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We ship a stable SDK release on a regular schedule every six weeks, at least as often as Firefox, to ensure we can accommodate incompatible changes to Firefox and remain compatible with it. Each release undergoes six weeks of development and six of stabilization, so a complete development cycle lasts twelve weeks, and cycles overlap by six weeks (while one release is stabilized, the next one is developed). | We ship a stable SDK release on a regular schedule every six weeks, at least as often as Firefox, to ensure we can accommodate incompatible changes to Firefox and remain compatible with it. Each release undergoes six weeks of development and six of stabilization, so a complete development cycle lasts twelve weeks, and cycles overlap by six weeks (while one release is stabilized, the next one is developed). | ||
We release each SDK version | We release each SDK version three weeks before each new version of Firefox is released. This allows enough time for compatibility fixes to land on the SDK's stabilization branch after Firefox stops accepting incompatible changes (at the time it merges from aurora to beta?) while still giving AMO and addon developers enough time to update addons to use the new version of the SDK. | ||
Each SDK release is compatible with the current and upcoming versions of Firefox. For example, SDK 1.2, which ships after Firefox 7 but before Firefox 8, is compatible with those two versions of Firefox. | Each SDK release is compatible with the current and upcoming versions of Firefox. For example, SDK 1.2, which ships after Firefox 7 but before Firefox 8, is compatible with those two versions of Firefox. | ||
[[Image:Addon-sdk-schedule.png]] | |||
{{note|SDK 1.0's schedule did not follow this process. SDK 1.1's schedule was slightly irregular. SDK 1.2's stabilization cycle and SDK 1.3's development cycle were only five weeks long in order to change the offset between SDK and Firefox releases from two weeks to three weeks.}} | |||
= Development Branches = | = Development Branches = | ||