On 2017-05-03, Anders Andersson <pipat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was checking up on different versions of Firefox and noticed that > there was a new ESR (52) released March 7, 2017. I see that stretch is > still using ESR 45. > > It would be really nice to have this newer version before stretch is > finalized, but since stretch is now in freeze, I suppose that requires > some special handling. > > I'm curious to know if there has been any discussions about this. > >
Debian tracks Firefox ESR releases. So stretch will get version 52 sometime before the end of life of version 45, regardless of its (stretch's) release date. This is a rare exception to the "stable" aspect of Debian releases. -- Liam
