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= Release Day =
#REDIRECT [[Release Management/Release Days]]
== Completion Checklist ==
* Release notes signed off by PMM (Product Marketing Manager)
* Send instructions to r-d to push live to the release channel (currently this is at ~6am PT)
* '''Push product-details update for {{CURRENT_VERSION}}''' (bedrock instructions below won't work if you haven't)
* Steps for bedrock push on release or beta
** Go to the URL :http://bedrockadm.private.phx1.mozilla.com/chief/bedrock.productdetails  (requires MPT-VPN)
** Follow the steps under "product-details" push on mana (but using "master" as ref, not a commmit hash):
https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1802733#BedrockCluster%28www.mozilla.org%29-product-detailspush
** Output looks similar to :
Updating! revision: master
We have the new code!
Code has been updated locally!
All done!
 
** Wait for http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html and http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/ to show the right version (and clicking to try and download the right binary)
* QA sign-off on updates
* Let PMM (Laura/EJ) know they can push blog posts and start communicating to Press
* Send announcement of new release to announce@lists.mozilla.org similar to
 
Subject: A new version of Firefox is now available
The new version of Firefox is now available as a free download for Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux from http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/new/.
 
As always, we recommend that users keep up to date with the newest version of Firefox for the latest features and fixes.
 
The release notes for this release are available at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/notes.
Firefox is also now available for Android. The associated release notes are available at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/notes.
-{YOUR NAME}
Release Manager at Mozilla
 
Notes:
As long as date is correct, can prepare most of the relnotes night before - morning of, basically it's good to do ahead of time
 
* Once an ESR is released, you can push
 
Subject: Firefox ESR {{ESR_VERSION}} Released
To: "enterprise@mozilla.org List" <enterprise@mozilla.org>
Security-driven (but not exploit-driven) Firefox ESR {{ESR_VERSION}} is now available for download at [1]. Release notes for Firefox {{ESR_VERSION}} can be found at [2]. Associated security advisories will be posted at [3] once available.
As always, we recommend that users keep up to date with the newest version of Firefox ESR for the latest stability and security fixes.
-{YOUR NAME}
Mozilla Release Manager
[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html
[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/{{ESR_VERSION}}/releasenotes/
[3] https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefoxESR.html

Latest revision as of 19:10, 26 June 2014