Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2025-05-15

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Channel Meeting Details

• Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768

REMEMBER

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Attendees

dmeehan, dbarladeanu, Mira, mchiorean, oardelean, csasca, RyanVM, phorea, tzsoldos, cgeorgiu, Aryx

Schedule Update

• 138
  • Desktop 138.0.3 and Android Fenix/Focus 138.0.3 planned dot release live @ 100% rollout
  • Firefox iOS 138.2 planned dot release is live with a phased rollout
  • Chemspill planned for Saturday
• 139
  • Desktop 139.0b9 gtb tomorrow @ 100% rollout
    • This is the final scheduled build of the cycle, but we may have a 139.0b10
  • Android 139.0b9 gtb tomorrow @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% pending QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 139.0b9 gtb today
    • Available to external testers pending QA sign-off
  • Next week is the RC week
  • The deadline for Release Notes is 2025-05-21
• 140
  • Nightly soft code freeze starts next week - Thursday 2025-05-22

Release Quality Metrics

• https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/277284167/Beta+Quality+Metrics
  • Nothing of concern as we go into RC week.

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): % (pp compared to previous week)

• no new frequent crashes

Beta

crash incidence: % (pp)

• no new frequent crashes

Release

crash incidence: % (pp)

• no new frequent crashes

Mobile Stability

• some Fenix crashes for older versions under investigation
  • https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/signature/?product=Fenix&signature=java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError%3A%20at%20androidx.datastore.core.DataStoreImpl.%3Cinit%3E%28DataStoreImpl.kt%3A23%29&date=%3E%3D2025-02-15T14%3A27%3A00.000Z&date=%3C2025-05-15T14%3A27%3A00.000Z&_columns=date&_columns=product&_columns=version&_columns=build_id&_columns=platform&_columns=reason&_columns=address&_columns=install_time&_columns=startup_crash&_sort=-date&page=1#summary

QA

Nightly

• Nightly 140 top site web compatibility testing - in progress, no concerns
• Nightly 140 feature testing - in progress, reports will be sent tomorrow EOD

Beta

• Beta 139 functional testing (3 of 3) - in progress, no concerns, report will be sent tomorrow EOD
• Beta 139 exploratory testing - in progress, report will be sent tomorrow EOD

Mobile

• Android [Mira]
  • Build Signoffs Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 138.0b6 - status GREEN
    • Beta 138.0b7 - status GREEN
    • Beta 138.0b8 - status GREEN
    • 138.0.3 release - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-3905] Search configuration on Android - Nightly 140 testing
    • [QA-3966] Biometric authentication for Private mode - test planning & test cases in progress

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS 139 (55119) - Beta 6 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 139 (55206) - Beta 7 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 138.2 (55280) - Dot release 2- status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 139 (55354) - Beta 8 - status [GREEN]
  • Feature Testing
    • Tracking protection panel (new users full release experiment) 138.2 RC build - testing finished
    • Felt privacy-unified panel (new users full release experiment) nightly builds - testing finished
    • Felt Privacy/Felt deletion/Enhanced FF suggest with homepage rebuild and new toolbar- 138.1 RC testing - testing finished
    • QA-3899 search config - nightly testing in progress
    • QA-3707 - Toolbar - Swipe Tabs Animation - nightly testing in progress

Roundtable & Special Topics

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