29c21378451
>
> If they drop 3.6 there will be no "LTS" version which means that users
> will be forced to upgrade the browser to a new version if they want to
> stay secure. 
>
> Regards,
> Henry
>
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