Changes between Version 69 and Version 70 of firefox

Timestamp:

07/30/2020 03:40:50 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

ken@…

Comment:

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firefox

@@ -23 +23 @@
 '''You should always use the latest release, either the latest esr or the latest mainline version (or the latest beta for bleeding edge)'''. And you should remember to update your ca-certificates when building a new version of firefox. 
 
-== Dependencies for 78-ESR ==
+== Dependencies for 78-ESR series ==
 
 Although the book is tested with its latest versions of the dependencies ''' it should be possible to use older versions of some packages''':
@@ -62 +62 @@
 This is an attempt to help people who want to keep using the latest upstream release, and will be updated from time to time. It is also a store of important changes which will need to be addressed when the book moves to the next ESR version.
 
-For firefox-78.0 the dependencies are the same as for 78.0esr 
+For firefox-79.0: 
 
-== Dependencies for 79.0beta ==
+== Dependencies for 79.0 ==
 
 cbindgen needs to be >= 0.14.3
 nss needs to be >= 3.54
 nspr needs to match nss (i.e. 4.26 for nss-3.54)
-rustc needs to be >= 1.43, tested with 1.44.1 (using system llvm-10)
+rustc needs to be >= 1.43, tested with 1.44.1 (using system llvm-10) and 1.45.0 (using gcc).
+There are reports that 1.45.0 fails to build if the default clang is used.
+
+== Dependencies for 80.0beta ==
+
+For 80.0beta1:
+
+nspr needs to be >= 4.27
+nss needs to be >= 3.55
+Tested with rustc-1.45.0 and gcc.