Re: Firefox ESR EOL

[Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>]

On 12/9/21 12:12, piorunz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed that Debian Stable uses Firefox ESR 78.15.0, which is final
> update of 78 series. All further updates go to Firefox ESR 91, as
> Mozilla page says:
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.15.0/releasenotes
> 
> "Version 78.15.0, first offered to ESR channel users on October 5, 2021
> This is the final planned ESR78 release. Eligible users will be
> automatically updated to the ESR91 release on November 2."
> 
> Since 2 November, Firefox 78 is EOL and we all should upgrade. I use
> Debian Bullseye on several of my computers, and they all are on ESR 78.
> 
> Firefox 91 should migrate to Stable as soon as possible, otherwise we
> risk unpatched security vulnerabilities being present in Debian Stable,
> there are several of them already.
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/firefox-esr
> 
> Is there any remedy for this?
> 

Hey Piotr,

a new release of Firefox ESR was uploaded to Sid two days ago and
probably will be uploaded to stable soon.

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firefox-esr&suite=sid

Kind regards
Georgi