Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2024-04-18

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

dsmith, dmeehan, Aryx, RyanVM, dpop, dbarladeanu, pascalc, dlucaci, abodea, mchiorean, gnichita, mboldan, ljanos, epopescu, phorea, bhidecuti, asoncutean, tzsoldos, atrif, vtamas

Schedule Update

• 125
  • Desktop 125.0.1 was released instead of 125.0 due to a late-breaking bug issue and infrastructure constraints
  • Desktop 125.0.1 is throttled @ 0% rollout while we investigate a high severity bug
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1892069
  • Android Fenix/Focus 125.0 live @ 25% rollout
    • Aiming to bump to 100% later today pending stability
  • iOS Firefox/Focus/Klar 125.1 is live at full rollout
  • Android/iOS planned dot release scheduled for next week
    • gtb on 2024-04-22, go-live on 2024-04-23 after QA sign-off
• 126
  • Firefox Android beta was migrated successfully to mozilla-beta
  • Desktop/Android 126.0b2 live @ 50%
  • Firefox iOS 126.0b2 available to external testers
  • Desktop 126.0b3 gtb tomorrow @ 100% rollout
  • Android 126.0b3 gtb tomorrow @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% pending QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 126.0b3 gtb today
    • Available to external testers tomorrow pending QA sign-off
• 127
  • New cycle has started for Fx127
  • Linux top crash fixed by backout yesterday https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1881229
  • Android top crash due to a server side Pocket issue, fixed on the server https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1892126

Release quality metrics (Thursdays)

• https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/277284167/Beta+Quality+Metrics

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 0.90% - still lower than expected, will reach out to crash reporting / data engineering

Beta

crash incidence: N/A (not enough data)

Release

crash incidence: N/A (not enough data)

• Crash in [@ mozilla::dom::CanvasRenderingContext2D::EnsureWritablePath]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1890077
  • fixed for Nightly and Beta
  • frequently affects Release Desktop + Android

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

[mboldan]

• Nightly 127, ESR 115 smoke testing against cas_new staging in progress. No concerns.

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• 1st round of Functional testing is in progress.
  • One new S2 issue - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1891756
• Beta 126 smoke testing in progress. No concerns.
• Beta 126 new feature preliminary testing in progress. Reports will be sent until April 23rd eod.

Mobile

[dpop]

• Android
  • Build Signoffs Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 126.0b1 - status GREEN
    • Beta 126.0b2 - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2218] Website Translations for Fenix on Android - Beta testing in progress
    • [QA-2258] Android Toolbar Redesign - in progress

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs

[abodea]

• • • Firefox iOS 125 (40715) - Release candidate 3 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 125.1 (40778) - Dot release 1 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 126 (40774) - Beta 1 - status [GREEN]
    • Focus iOS 126 (40775) - Beta 1- status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 126 (40846) - Beta 2 - status [GREEN]
  • Feature Testing
    • QA - 2320 - Customization Onboarding Cards - testing in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 124 retro held on Tuesday
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wr5qN_ksuT173Ww54_JGcE8pcpEekyWWkbPVU2JHEoo/edit#heading=h.2x9ye1c9tutp