| 28-Aug-99 |
PerLDAP v1.4 Released
A new version of PerLDAP has been
released containg several bug fixes as well as a new standalone
LDIF implementation.
See the release notes for more info.
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| 26-Aug-99 |
M9 Released
Milestone 9 binaries
have been released. This release debuts
necko, our multithreaded, modular
networking library which allows pluggable protocol and mime converters.
Use bugzilla to
report bugs.
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| 23-Aug-99 | Mozilla BOF at O'Reilly OSS Convention
If you're attending the
O'Reilly Open Source
Software Convention in Monterey, come visit us at our BOF session
Monday (today) at 9:00pm.
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| 17-Aug-99 | cvs-mirror.mozilla.org Is (no longer) Sick
cvs-mirror.mozilla.org
is sick, probably due to rsync bug(s). Anonymous checkouts are likely
to fail; tinderboxen are likely to burn. Downtime for fix scheduled at
4pm PDT today. [The problem has been fixed]
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| 9-Aug-99 | Mozilla Birds-Of-A-Feather Session
If you're attending
Linux World Expo in
San Jose, come visit us at our BOF session Wednesday at 5:30pm.
|
| 2-Aug-99 |
Getting Involved
People often ask how they can help.
Check out our new getting involved page and
the new bugs page which introduces bugzilla and shows
developers how to post help wanted notices.
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| 2-Aug-99 |
Blackwood
The new Blackwood project provides a set
of facilities to better integrate the Java platform with Mozilla including
OJI, an XPCOM/Java bridge, a Java DOM API, a Java WebClient API and Pluglets.
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| 29-Jul-99 |
Bugathon Needs JavaScripters
The
Bugathon deadline has been eliminated.
Also, the NGLayout team needs help from JavaScript coders to help simplify
DOM bug reports
into 'simple as possible' test cases. Help make sure your JavaScript
pages work when the browser ships.
|
| 26-Jul-99 | News From The Front
An update on the State Of The Lizard
by Mike Shaver and what's going on in the Mozilla community.
|
| 16-Jul-99 | M8 On The Wire
Milestone 8 binaries
have been released. Thanks to Duncan Wilcox and Pete Collins for providing
BeOS and FreeBSD packages. As usual, use
bugzilla to
report bugs.
|
| 6-Jul-99 | Mozilla for BeOS
The
BeZilla
project has just released a development kit based on M7.
|
| 2-Jul-99 | Mozilla is Alive and Well
We at
mozilla.org
want to clear up any misconceptions resulting from the comments reported
Wednesday by an executive at Sun.
Our contributors and staff are responsible for the management of all browser
development.
As a major mozilla.org contributor, AOL completely supports our efforts.
Commercial open source software development is in its early stages, and
Wednesday's comments demonstrate that it is still regarded with skepticism
by some in the industry.
We would like to stress that Sun was not speaking for mozilla.org or for AOL.
|
| 29-Jun-99 | BugAThon 300
Looking for a way to help? Join the
BugAThon 300!
There are over 300 open layout bugs. Help out by decomposing these
bugs into simple test cases. Win valuable prizes!
|
| 28-Jun-99 | New Newsgroup Announcements
A newsgroup/mailing-list pair for the discussion of
Seamonkey (the v5.0 Browser)
has been created. Additionally, a forum for the discussion of
(non-crypto-related) security
was created a while back, but not splashed here. Here is a link to
more details about all the Mozilla discussion groups.
|
| 22-Jun-99 | M7 Binaries Released
Milestone 7 is out
with big usability improvements for Linux.
Download a binary and report bugs to
bugzilla. Read the
Bug Reporting Guidelines to find out how to write a useful bug
report and check out the list of
most frequently reported bugs to see if your bug has already
been reported.
|
| 16-Jun-99 | Editor API Logging
Improve the quality of editor bug reports. This new
editor function
records and saves your editor commands. Attach the log file to bug reports
or use it to create smoke tests.
|
| 02-Jun-99 | M6 Released, At Last
M6 has been released.
