{"id":1675,"date":"2013-07-19T22:13:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T22:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2013-07-22T17:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T17:36:32","slug":"mozillas-heartbeat-quarterly-firefox-os-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2013\/07\/19\/mozillas-heartbeat-quarterly-firefox-os-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla&#8217;s Heartbeat &amp; Quarterly Firefox OS Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla and the community have been on a roll creating new products and evolving existing ones. We now release multiple browsers across a multitude of platforms, including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firefox &#8211; three desktop pre-release channels alongside our shipping version for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows (soon with a redesign)<\/li>\n<li>Firefox for Android &#8211; compatible with thousands of phones and tablets, also shipping to four channels<\/li>\n<li>Firefox ESR &#8211; sometimes with two supported releases overlapping at once<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these products share a single platform, Gecko, and collectively release to hundreds of millions of users almost exactly every six weeks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-23230411\">Like a well-practiced choir<\/a>, we synchronize our technical and organizational heartbeat around releases. This heartbeat enables us to push a unified vision across the entire web, keep our users regularly delighted with new (many times cross-platform) functionality, and prevent any one product from lagging behind in security updates.<\/p>\n<p>You may have heard that we recently added a new product to the litter, Firefox OS. To put it bluntly, the project as a whole has been an incredible undertaking but we&#8217;ve finally pushed our v1.0 out the door with the help of our community and partners.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike our desktop\/mobile releases, we&#8217;ve had to do go even further than delighting our users. We&#8217;ve also had to juggle the timelines and requirements of all of the OEMs, carriers, and chipset manufacturers that we&#8217;ve partnered with. These new variables lead us to standardize on Gecko 18 for our first two major releases of Firefox OS. It made us &#8220;skip a beat&#8221;, but for all the right reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we have our v1.0 behind us and we&#8217;re moving forward with even more partners, we&#8217;re going to do our best to bring Firefox OS back into our heartbeat and will make quarterly feature releases available to partners along with six-weekly security updates for the previous two feature releases. As far as I know, that&#8217;s the most aggressive mobile OS release strategy out there (and may still require some tweaking).<\/p>\n<p>This sort of alignment across multiple browser products, and now an OS, is unprecedented at the pace we&#8217;re moving. Keep it up, Mozillians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla and the community have been on a roll creating new products and evolving existing ones. 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