Mozilla bumps up Firefox 3.1 to 3.5

From InfoWorld: "As recently proposed, the version number of the Shiretoko project will be changed to Firefox 3.5 before the upcoming fourth beta release," said Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's director of Firefox, in a brief entry to the company's developer blog.

The name change has been under discussion for several weeks, prompted in part by calls from developers who thought that the "3.1" moniker didn't properly reflect the amount of new features and changes from last June's Firefox 3.0.

"The increase in scope represented by TraceMonkey and Private Browsing, plus the sheer volume of work that's gone into everything from video and layout to Places and the plug-in service make it a larger increment than we believe is reasonable to label '.1,'" Mike Shaver, Mozilla's vice president of engineering, said in a message to a company forum last week. "[Firefox] 3.5 will help set expectations better about the amount of awesome that's packed into Shiretoko."

"Shiretoko" is Mozilla's code name for Firefox 3.1, now Firefox 3.5.

Shaver also spelled out another potential benefit of the name change. "We expect uptake help from that as well," he said.

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