12.08.09

Camino 2009 Fall Catch-Up

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Looking back, it appears that the last regular Camino update was in early August, nearly four months ago! As you’ve no doubt noticed, Camino work did proceed, and if for some reason you hadn’t noticed, I’ll let you know that we shipped three security and stability updates (Camino 1.6.9, 1.6.10, and 2.0.1), one milestone (Camino 2.0 Beta 4), and one major release (Camino 2) since the last update. We also launched a new website redesign, brought the total number of languages in the multilingual edition of Camino 2.0.1 to 15 with the return of Polish, and have attempted to keep up with all the comments (overwhelmingly positive; thank you!) and bug reports we’ve gotten since the release of Camino 2—all the while battling illnesses and holidays. Herewith a brief update on the smaller details of the past week or so.

  • Stuart Morgan handled the major Camino code changes for 2.0.1. He got Mac OS X 10.6 and the Help menu talking again in non-English localizations, and he hooked up support for collecting emails in the Camino Crash Reporter (once email addresses are available for authorized users of crash-stats, we’ll be able to contact you for more information about your crashes when we need your help).
  • Christopher Henderson wrote a patch to make the about:config context menu start working, which is handy now that we officially acknowledge that about:config exists. ;-) He has also been working on some history-related changes and on implementing some missing bits in CocoaPromptService that the about:config context menu wants to use.
  • Chris Lawson gave Christopher’s patch a review, and he also began working through our backlog of unconfirmed bugs, following up on those that haven’t seen activity for a while.
  • Samuel Sidler and Philippe Wittenbergh have been polishing some of the slightly-rough edges of the new website design and doing their usual parts to help with bug triage.
  • With the release work for 2.0.1 out of the way, I’ve also joined in on the website polishing and bug triaging. Mostly, though, I feel like the sprint to 2.0 and then 2.0.1 is finally done, so I can take a moment and breathe. ;-)

That’s it for now; we’re slowly getting back in gear for the road to Camino 2.1, but the number of exciting changes will probably be light until after the new year.

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