来自，mozilla 官方博客的日志来看，firefox 已经结束 beta5 rc 版的编译打包工作，源码也已经顺利地合并到了主干，正在进行最终的测试。
从以下表格上来看，预计可以在下周完成整个测试，编译与释放正式包的工作。
让我们拭目以待。
| step | date | status |
| en-US string freeze | March 8th (1d late) | complete |
| tree closed for baking | March 19th, 11:59pm PDT | complete |
| shipped-locales & l10n tag date provided /l10n : 2008-03-20 04:00 PDT (seebug 423635) | March 20th, 11:59pm PDT | complete |
| code hand-off to build /cvsroot : 2008-03-25 22:40:00 PDT | March 25th, 10:40pm PDT | complete |
| RCs built (en-US, locales, & updates) windows, linux & mac available | March 27th, 7:00am PDT | complete(@rc2) |
| website changes on trunk [www-trunk:firstrun|whatsnew|releasenotes] | March 31st | estimated |
| QA tests of RCs | 4 days starting when signed windows, mac, linux builds are ready | in progress |
| QA tests update snippets (betatest) | 0.5 days | not started |
| QA & release driver handoff for release | week of March 31 | estimated |
| Build pushes download files to mirrors | 0.5 days | not started |
| QA tests update snippets (releasetest) | 2 hours | not started |
| release notes, firstrun pages live on mozilla.com | | not started |
| download page ready on stage.mozilla.com | | not started |
| QA tests live website changes, stage download links, mirrored installers | 1 hour | not started |
| Build enables updates | 1 hour | not started |
| download page pushed to mozilla.com | | not started |
| QA tests live snippets & download links | 1 hour | not started |
| release announced | | not started |