File bugs with Bugzilla.
|
| 27-May-99 | Bugzilla now supports dependencies
Bugzilla can now track dependencies between bugs.
It can even generate pretty pictures showing the dependency graph.
|
| 20-May-99 | Make Sure Your Web Pages Work With Mozilla
If your documents use JavaScript to detect the client, this updated
script will make sure you handle Mozilla correctly.
|
| 13-May-99 | MathML In Mozilla
Roger B. Sidje, David Fiddes, and P. S. Karthikeyan
have created a project for adding
MathML to Mozilla.
Join the discussion on the accompanying
newsgroup.
|
| 13-May-99 | XPIDL Plugin Now Required for Macintosh
The
CodeWarrior XPIDL plugin is now required to build on Macintosh.
See the updated build instructions.
Failure to install will cause build breakage.
|
| 7-May-99 | Real-Time Messaging Newsgroup
The
netscape.public.mozilla.rt-messaging newsgroup has been created
for the discussion of real-time messaging and chat in mozilla.
|
| 6-May-99 | Rhino Released
Rhino is now available. It is an
implementation of JavaScript in Java and is fully compatible with the
implementation used in the browser.
|
| 5-May-99 | Cinco de Milestone
M5 has been released. The usual caveats apply to this pre-alpha software.
File bugs with Bugzilla.
|
| 4-May-99 | Help needed porting crucial XPConnect code
xptcall is a platform specific library that supports arbitrary calls
through XPCOM. Platforms without a port will soon be unable to run
mozilla. Please check porting
status and let us know if you can help.
|
| 3-May-99 | TechNetCast Interview
TechNetCast has released an in-depth streaming video interview:
Netscape Gecko: Building an Open Source Browser.
|
| 20-Apr-99 | Instant Messaging
Instant Messaging documents under review.
|
| 19-Apr-99 | Instant Messaging & Chat project
The Instant Messaging and Chat project
is building in support for mozilla to speak with multiple different
protocols and servers to let users communicate with each other in
real time.
|
| 16-Apr-99 | The Necko Project
The Necko project is building a
replacement for netlib, mozilla's networking library.
|
| 16-Apr-99 | NeoPlanet 3.0 Embeds Gecko
NeoPlanet
announced that
NeoPlanet 3.0.
will include Gecko technology based on Adam Lock's
ActiveX control.
|
| 16-Apr-99 | M4 Released
The M4 milestone has been reached, and lightly-QA-checked
binaries have been posted. Read the
release notes.
|
| 13-Apr-99 | Embedding Newsgroup
netscape.public.mozilla.embedding has been created for discussion of
embedding mozilla components such as nglayout, ender, javascript
into applications.
|
| 8-Apr-99 | My Mozilla
Several My Netscape channels
have been created. Create your own mozilla portal.
|
| 8-Apr-99 | Bugzilla now does attachments
You can now attach arbitrary files to a bug in
Bugzilla. This is now considered the preferred
method of submitting a patch.
If you have a patch to submit, find the appropriate bug in
Bugzilla. If there isn't already one, submit it! Then view the bug
and click on the "Create an attachment" link. Give the form the path
to the file on your local machine, and it will upload it.
This mechanism can also be used to attach test data and other
files.
|
| 6-Apr-99 | JavaScript Test Library
The JavaScript test library has
been published. Read how to verify changes to the engine, or add tests
to expose and verify bugs.
|
| 6-Apr-99 | small-devices Newsgroup
Are you interested in porting Gecko or other Mozilla technologies
to small or embedded devices? Join the discussion in our new
netscape.public.mozilla.small-devices newsgroup.
|
| 5-Apr-99 | New Status Updates
A new status update is online (5-Apr-99),
with updates for XPCOM, RDF, M4, NGLayout, Mail/News, and XPToolkit.
|
| 2-Apr-99 | Happy Birthday, Mozilla!
