So recently I've read that Firefox 8.0 is out, thought of updating, opened the Update Manager, refreshed the sources, but there was no uodate. Is there a particular reason for that?
Firefox 8 had some issues with language packs and has finally been pushed out via an update:
Micah Gersten, one of the maintainers of Firefox in the distro adds:
In this case, there was an issue found upstream in 8.0 almost immediately after release. Since this was discovered before I could complete my acceptance testing for 8.0, I decided to wait for 8.0.1. Mozilla should be releasing 8.0.1 fairly soon and we will release shortly after them.
Normally Firefox is kept up to date via the update manager (a delay like this is unusual):
