Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-06-27

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768
• +17207072699,,536097768# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

Attendees

dmeehan, dsmith, Aryx, telin, RyanVM, taniam,jr johnson

Schedule Update

• 114
  • No dot release planned before 115.0 go-live
• 115
  • Desktop 115.0 RC1 live on beta @ 100% rollout
  • Android Fenix/Focus 115.0 live on play store @ 5% rollout
  • iOS Firefox 115.0 RC blocked
  • iOS Focus 115.0 RC passed QA
  • ESR 102.13esr build blocked pending remaining uplifts
  • ESR 115.0esr build passed QA validation
  • Desktop 115.0 RC2 and ESR 115.0esr RC2 later this week
    • Likely an Android Fenix/Focus 115.0 RC2 also
  • Deadline for 115.0 release notes is today
• 116
  • soft code freeze starts 2023-06-29
  • string freeze 2023-06-30
  • merge day 2023-07-04

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/254476293/Fx115+Status+Beta

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.76%

• Crash in [@ mozilla::a11y::DocAccessible::GetAccessible]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1840253
  • has patch

Beta

Release

crash incidence: 0.72%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• Testing on ESR 102.13 and on ESR 115.0 builds will start tomorrow.

Nightly

• Nightly 116 feature testing - completed.
  • 1 exception - QA-1826 - Fingerprinting Protection (FPP) in Desktop PBM - Bug 1832259 and Bug 1832818 are still opened, so the WebRTC related tests were not rerunned on Nighlty 116.
• Nightly 116 Credential Management cross-platform integration testing - in progress.

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• 3rd round of regression testing - completed. No concerns.
• Beta 115 feature pre-release testing
  • QA-1816 Google Rich Entities - completed. Green status.

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 115
  • No challenge or at risk features identified at this time!
• Firefox 116
  • Injecting Firefox Relay integration into Form History & Form Autofill is challenged as there was a bit of scope creep around Autocomplete and Search Suggestions features. Both features are likely to slip to Fx117
  • Ensure our HSTS implementation is in good shape slipped to Fx117 as the work wasn't quite ready for soft code freeze
  • Private Browsing Support: Cache API as the work was not ready in time for soft code freeze later this week
  • Support using Firefox as default PDF reader on Android slipped to Fx117 as the sec review remains outstanding

SUMO Report

• Android - app not loading bookmarks, shortcuts, or any webpage searches. The app remains on blank screen.
  • 76 users identified in reviews with this issue (not including forum questions). Limited details reported making it difficult to diagnose. Exp: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416794 and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1416891
  • maybe related to this bug? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_buggi?id=1837869 <- not the right bug.

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Friday June 30th is a Canadian Holiday (observed Canada Day)
• Monday July 3rd is a Mozilla wellness day
• Tuesday July 4th is a US holiday
• Migration of Win 7/8/8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 users from Release to ESR was approved by leadership, will happen with the 115.1esr release on August 1
  • Beta users will be migrated on July 4

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)