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== Download Links for Firefox for Android == | == Download Links for Firefox for Android == | ||
You can get the latest release, beta and Nightly versions of Firefox for Android on the Google Play Store. | You can get the latest release, beta and Nightly versions of Firefox for Android on the Google Play Store. | ||
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox Firefox for Android ] | * [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox Firefox for Android] | ||
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox_beta Firefox Beta for Android ] | * [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox_beta Firefox Beta for Android] | ||
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fennec_aurora Firefox Nightly for Android ] | * [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fennec_aurora Firefox Nightly for Android] | ||
== Release timeline == | == Release timeline == | ||
Firefox is released at intervals of six to eight weeks (not counting urgent patch updates), meaning that every six to eight weeks there | |||
will be a new version of Firefox Release. | |||
=== From mozilla-central to mozilla-release === | |||
* Firefox Nightly is released every 12 hours with all the changes landed on mozilla-central | * Firefox Nightly is released every 12 hours with all the changes landed on mozilla-central | ||
* Every 6 to 8 weeks, we merge the code from mozilla-central to our mozilla-beta branch. The mozilla-beta branch should now only get patches aimed at stabilizing the release. Any patch on mozilla-central that we want backported to our mozilla-beta branch should follow the [[Release_Management/Uplift_rules|approval rules for uplifts]] | |||
* Beta 1 and Beta 2 are built from this beta branch and used to build and ship Firefox Developer Edition as a stabilization step before shipping Firefox Beta to our much wider Beta audience. | |||
* Starting with Beta 3, Firefox Beta is released twice a week for Desktop, leaving us with 12 to 16 betas every cycle unless we have chemspills leading to additional betas. Firefox Beta 3 is shipped to a subset of our Beta population. The full Beta population gets updated starting with beta 4 only. | |||
* At the end of the Beta cycle, a final build is validated by our QA and tagged for release into the mozilla-release branch | |||
Release day activities/checklist can be found on [[ | === Android specificities === | ||
* Firefox Nightly is released every 24 hours | |||
* Starting with Beta 3, Firefox Beta is released once a week for Android, leaving us with 6 to 9 betas every cycle. | |||
Release day activities/checklist can be found on the [[Release_Management/Release_Day|Release Day wiki page]] | |||
Our release schedule is meant to be flexible and we may occasionally modify the length of a cycle to be shorter or longer than the 6-8 week cycle mentioned. Check the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar '''Rapid Release Calendar'''] to stay updated with the upcoming branch dates. | Our release schedule is meant to be flexible and we may occasionally modify the length of a cycle to be shorter or longer than the 6-8 week cycle mentioned. Check the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar '''Rapid Release Calendar'''] to stay updated with the upcoming branch dates. | ||
== All about Flags == | == All about Flags == | ||
[[File:Status.png|400px|right]] | [[File:Status.png|400px|right]] | ||
* '''tracking-firefoxN''' : A multi-state flag that currently has two values which show whether a bug is being investigated for possible resolution in the FirefoxN release . Bugs marked tracking-firefoxN are bugs that must be resolved one way or another before a particular release ships. [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Drivers Release drivers] will track and shepherd the bug until it is determined the bug no longer impacts the release | * '''tracking-firefoxN''' : A multi-state flag that currently has two values which show whether a bug is being investigated for possible resolution in the FirefoxN release . Bugs marked tracking-firefoxN are bugs that must be resolved one way or another before a particular release ships. [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Drivers Release drivers] will track and shepherd the bug until it is determined the bug no longer impacts the release | ||