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In order to enhance security, improve redundancy, and facilitate upgrades for the Toronto office we will need to conduct a downtime at the Mountain View office that will take our test machines offline, requiring us to close all development trees. This will take place on Sunday, September 19th, and is expected to last for up to 7 hours, from 10am PT until 5pm PT, though if things go well we might be done much sooner.

We will notify the mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup as necessary of our progress during the day, and keep Tinderbox up to date with the tree status; this is our planned schedule (all times PDT):

• 1000 – Close all trees on Tinderbox
• 1015 – Release Engineering confirms systems are ready to go offline
• 1015 – Phase I: upgrade firewall, and wired switches at Mountain View

At this point all the infrastructure in the Mountain View office (performance and unit test infrastructure, as well as some builders) will lose their connection to the machines that report their progress. The trees will appear to be broken if people look on Tinderbox.

• 1230 – Phase I Complete
• 1230 – Release Engineering will prepare systems to come back online
• 1230 – Phase II: upgrade office wireless infrastructure

Infrastructure connectivity is expected to be restored within 1.5 hours, and the Release Engineering group will be on hand to bring the systems back up. They will wait for a full “green run” before re-opening the trees. This normally takes 2-3 hours.

• 1400 – Phase II Complete
• 1400 – Release Engineering will begin to bring remaining systems online
• 1700 – Release Engineering will re-open all trees

(originally posted in mozilla.dev.planning)

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Thunderbird 3.1.4 and 3.0.8 are now available as free downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux from http://getthunderbird.com/. As always, we recommend that users keep up to date with the latest stability and support versions of Thunderbird, and encourage all our users to upgrade to the very latest version.

• Thunderbird 3.1.4: http://getthunderbird.com/
• Thunderbird 3.0.8: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/all-older.html

We strongly recommend that all Thunderbird users upgrade to these latest releases. If you already have Thunderbird, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. You can also manually fetch this update by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.

These releases fix stability problems affecting a limited number of users. For a list of changes and more information, please review the Thunderbird release notes:

• Thunderbird 3.1.4 release notes
• Thunderbird 3.0.8 release notes

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Firefox 3.6.10 and 3.5.13 are now available as free downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux from www.firefox.com. As always, we recommend that users keep up to date with the latest stability and support versions of Firefox, and encourage all our users to upgrade to the very latest version. If you already have Firefox, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. The updates can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.

These releases fix a stability problem affecting a limited number of users. For a list of changes and more information, please review the release notes:

• Firefox 3.6.10 release notes
• Firefox 3.5.13 release notes

Note: All Firefox 3 and 3.5 users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3.6 by downloading it from www.firefox.com or by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu and clicking on “Get the New Version”, then checking for updates again once Firefox 3.6 is installed.

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Here’s a quick summary:

• if you’re working on beta blockers, nothing has changed except that “beta6+” will now be “beta7+” in your queries and bugs,
• we will ship a small, incremental update to beta 5 this week,
• beta 7 will be produced according to the previous beta 6 schedule,
• beta 7 will be considered the feature freeze milestone.

And now, the longer version with links!

We’ve decided to issue a small beta update in order to fix a stability issue on Windows and some rendering and keyboard/mouse focus issues on OSX related to plugins. This small update should be ready late tomorrow, and will be presented as “Firefox 4 Beta 6“.

This should have no effect on the schedule of the feature freeze milestone, other than to have its name change to “Firefox 4 Beta 7.” A bug to change all the blocking flags from “blocking2.0:beta6+” to “blocking2.0:beta7+”  has been filed, and the release description pages on the wiki have been updated accordingly.

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Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12 are now available as free downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux from http://firefox.com. As always, we recommend that users keep up to date with the latest stability and support versions of Firefox, and encourage all our users to upgrade to the very latest version, Firefox 3.6.9.

Firefox 3.6.9: http://firefox.com
Firefox 3.5.12: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html

We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to these latest releases. If you already have Firefox, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This updates can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.

To help protect users, Firefox 3.6.9 now supports the X-FRAME-OPTIONS HTTP response header. Site owners can use this to mitigate clickjacking attacks by ensuring that their content is not embedded into other sites.

For a complete list of changes and more information, please review the Firefox release notes:

• Firefox 3.6.9 release notes
• Firefox 3.5.12 release notes

Note: All Firefox 3 and 3.5 users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3.6 by downloading it from http://firefox.com or by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu and clicking on “Get the New Version”, then checking for updates again once Firefox 3.6 is installed.

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As part of Mozilla’s ongoing security and stability update process, Thunderbird 3.1.3 and Thunderbird 3.0.7 are now available as free downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux from http://getthunderbird.com/. As always, we recommend that users keep up to date with the latest stability and support versions of Thunderbird.

• Thunderbird 3.1.3: http://getthunderbird.com/
• Thunderbird 3.0.7: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/all-older.html

We strongly recommend that all Thunderbird users upgrade to these latest releases. If you already have Thunderbird, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. You can also manually fetch this update by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.

For a list of changes and more information, please review the Thunderbird release notes:

• Thunderbird 3.1.3 release notes
• Thunderbird 3.0.7 release notes

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Starting today, Thunderbird version 3.0 will ask users if they want to upgrade to Thunderbird version 3.1. We put this upgrade prompt in Thunderbird so that users are notified when a new version is available.

The offer screen appears after 60 seconds of keyboard inactivity to ensure that we don’t interrupt anyone’s current work. If a user declines the offer and later changes their mind, they can get the upgrade at any time by selecting “Check for Updates” from Thunderbird’s “Help” menu.

In the near future (perhaps as soon as next week), we will be providing a similar notification to our Thunderbird 2 users.  In addition to the new search tools and tabbed email, Thunderbird 3.1 adds several features to help with the transition from Thunderbird 2 and from Thunderbird 3.0.

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The Mozilla community is proud to announce that Firefox 4 Beta 3 is now available for download on Mac, Windows or Linux.

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Thunderbird 3.1.2 is now available as a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux from www.GetThunderbird.com. We recommend that users keep up to date with the latest stability and support versions of Thunderbird, and encourage all our users to upgrade to this very latest version. If you already have Thunderbird, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.

This releases fixes some stability issues and several user experience concerns.  For a list of changes and more information, please review the Thunderbird 3.1.2 release notes.

Note: All Thunderbird 2 users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Thunderbird 3.1.2 by downloading it from www.GetThunderbird.com

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The Mozilla community is proud to announce that Firefox 4 Beta 2 is now available for download on Mac, Windows or Linux.

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