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Songbird Spotted in Namoroka!

By Preed Preed Apr 7, 2010 3:47 pm
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Ever since Mozilla released the 1.9.1 version of its platform1, our community has been asking when to expect a version of Songbird built on the newer platform. Transitioning to a newer version of the Mozilla platform is a complicated process and a huge project in and of itself. At the time, we were working hard [...]

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Focusing Those Binoculars

By Preed Preed Mar 3, 2010 4:47 pm
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Some of our astute ornithologists have noticed us busily working on the Songbird1.7 (known as the “Nirvana”1) release and have asked where the builds are. Starting with this release, we’ve made a slight change to how we deliver release-branch builds: we’ll be calling out specific builds off of the release branch to focus attention on, [...]

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1.4 Updates Flying the Coop

By Preed Preed Jan 8, 2010 5:29 pm
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As promised, we’ve just started pushing updates from 1.2.0 to the new 1.4.3 release! If you’re impatient, or raring to grab the update, go to Help > Check for Updates in the Songbird menus to trigger an update; this will download 1.4.3 in all its purple glory! We know some of you prefer the Gonzo [...]

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publicsvn resuscitated!

By Preed Preed Jul 18, 2008 1:03 pm
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After a couple of late nights reloading repository dumps and learning new and wonderful unexpected “features” of mixing svn:externals and svnsync, I’m happy to announce that publicsvn.songbirdnest.com is finally available again. Timelines are back up as well. All external developers will need to repull their trees; these repositories—multiple—are entirely new SVN repos, with different UUIDs. [...]

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No checkins since June 27th?!

By Preed Preed Jul 9, 2008 9:54 pm
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Community members who are close watchers of our Subversion repository may have noticed that it’s been stuck on revision 9803 for about a week and a half and may have wondered “Hey, what’s up? Are you all on vacation? Maybe still recovering from the Fourth of July?” Well, I can assure you that all of [...]

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