Firefox OS will receive quarterly upgrades and six-weekly security updates as part of “the most aggressive mobile OS release strategy out there,” Mozilla has confirmed.
The intention is to integrate the open source mobile operating system into Mozilla’s existing release schedule which sees Firefox, Firefox for Android and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) receive updates almost exactly every six weeks.
“Like a well-practiced choir, we synchronise our technical and organisational heartbeat around releases,” explained Alex Keybl, manager of release management at Mozilla. “This heartbeat enables us to push a unified vision across the entire web, keep our users regularly delighted with new (many times cross-platform) functionality, and prevent any one product from lagging behind in security updates.”
“It made us ‘skip a beat’, but for all the right reasons,” said Keybl, who added the platform would now be brought up to speed now the first version of Firefox OS had been released.
“This sort of alignment across multiple browser products, and now an OS, is unprecedented at the pace we’re moving.”
The ZTE Open and Alcatel One Touch Fire were the first smartphones running Firefox OS to be released earlier this month and target emerging markets and first-time smartphone buyers. There is no indication as to when the platform will find its way to the UK, but handsets should be available in 11 countries by the end of the year.
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