Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-06-08

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, oardelean, mlobontiuroman, csasca, atrif, Aryx, dpop, amoldovan, tzsoldos, pascalc

Schedule Update

• 114
  • Desktop 114.0 rollout currently throttled
    • Waiting on a patch for a start-up crash
  • Aiming to build Desktop 114.0.1 and Fenix/Focus 114.1.0 today ready for QA and release tomorrow
  • Firefox iOS 114.1 scheduled for next week
    • Build on Monday, 2023-06-12 and release after QA sign-off on Tuesday, 2023-06-13
• 115
  • Desktop 115.0b3 gtb today @ 100% rollout
  • Android Fenix/Focus 115.0b3 gtb today @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% after QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 115.0b3 gtb today
    • Adding External Testers after QA sign-off
• 116
  • No schedule updates but we are investigating two crashes (one for desktop and one for mobile)

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.28%

• Crash in [@ mozilla::net::DnsAndConnectSocket::CheckIsDone]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837252
  • regressor identified, aiming for backout if not fixed by end of day

Beta

crash incidence: % (pp), crash rate: ()

• startup Crash in [@ kisfdpro64.dll]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837242
  • under investigation
  • similar: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837246 - [@ dghmpg64.dll]

Release

crash incidence: 0.89%

• Crash in [@ mozilla::LinkedListElement<T>::getNext]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837408
  • 40% on startup

• Startup Crash in [@ mozilla::dom::quota::QuotaManager::GetInfoFromValidatedPrincipalInfo]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837201
  • under investigation

• [AMD cpu bug] Startup Crash in [@ nsTArray_base<T>::Length | nsStyleAutoArray<T>::Length]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837198
  • might be fixed in 114.0.1

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• Crash in [@ java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: at androidx.compose.foundation.lazy.LazyListKt
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837322

Focus

QA

Nightly

[oardelean]

• Nightly 116 features - Test planning and test design in progress

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[oardelean]

• Beta 115 preliminary testing - in progress. Report will be sent until Jun 14, eod.
• Beta 115 tier1 top sites testing - in progress. No concerns.
• 1st round of regression testing - in progress. No concerns.

Mobile

• [Mira]

Fenix:

• RC 114.0 build 3 [GREEN]
• Fenix Beta 115.0b1 [GREEN]
• Fenix Beta 115.0b2 [GREEN]

Focus:

• Focus RC 114.0 build 3 [GREEN]
• Focus Beta 115.0b1 [GREEN]
• Focus Beta 115.0b2 [GREEN]

Features:

• [QA-1947] - Tabs Tray UI rewrite - In progress
• [QA-1929] - Fx CM compatibility with 3rd party Password Manager - In progress
• [QA-1942] - Updates to viewing PDF in Firefox - In progress
• [QA-1900] - User can use Fenix to open PDFs from download folder or from other app - Waiting for devs
• [QA-1914] - Test Unified Search Settings Screens feature - Waiting for devs

• [amoldovan]

Firefox

• RC Firefox iOS v114 (31383) [GREEN]
• Beta 2 - Firefox iOS v115 (31516) [GREEN]

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)