Mozilla has announced the launch of a new Dev Channel which it calls as Aurora and is aimed at speeding up the development of all the newer features and updates including various fixes concerning that of the security, stability and performance and make them available within shorter span of time. It also considers this as an open opportunity to allow more contributions by the people and thereby help the browser progress in a very positive note. This Aurora Dev Channel of Mozilla is going to join the already existing channels which were named as Nightly, Beta and Final release.
This dev channel will facilitate participants to avail access to all the new and upcoming versions with feature updates right before the Beta release and thereby allowing them to test those updated or upgraded features and try to make it more stable for the beta version to come along. It is just after the Nightly channel that Aurora will follow and will involve some amount of QA after around 6 weeks period as drafted. It is intended to make the quality improvement which will also make the the next beta channel much more usable as a standard release with few issues or bugs and hence make the pre-release browser perform like a decent one.
The rules of the repositories are however intended to remain same and each of these channels would have their own set of rules to be followed and will not be altered with every new release that follows. Each build from a particular channel would carry some new and unique icons such that there would be no confusions and the users can easily identify about the level of stability to expect from the same by recognizing the Dev channel that it comes from. The logos are already highlighted in the figure placed above on the top and can be used to identify those individual channels.
Mozilla Firefox Aurora 5.0a2 is currently available for download along with Firefox 4 Stable release whereas the Beta release is still expected and will be featured there once the Aurora release is passed through. The announcement came from the Official Mozilla Blog and has lots of details too regarding this new feature. If you are interested to know more about it, you can have access to them by pointing your browser to the Mozilla Developer Center which explains all the facts regarding the new Aurora Channel which they have introduced to make possible rapid releases and thereby speed up the development life cycle.
This dev channel will facilitate participants to avail access to all the new and upcoming versions with feature updates right before the Beta release and thereby allowing them to test those updated or upgraded features and try to make it more stable for the beta version to come along. It is just after the Nightly channel that Aurora will follow and will involve some amount of QA after around 6 weeks period as drafted. It is intended to make the quality improvement which will also make the the next beta channel much more usable as a standard release with few issues or bugs and hence make the pre-release browser perform like a decent one.
The rules of the repositories are however intended to remain same and each of these channels would have their own set of rules to be followed and will not be altered with every new release that follows. Each build from a particular channel would carry some new and unique icons such that there would be no confusions and the users can easily identify about the level of stability to expect from the same by recognizing the Dev channel that it comes from. The logos are already highlighted in the figure placed above on the top and can be used to identify those individual channels.
Mozilla Firefox Aurora 5.0a2 is currently available for download along with Firefox 4 Stable release whereas the Beta release is still expected and will be featured there once the Aurora release is passed through. The announcement came from the Official Mozilla Blog and has lots of details too regarding this new feature. If you are interested to know more about it, you can have access to them by pointing your browser to the Mozilla Developer Center which explains all the facts regarding the new Aurora Channel which they have introduced to make possible rapid releases and thereby speed up the development life cycle.
