Platform/2009-11-10

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.5.5

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• Code freeze is November 10 at 11:59pm!
• 3.5.5: 35 open blockers ... 27 need 1.9.1 patches
• 3.0.16: 15 open blockers ... 11 need 1.9.0 patches

Firefox 3.6 Beta

• Released on Friday, Oct 30th
• plan is to promote it heavily to rapidly increase beta audience
• will refresh frequently via the Firefox 3.6 beta update channel, each update will be versioned "3.6b#" and presented as a "revision"
• next update is aimed to be this Friday, minimally containing:
  • DLL component directory lockdown and blacklisting patch (see bug 524904 and bug 519357 (blocklist policy discussion in bug 525103)
  • syntax changes for CSS gradients (see bug 513395)
  • cycle-collector patch to stop cycle collection instead of crashing (see bug 521750)
  • other changes on mozilla-1.9.2 since we froze for beta

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate

• proposed code freeze November 18th (2 weeks)
• proposed release November 26th (Happy Thanksgiving)
• need to check these schedules with build and QA, obviously

Tree Management

• Talos downtime this week to:
  • bug 524169 Enable Talos on Electrolysis
  • bug 506772, bug 524089 Enable V8, Tsvg tests for group opacity
  • bug 523471 Stop running tiger talos on try builds that don't support tiger
  • bug 526026 Update minidump_stackwalker