The Release Note

Hi Folks,

Flock 1.1.2 is now available in Simplified Chinese from http://www.flock.com/versions.  Many thanks to Hillwood and Stef!

Thx,
Mike

Hi Folks,

We’ve turned on the automatic updates for 1.1.2 so they should be showing up at your browser doorstep in the next day or so.  L10N versions are also available at http://www.flock.com/versions and automatic updates will be turned on tomorrow.

I’m very pleased to announce the availability of 1.1.2 now in Hungarian!!!  Thanks to Csega, Stefan and Dukebody!

Thx,
Mike

Hi Folks,

We rolled out a couple of Web Detective fixes over the last couple of days to fix the following issues:

• Login detection with Facebook
• Media magic not showing up on Picasa photos
• Logout detection with YouTube
• Persistent session in Magnolia after logging out

Thx,
Mike

Hi Folks,

Not much really.  As many of you may have read, Flock is launching an Eco version of the Flock Browser with a new skin, some favorites and a bunch of feeds related to the Environment just in time for Earth Day.  Originally, Flock 1.1.2 was to be the container for all this content.  During our testing we noticed some really slow first run startup time because of all the feed content loading in.  We decided to roll a 1.1.3 version of Flock for Eco with a fix that does a better job of not bring the browser to it’s knees  while loading in a ton of feeds.

Since we’ve just started rolling out 1.1.2, With 1.2 (aka Grouse) just around the corner in May, we didn’t want to burden the user community with yet another update.  Unfortunately, a couple of download sites have picked up 1.1.3 off of our mirrors.  So, if you see a Flock 1.1.3 out there on a download site, don’t be dismayed.  You haven’t missed much and all that love will be in Flock 1.2.

Thx,
Mike

Hi Folks,

Yesterday we released 1.1.2 to the Flock website.  We’ll begin automatic updates on Monday as well as release the L10N versions.  This patch contains

• The 2.0.0.14 patch for Firefox
• A couple of Gmail fixes
• A fix for using the updated Truveo API.

Thx,
Mike

Hi Folks,

On Thursday Flock released a Web Detective upgrade to fix the automatic login detection for YouTube.  All Flock 1.1.x browsers should be picking up this change.

Thx,
Mike

Hi Folks,

Sorry for the missed blog post about 1.1.1 (I was on vacation and my human clone apparently decided to run off to some far off exotic land never to be heard from again).  Last week we released 1.1.1 which was basically included Mozilla’s 2.0.0.13 patch for Firefox as well as a few web detective fixes.  It is available for download and as an automatic update.  L10N versions, now including Italian, are available at http://www.flock.com/versions.  Automatic updates for L10Ns should be available Monday or Tuesday.

Mozilla has just announced a 2.0.0.14 patch for Firefox currently scheduled for April 15 and we’ll follow up shortly with a Flock 1.1.2.

Thx,
Mike

Hi Folks,

A Web Detective fix for HTML displaying in the webmail flyout has been deployed.  Happy Webmailing.

Thx,
Mike

Hi Folks,

As you probably know, we’ve release Flock 1.1 to the website yesterday.  That is just one of many deployment steps.  Here’s a picture of what is still ahead:

• On Monday we’ll turn on Automatic Updates for 1.1 users for a couple of hours.  This will give us an indication of any potential update issues not uncovered in QA before turning on full blast
• Later in the week we’ll turn on Automatic Updates permanently
• Several localized builds are ready or nearly ready (you can check the status here). These will get pushed out over the next couple of days as well.

Also note the Gmail seems to be under a constant state of change.  We’ve already got a couple of Web Detective changes pending to be rolled out very shortly.

Finally, Spanish and German Facebook doesn’t seem to be playing as nicely with Flock as the English version.  Hopefully this will be a simple web detective fix as well.

Thx,
Mike

Hi Folks,

We’ve deployed a Web Detective fix for Twitter to fix a pretty severe issue with the people sidebar not populating at all.  Flock browsers will automatically pick up this fix in the next 24 hours or so.

Thx,
Mike