Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release: L’annuncio ufficiale
Mozilla ha annunciato (finalmente direbbe qualcuno) la nascita di una nuova release di Firefox con supporto esteso nel tempo.
Firefox Extended Support Release (per gli amici Firefox ESR) sarà dunque una versione con supporto esteso a bugfix, aggiornamenti di sicurezza etc destinata ad imprese, istituzioni pubbliche, università che non possono aggiornare e stravolgere il tutto visto il recente cambio di rotta nella politica dei rilasci e che hanno bisogno di rilasci “rallentati” anche per problemi di compatibilità.
Firefox ESR avrà un ciclo di rilascio annuale ottimale per questi casi.
Di seguito il testo integrale dell’annuncio
We are pleased to announce that the proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox
is now a plan of action. The ESR version of Firefox is for use by
enterprises, public institutions, universities and other organizations
that centrally manage their Firefox deployments. Releases of the ESR
will occur once a year, providing these organizations with a version of
Firefox that receives security updates but does not make changes to the
Web or Firefox Add-ons platform. We have worked with many organizations
to ensure that the ESR balances their need for the latest security
updates with the desire to have a lighter application certification
burden.Online life is evolving faster than ever and it’s imperative that
Mozilla delivers improvements to the Web and to Firefox more quickly to
reflect this. Providing updates to Firefox more frequently allows us to
secure users against emerging threats and provide the platform for
innovation that today’s rich and compelling Web experiences demand.
However, this created challenges for organizations that have to deliver
lots of mission-critical applications through Firefox, so we worked
closely with the Mozilla Enterprise User Working Group to develop the
Mozilla Firefox ESR plan.Mozilla is committed to providing the best Web experience for people
everywhere, and our goal for the Firefox ESR is to make it simpler for
companies, public institutions, organizations, and institutions that
manage their desktops to deploy Firefox in those environments. Over the
last few months we received great feedback on the initial proposal from
the Mozilla community and strongly believe that the ESR meets that goal.Implementation specifics will be posted within a week to the
mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup and the EWG mailing list. If you’re
interested in the ESR or discussions around deploying Firefox in a
managed environment, we’d encourage you to join the Mozilla Enterprise Working Group and participate in its discussions and monthly conference calls. To join this group, please see the Enterprise wiki page for additional information.
