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Maintenance of each ESR, through point releases, would be limited to high-risk/impact security vulnerabilities and would also include chemspills (off-schedule releases that address live security vulnerabilities). Backports of any functional enhancements and/or stability fixes would not be in scope. At the end of the support tail the release will be end-of-lifed, | Maintenance of each ESR, through point releases, would be limited to high-risk/impact security vulnerabilities and would also include chemspills (off-schedule releases that address live security vulnerabilities). Backports of any functional enhancements and/or stability fixes would not be in scope. At the end of the support tail the release will be end-of-lifed, no further updates will be offered for that version, and an update to the next version will be offered through the Application Update Service. | ||
Mozilla will continue to collect additional information on deployment of Firefox in managed environments, and will work with community groups to facilitate adoption of the official releases of Firefox in those environments. Based on the data collected and adoption of the new release process over the course of maintaining the ESR, Mozilla would announce the continuation or impending end-of-life of the program. The initial proposal would be to support a minimum of two ESR releases. | Mozilla will continue to collect additional information on deployment of Firefox in managed environments, and will work with community groups to facilitate adoption of the official releases of Firefox in those environments. Based on the data collected and adoption of the new release process over the course of maintaining the ESR, Mozilla would announce the continuation or impending end-of-life of the program. The initial proposal would be to support a minimum of two ESR releases. | ||
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== Assumptions == | == Assumptions == | ||
* '''Firefox 10 will be the base version for the initial ESR''' and, assuming this is the case, '''Firefox 3.6 will be end-of-lifed on April 24th, 2012'''. | * '''Firefox 10 will be the base version for the initial ESR''' and, assuming this is the case, '''Firefox 3.6 will be end-of-lifed on April 24th, 2012''' (Firefox 3.6 users will be offered an update to the current version of Desktop Firefox through the Application Update Service). | ||
* The ESR release will use the same version number as the version of Firefox it is based upon (e.g. if the ESR is based off of Firefox 10, the ESR version will also be 10) | * The ESR release will use the same version number as the version of Firefox it is based upon (e.g. if the ESR is based off of Firefox 10, the ESR version will also be 10) | ||
* The ESR point releases will follow Firefox conventions for point releases (e.g. 10.0.1, 10.0.2, etc.) | * The ESR point releases will follow Firefox conventions for point releases (e.g. 10.0.1, 10.0.2, etc.) | ||
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* The ESR will be released day-and-date with the Firefox release it is based upon, to the best of Mozilla's ability to do so. | * The ESR will be released day-and-date with the Firefox release it is based upon, to the best of Mozilla's ability to do so. | ||
* Point releases to the ESR will run in parallel with the Firefox release schedule (e.g. point releases will be released every 6 weeks at the same time as a regular Firefox desktop release, [http://betanews.com/2009/03/27/mozilla-to-release-urgent-chemspill-firefox-update-next-week/ chemspills] when a Firefox chemspill is released) | * Point releases to the ESR will run in parallel with the Firefox release schedule (e.g. point releases will be released every 6 weeks at the same time as a regular Firefox desktop release, [http://betanews.com/2009/03/27/mozilla-to-release-urgent-chemspill-firefox-update-next-week/ chemspills] when a Firefox chemspill is released) | ||
* When an ESR reaches end-of-life, no further point releases or chemspill updates will be offered for that ESR, and an update to the latest version of the ESR (or Desktop Firefox, if the ESR for that platform is discontinued) will be offered to users of the end-of-lifed version | * When an ESR reaches end-of-life, no further point releases or chemspill updates will be offered for that ESR, and an update to the latest supported version of the ESR (or Desktop Firefox, if the ESR for that platform is discontinued) will be offered to users of the end-of-lifed version | ||
* The ESR will not be marketed through mozilla.com properties other than the Enterprise wiki page, staging servers, and/or blogs. | * The ESR will not be marketed through mozilla.com properties other than the Enterprise wiki page, staging servers, and/or blogs. | ||