| 22 February 2000 |
XPInstall Newsgroup
Check out our new
XPInstall newsgroup for discussion of installation related technology
in Mozilla.
|
| 10 February 2000 |
Open Source PKI Code Released
The first partial release of
Open Source PKI
code is now available. This initial posting is for informational purposes
only. It does not yet compile. CVS availability and other details are still
being worked out.
|
| 7 February 2000 |
CodeWarrior Pro 5.3 Required for Mac
The Macintosh build environment has changed. CodeWarrior Pro 5.3 is
now required to build Mozilla on the Mac. For more details, see the
Mac build instructions.
|
| 4 February 2000 |
Mozilla Localization Project
Join the
Mozilla Localization Project.
Their
goal is to ship as many language packs for M14 as possible. Projects are
underway in 16 different languages. Localized versions of
M13 are already
available in Japanese and German.
|
| 1 February 2000 | Macintosh Compiler Update
Due to popular demand, the Macintosh build system is moving from
CodeWarrior Pro 4 to Pro 5. Mac developers will need to update
their build environment. See
bug 25949 and the
mozilla.mac newsgroup for more details.
|
| 26 January 2000 | Milestone 13 Released
M13 is our
Alpha release. It should be functional enough for everyday use
by testers so we encourage you to use it daily and find as
many bugs as possible as we work to release a beta.
Use bugzilla to
report bugs.
|
| 18 January 2000 |
Open Source Crypto Announced
Thanks to relaxed US export regulations, we can now host
security and cryptographic code. For more details, see our press release
and Mozilla Crypto FAQ.
The Sun-Netscape Alliance
has announced that it will contribute
Open Source PKI Projects
to Mozilla, including Netscape Security Services and Personal
Security Manager.
|
| 21 December 1999 | Milestone 12 Released
M12 binaries have
been released for Windows, Macintosh, i386 Linux, OpenVMS and FreeBSD.
More platforms to follow.
|
| 21 December 1999 | Newsclips Newsgroup
We welcome postings to our newsclips
newsgroup. This
is a place to post links to news articles and press releases about
Mozilla such as this announcement by
Digital Creations.
|
| 21 December 1999 | Design Patterns Contest Winners
Congratulations to Guillaume Rams, Gergory Knapen, and Matt Bissiri,
winnners of the
Design Patterns contenst organized by Heikki Toivonen of CiTEC.
|
| 7 December 1999 | Jobs and XSLT Newsgroups
Mozilla-related
jobs have been given their own unmoderated
newsgroup/mailing-list pair. A forum for discussion of XSLT
in Mozilla has been created as well.
|
| 19 November 1999 | M11 For More Platforms
Milestone 11 binaries
are now available for OpenVMS, Sparc Linux, Sparc Solaris 7, Intel Solaris 7,
HPUX, and Alpha Linux. Thanks to Anton Blanchard, Ryan Krenzischek, Roland
Mainz, Matthew Wilson, and to Compaq's
OpenVMS Engineering
group. Contact
us to donate binaries for your own platform.
|
| 1 November 1999 | Milestone 11 Released
M11 binaries have
been released for Windows, Macintosh and i386 Linux. It features a
new UI, incremental reflow, and a new name. On Unix and Windows, the
application is called mozilla instead of apprunner.
|
| 26 October 1999 | Mozilla Jobs
We encourage people to submit job postings for mozilla related
positions to our moderated
announcements newsgroup. Our first such posting is from Netscape
for a
technical writer to document XUL.
Note that we have since moved jobs-related postings to their own
newsgroup, so mozilla-announce is no longer a valid place for these.
|
| 14-October-99 | Design Patterns in Mozilla Contest
A
contest organized by Heikki Toivonen of Citec. Find and document
design patterns in the Mozilla code with the chance to win an
autographed copy of Design Patterns: Elements of
Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Gamma et. al.
|
| 14-Oct-99 | M10 For Solaris 7 on Sparc
Thanks to Roland Mainz for packaging
Milestone 10 binaries
on the Sparc Solaris 7 platform. Note that this doesn't work on older
versions of Solaris.
|
| 11-Oct-99 | M10 For Sparc Linux and OpenVMS
Thanks to Anton Blanchard for packaging
Milestone 10 binaries
for the Sparc Linux platform and to Compaq's
OpenVMS Engineering
group for OpenVMS binaries. Contact
us to donate binaries for your own platform.
|
| 8-Oct-99 | M10 Released
Milestone 10 binaries
have been released. Proxies are working but you must edit the prefs
file yourself. See bug
8559
for details. Read the
release notes before
reporting bugs.
They explain how to work around a crash problem some are having.
|
| 7-Oct-99 | Bugzilla has voting
Bugzilla now lets you vote on the bugs that
annoy you most. See the vote help
page for more details.
|
| 6-Oct-99 | MailNews API Testing
Help the MailNews project by
using XPConnect to test the
mail APIs. If you know JavaScript, are interested in testing and
learning about the mail API and XPConnect, you can help!
|
| 30-Sept-99 | Slides from CodeStock and XML DevCon
Slides are now available for both last week's
CodeStock, and for the presentation
XML and Related Standards in Gecko, given by Netscape
engineers at the recent XML Developer's Conference in Montreal.
The XML slides as well as many of the CodeStock slides are best viewed with
Mozilla. Try the M9 build.
|
| 31-Aug-99 | CodeStock Web Developer Seminars
CodeStock is a two day event
held Sept 21-22, featuring seminars on embedding Gecko and JavaScript,
writing plugins for Mozilla's new plugin API, and building web content
with HTML 4.0, CSS, DOM, XML, XUL and Skins. Sign up to view the live
webcast.
|
| 28-Aug-99 | PerLDAP v1.4 Released
A new version of PerLDAP has been
released containing several bug fixes as well as a new standalone
LDIF implementation.
See the release notes for more info.
|
| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| 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]
|
| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| 1-Mar-98 |
Added the mirrors page.
|
| 26-Feb-98 |
Added the Search page.
|
| 25-Feb-98 |
Added another external wishlist to Blue Sky.
|
| 23-Feb-98 |
Open for business!
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