A new version of Firefox was announced yesterday by Mozilla. Yes, you read that correctly: a post on the Mozilla blog announced new versions of Firefox for all platforms. Of course, the announcement doesn’t mention the new version number, and it doesn’t provide any details, it just points to the release notes. Still, it’s progress!

According to the release notes for Firefox 37.0, the new version includes several changes related to security, including ‘improved protection against site impersonation’, and several fixes related to recently-discovered TLS vulnerabilities. WebGL rendering performance on Windows was improved. HTML5 support was also enhanced.

According to the Firefox Security Advisories page, at least 13 security vulnerabilities were fixed in Firefox 37.0.

Update: As of April 1 at 6:53am PST, the version of Firefox I’m currently using (36.0.4) is telling me that ‘Firefox is up to date’. It looks like someone may have forgotten a step when publishing version 37.0. Presumably this will be resolved shortly. If I visit the main Firefox download page, it tells me I’m using an older version of Firefox, and the download link definitely goes to Firefox 37.0.

Update 2015Apr02: According to sources on the official Firefox IRC channel, auto-updates for version 37 have been suspended while the developers look into a crashing problem being reported by some Windows 8 users.