Hi Wolfgang, ajs124,

Thank you both for writing to let us know. We will keep the schedule as-is
to avoid any breakage then.

Best wishes,
Dennis

On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 12:04 PM ajs124 <
mozilla-dev-tech-crypto-googlegro...@ajs124.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 May 2022 10:53:00 +0100
> Dennis Jackson <djack...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Wolfgang,
> >
> > There will be an official release tomorrow (same day as Firefox 101
> ships),
> > with binaries and a changelog.
> >
> > More generally, we are thinking of aligning NSS releases with the
> > corresponding Firefox release. We're open to feedback if this change
> would
> > impact existing workflows?
>
> This might be/would have been an issue for us at nixpkgs/NixOS, where I
> co-maintain the nss package.
>
> Updating nss means a very large rebuild, because unlike regular
> distributions (as far as I know/remember at least) we rebuild everything
> once a build input changes. So because e.g. libblockdev depends on nss,
> we rebuild a few thousand packages for every nss update.
>
> This would and did sometimes mean delaying Firefox updates. Although
> now we've split the package into nss_esr and nss_latest. We only use
> nss_latest for Firefox, Thunderbird and extracting CA certificates
> from, while nss_esr is used for everything else.
>
> Maybe some other distros, e.g. GuixSD are in the same boat.
>
> > Best,
> > Dennis
> >
> > On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 9:25 AM Wolfgang Rosenauer <wrosena...@gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > seems that Firefox 101 ships with something like NSS 3.78.1 in a few
> days.
> > > Will there be an official NSS release ASAP?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >  Wolfgang
> > >
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