As many of you know, the Mozilla Foundation will not be shipping Mozilla Application Suite (Mozilla 1.x) releases beyond the continuing security updates to the Mozilla 1.7 product.
The good news for suite fans is that a group of well known and capable volunteers has stepped up to keep the suite going. The Mozilla Foundation will continue to host this project, providing the obvious infrastructure like CVS, FTP, website space, Bugzilla, etc. In addition to that, the Mozilla Foundation is also contributing some of my time to help this new project team get up and running. As part of the agreement reached between this new team and the Foundation, the suite is to get a new name and version number to help prevent confusion and make it more obvious to current Mozilla 1.7.x userbase that this is a new project and should be evaluated as such.
Today, the new project team has selected its new name. You can read the announcement over at the Mozilla wiki. The Mozilla Foundation legal council has vetted this name for trademark concerns and is comfortable that it will not lead to the same kinds of problems we had with the phoenix/firebird/firefox namaing difficulties of the past.
You can also find the beginnings of the new product website at http://allizom.org.
