{"id":3173,"date":"2011-09-21T14:28:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T21:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2011-09-21T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T21:28:46","slug":"firefox-7-is-one-week-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/09\/21\/firefox-7-is-one-week-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 7 is one week away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/RapidRelease\/Calendar\">rapid release calendar<\/a> says it all: unless there&#8217;s an alien invasion in the next few days, <strong>Firefox 7 will be out on September 27th<\/strong>. And I&#8217;m fairly sure <a href=\"http:\/\/christian.legnitto.com\/blog\/\">Christian<\/a> would defeat the invasion himself just to make sure we release on time :). But I digress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We are doing pretty well on the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/compatibility\">compatibility front<\/a>, but there are still many add-ons that are incompatible with 7, some of them very popular. If any of your add-ons are among this group, I encourage you to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/07\/19\/firefox-7-compat-looking-to-8\">compatibility<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Firefox_7_for_developers\">documentation<\/a> available and update your add-on as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<h3>Rapid Releases &#8211; Get on the Train!<\/h3>\n<p>I know many of you are feeling the pain of the rapid release cycle. This is why we introduced the automatic compatibility bumps, that are being run roughly a week after a new version is released. However, one thing that you may not know is that the compatibility bumps are run to keep add-ons up to date with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/channel\/\">Aurora channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, if you want your add-on to be automatically upgraded when possible, you need to submit a version compatible with the Firefox 8 builds (or test and upgrade your current version on AMO) as soon as possible.<\/strong> A new version doesn&#8217;t need to be approved by the editor team in order to qualify for these automatic checks. It just needs to be on the site. We will run the Firefox 9 compatibility tests in a couple of weeks, and then you&#8217;ll be emailed with information about whether your add-on passed them or not. If it passes, you won&#8217;t have anything more to do for another 6 weeks. Ideally, this should happen for most add-ons and most releases, which hasn&#8217;t been far from the truth so far.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who like waiting until the final version is available in order to test and upgrade their add-ons (which we don&#8217;t recommend), you can treat the current Firefox 7 beta 6 as the final build. Unless something urgent comes up, that is Firefox 7.<\/p>\n<p>Happy coding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rapid release calendar says it all: unless there&#8217;s an alien invasion in the next few days, Firefox 7 will be out on September 27th. And I&#8217;m fairly sure Christian &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/09\/21\/firefox-7-is-one-week-away\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,44,295],"tags":[278877,278873,278876,579,7112,7113],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Firefox 7 is one week away! - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/09\/21\/firefox-7-is-one-week-away\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jorge Villalobos\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/09\/21\/firefox-7-is-one-week-away\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/09\/21\/firefox-7-is-one-week-away\/\",\"name\":\"Firefox 7 is one week away! 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