Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2026-10-29

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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

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Attendees

dmeehan, RyanVM, dsmith, dbodea, apetridean, tzsoldos, mboldan,

Schedule Update

• 159
  • Desktop 159.0 and Android Fenix/Focus 159.0 live @ 100% rollout
  • Desktop and Android planned dot release scheduled for next week
    • gtb on 2026-11-02, go-live on 2026-11-03 after QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 159.1 scheduled to start phased rollout at 03:00 UTC on 2026-11-01
• 160
  • Desktop/Android 160.0b2 live @ 100%
  • Desktop 160.0b3 gtb tomorrow @ 100% rollout
  • Android 160.0b3 gtb tomorrow @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% pending QA sign-off
  • The deadline for Release Notes is 2026-11-05
  • Desktop/Android 160 Release Candidate builds on Nov 5, 2026
  • Firefox iOS 160.0 branches and Firefox iOS 160.0 gtb tomorrow
• 161
  • New cycle has started for Fx161
  • Merge Day and 161.0b1 build1 gtb 2026-11-05

Release Quality Metrics

• https://bugdash.moz.tools/#tab.beta

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.74% (-0.04pp compared to previous week)

• high frequency Crash in [@ mozilla::layers::VideoBridgeChild::Open]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2086368
  • has assignee

Beta

crash incidence: 2.17% (+0.10pp)

Release

crash incidence: 1.06% (-0.03pp)

Mobile Stability

Nightly

• Crash in [@ mozilla::layers::LayerTreeOwnerTracker::Map]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2086361
  • developer needinfoed

QA

Nightly

• Recurring testing
  • Nightly 161 WebRTC testing started today.
• New feature testing in progress.
  • Nightly 161 new feature testing started today.

Beta

• Recurring testing
  • Beta 160 top sites web compat testing - completed.
• New feature testing
  • Uplift verification for Beta 160 new features is in progress.

Mobile

• Android
  • Build Signoffs Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 161.0b1 build 1 - sign-off status GREEN
    • Beta 161.0b1 build 2 - sign-off status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-5817] Android - Listen to Page - Nightly 160 – status Yellow
    • [QA-5870] Make All wallpapers edge to edge - Nightly 160 – status Yellow
    • [QA–5922] Weekly Privacy Report Notifications- Nightly 161 – testing in progress
    • [QA-5935] Scrollable screenshots - Beta 160 - testing in progress
    • [QA-5899] [Fenix] Collections to Tab Groups migration - Beta 160 - testing in progress
    • [QA-5755] Android - investigate sync and accounts and find bugs - exploratory in progress

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS 159.1 (79158) - Release Candidate 1- status [GREEN]
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-5561] - iOS - Continuous Onboarding - nightly testing in progress