06.05.07
The ☃ cometh
By the time you read this, Camino 1.5 (codenamed ☃) will be out. We hope you enjoy the new version; we’ve put a lot of work into it and are excited to finally unleash it upon the world.
The road to Camino 1.5 began in January 2006, when the first fixes landed on the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH, even while we finished work on Camino 1.0. In the ensuing year-and-a-half, Camino contributors fixed nearly 500 “bugs” (problems or new features), and 25 different people contributed patches for this release; two of those fixed over 100 bugs apiece! Those are pretty impressive numbers, I think, for an all-volunteer, all-free-time development team.
In addition, our fantastic volunteer localization team released 13 localizations in sync with the US English build of Camino 1.5. Sadly, this is a few localizations short of the number in Camino 1.0. There are a few more localizations (mostly completely new-to-Camino languages, like Hungarian) underway that we hope to ship in either a “refresh” of the Camino ML build or in Camino 1.5.1, but if your language is missing from Camino 1.5—especially if it’s one of the languages shipped in Camino 1.0, like Chinese—please stop by the localization site and see how you can help.
This year I didn’t stay up all night helping put the finishing touches on things, but Sam and his crack team of designers worked long and late hours to deploy the new website in sync with the release. Thanks to all of you as well!
What’s next? After a bit of rest, we have a few more bits of polish we want to put on the website, on the wiki, and on the new Camino Planet, but development is already underway on Camino 1.6, so you can check out a nightly build and see what we’re cooking.
Enjoy Camino 1.5, and let us know what you think!
April 17, 2008 at 11:33 pm
[...] you remember back to my Camino 1.5 wrap-up, the number of bugs fixed in Camino 1.6 is lower, but this was designed to be a smaller release. [...]