Firefox 1.5, which is currently in its second beta version, was going to move on to the next step, Release Candidate 1, on Friday, Oct. 28. A code lockdown -- which meant that no new changes for RC1 would be accepted -- was scheduled for midnight Sunday, Oct. 23.
"We didn't quite make it and this morning there were a couple of regressions, a couple of newly discovered security issues, and a couple of unfixed Update bugs," blogged Asa Dotzler, the coordinator of Mozilla’s QA program, on Monday."...
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"Update: Asa Dotzler informs us that a few issues (mostly relating to security and the software update system) have been discovered and will have to be fixed before Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 ships. Fixes for major bugs such as these are the only ones that are allowed to be checked in during a lockdown."...
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