Hi Wolfgang, ajs124, Thank you both for writing to let us know. We will keep the schedule as-is to avoid any breakage then.
Best wishes, Dennis On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 12:04 PM ajs124 < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2022 10:53:00 +0100 > Dennis Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Wolfgang, > > > > There will be an official release tomorrow (same day as Firefox 101 > ships), > > with binaries and a changelog. > > > > More generally, we are thinking of aligning NSS releases with the > > corresponding Firefox release. We're open to feedback if this change > would > > impact existing workflows? > > This might be/would have been an issue for us at nixpkgs/NixOS, where I > co-maintain the nss package. > > Updating nss means a very large rebuild, because unlike regular > distributions (as far as I know/remember at least) we rebuild everything > once a build input changes. So because e.g. libblockdev depends on nss, > we rebuild a few thousand packages for every nss update. > > This would and did sometimes mean delaying Firefox updates. Although > now we've split the package into nss_esr and nss_latest. We only use > nss_latest for Firefox, Thunderbird and extracting CA certificates > from, while nss_esr is used for everything else. > > Maybe some other distros, e.g. GuixSD are in the same boat. > > > Best, > > Dennis > > > > On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 9:25 AM Wolfgang Rosenauer <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > seems that Firefox 101 ships with something like NSS 3.78.1 in a few > days. > > > Will there be an official NSS release ASAP? > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Wolfgang > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups " > > > [email protected]" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > > email to [email protected]. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > > https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-tech-crypto/c684eb7c-813a-4abb-a242-22f753f20767n%40mozilla.org > > > < > https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-tech-crypto/c684eb7c-813a-4abb-a242-22f753f20767n%40mozilla.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > > > > > . > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "[email protected]" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-tech-crypto/CAON8YFPEskuDBd%2Bg%3DvCT63tNGMUFaopc7ucTyOOTsR%3DJUHF2%2BA%40mail.gmail.com > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > [email protected]" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-tech-crypto/20220530121119.4a8e2996%40desk > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-tech-crypto/CAON8YFPcsgKnazE0WAns%2BitLK5vON-yoLz0otX2oU64Ranwutw%40mail.gmail.com.
