Releases/Firefox 25.0.1/BuildNotes

General

• Find the Release Management owner for a release.
  • bajaj for this release

Bugs

• Tracker
• bug 938075 some FF win candidate installers wrong size
• bug 892972 special what's new page for 'pl' locale

Fennec Build 1

• Ship the l10n milestone
  • not applicable, same as 25.0
• Submit to Ship It
  • done by relman
• Publish
  • T-Store UI & workflows changed again.
  • Push to mirrors is now part of publish step

Firefox Build 1

• Ship the l10n milestone
  • not applicable, same as 25.0
• Submit to Ship It
  • done by relman
  • several repacks failed, rebuilt with standalone repacker
  • bug 938075 report of 3 win32 installers being excessively large (75M vs 22M). Those locales rebuilt with standalone repacker
  • These needed the 25.0 pl what's new page manually applied (bug 892972):

   # ffxbld@aus3-staging
   cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging/
   rsync -a ../pushed/Firefox-25.0.1-build1-test/ ./Firefox-25.0.1-build1-pl-bug892972-test/
   for snippet in `find Firefox-25.0.1-build1-pl-bug892972-test -type f -path '*/pl/*'`; do
       sed -i -e 's/actions=silent/actions=showURL/' $snippet
       echo "openURL=https://www.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/25.0/whatsnew/?oldversion=%OLD_VERSION%" >> $snippet
   done
   diff -Naur ../pushed/Firefox-25.0.1-build1-test/ ./Firefox-25.0.1-build1-pl-bug892972-test/ | less
   ~/bin/pushsnip Firefox-25.0.1-build1-pl-bug892972-test
   rsync -a Firefox-25.0.1-build1/ ./Firefox-25.0.1-build1-pl-bug892972/
   for snippet in `find Firefox-25.0.1-build1-pl-bug892972 -type f -path '*/pl/*'`; do
       sed -i -e 's/actions=silent/actions=showURL/' $snippet
       echo "openURL=https://www.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/25.0/whatsnew/?oldversion=%OLD_VERSION%" >> $snippet
   done

• Push to mirrors
  • done, no issues
• Apply Throttling
• Verify throttling
• Run pushsnip
  • pushed set with pl fixes
• Update bouncer links
• Post-release tasks
• Get the Browser Choice website updated
• Update MSN Partner Links