Lather, Rinse, Repeat: Mozilla 1.0.6
The folks over at Mozillazine are saying there will be an update to Mozilla and Thunderbird just days after releasing version 1.0.5. The new version, numbered 1.0.6, to be released sometime this week fixes some things inadvertently broken when 1.0.5 was released (among other things, Enigmail PGP for Thunderbird stopped working).
The site reports that, based on the problems found in the English version of 1.0.5, all work on the localized versions were halted and will go directly to 1.0.6. The unfortunate fallout is that the most current non-English version of Mozilla/Thunderbird is still 1.0.4, which has at least 10 security vulnerabilities (including, as noted earlier, execution of arbitrary code). Hence, foreign users are up in arms that they have to use version 1.0.4 while English users already have 1.0.5 (albeit with its own problems).
While I guess it's fair to object to the way Mozilla did things by delaying the release, since it apparently made a management decision not to release the localized 1.0.5 versions, perhaps the angry hoards could be a little less personal about the attacks.