Mark Finkle posts that Fennec (the code-name for Mobile Firefox) has reached a milestone 8 (M8) release, which you can install and test on a Nokia N8x0. “One of the big improvements during this milestone was the addition of several Mozilla QA team members. Fennec is being tested pretty hard now, and by people who love to find bugs. We are finding and fixing lots of issues now. Probably the biggest visible change in M8 is the new theme. It’s not entirely landed yet and will likely get some tweaks as we iterate on the design.” The post goes on to talk about some upcoming changes for Fennec. “Although Fennec is still only targeted for the Nokia N8x0, that should be changing fairly soon. Work on Windows Mobile has heated up quite a bit.” For more information, including a list of M8 highlights, see Mark’s full article.

Earlier this year, Stanislaw Malolepszy and Seth Bindernagel conducted the “Mozilla Community Survey” to learn more about the ideas and opinions of the people who make up the Mozilla community. One of the most commonly requested tools in the survey was a website template that could be used for all community sites. This has led to the inception of the Mozilla Community Sites project, which aims to make it easy to set up and deploy a website for your community project by providing some basic tools and templates. Zbigniew Braniecki has been working with designers on developing a prototype theme for these sites, and is asking for feedback. You can find screenshots of the mockup and leave your feedback over on this weblog post.