Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2025-04-17

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Channel Meeting Details

• Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• 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

REMEMBER

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Attendees

Pascalc, dsmith, mboldan, atrif, dmeehan, Aryx, abodea, tzsoldos, mchiorean, phorea, epopescu, ljanos

Schedule Update

• 137
  • Desktop 137.0.2 and Android Fenix/Focus 137.0.2 planned dot release live @ 100% rollout
  • Firefox iOS 137.2 planned dot release is live with a phased rollout
  • No dot release on the radar before Fx138 go-live
• 138
  • Desktop 138.0b9 gtb tomorrow @ 100% rollout
    • This is the final build of the cycle
  • Android 138.0b9 gtb tomorrow @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% pending QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 138.0b9 gtb today
    • Available to external testers pending QA sign-off
  • Next week is RC week
  • The deadline for Release Notes is 2025-04-23
• 139
  • Nightly soft code freeze starts next week - Thursday 2025-04-24

Release Quality Metrics

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

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.22% (-0.30pp compared to previous week)

• decrease in incidence on Linux

Beta

crash incidence: 2.46% (+0.08pp)

Release

crash incidence: 0.94% (-0.14pp)

QA

Nightly

• Nightly 139 top site web compatibility testing - completed with Green Status. No concerns.
• Nightly 139 new feature testing completed - all sign-offs sent

Beta

• Beta 138 functional testing - 3rd round - completed with Green Status. No concerns.
• Beta 138 exploratory testing - completed with Green Status. No concerns.

Mobile

Android

• • Build Signoffs Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 138.0b6 - status GREEN
    • Beta 138.0b7 - status GREEN
    • Beta 138.0b8 - status GREEN
    • RC 137.0.2 - status GREEN

• • Feature Testing
    • [QA-3202] Show trending searches suggestions from the search engine provider when user focuses on the address bar - Green sign-off for Fenix Beta138
    • [QA-3679] [Android] Enhance tracker allowlisting mechanism to specifically target PBM - Nightly testing in progress
    • [QA-2903] [Android] Regression testing for homepage to test Jetpack Compose UI Migration - Beta 138 testing is done - GREEN status

• iOS

[andrei]

• • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS v138 (53603) - Beta 6 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS v138 (53729) - Beta 7 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS v138 (53890) - Beta 8 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS v137.2 (53811) - Dot Release 2 - status [Yellow]
    • Firefox iOS v137.2(re-spin) (53903) - Dot Release 2 - status [GREEN]
  • Feature Testing
    • QA-2717 - Homepage Rebuild phase 2 - nightly testing done
    • QA-2717 - Homepage rebuild phase 2 - 138 beta testing done
    • QA-3708 - Retest of Felt Privacy + Felt Deletion - nightly testing done
    • QA-3485 Rapid UI Experiments - New Tab Tray - RC testing done
    • QA-3485 Rapid UI Experiments - New Tab Tray - Nightly 139 (post bug fixing) testing done

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Public holiday in some regions on 2025-04-18/2025-04-21

Retrospective

• 137 retro on April 29