{"id":64,"date":"2003-10-11T02:20:30","date_gmt":"2003-10-11T10:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/?p=64"},"modified":"2003-10-11T02:20:30","modified_gmt":"2003-10-11T10:20:30","slug":"firebird-07-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/2003\/10\/11\/firebird-07-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Firebird 0.7 coming up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firebird 0.7 should be released next week.  You can download <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/firebird\/nightly\/latest-0.7\/\">0.7 branch builds<\/a> if you want something 0.7-like before 0.7 is released.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you need help explaining to your Firebird-using friends why they should upgrade to 0.7, I've compiled a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/archives\/000107.html\">list of important changes between 0.6.x and 0.7<\/a>.  It's easy to lose track of the big picture if you download Firebird builds often.<\/p>\n\n<p>You also might also wonder whether to recommend trunk nighlies to friends instead of 0.7.  For now, I recommend setting friends up with 0.7.  There's some <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?resolution=---&amp;field0-0-0=target_milestone&amp;type0-0-0=substring&amp;value0-0-0=firebird0.8&amp;order=bugs.votes,bugs.bug_id\">exciting stuff<\/a> coming in 0.8, but most of it hasn't happened yet.  Here's a summary of what's happened on the <em>trunk<\/em> since 0.7 branched on Sept 10:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=205726\">205726<\/a> - DNS rewrite that added IPv6 support on Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 and eliminated DNS pinning.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=98533\">98533<\/a> - 3% launch speedup<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=52596\">52596<\/a> - for several fonts, bold text expands when selected<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=173277\">173277<\/a> - overflowing table cells don't cause horizontal scrollbars to appear<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=102578\">102578<\/a> - Clicking wrongfully fires onmouseout on Linux (dhtml menus, css\/edge menus) - fixed for gtk2<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=128668\">128668<\/a> - Use GNOME application associations<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=33282\">33282<\/a> - enable external scheme handlers (like aim: and telnet:) in Linux<\/li>\n<li>Many other, less visible, bugs have been fixed.<\/li>\n<li>Several major regressions were introduced by these fixes.  Most of the regressions have been fixed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firebird 0.7 should be released next week. You can download 0.7 branch builds if you want something 0.7-like before 0.7 is released. If you need help explaining to your Firebird-using friends why they should upgrade to 0.7, I've compiled a list of important changes between 0.6.x and 0.7. It's easy to lose track of the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-branches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/burningedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}