Read about Mozilla's first birthday,
including some of Frank Hecker's reflections
about the past year.
|
| 31-Mar-99 | Quality Assurance
Get involved bug splatting. Quality Assurance
debuts its new site. Opportunities to contribute for people who might not
be coders but want to test and submit bug reports.
|
| 23-Mar-99 | NewsBot
NewsBot is a tool to create a user
generated list of pointers to important discussions and announcements
in the newsgroups. It's "What Every Mozillan Must Know".
|
| 23-Mar-99 | PerLDAP v1.2.1
A new version of
PerLDAP
has been released that fixes numerous bugs and requires significantly
less memory. Selected binary distributions will be available shortly.
|
| 22-Mar-99 | M3 Milestone Binaries
The Milestone 3 binaries
have been released. These should be more stable than the normal nightly
builds.
|
| 19-Mar-99 | Extending Mozilla Tutorial
The Doczilla folks presented the tutorial
Extending Mozilla or How To Do The Impossible at XTech'99.
|
| 19-Mar-99 | XML in Gecko
Check out the XTech '99 presentation
XML
and Related Standards in Gecko. It comes with
examples of XML with CSS and DOM.
|
| 9-Mar-99 | New LXR URL
LXR has moved to a
new URL and now indexes six separate trees.
|
| 4-Mar-99 | Bugzilla reorganized
Bugzilla's products have been renamed.
The Old "Mozilla" product has been renamed to be
"MozillaClassic". This should reflect only bugs entered back in the
pre-NGLayout days. No new bugs may be entered on this product.
The "NGLayout" product has been renamed to be "Browser". Many
components from the old "Mozilla" product have been moved to the new
"Browser" product.
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| 4-Mar-99 | mozilla.party, 2.0!
mozilla.org is having a party in
San Francisco on April 1, 1999 to celebrate our first anniversary,
and you're invited!
|
| 3-Mar-99 | mozilla.org downtime on 4-Mar-99!
All of the mozilla.org machines will be down for three hours
beginning 09:30 Pacific Standard Time (that's 17:30 UTC).
This includes cvs.mozilla.org,
cvs-mirror.mozilla.org, and www.mozilla.org. The machines
are being physically moved to another location and put on a new network.
During this time all mail delivery, web tools (bonsai, bugzilla,
tinderbox, etc), and CVS repository access (anonymous or otherwise)
will be unavailable.
We hope to be done in less than 3 hours, but expect to take no
longer than that in the worst case.
|
| 24-Feb-99 | Unix Platform Parity
Many thanks to Christopher Blizzard who fixed the resizing bug on
unix last week. Unix builds are now
usable and layout testing is possible.
|
| 23-Feb-99 | NPL 1.0M published
The new 1.0M version of the NPL has been
published, along with a new FAQ.
|
| 23-Jan-99 | ElectricalFire released
The source code for a high-performance Java JIT has been released.
See the ElectricalFire pages for details.
|
| 15-Jan-99 | http://bugzilla.mozilla.org now on-line
Bugzilla now has a new, simpler URL:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org.
Bookmarks to the old place ought to still work.
|
| 26-Nov-98 | Steve Case (AOL CEO) talks about mozilla.org
See what Steve Case, AOL CEO, has to say about
the future of mozilla.org.
|
| 24-Nov-98 | What does the AOL deal mean to Mozilla?
What does the AOL deal mean to Mozilla? We don't know for sure yet,
but we have some ideas.
(Updated, 25-Nov-98.)
|
| 17-Nov-98 | Netscape bought NewHoo, and mozilla.org is hosting their pages at
directory.mozilla.org.
You can read more about this in
Netscape's press release and on
NewHoo's pages.
|
| 26-Oct-98 | The Mozilla development roadmap is available.
The mozilla browser is moving immediately to the
cross-platform front end backed by the
new layout engine, with
scriptable components everywhere.
|
| 17-Oct-98 | New Berkeley-DB
source
from SleepyCat is available.
