Project News We released two point releases, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 to address issues related to deploying SDk 1.4 on the Add-on Builder site. Jorge pointed out an important compatibility issue with SDK 1.3 and the upcoming Firefox 11 release in … Continue reading
Tomorrow I’m heading to Europe for a week or so; amongst other things I am very very excited to be attending FOSDEM for the first time after hearing about it for years! I’ll be speaking and generally helping out in … Continue reading
Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of 1.4.1, we identified an issue in the SDK where console logging was not happening correctly. Through discussions with the Add-on Builder team, this issue was identified as a Priority 1 blocker … Continue reading
Firefox 11 was pushed to the Aurora channel weeks ago, and Firefox 12 will follow suit very soon. So, it’s time for the long overdue overview of bugs that can affect add-on compatibility in Firefox 11. I’m sorry this update … Continue reading
In the 1.4 release we tweaked the manner in which the SDK determines its own version (it now uses git-describe when possible). Yesterday, we discovered that this new versioning process conflicted with the way the Add-on Builder deploys the SDK … Continue reading
Project News We’re releasing SDK 1.5b2 this afternoon, including updated localization documentation. If you’re interested in addon localization progress, you should read over Zbigniew Braniecki’s insightful feedback post on our html localization proposal. Yesterday I posted a note about SDK … Continue reading
Over the last few releases we have typically updated Addon Builder to be able to use the latest version of the SDK within a few days. As you may have noticed, this hasn’t happened yet for the SDK 1.4 release. … Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 10 … Continue reading
Project News Addon SDK 1.4 shipped last week; if your SDK-based addon makes use of resource urls to access web content located in the data directory, please check out my blog post detailing the dangers of hard-coding these urls, and … Continue reading
The Jetpack project released Addon SDK version 1.4 yesterday; this release is likely the most significant release of the SDK since 1.0 in June, and includes a number of improvements. One of the improvements was a change to simplify the … Continue reading
