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Mozilla Development Roadmap

The new, significant roadmap update hoped for early in 2004 has been postponed. See Brendan's roadmap blog for thoughts that may feed into it.

New Milestone Schedule

  • Starting with a mid-cycle 1.8beta2 freeze and until Gecko 1.8 branches, the trunk will be managed by drivers and checkins will require driver approval.
  • The localization freeze in preparation for Gecko 1.8 final starts with the release of 1.8beta3. L10n impact changes after that must be flagged with the late-l10n keyword and posted to the l10n newsgroup. Ideally the number of such changes will be zero or near zero.
  • We will branch for Gecko 1.8 when Firefox 1.1 (Deer Park) is substantially feature complete, including l10n dependencies and build infrastructure. This is presently targeted to occur shortly before 1.8b4, near the end of July. Product planning and release tracking details are available on the Deer Park Wiki.
  • August 30th, 2005 Update - The schedule for the beta and release candidate milestones for Gecko 1.8 and Firefox 1.5 have been set. See the announcement for full details.

As always, the milestone freeze time is 11:59 P.M. Pacific Time (see the tinderbox page for notices) on a Tuesday.

If you are planning a Mozilla-based product release whose schedule does not jibe well with the above milestones, we welcome your feedback (we will keep confidential information to ourselves, and will take appropriate safeguards as necessary).

project management

To drive developers looking to help toward bugs needing assistance in a timely fashion, to moderate risk, and to aid commercial projects based on Mozilla in managing their product releases, mozilla.org has created a group of project managers, drivers@mozilla.org.

Previous Roadmaps

The Mozilla roadmap is an evolving series of documents: