The Mozilla Foundation is cutting off development of its flagship Mozilla browser suite with the current 1.7.x line, but says it will back a community-supported version of the suite for those that wish to continue using it.
“We intend that the 1.7.x line of releases will be the last long-lived, maintained versions released by the Mozilla Foundation,” it said in a “transition plan” published late yesterday.
The Foundation made it clear in 2003 that it would be shifting most of its resources away from the suite towards the stand-alone Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client, but it was unclear – even to many of Mozilla’s own developers – exactly where the cut-off would be.
Further muddying the waters was a series of recent Mozilla 1.8 alpha and beta releases, which the Foundation acknowledged has led developers to contribute a substantial amount of work on features for Mozilla 1.8, under the impression there would be an official release of a 1.8 client. The 1.8 releases have not been directed at developing a Mozilla 1.8 client but to test changes to the back-end side of the code base, according to the Foundation.
Source: TechWorld
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