August 24, 2005
- Software update channel patches are in! - Earlier this evening I landed the patches in bug 302721. This work is the result of much effort by the software update team -- Darin Fisher, Ben Goodger, Mike Morgan, and myself with reviews and additional patches by Scott MacGregor, Brian Ryner, and Benjamin Smedberg. It adds the capability for Firefox and Thunderbird to send channel data along with the rest of the app's information to AUS, the Application Update Server. What channels will we eventually have? Time will tell. For now, AUS recognizes two channels: default and nightly. When a build is created and --enable-update-channel isn't set in mozconfig the 'default' channel is selected. The trunk and Mozilla 1.8 release build systems all embed the 'nightly' channel. The default channel gets no updates from AUS while the nightly channel gets the latest nightly build. Firefox 1.5 beta will be released with a channel that will let AUS limit the updates downloaders of those builds get to beta quality or better through the 1.5 cycle. In case you want to disable software update for a nightly build that you've downloaded, follow these steps: Go to Tools → Options. Click Advanced. Click the Update tab. Under "When updates to Deer Park are found" click "Ask me what I want to do". However, we encourage nightly users to help us test software update as we drive towards the beta. Feedback is welcome and if you're interested in providing more data or hearing our software update testing plans, please join the software update beta testing mailing list.... (22:58 | 5 Comments)