1207522 - Firefox Beta 41.0b9 updates to Firefox 41.0 instead of to 42.0b1

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Release Engineering :: Release Requests, defect)

Description

[Luís Miguel [:quicksaver] (not reading bugmail)]

STR:
1. Install Firefox Beta 41.0b9 [1] (41.0b8 also has this problem, haven't tried any others)
2. Start it up
3. Open About dialog, update it, restart it

If I go to the About dialog again, it will say it's on version 41.0, although it still says it's in the beta channel. I confirmed through about:buildconfig it's the same build as the 41.0 actual release, while 42.0b1 is a different build.

I would have expected it to update to 42.0b1, and it won't update automatically to it. Is this expected for the first beta release of each cycle? I had never noticed it before.

As expected, Nightly updated correctly to 44.0a1 as soon as it was available, and Dev.Edition (Aurora) is still on 42.0a2 as there isn't a 43.0a2 build yet.

[1] http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/41.0b9/

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

It just hasn't shipped yet, even though you see it in firefox/releases/42.0b1/ on the ftp server. The canonical place to check is at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/, and hover over the download box.

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

(In reply to Luís Miguel [:quicksaver] from comment #0)
> As expected, Nightly updated correctly to 44.0a1 as soon as it was
> available, and Dev.Edition (Aurora) is still on 42.0a2 as there isn't a
> 43.0a2 build yet.

Aurora goes through an extended QA period before we turn updates on again. Could be end of this week, or early next week, before that happens.

Comment 3

[Luís Miguel [:quicksaver] (not reading bugmail)]

Thank you for the info, I see the logic in the update process. I'm sorry for the false alarm.

Comment 4

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

No worries. And thanks for filing a bug. It's better to be false alarmed rather than having something broken. :)