Hi Tobias! Thank you for filing this detailed bug! I have some good and bad news. Good news: You made the right choice by filing a new bug and not resurrecting bug 1565863 - this is a different issue. Bad news: These URLs are correct and there are delivering the expected APKs, even though they're old. There's is an explanation 🙂 Fennec is being replaced by our new state-of-the-art mobile browser codenamed "Fenix". We're slowly migrating users in order to make sure the experience is as painless and as enjoyable as possible. We started to migrate users who were using Fennec Nightly in January (bug 1608882). It took us several weeks to be sure of the result and to finally offer Fenix Nightly to all users using Fennec Nightly. Another few weeks later, we repeated the same process with Fennec Beta (bug 1614287). Fenix Beta has been offered to the whole Fennec Beta population on April 22nd. We're planning to do the same with Fennec Release sometimes this year. The schedule is still to be determined. The Google Play Store[1] has a lot of nice features, but it's still pretty basic whenever a software publisher wants to slowly migrate users. Once a migration is started, we can't provide any Fennec updates to the population who wasn't offered Fenix, yet. I can say this restriction is painful to manage for Android developers, Mozilla included. Because of it, we had to stop shipping Fennec Nightly/Beta APKs at the beginning of each migration. This explains the dates of the last builds. At the same time, we stopped building Fennec Nightly/Beta because it enabled us to save technical resources[2] as well as people's time[3]. Thank you for bringing up FFUpdater! I didn't know such an application existed. We did look into download.mozilla.org (aka "bouncer") in bug 1614765. Originally, download.mozilla.org links were used on www.mozilla.org. This website has had many changes since the first Fennec came out and it's been a while since it used bouncer to let people download the latest APKs. Instead, it points users to Google Play. Thus, Mozilla decided to not put Fenix on download.mozilla.org. That said, I think you can use new links in your app 😃 Is the source code available somewhere? This way, I can have a look at what you app does and provide the most efficient link you can use 🙂 How does this sound to you, Tobias? [1] which is our main distribution medium on Android. [2] each type of builds has its own compilation and test suites [3] for instance, QA wouldn't have time to test both Fenix and Fennec.
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Hi Tobias! Thank you for filing this detailed bug, Tobias! I have some good and bad news. Good news: You made the right choice by filing a new bug and not resurrecting bug 1565863 - this is a different issue. Bad news: These URLs are correct and there are delivering the expected APKs, even though they're old. There's is an explanation 🙂 Fennec is being replaced by our new state-of-the-art mobile browser codenamed "Fenix". We're slowly migrating users in order to make sure the experience is as painless and as enjoyable as possible. We started to migrate users who were using Fennec Nightly in January (bug 1608882). It took us several weeks to be sure of the result and to finally offer Fenix Nightly to all users using Fennec Nightly. Another few weeks later, we repeated the same process with Fennec Beta (bug 1614287). Fenix Beta has been offered to the whole Fennec Beta population on April 22nd. We're planning to do the same with Fennec Release sometimes this year. The schedule is still to be determined. The Google Play Store[1] has a lot of nice features, but it's still pretty basic whenever a software publisher wants to slowly migrate users. Once a migration is started, we can't provide any Fennec updates to the population who wasn't offered Fenix, yet. I can say this restriction is painful to manage for Android developers, Mozilla included. Because of it, we had to stop shipping Fennec Nightly/Beta APKs at the beginning of each migration. This explains the dates of the last builds. At the same time, we stopped building Fennec Nightly/Beta because it enabled us to save technical resources[2] as well as people's time[3]. Thank you for bringing up FFUpdater! I didn't know such an application existed. We did look into download.mozilla.org (aka "bouncer") in bug 1614765. Originally, download.mozilla.org links were used on www.mozilla.org. This website has had many changes since the first Fennec came out and it's been a while since it used bouncer to let people download the latest APKs. Instead, it points users to Google Play. Thus, Mozilla decided to not put Fenix on download.mozilla.org. That said, I think you can use new links in your app 😃 Is the source code available somewhere? This way, I can have a look at what you app does and provide the most efficient link you can use 🙂 How does this sound to you, Tobias? [1] which is our main distribution medium on Android. [2] each type of builds has its own compilation and test suites [3] for instance, QA wouldn't have time to test both Fenix and Fennec.