{"id":497,"date":"2005-08-13T01:01:29","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T09:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/2005\/08\/13\/gecko-18-branch-created\/"},"modified":"2005-08-15T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T21:01:46","slug":"gecko-18-branch-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/2005\/08\/13\/gecko-18-branch-created\/","title":{"rendered":"Gecko 1.8 branch created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla source tree <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/devnews\/index.php\/2005\/08\/12\/tree-closed-for-18-branching\/\">Branched for Gecko 1.8<\/a> on Friday, August 12.  Firefox 1.5 beta, Firefox 1.5, and Thunderbird 1.5 will all be released from the Gecko 1.8 branch.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>There were a lot of last-minute checkins before the tree closed to branch at midnight Thursday night.  A last-minute checkin related to split windows went in, and the Mozilla Quality Blog is <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/qa\/archives\/2005\/08\/need_some_help_1.html\">asking<\/a> for help testing for regressions related to this checkin.  <a href=\"http:\/\/bonsai.mozilla.org\/cvsquery.cgi?branch=HEAD&amp;date=explicit&amp;mindate=2005-08-11+23%3A55&amp;maxdate=2005-08-11+23%3A55\">My last-minute checkin<\/a> caused <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=304418\">at least one regression<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Now that the tree has branched, the trunk is open for exciting changes such as <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/roadmap\/archives\/008240.html\">using Cairo for all graphics<\/a>, <a href=\"\r\nhttp:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mozilla2:Unified_Storage\">unified storage of profile data<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/roc\/archives\/2005\/07\/gecko_19.html\">other big Gecko 1.9 changes<\/a>.  To learn about other things that <em>might<\/em> happen on the trunk between now and when Firefox 2.0 branches, see <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mozilla2:Home_Page\">\"Mozilla 2\"<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox:Home_Page\">\"Firefox\"<\/a> in the Mozilla Wiki.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>I have not decided whether The Burning Edge will primarily follow the branch or the trunk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mozilla source tree Branched for Gecko 1.8 on Friday, August 12. Firefox 1.5 beta, Firefox 1.5, and Thunderbird 1.5 will all be released from the Gecko 1.8 branch. There were a lot of last-minute checkins before the tree closed to branch at midnight Thursday night. A last-minute checkin related to split windows went in, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}