Mozilla quietly slipped a new version of Firefox to the public yesterday. Firefox 36.0 fixes at least 17 security issues, adds more HTML5 compatibility, and adds HTTP/2 functionality to the browser.

As usual, I learned about the new version from a non-Mozilla source, this time a post on the CERT alerts blog. There was no announcement at all on the Mozilla blog.

The release notes and security advisories (aka known vulnerabilities) pages provide additional details on the new release.

Update 2015Feb25: I did receive an email alert from Mozilla that could conceivably be considered an announcement for the new version. The Firefox download page includes a ‘Get Firefox news’ signup form, and I was able to confirm the email I received was sent via this mechnism. Sounds good, right? Not really. The email talks exclusively about Firefox’s new(ish) ‘Hello’ chat feature. It never mentions anything about a new version, or even the version in which ‘Hello’ first appeared. It only says that if you want to try it, you should install the latest version of Firefox.