Releases/Firefox 72

Information and links to do with Firefox 72. This may be useful for Mozilla contributors actively working on the release. It is also a record for future reference.

About the 72 release

• Release owner: Julien Cristau (:jcristau)
• Corresponding ESR release: 68.4.0
• Tracking document for the 72 cycle timeline from Nightly to release.
• Test Plan: Details of testing from QA.
• All shield studies for 72
• Postmortem notes, 2 weeks after the release.

Release checklists

• ESR 68 checklists
• Blank checklist templates

Dates of 72 releases

72.0a1 Nightly

• First released: October 21, 2019
• Release notes

72 Beta

• 72.0b1 dev ed release on aurora channel: November 26, 2019
• 72.0b3 Beta release on beta channel: December 3rd, 2019
• 72.0b8 End of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER: December 19, 2019
• Release notes draft - staging - final

72.0 Release

• January 7, 2020
  • desktop: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/
  • fennec 68.4: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/android/68.4/releasenotes/

Queries

• Mission Control crash dashboard: https://metrics.mozilla.com/~sguha/mz/missioncontrol/ex1/mc2/beta.html
• Mission Control daily snapshots: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F9mHl1o3nocVbLXTz7x2KdmNiUpIRDJgN5TN2MmbtFA/edit?pli=1#gid=274778338
• 72 tracking:+ https://mzl.la/2W8srhL
• 72 tracking:? https://mzl.la/2pO7RqQ
• 72 burndown:
• Affected in 72, P1:
• 72 features :
• Fixed in 72 cycle:
• relnote:? to check for issues nominated
• Relnote 72:
• Unassigned tracking 72: https://mzl.la/2PYIU9d
• Beta simulation tracking
• Beta uplift requests for Firefox:
• esr68 uplift requests for Fennec: