Platform/2012-08-07

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Notices / Schedule

• We are in our fourth week of the cycle, going to build with Beta 4 end of day Pacific
• 14.0.2 respin for JB crashes is going to be released for JB users only bug 769893, bug 780668
• Softblock for Java exploit going out Thurs/Fri - currently with QA
  • bug 780717 – Blocklist Java versions affected by CVE-2012-1723

• Spike in startup crashes today on 14.0.1, 15.0b3, and 16.0a2 likely related to https://www.google.com/doodles/hurdles-2012
  • bug 734921 – Startup Crash @ _moz_cairo_destroy

• Meeting with Adobe tomorrow to review crash data for their latest 11.3 and 11.4 candidates
• Code Freeze for 15 is next Friday 8/17, please focus on bugs tracked for FF15 and FF16
• Next merge day is 8/27

Firefox OS

• Trying to stamp out the last of the shifting requirements. Most everyone moving to bugfixing/polish performance.
• B2G weekly meeting notes.
• Gaia weekly meeting notes
• Triage is now daily. Details in the weekly meeting schedule announcement.

Firefox Development

• Social UI work continues: polish fixes, Linux styling for the toolbar have landed, and performance improvements (bug 777176) are the main focus. You can continue testing using "MoTown" in Nightly builds, by setting social.enabled = true.
• Security research intern Devdatta Akhawe has landed telemetry for our security UI, you can watch his presentation about it on Air Mozilla (bug 767676)

Firefox Developer Tools

Add-on SDK

• Releasing 1.9 today
• Working on getting the builder site updated

Performance

• This week's Snappy summary
• Neil Deakin joined the Snappy effort to eliminate pointless reflows in the tab strip. He's already landed bug 752486 and is working on bug 752376 and bug 752496 next.
• Brian Bondy removed prefetch (bug 770911). xul.dll preload is now always on based on our telemetry startup study in bug 765850.
• Bill McCloskey continued to reduce garbage collection pauses. (bug 777919, bug 778993, bug 767209)
  • See Bill’s comments in bug 767209 for some insight into the complex heuristics that go into minimizing GC interruptions.

• MozCamp Snappy (ok, not the official name) is Sept 8-9, in Warsaw, Poland. Find Snappy people talking All About Performance. We are also working on scheduling for a Snappy work week following MozCamp EU in Warsaw.

GFX

JS

Layout

• @supports landed - feature detection in CSS
• SVG display lists enabled (bug 776054)
• nsIBox is now fully merged into nsIFrame (bug 780439)
• some b2g work on semi-transparent (overlaying) scrollbars (bug 770453, bug 777672, bug 778810)
• diagnostics for why animations aren't running on the compositor thread (bug 779385, though note that off-main-thread animations aren't enabled yet)

Media

• IETF last week
  • Opus accepted as a mandatory-to-implement codec (yeah!)
    • Widely described as a beats-the-world, state-of-the-art codec
  • Video codec decision deferred until November
  • Lots of interest in WebRTC and DataChannels
• Major progress going into IETF on PeerConnections and the rest of WebRTC
  • Audio and video via PeerConnections, with actual JSEP negotiation, over ICE transport channels, encrypted with DTLS-SRTP
  • DataChannels nearing completion, working in PeerConnections
  • Working to set up interop tests with Chrome (via their command-line test program for WebRTC)
• Microsoft lobbed a hand-grenade into the WebRTC spec work Monday (first work day after IETF)
  • If you get questions on this, especially from press or blog authors, point them to Maire Reavy (mreavy@mozilla.com) and/or press@mozilla.com

DOM

WebAPI

• lots of work to support lowered rights processes (blobs, Device Storage, etc.) (bug 746280 and friends)
• string encoder/decoder review comments being addressed (bug 764234)
• WebSockets in Workers patch up for review (bug 504553)

Network

Identity

Plugins

Mobile

• TBPL is now much greener thanks to wlach noticing a configuration issue with our watcher, fix deployed in bug 778177

Accessibility

Tree Management

• infra load for july
  • New record of 5,635 pushes last month

Security

• Security Assurance work week next week may affect responses to some items
• Retirement of 2 keywords: sec-review-needed, sec-review-complete
  • replaced by sec-review flag
    •  ? = nomination / shows assignment
    • + = completed
  • We did this to get more accurate metrics, assignment and responsiveness
• Process and workflow details coming: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Reviews

Calendar: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html

For updates to meetings please see the Security Review Calendar

• HTML: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html
• .ics: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review

Bugs marked sec-review-needed that need to be scheduled

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Stability Report

Socorro

Socorro releases are on hold until the staging environment works well again.

