From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Lemmer Webber Subject: Re: Recipe for latest release of firefox? Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:13:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87d0fg8xz2.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87impa92dr.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87h84srbg4.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFH2S-00066O-Ub for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:13:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFH2R-0000nZ-Mp for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:13:56 -0400 Received: from dustycloud.org ([2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:cb51]:46078) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFH2R-0000lt-IN for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:13:55 -0400 In-reply-to: <87h84srbg4.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Christopher, > > Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: >> Does someone have a recipe, or channel, for the latest release of >> Firefox? >> >> Mark Weaver was doing an amazing job of patching icecat to be up to date >> on security releases. Since nobody is doing that work currently, I'm a >> bit worried about the security of my browsing... > > FWIW, I'm still using IceCat 60.9, based on Firefox ESR 60.9, which was > released at the same time as Firefox ESR 68.1. Those are the most > recent upstream ESR releases from Mozilla, so our IceCat package is > currently up to date. > > The next IceCat update will be needed when you see a version number > newer than 68.1 on the following page: > > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/ > > The next update is currently scheduled for October 22, when Firefox 70 > and Firefox 68.2 ESR are due to be released. Unless an especially > urgent issue is discovered, leading to an "out of band" release from > Mozilla, it's likely that no action will be needed until October 22. > > Regards, > Mark Thanks for clarifying, Mark :)