1757063 - Impossible to audit Thunderbird beta releases on macOS to confirm that security patches are present

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect, P2)

Description

[Jonathan Kamens]

The Info.plist file included with Thunderbird beta releases on macOS does not show the full beta release number, e.g., for 98.0b2 it only says 98.0. It also doesn't have any sort of build date in it. This means that it's impossible for enterprises to audit installed beta releases of Thunderbird to confirm, e.g., that they have recently announced security patches in them. There should be enough detail in the versioning in the Info.plist file to be able to identify a specific beta release from the data.

Comment 1

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Attachment: Bug 1757063 - Include beta version in Info.plist. r?#thunderbird-reviewers

Use display version when building Info.plist. This will only affect beta
builds, where MOZ_APP_VERSION does not include the beta number;
MOZ_VERSION_DISPLAY does. (Release and daily builds the two values are the
same.)
Additionally, use MAC_BUNDLE_VERSION for CFBundleVersion as is done for
Firefox. MAC_BUNDLE_VERSION is the major version number and the build date
(eg. 9922.3.3).

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kamens]

Sweet. Thank you for the quick action on this.

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/ff49a9514dac
Include beta version in Info.plist. r=darktrojan

Comment 4

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

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Verified fixed in 99.0b1