{"id":2380,"date":"2016-03-25T21:02:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2016-03-28T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:00:53","slug":"shipping-some-firefox-features-outside-of-the-release-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2016\/03\/25\/shipping-some-firefox-features-outside-of-the-release-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping Some Firefox Features Outside of the Release Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, we updated the Firefox release process to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/channels\/2011\/07\/18\/every-six-weeks\/\">Train Model<\/a> to move at the speed of the Web. More recently we <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2016\/02\/04\/update-on-2016-firefox-release-schedule\/\">improved<\/a> the process further. We are now adding a mechanism to ship some features in Firefox even faster. This means it will take even less time for Firefox innovation and improvements to reach users.<\/p>\n<p>Some features will now be shipped between release cycles, starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/firefox\/45.0\/releasenotes\/\">Firefox Hello Beta<\/a>. These modules are built into Firefox and delivered similarly to add-ons. This allows them to be updated more-frequently than the standard Firefox <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/RapidRelease\">Rapid Release<\/a> cycle.<\/p>\n<p>This won\u2019t interfere with our release cycle, which will still be used for most significant updates and users will only notice that some features, like Hello, are updated more frequently.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of our ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2015\/07\/02\/what-to-look-forward-to-from-firefox\/\">commitment<\/a> to continue delivering uncompromised quality in Firefox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, we updated the Firefox release process to the Train Model to move at the speed of the Web. More recently we improved the process further. We are &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2016\/03\/25\/shipping-some-firefox-features-outside-of-the-release-cycle\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shipping Some Firefox Features Outside of the Release Cycle - Future Releases<\/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\/futurereleases\/2016\/03\/25\/shipping-some-firefox-features-outside-of-the-release-cycle\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nick Nguyen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2016\/03\/25\/shipping-some-firefox-features-outside-of-the-release-cycle\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2016\/03\/25\/shipping-some-firefox-features-outside-of-the-release-cycle\/\",\"name\":\"Shipping Some Firefox Features Outside of the Release Cycle - 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