On 23/11/2017 16:15, James Pearson wrote:
> William Spratt wrote:
>> Thanks. Is there a document that shows what parts are planned to be
>> included in 59.0 ESR? And are parts of quantum included in 52.5.0ESR
>> and later (I suspect not, but just want confirmation)?
> My take on this is:
>
> ESR 59 will be based on the 'mainline' Firefox 59 release
>
> Firefox 59 will be an 'evolution' of Firefox 57 ('Quantum') and Firefox
> 58 - so will include all that the previous versions had (unless
> something is badly broken or deprecated and Mozilla decide to remove it)
>
> i.e. ESR 59 is likely to have all the features that make up whatever
> 'Quantum' is (I'm guessing 'Quantum' is just a marketing term ???)
>
> Mozilla do not backport major changes to an ESR series, so minor ESR
> version changes will only have security fixes (and possibly the odd bug
> fix) applied
>
> i.e. ESR 52.5.0 will not contain any of the 'Quantum' changes with
> Firefox 57
>
This is correct. We won't be back porting any quantum features to ESR
(we touched 7M lines of code!).
As a reminder, in ESR, we take security fixes and some important
stability improvements.
>From the information I have now, ESR 59 should be pretty much the same
as regular 59.
Sylvestre
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