The SeaMonkey Project Turns 5
On March 10, 2005, Mozilla Foundation announced the
transition plan
that paved the way for the community to take over development, release and
project management of Mozilla’s application suite. This agreement formed the
base of today’ SeaMonkey project, which came to be after a number of IRC
meetings where we decided we’d first work on releasing the then-available suite
code as a first community version while starting work on transforming the suite
to an application built upon the new Mozilla platform also in use by Firefox
and Thunderbird.
On July 2, we announced the new name of the suite
and community project to be “SeaMonkey”, September 15 marked our
first Alpha release, on December 2, we announced
our new logo, and on January 30, 2006, we were
able to release SeaMonkey 1.0 to the public.
While we released a slightly improved 1.1 based on the old one a year later,
work continued on the version based on the new platform, culminating in a
completely reworked SeaMonkey 2.0 that more or
less was the first release our new team developed from ground up, going public
on October 27, 2009.
5 years after the transition plan announcement, we are about to end support for
the SeaMonkey 1.x series and leave the aged “xpfe” platform finally behind us,
while we’re working on a new 2.1 release that brings more features and closes
the gap to Firefox and Thunderbird even further.
So, while we’re celebrating the 5th anniversary, the SeaMonkey project is as
active as ever, if not even more, providing the most modern Internet suite
available today with SeaMonkey 2.0 and working on improving it even more.
Still, we need your help to make our software
and project even better in the next 5 years!