Read all about it in recent Status columns.
|
| 15-Oct-98 | New Mozilla tarballs are ready. Come and get 'em.
|
| 30-Sep-98 | A new version of the Japhar JVM
is available (not from mozilla.org, mind you). This is the first
public release to include OJI support. Yay! Java!
|
| 25-Sep-98 | A Status link to the latest installment of
Chris Nelson's regular
Mozilla status column can now be found under the
Development menu on the left side of each mozilla.org page.
|
| 18-Sep-98 | Tarballs of Bugzilla are now available. For more info, see the
Bugzilla source page.
|
| 17-Sep-98 | HTTP Compression Stage 1 has been
completed. The combined netlib enhancement and Apache server module improve
perceived performance by about 30% for an average session on a 28.8 modem.
|
| 15-Sep-98 | Bugzilla has been completely ported to Perl. If
you were interested in Bugzilla source, but were put off by its
dependency on TCL, you may want to take another look!
|
| 8-Sep-98 | We have released the source code to a third incomplete mail client!
This one is written in Java. See the Grendel
pages for details.
|
| 5-Sep-98 | New mozilla source tarballs (with
./configure support on Unix) available for
download.
|
| 3-Sep-98 | Precompiled binaries of Mozilla are
now available! (Use these untested nightly builds at your own risk...)
|
| 3-Sep-98 (thu) | The NGLayout team has moved their bugs out from a bug system that
was hidden behind Netscape's firewall out to
Bugzilla. So, for example, you can
see all the currently open bugs submitted against
NGLayout (as of this writing, there were 91 such bugs.)
|
| 1-Sep-98 | Documentation for the ColorSync Project
has been released. Sponsored in part by Apple Computer, it describes
a method of ensuring that web pages are viewed with the color that was
intended.
The Java Directory SDK (Java classes for
communicating with LDAP servers) has been released. Details about it
are on the Directory SDK page.
|
| 26-Aug-98 | Support for autoconf has been checked in to the Mozilla source tree.
See the autoconf page for details.
|
| 26-Aug-98 | Bugzilla has been completely rewritten. We like the new version
much better, and hope you will too. Best of all, the source is
now available, distributed under the MPL. Learn more in the
Bugzilla page.
|
| 24-Aug-98 | The source for PerLDAP (a set of Perl modules
for managing LDAP directories) is now available. Learn more about it
on the Directory SDK page.
|
| 05-Aug-98 |
A prototype HTML/RDF/JS-based mail reader has been checked in.
Read about ``smart mail''.
|
| 29-Jul-98 |
New mozilla source tarballs available for
download.
|
| 17-Jul-98 |
A description of the Performance project has
been added.
|
| 15-Jul-98 |
A number of in-depth technical documents describing Mozilla's
New Layout project and subsystems have been
added, as have build instructions.
|
| 8-July-98 |
Description of the Open JVM Integration (OJI) project was added.
|
| 26-Jun-98 |
Artem Belevich <abelevic@ctron.com> has written an INSTALL
file for Bonsai. It's still a difficult
road to make a new Bonsai installation, but at least you now have a
roadmap.
|
| 19-Jun-98 |
Added the Mozilla Apologator to
to Editorials.
|
| 16-Jun-98 |
The source code to the Bonsai and
Tinderbox tools has been released!
You can find them in the mozilla/webtools/ directory
of our CVS repository.
|
| 12-Jun-98 |
There is now a copy of the
LXR tool
running on our new CVS server. You can now browse
the up-to-the-minute latest version of the source code
online, through this massively-hyperlinked source code browser.
Check out the Mozilla
Cross-Reference page for details.
|
| 10-Jun-98 |
Our new CVS server is now online!
CVS performance should be dramatically improved; let us know if
you have any problems.
|
| 05-Jun-98 |
New mozilla source tarballs are available for download.
|
| 31-May-98 |
The Directory SDK (a library for talking
to LDAP servers) has been released.
