Platform/2010-04-06

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Firefox 3.6.3

• shipped fix for CanSecWest p0wn20wn vulnerability on Thursday, April 1st. 8FD.
• release notes 3.6.3

Firefox 3.0.19 / Firefox 3.5.9

• shipped as scheduled on Tuesday, March 30th.
• this is the last planned support release for Firefox 3.0 / Gecko 1.9
• release notes: 3.0.19 | 3.5.9

Firefox 3.6.4

• only 3 open blockers at this time
• LegNeato has a proposed schedule for shipping Lorentz in Firefox 3.6.4:
  • Thu, April 8 - Lorentz beta available for public download (see below)
  • Mon, April 12 - Firefox 3.6.4 code complete w/OOPP backport landed
  • Wed, April 14 - Firefox 3.6.4 beta builds complete
  • Fri, April 16 - Firefox 3.6.4 beta offered as advertised major update to 3.6.x beta channel
  • Tue, April 27 - Firefox 3.6.4 beta offered as minor update to remaining 3.6.x beta channel users
  • Tue, May 4 - Firefox 3.6.4 shipped

Firefox 3.5.10

• 5 open blockers
• schedule tbd

Lorentz Beta

• builds now available
• plan on announcing them and asking people to download and test later this week

GFX Update

• Cairo update landed & bounced last night.

Hardware Acceleration Update

• Hardware-accelerated full-screen video using OpenGL (Windows only) is finally landed on m-c and working on most machines. Bas fixed some bugs last week to ensure we weren't hardware decelerating video.
• Jonathan Griffin has started finding bugs using the Grafxbot hardware acceleration testing extension. This is good news!

Layout Update

• Layout goals are up: [[1]]
  • Mostly about layers integration

• Matt Woodrow has patches to add new cairo_retained_path_t API, implement the API to retain CGPath objects in the cairo-quartz backend, and retain paths in SVG
• Chris Pearce landed new nsOggDecoder. Tracking a few regressions but things are mostly good or better.
• David Baron landed fix for :visited privacy leak. Looks good. Need to track site breakage and consider whether we should have special handling for same-origin links.
• Jonathan Kew reports that his Harfbuzz text shaping backend appears to give the same performance on try-server as the current Windows backend. The former is doing kerning and ligatures on all text while the latter is not, so this is actually a significant win --- if Tinderbox agrees on landing!

• Chris Double landed new YUV code but it bounced due to build issues. Working on it.
• Robert O'Callahan's retained-layers work reached a milestone; it can now retain layer trees (but not layer contents) between paints and pass reftests on Mac.
• Daniel Holbert working on <animateMotion> to animate motion of SVG content along a path.

Content Update

• No updates.

Electrolysis

• [josh] If you have Flash 10.1 or JavaPlugin2 installed on Mac OS X 10.6, trunk builds will run them out-of-process by default. There are some significant known bugs, but we think the exposure will help us resolve issues quickly.

Tree Management

• unittests-on-minis:
  • now running unittests on 10.5, 10.6
  • will turn off old unittests-on-10.5-builders soon

Roundtable

• What do we do with tests that are testing common code but require Firefox UI to work? (Mossop)