Firefox Are Moving to a Two‑Week Release Cycle Starting September : firefox

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

But why... I don't even fully get why there is a dedicated cycle anyways. Just release an update when there is something worthwhile.

[+] webkitten@piefed.social 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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[–] dotned@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I don't see why it's necessary for any software. I understand if companies want to release security patches and bugfixes faster. But those releases are usually accompanied by way too many unnecessary changes driven by marketing/product that a lot of people don't give a shit about.

[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Maybe they should drop the AI and go back to 4.

[–] lnxtx@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

From 4-week to 2-week:

We are planning to move Firefox Desktop and Android from a 4-week release cadence to a 2-week release cadence starting in September 2026.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 12 points 3 days ago

Definitely going to be vibe coded nonsense at that rate

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Fast release cycles might make sense for a new project that is in rapid development.

Fast release cycles for established products make no sense. What I want from a project that is tens of years old is primarily stability. They can do their internal releases at whichever pace they want, but don't push on users updates this frequently, it's just wrong.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

They already produce nightly builds. Why are people upset that they feel confident to release stables every two weeks?

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

This will be OK with me, as long as I don't have this popping up on a regular basis, forcing me to restart my browser:

[+] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca -8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

FF is always updating already, yet another reason to switch.

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You mean from your 4-weeks-cycle browser to any other one, which are all (through being based on Chrome) on 2-weeks-cycles? Or they're intentionally lagging behind their upstream, which is the exact same only with less control as you simply choosing not to update your FF if an update is available?

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good point, It may not be my smartest comment.

Sometimes I just get tired of all the updates happening all the time from everywhere, and that each update often means changes that makes the program worse.

[–] ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 3 points 3 days ago

Stay calm and sudo pacman -Syu