Today, the SeaMonkey project released a new version of its all-in-one internet
suite. SeaMonkey 1.1.2 closes
several
security vulnerabilities and fixes several smaller problems found in
previous versions. With that, SeaMonkey stays at the same level of security as
its siblings Firefox and Thunderbird, which are issuing updates for the same
problems this week as well.
Despite a simultaneous release of a last update to the SeaMonkey 1.0 series,
SeaMonkey 1.0.9, the project team strongly urges users to upgrade to SeaMonkey
1.1.2, as the old 1.0 series will not be maintained further. The 1.1 series, on
the other hand, is being actively maintained and also features some new
functionality such as spell checking in web forms and mail tags.
In addition to users of older SeaMonkey versions, the SeaMonkey team strongly
urges users of the old Mozilla Suite and Netscape 4, 6 or 7 to upgrade to
SeaMonkey 1.1.2. Those software packages suffer from a large and rising number
of security vulnerabilities because they are no longer being maintained.
SeaMonkey 1.1.2 is a drop-in replacement, providing the same basic suite
functionality plus additional features, without known security problems but
with current updates.
The SeaMonkey project team took over development of the all-in-one internet
application suite after Netscape and later the Mozilla Foundation ceased to
work on it. Under the new name, users are provided with current versions of the
established software package.
SeaMonkey 1.1.2 is available
for free download from the open source project’s website at
www.seamonkey-project.org.
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