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Alan Lord (News)

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Nov 17, 2009, 3:54:12 AM11/17/09
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Hi all, I've been running shredder for ages now and am looking forward
to the release candidate of TB3.0.

I noticed yesterday that my shredder update now says I'm running version
3.0.1pre. And I was also forced to update my lightning nightly too.

Does this mean I'm now running something that is destined to come out
after 3.0? If so, is there a branch that I should be using. I am
developing an extension and would like to be sure I'm on the 3.0
platform, not the *next* one.

TIA

Al

Mark Banner

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Nov 17, 2009, 4:54:47 AM11/17/09
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The 3.0.1pre builds will become the first security/stability release of
Thunderbird 3 (i.e. 3.0.1). These are not the same as 3.1a1pre builds
which will (probably, but not confirmed) become Thunderbird 3.1 which is
the next major version of Thunderbird.

From an extension point of view, 3.0.x should be the same as 3.x - the
APIs won't be changing, although obviously there may be some security
and stability fixes in the back end.

At the moment, the 3.0.1pre builds are the same as 3.0 - we've fixed the
gecko version to be the same as gecko 1.9.1.5 (which we're currently
releasing 3.0 from) and we haven't landed any patches other than what
will go into 3.0. We're very likely to keep it this way until we release
Thunderbird 3 (or shortly before).

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Alan Lord (News)

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Nov 17, 2009, 5:07:30 AM11/17/09
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On 17/11/09 09:54, Mark Banner wrote:
<snip />

> At the moment, the 3.0.1pre builds are the same as 3.0 - we've fixed the
> gecko version to be the same as gecko 1.9.1.5 (which we're currently
> releasing 3.0 from) and we haven't landed any patches other than what
> will go into 3.0. We're very likely to keep it this way until we release
> Thunderbird 3 (or shortly before).
>
> Standard8

Thanks for the reply. I will keep on Shredder until the RC comes out
then move to that then.

Cheers

Al

Ben Bucksch

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Nov 23, 2009, 7:06:37 AM11/23/09
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On 17.11.2009 10:54, Mark Banner wrote:
> From an extension point of view, 3.0.x should be the same as 3.x - the
> APIs won't be changing

If you include XUL/overlays in "APIs", I don't think that's possible.
Any significant XUL change, esp. the much-needed fixes for the header
pane, will change the XUL hookup points. Some extensions will have to be
updated for 3.1 / 3.5.

Mark Banner

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Nov 23, 2009, 7:30:06 AM11/23/09
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Urgh, sorry my initial email was wrong, and should have read:

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From an extension point of view, 3.0.x should be the same as 3.0 - the
APIs won't be changing.
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