The Language
Enabling page belonged on the Projects
menu itself, not on the Other Projects
page. Moved them.
|
| 25-May-98 |
In order to make our current CVS server usable, we have instituted a
limit of 8 simultaneous users; if that many people are connected, others
will get a rejection message. This limit will be raised or eliminated
when we get our beefy new servers online.
We're hoping to have the new machines online in the first week of
June. The machines have arrived, but they aren't yet installed or
configured, as the fates have been conspiring against us. Stay tuned...
|
| 21-May-98 |
Added a mailing list and newsgroup for Qt.
|
| 19-May-98 |
Listed the Language Enabling
and Localization Projects pages
on the Other Projects page.
|
| 18-May-98 |
The Blue Sky column has undergone a
reorganization that should make it easier to include contributed ideas.
Let us know what you think.
Added Unity of Interface
to Editorials.
Tinderbox has arrived! Tinderbox is a
tool that shows you the up-to-the-minute status of our
continuous builds on multiple platforms.
|
| 15-May-98 |
Reorganized the menu again; changed the layout of the top-level page
so that it will now regularly contain a ``recent news'' blurb.
Announced the mail/news newsgroup and
mailing list, and added the initial mail/news
pages.
|
| 12-May-98 |
Bonsai has arrived! Bonsai is our CVS query
tool that lets you get an up-to-the-minute overview of what
changes have been made to the source code.
The contest is over, and a new logo animation has been found: check out
the contest pages for
details.
|
| 7-May-98 |
The Wang suit has been dismissed!
|
| 30-Apr-98 |
New version of the mungezilla script that also
works on MacOS (see the CVS page for details.)
Added OS/2 CVS instructions.
|
| 29-Apr-98 |
A new version of the Mozilla source has been
released.
Our public CVS server is now online!
The menu has changed to point to the new Source
Code page of various source-viewing options.
|
| 24-Apr-98 |
Wang claims patent ownership of ``Save As'', Bookmarks, and
file-extension-based decoding. Please help
us in this fight!
|
| 20-Apr-98 |
Finally! Network Library documentation has arrived. Learn how URLs
are retrieved and much, much more. The netlib docs are
here.
Added some new newsgroups/mailing lists for Layout, RDF, I18N, and
BeOS; see the Community page for details.
|
| 19-Apr-98 |
Slight redesign of the mozilla.org menu. Do you have ideas for how to
make this site easier to navigate? Let's discuss it in
mozilla.general.
|
| 15-Apr-98 |
Announced initial release of the next-generation
layout engine.
|
| 9-Apr-98 |
Added
Windows Tools to the download page.
|
| 8-Apr-98 |
New release of source.
|
| 6-Apr-98 |
Announced the initial release of Bugzilla,
mozilla.org's bug-tracking system.
Added a party report.
|
| 4-Apr-98 |
Check out the module owners document.
Also, check out the various other links on the
Projects page.
|
| 31-Mar-98 |
Come and get it.
|
| 29-Mar-98 |
Added a whole lot of Documentation.
|
| 28-Mar-98 |
The Localization Kits have
been released.
|
| 27-Mar-98 |
Added a C++
Portability Guide.
|
| 25-Mar-98 |
Added a Crypto FAQ.
|
| 24-Mar-98 |
Please come to our PARTY!
|
| 23-Mar-98 |
Added Localization Kits to the Docs page.
|
| 21-Mar-98 |
Second draft license released.
Debut of the Blue Sky column.
|
| 10-Mar-98 |
Created some more mailing lists and
newsgroups.
|
| 5-Mar-98 |
The draft license has been released.
|
| 2-Mar-98 |
New look for the site, that should be more compatible with older
browsers.
Announced the new ``license'' newsgroup and mailing list in the Community section.
Added our first contributed essay to the
Editorials section.
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| 1-Mar-98 |
Added the mirrors page.
|
| 26-Feb-98 |
Added the Search page.
|
| 25-Feb-98 |
Added another external wishlist to Blue Sky.
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| 23-Feb-98 |
Open for business!
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