Policy templates for Firefox 90 and Firefox ESR 78.12

The README that corresponds to this release is:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v2.12/README.md

This release provides support for the following new policies:

AutoLaunchProtocolsFromOrigins
BackgroundAppUpdate

For more detailed information about Firefox 90 and Firefox 78.12 ESR, see the regular release notes and the enterprise release notes.

Policy templates for Firefox 89 and Firefox ESR 78.11

Note: While these templates will work for Firefox ESR68, they contain new policies that are not in Firefox ESR 68. If you need to manage Firefox ESR 68, you should use v1.17

The README that corresponds to this release is:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v2.11/README.md

This release provides support for the following new policies:

AllowedDomainsForApps

This release updates the following policies:

ExtensionSettings - Updated to allow disabling updates to individual extensions with the updates_disabled option.

Preferences - Added additional prefixes: gfx. and layers.

For more detailed information about Firefox 89 and Firefox 78.11 ESR, see the regular release notes and the enterprise release notes.

Policy templates for Firefox 88 and Firefox ESR 78.10

Note: While these templates will work for Firefox ESR68, they contain new policies that are not in Firefox ESR 68. If you need to manage Firefox ESR 68, you should use v1.17

The README that corresponds to this release is:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v2.10/README.md

This release adds a Russian translation of the ADMX templates. Thank you to @alenka26.

This release provides support for the following new policies:

ShowHomeButton

This release updates the following policies:

UserMessaging - SkipOnboarding added to to turn off onboarding messaging on the new tab page.

For more detailed information about Firefox 88 and Firefox 78.10 ESR, we now have detailed enterprise release notes.

Policy templates for Firefox 87 and Firefox ESR 78.9

(Just updating tag for a fix to the README)

Note: There are no changes to the ADMX templates in this release. I bumped the version for consistency. There is no need to move to these templates if you are using v2.6, v2.7 or v2.8.

The README that corresponds to this release is:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v2.9/README.md

This release provides documentation for the following new policies:

ManualUpdateOnly

This policy is intended for end-users, not enterprises so it is not in the ADMX templates.

Firefox 87 and Firefox 78.9 ESR now allow GPO/configuration policies and policies.json to coexist. GPO/configuration profiles will always be preferred when there are conflicts.

For more information about Firefox 87 and Firefox 78.9 ESR, we now have enterprise release notes.

Policy templates for Firefox 86 and Firefox ESR 78.8

Note: There are no changes to the ADMX templates in this release. I bumped the version for some translations. There is no need to move to these templates if you are using v2.6 or v2.7.

The README that corresponds to this release is:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v2.8/README.md

This released adds a translation for Simplified Chinese. Thank you to @CreeperKong.

This release updates the following policies:

Preferences - Added additional prefix app.update. and additional preference security.tls.version.enable-deprecated.

For more information about Firefox 86 and Firefox 78.8 ESR, we now have enterprise release notes.

Policy templates for Firefox 85 and Firefox ESR 78.7

Note: There are no changes to the ADMX templates in this release. I bumped the version for some new translations. There is no need to move to these templates if you are using v2.6.

The README that corresponds to this release is:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v2.7/README.md

This release updates the following policies:

ExtensionSettings - The most recent theme added via ExtensionSettings now becomes the default theme when it is installed. The user can still change the theme.

For more detailed information about Firefox 85 and Firefox 78.7 ESR, we now have detailed enterprise release notes.

Policy templates for Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6

Note: While these templates will work for Firefox ESR68, they contain new policies that are not in Firefox ESR 68. If you need to manage Firefox ESR 68, you should use v1.17

The README that corresponds to this release is:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v2.6/README.md

This release updates the following policies:

PictureInPicture - The policy was documented incorrectly and has since been corrected.
Preferences - Added additional prefixes: spellchecker. and pdfjs.

For more detailed information about Firefox 84 and Firefox 78.6 ESR, we now have detailed enterprise release notes.

Policy templates for Firefox 83 and Firefox ESR 78.5

Note: While these templates will work for Firefox ESR68, they contain new policies that are not in Firefox ESR 68. If you need to manage Firefox ESR 68, you should use v1.17

The README that corresponds to this release is:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v2.5/README.md

This release provides support for the following new policies:

ManagedBookmarks

This release updates the following policies:

DisableTelemetry - toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled is now set to false when this policy is enabled).
OverrideFirstRunPage - Added support for multiple pages separated by a vertical bar (|).
Preferences - Added additional prefixes; general.autoScroll., general.smoothScroll., and signon.
WebsiteFilter - Added support for blocking local files.

For more detailed information about Firefox 83 and Firefox 78.5 ESR, we now have detailed enterprise release notes.

Policy templates for Firefox 82 and Firefox ESR 78.4

Note: While these templates will work for Firefox ESR68, they contain new policies that are not in Firefox ESR 68. If you need to manage Firefox ESR 68, you should use v1.17

The README that corresponds to this release is:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v2.4/README.md

There are no major policy changes in this release. There are some documentation updates and text clarifications in the various policy files.

Firefox fixes to policies:

Preferences - Fixed policy so that it works correctly on macOS.
OfferToSaveLogins | OfferToSaveLoginsDefault - Made these policies coexist better.

For more detailed information about Firefox 82 and Firefox 78.4 ESR, we now have detailed enterprise release notes.

Policy templates for Firefox 81 and Firefox ESR 78.3

NOTE: There is a regression in Firefox 81 and Firefox ESR 78.3 that breaks legacy preference policies on Windows when using GPO. We don't have a timeline for a fix yet, but the workaround right now is to switch to using the new Preference policy. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Note: While these templates will work for Firefox ESR68, they contain new policies that are not in Firefox ESR 68. If you need to manage Firefox ESR 68, you should use v1.17

The README that corresponds to this release is:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v2.3/README.md

This release updates the following policies:

Preferences - Added support for specifying arbitrary preferences. Not all preferences are included, but most are. We will be continually adding more prefixes.

Preferences that start with the following prefixes are supported:

accessibility.
browser.
datareporting.policy.
dom.
extensions.
geo.
intl.
layout.
media.
network.
places.
print.
ui.
widget.

as well as the following security preferences:

security.default_personal_cert
security.insecure_connection_text.enabled
security.insecure_connection_text.pbmode.enabled
security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled
security.mixed_content.block_active_content
security.osclientcerts.autoload
security.ssl.errorReporting.enabled
security.tls.hello_downgrade_check
security.warn_submit_secure_to_insecure

For more detailed information about Firefox 81 and Firefox 78.3 ESR, we now have detailed enterprise release notes.