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Thanks to Mike Morgan, late last week AUS2 (our next-generation Application Update Service) now handles updating trunk and Mozilla 1.8 branch builds. Also required was the feeding of AUS2 information about 1.8 branch builds from the Tinderbox systems. As of today both Firefox and Thunderbird installs on the 3 tier 1 platforms that are using the update test URL should be able to update, conforming to expectations.

Assuming you're using that update test URL, if you install a Firefox or Thunderbird trunk build, over the next day or two you should get an update to the latest trunk build for that product and platform. If you install a Firefox or Thunderbird Mozilla 1.8 branch build and use the update test URL, over the next day or two you should get an update to the latest Mozilla 1.8 branch build.

The next step is to land channel functionality, then turn on nightly update by default on a temporary basis. Want to find out when our testing begins on a bigger scale? Head over to the QA blog to get info on how to sign-up for the software update beta testing mailing list.

Thanks it works. But why am i d/ling a 5.9MB file when it should be much smaller incremental patch?

Posted by: Anon Cow at August 22, 2005 8:07 AM

Anon Cow: While generating complete updates lends itself naturally to our build farm and we can do it automatically, generating partial updates is relatively new so we have to put the server and build infrastructure in place for that to work. We plan to have this working shortly.

Posted by: Chase at August 25, 2005 12:18 PM