Desktop

Flash

• New version of Flash was shipped, Version 11_3_300_270
• bug 780658 Tracking crash in Flash npswf32_11_4_400_252 until we have symbols
  • Spike in these crashes seems to be higher on Beta - See https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/2012-08-06/2012-08-06.firefox.15.explosiveness.html
  • bug 780715 Flash crash @ memset | F1479269175
  • bug 780710 hang | F_344235307 (Correlated to 11.3.300.270 in Beta)

Beta

• bug 734921 Startup Crash @ _moz_cairo_destroy
  • Two other related bugs spiked as well
  • We have reached out to Google to find out more information about the doodle that may be causing it.
  • Affects 14.0.1, Aurora and trunk as well
• bug 779447 js::types::TypeObject::addProperty

Aurora

Trunk

Release

Mobile

• Highlights
  • 14.0.2 needs release (more ADU) before we see the graph
  • 15b3 under 10 crashes per ADU
  • fixing bug 776334 would be a big win in all channels.

• See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes
• Top Crash List Bugs

• 14.0.1 Release top crashes
  1. bug 769893 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot draw recycled bitmaps at android.view.GLES20Canvas.drawBitmap(GLES20Canvas.java) on Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7 with Jelly Bean - (fixed in 14.02; need more ADU on 14.0.2 before reporting it. will show it next week)
  2. bug 729129 - crash @ dlmalloc_walk_free_pages | dvmHeapSourceTrim | dvmRunFinalizationSync | dvmDetachCurrentThread | __thread_entry - ( memory corruption? )
  3. bug 732059 - crash in TimerThread::UpdateFilter @ libflashplayer.so@0x53.. - ( Flash crashing )
  4. bug 758259 - libstagefright crash in _ZN7android8OMXCodec14configureCodecERKNS_2spINS_8MetaDataEEEj on Samsung GT-I9100G with Gingerbread

• 15.0b3 Beta top crashes
  1. bug 776334 - crash in mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSharedHandle on Honeycomb and JB
  2. bug 763166 - crash in mozilla::AndroidGeckoLayerClient::SetFirstPaintViewport - End users need to update
  3. bug 776329 - crash in nsSurfaceTexture::GetTransformMatrix on Honeycomb and JB

• Aurora top crashes
  1. Fixed on all chans : bug 776909 - Crash Report [@ java.lang.IllegalStateException: MultiChoicePreference entryKeys and initialValues arrays must be the same length at org.mozilla.gecko.MultiChoicePreference.loadPersistedValues(MultiChoicePreference.java) ] - ( Still showing in crash reporting due to users needing to update )
  2. Fixed in Nightly bug 776331 - crash in nsNPAPIPluginInstance::RedrawPlugin on ICS and JB - ( pushed on Aurora & Beta )
  3. bug 776334 - crash in mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSharedHandle on Honeycomb and JB
  4. bug 765156 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.PropertyAnimator.invalidate(PropertyAnimator.java) - ( Reopened )
  5. bug 763166 - crash in mozilla::AndroidGeckoLayerClient::SetFirstPaintViewport
  • End users need to update

• Nightly top crashes
  1. bug 779826 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid size <n> at org.mozilla.gecko.mozglue.DirectBufferAllocator.allocate(DirectBufferAllocator.java)
  • Crash should be fixed, 8/2 is the last time it crashed, 17 only bug. Should ride the train.
  1. bug 765156 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.PropertyAnimator.invalidate(PropertyAnimator.java)
  • reopened and being worked on.
  1. bug 780367 - java.lang.IllegalStateException: ScrollView can host only one direct child at android.widget.ScrollView.addView(ScrollView.java)
  2. bug 776334 - crash in mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSharedHandle on Honeycomb and JB

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