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* Firefox 80 is in the Beta channel and it will arrive at our stable release channel next Tuesday on August 25th. This is RC week when we test the final "release candidate" builds.
* Firefox 81 is in the Nightly channel. This Thursday is the soft code freeze, meaning that developers should not land code that is deemed risky for the stability and general quality of Firefox and that features that are controlled by a pref and were not activated during the nightly cycle should not be activated. If you land code that introduces new crashers or lowers the overall quality of Firefox during this period, you will be backed out instead of waiting for a follow-up fix. Over the last week the Nightly channel has received about 320 bug fixes including these notable changes:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1658326 One-off searches in the Firefox addressbar have been re-designed.] This is a first step in unifying one-off and search shortcuts to provide a more streamlined search experience.
** Firefox will now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656277 show the bookmarks toolbar after migration if there were bookmarks in the other browser's toolbar.] This change means that migrating users won't think they've lost their high priority bookmarks or have to go digging for them in a Firefox bookmarks folder.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648100 MediaControl has been enabled for riding the trains to release.] It had previously been restricted to Nightly builds. Among other things, media control allow users to control <audio> and <video> play by pressing hardware control buttons on a keyboard or headset.
